Eunos Chump

This might have been good had it not been for the constant rain and wind, it was like bloody winter . Couldn't find any bits for the Mazda, and the only cars for sale were either overpriced or unwanted stuff like '80s Mercedes and Jaguar saloons. My dream of a £500 Princess 2200 remains unrealised.

Highlight of the day had to be the Pastryboy - Len Hawkins' vision of the car of the future, first penned in the early '90s, is reality.

Russ and I went to Goodwood on Friday, hoping to avoid the crowds - how wrong we were. I don't want to think what the toilets are going to look like on Sunday afternoon! Lots of expensive noisy metal, expensive food and Hooray Henrys. Not as much fun as I'd hoped, it was hard to get near anything interesting. The photo below shows how close I got to the Ferrari F1 cars (and they're not even this year's model), and McLaren was even worse.

I've had an annoying clonk develop from the NS front over the past few weeks which sounded like a worn balljoint, but no wear was evident. My brother Darren got to the bottom of it though (after taping up the anti-roll bar bush to rule it out), it was the brake caliper. One of the sliding pins didn't have enough grease and was rattling gently - hardly noticeable at the caliper, but in the car it sounded much louder. Repacking it solved it. I also lobbed a blob of grease between the clutch release lever and the slave cylinder, to stop it rattling. The cam angle sensor oil seal has let go now, but I should have anticipated this when I tampered with it and replaced it then. 99p would have hardly broken the bank, but you can buy an ice cream for that... and I chose unwisely.