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Hello from the Small Town of Lake Cowichan in British Columbia Canada

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JeffR1

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I've had my 51 MK VI Standard Bodied Bentley for more the 20 years now, as well as a 68 Jaguar 340.
When I'm not driving those, I'm ridding my bicycle, running, swimming and doing weights, my activities change as the seasons do.
The same for the cars, they are not driven in the winter or the rain if I can help it, but I do run in the snow and rain. :D

Lake Cowichan is a great place to be if one can stand the tubers in the river during the summer months.

Jeff Martin
 
YUP !
I've lived here all my life.
This is the river that flows out of the lake, and of course there's active logging going on.
One of the many mountains in the area. (next photo)

And you're from Australia, what my mountains, lakes and rivers are to my home, the beaches are to yours I guess.
I guess it depends where you live exactly.

We get Japanese tourists here and they want to drive to Price Edward Island and see where Anne of Green Gables originated from.
They have no idea that it's around 3000 miles away !
How many Japans' can fit in Canada or Australia !? :smile:

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I have a bunch of the Bentley, but I have to scan some of the photos and I can't find them, I took them out of the album because it was made from acid paper, and I have very few of the Jag, that'll take some digging.
Here's the Bentley now waiting for reassembly after the tappet problem is solved.

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JeffR1 said:
I have a bunch of the Bentley, but I have to scan some of the photos and I can't find them, I took them out of the album because it was made from acid paper, and I have very few of the Jag, that'll take some digging.
Here's the Bentley now waiting for reassembly after the tappet problem is solved.

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Nice car...and RHD :p ...when did that model Bentley change to overhead valve engine.
 
malbaby said:
Nice car...and RHD :p ...when did that model Bentley change to overhead valve engine.
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That model never did have the V8 over-head valve engine.
After that came the R-Type, and the "long boot" Silver Dawn RR, still with the in-line 6, that was around 54 to 55/57 (I'm too lazy to look it up)
Even the first generation of Clouds and the Bentley S1's still had the in-line six and it was over-bored to 4.9 litres.
It had an improved high compression head of 8:1 (if you could call that high), better breathing on the cam to let the exhaust out, and a bunch of other improvements over the first 4.25 litre.
Then in 59, the Cloud finally got the long developed 6.25 litre aluminum V8. (it was a RR engine, not a modified GM engine)
It was a good engine if you changed the coolant, examples that sat with old coolant in it corroded the aluminum and put pressure on the steel wet liners, and in extreme cases, the pistons were galled in the bores from that pressure.
Removing the liners by this time was nearly impossible to be made right, there were large O-rings at the bottom that made a seal that had to be replaced.
At this point the block would have been so corroded, that it pretty much would have been junk.
Even after heating the block and having the special tool to get the liners out, they would very often explode under pressure and/or crack the block as well.
They would not tolerate over heating when things got really silted up either, the block and heads would warp together, and in extreme cases, the long studs would be pulled from their threads from the heads expanding.

All this made worse when they added a turbo where RR did not improve the head gaskets, most blew the gaskets at around 50k miles.
Gaskets are now available that will take the pressure from the turbo, but the engine is a nightmare to work on because of the studs used to hold the heads on, just like my engine.
Getting the head(s) off can take weeks of soaking in oil due to the electrolytic action between the aluminum and the steel studs.
On my engine the studs went right into the water jacket where coolant would get in there and weld the head right on.
Lots of fun...
 
What a beautiful area for living! Also near Butchart Gardens and Victoria, two places everyone should visit some time in their lives.

Great collection of wheels too. What do you do for a living? You must have quite some experience with all the "wheels"!
 
Been to The Butchart Gardens numerous times, first time was a field trip in grade school, and with visiting family a few years back.
It hasn't changed much, but way too many people, it's just the way it is though.
My Dad and I took in the last fireworks show a while ago at the end of the season, it was spectacular, but still, so many people, it took about 3/4 hour just to get from the viewing field and get moving on the highway.
However I would not recommend the restaurant, my Salmon was not cooked properly.
I think it was frozen and not thawed properly, the one end was burnt, the middle was ok and the centre was raw, worst salmon I've ever had.

"Great collection of wheels", I'm not sure what you mean by that, my bicycle in my Avatar ?
I'm sort of retired from working in a furniture store all my life _ started out restoring Canadiana oak furniture and everything else after that when that fell out of favour.
Young people (Millennials) are just not interested in it at all, couldn't give the stuff away.
 
Welcome! Been to BC many times.Bought our MKIII Cortina
near Butchart Gardens.Some beautiful country there.
 
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