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Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 27 Oct 15 at 21:41
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That's just a DIY cut-down van, not an original factory made pick-up, as supplied by Citroen to the Royal Marines.
Recently in the USA I saw 3 2CVs - 2 were Canadian-registered models in Yosemite, presumably on a tour. The third was Californian-registered, in Carmel.
More unusual though was the Peugeot 604 I saw parked in a car park in Beverly Hills, apparently in daily use.
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Todays unusual one for me was a '60s Ford Corsair In good condition but spoiled with boy racer wheels and lowered suspension.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Fri 24 Jul 15 at 14:12
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Here's a nice Corsair. I almost bought one back in the early '70's, but ended up buying a mrk 2 Cortina :(
www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C588333
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>> Here's a nice Corsair. I almost bought one back in the early '70's, but ended
>> up buying a mrk 2 Cortina :(
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>> www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C588333
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It wasn't that one, the one I saw was white. :-)
Last edited by: Old Navy on Fri 24 Jul 15 at 15:11
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In Esher what I think was an air cooled rear mounted V8 engined Tatra 603 -2.
I believe there is a local enthusiast for these cars as I have seen a similar one in Claygate,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkECjm6spsEa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao5OF7EXDcw
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>> In Esher what I think was an air cooled rear mounted V8 engined Tatra 603 -2.
Stop it hk, you're reminding me of one of the greatest automotive regrets of my life: coming on all practical, responsible and wimpish when offered the opportunity to buy an ex-Czech government Tatra at a bargain price. The proposed arrangement had one or two holes in it and I lost my bottle.
Sob.
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Trying to decipher the big print I formed the impression that the engine was suspect in some way. It turns over, so what I mean?
I love the car though. But I'm sure there are better ones, and you'd have to be quite rich.
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Ever fancied an American muscle car but couldn't run to the V8 costs ?
Here's your answer, a 20 year old five cylinder Volvo that drinks like Oliver Reed on a bad day.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191651012090
That rear end makes a 240 look stylish and curvy.
I'm guessing as most of the front end is missing that Gold S70 had a bad accident.
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I like the question about the item - Hello I would be happy to buy this if you take all the body kit off it and put it back to a normal s70r. Bet the seller thought that was hilarious :)
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Even that is beaten for sheer ugliness by the Volvo 262 "coupe". I can't remember when that was on sale (or indeed why) - possibly 1970s / 80s.
On a prettier note, I was overtaken the other day by a G-suffix (so 1968-9) Porsche 911. I think the 911 first appeared in about 1964: is there any car whose overall appearance has changed as little as that in 50 years? And even then it was clearly developed from the 356.
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The big question is "Why ?" Each to their own of course...but bloomin' heck...next question is "How do you explain that to an insurance company ?"
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>>The big question is "Why ?"
I thought that, but one hesitates to ridicule because it looks like an enormous amount of work done pretty well has gone into it.
So I might change the question to;
"What on earth did you *think* it was going to look like?
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>> I thought that, but one hesitates to ridicule because it looks like an enormous amount
>> of work done pretty well has gone into it.
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This guy has started at the back and worked forwards, got to the door mirrors and thought right I'm bored now.
Audi are not going to lose any sleep over the front wheel arch panel gaps and alignment.
i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/6GQAAOSwjVVVvgB1/$_57.JPG
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Aftermarket body kits are usually naff and often badly fitted. They are liable to create new rust traps to make the jalopy turn to dust more quickly.
In any case, you have to be feeble to want to modify your car's cosmetic appearance rather than its engine and suspension. You have to be a child more or less.
'Cor, what'll she do Mister?'
'A bit less than the standard model actually. Not that I'd dream of trying to check. Even that is substantially over the NSL.'
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>> how to look like a pimp or drug dealer. Excuse me while I vomit...
You're joking Sp. There are a lot of worse-looking bog standard cars than that one. That one doesn't look bad at all by naff bodykit standards.
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>> So I might change the question to;
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>> "What on earth did you *think* it was going to look like?
Well clearly it was something he doodled as a kid. As we all did at 8, we drew what our perfect car would look like.
looks like he built it.
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It was American day at Brooklands Museum today, so when we went out in the morning, there was a plethora of various marques of pony cars around with the odd smattering of chargers and other muscle cars. At one point however I got stuck behind a clearly ailing De Thomaso Panterra, from the smell throwing more unburnt fuel out the back than that being burned by the popping V8 unhappy at being stuck in traffic.
I assume it was getting an entry into Brooklands on the back of the fact it has a Ford V8 and was sold by Ford in the US
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>> stuck behind a clearly ailing De Thomaso Panterra
The De Tomaso Pantera was a poseur's car, a completely false Italian thoroughbred lookalike. POS.
Obviously owned by an automotive ignoramus if he couldn't even keep a Ford pushrod V8 in tune.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sun 9 Aug 15 at 19:32
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>The De Tomaso Pantera was a poseur's car, a completely false Italian thoroughbred lookalike. POS.
I'd have one. Just like I'd have an original completely false English thoroughbred lookalike with a Ford pushrod V8, an AC Cobra.
>Obviously owned by an automotive ignoramus if he couldn't even keep a Ford pushrod V8 in tune.
Agreed. It should be confiscated and given to someone who would appreciate it.
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>> I'd have an original completely false English thoroughbred lookalike with a Ford pushrod V8, an AC Cobra.
Who wouldn't Kevin? But there's nothing false about the Cobra. The original AC-engined Ace evolved into the quicker Ace-Bristol. The Cobra was a new much beefier car with hardly anything in common with the Ace, produced I imagine to rival US muscle convertibles which went very well in a straight line.
Cobra was a bit of a monster though and killed a couple of rich enthusiasts. It could hit 100 from rest in three seconds or so, a bit risky in the hands of a young optimist in London.
To be honest I wouldn't say no to a Pantera either. Less trouble than a real thoroughbred and just as fast in real terms, with the fine if flimsy coachwork detail but without the stirring engine noise...
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Mon 10 Aug 15 at 15:33
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Wasn't it the first Shelby Cobras that resulted in the seventy mph limit being introduced after they "tested " three (I think) on the M1 early one morning, at a reported speed of (again I think) 186mph?
8o)
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>> Wasn't it the first Shelby Cobras that resulted in the seventy mph limit being introduced
>> after they "tested " three (I think) on the M1 early one morning, at a
>> reported speed of (again I think) 186mph?
Interview with one of the drivers:
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motorsport/day-jack-sears-hit-185mph-m1-motorway
only 185 though :)
EDIT: and AC’s test run has often been cited as the reason behind the 70mph speed limit on UK motorways, but that is a myth. :(
Last edited by: Focusless on Mon 10 Aug 15 at 18:07
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>> AC's test run has often been cited as the reason behind the 70mph speed limit on UK motorways, but that is a myth. :(
As I remember it was imposed by Labour transport minister Barbara Castle - Harold Wilson govt I think - ostensibly for reasons of economy. But lots of po-faced carphounds hate speed and really want to reduce all traffic speeds to a miserable contemptible totally unnecessary hypnotized crawl.
Personally I'm in the Mr Toad camp. Poop-poop!
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>The Cobra was a new much beefier car with hardly anything in common with the Ace,
I think you might be mistaken AC, according to Wiki:
"The only modification of the front end of the first Cobra from that of the AC Ace 2.6 was the steering box, which had to be moved outward to clear the wider V8 engine."
A stronger diff was fitted but the front end of Aces had already been fettled to accept the Ford Zephyr engine when the Bristol engine went out of production.
You're probably remembering the MkII introduced in 1963 when they needed a major design change to incorporate rack and pinion steering.
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>> I think you might be mistaken AC, according to Wiki:
Only too likely, I often am. But I could easily be thinking of the Mk II Cobra.
I believe all Cobras like Aces had a chassis consisting essentially of two longitudinal steel tubes with suspension turrets at each end.
I'd forgotten the Ford Zephyr engined variant... as good as a Bristol I suppose, and cheaper... but you'd rather have the Bristol one wouldn't you, if only for the noise?
If I were a billionaire I'd look for a mint original drum-braked AC-engined Ace, a bit languid but just my sort of thing these days. They were very good-looking cars in their day too.
Did a post some time back about following one of those - a proper Ace, but engine unknown - down the A29 and feeling very envious as it twitched and jinked about under braking.
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If you see a Cobra on the road, much more likely to be a kit car replica of one rather than the real thing. Someone I know has one, but I don't know any owners of the real thing.
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>> you'd rather have the Bristol one wouldn't you, if only for the noise?
I was in the same class at my last school with an Aldington, whose family owned Frazer Nash. His elder brother turned up one Sunday in a Le Mans replica (very handsome jalopy in a retro sort of way) that had just competed in the Mille Miglia or some other road race, and had red paint on its eared offside wheelnuts from rubbing up against a Ferrari. I didn't get to go in it, but you could hear its Bristol engine for miles when the brother booted the thing up the hill from Old Windsor to Englefield Green.
The Aldington I was at school with was extremely thuggish and virtually illiterate, although genial in a way. He was the stroke of the first eight, so had horny palms immune to the much-feared Jesuit ferula, a horrible heavy rubber cosh applied to the palms of the hands. I'm told he's dead now.
The Jays would flog you even when you were 16 or 17, just to keep you in your place sometimes. I suppose it's illegal now. Pity in a way.
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>>The Jays would flog you even when you were 16 or 17, just to keep you in your place sometimes. I suppose it's illegal now. Pity in a way.
Avez vous ever had a penchant for S&M Sire?
Just asking like.
:}
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>> ever had a penchant for S&M Sire?
Certainly not! Nothing perverse about me. A bit old-fashioned perhaps.
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Saw a split screen Morris 1000 yesterday in Austwick. Pillar box red, so probably not the original colour.
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>> Saw a split screen Morris 1000 yesterday
There was an ohv Minor with a split screen, but I think the engine was under 1,000cc. It was distinct from the sidevalve Minor in having the headlamps placed above the radiator grille, instead of being at the ends of the grille low down.
The Minor 1000 I remember had a curved one-piece screen.
Go on chaps. Out-anorak me.
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>>>Go on chaps. Out-anorak me. <<<
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor
Pretty accurate wiki article - wrt the original post, I am not sure that any split screen '1000s' were made.
My first car was a poverty spec Series MM - the early version of the side valve engine that did not have a water pump, only a single wiper, and a single dipped beam headlight on the near side. (No wiring for an offside dipped filament bulb).
I have never been able to find documentary proof of this poverty spec version - it certainly was a very early car (1948) from memory - registered NUG 37.
I reckon I had at least 6 minors - culminating in my home engineered 1500cc version with the running gear from a Riley1.5 BMC B twin SUs. :)
Last edited by: sherlock47 on Mon 10 Aug 15 at 16:05
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On the way to the offo last night for more wine I was passed by a Morris 1000 van that looked in good order. Been here a month now and hardly seen anything interesting. It didn't used to be like that. I reckon people are hoarding interesting motors these days instead of driving them. Having said that, today I saw a very tidy XJS coupe and an odd-looking two-tone Volvo Amazon. Anyone who wants their fill of interesting motors should go along to the Mount Somerset Hotel just outside Taunton, 11am-2.30pm on Sunday, August 23, for the annual get-together organised by well-known classic car dealer and old friend of mine Thornfalcon Classics. 1200 motors expected - and entrance is free. Sadly, I am being pressured to head back to the warm weather next week. Sob.
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>> I am not sure that any split screen '1000s' were made.
No, they had a smaller ohv engine, 898cc or something.
My rich aunt in Dublin had a s/v Minor - 803cc I think - which she let me use semi-illegally. I loved the thing and drove it pedal-to-metal at all times. Being gutless - it could wind up to about 55 - and having absolutely perfect, beautiful handling on its squealing crossply tyres it kept me out of trouble despite my coarse driving.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Mon 10 Aug 15 at 20:40
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Series II 803cc as fitted to the A30
MM sidevalve 918cc similar to the Morris Type E.
Driving underpowered Rw drive cars with good handling was always a good way of learning. When it all went wrong you were generally slow enough to walk away :)
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"Go on chaps. Out-anorak me."
Oh all right then. Morris Minors.
Something like (dates approx.)
1948-52 side-valve 918cc gutless horror, ex-Morris 8 (lack of funds for the all-new engine that Issigonis had in mind for it)
1952-56 OHV 803cc, as in the A30, following the merger with Austin
1956-?64 OHV 948cc - the so-called Minor 1000
19?64 to end (1971) OHV 1098cc, shared with the 1100.
Perhaps their greatest virtue was the SU carburettor which ensured first-time starting hot or cold - something not given to equivalent Fords and Vauxhalls.
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Thanks Avant... I got the engine capacities wrong, but not the types of engine.
That s/v Minor was a really sweet little car, deserves the title of all-time classic. Minor 1000 was the rich young man's hotshoe special of its day, like later Mini-Cooper. It could go fast enough to kill your nyash.
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Morris Type E... I remember the thing, it had a cute look too but was very sluggish. Haven't seen one for decades. What's happened to them? It was an austere time, the late forties, and perhaps there weren't all that many to start with.
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The Type E had that awful thing, a cart-sprung beam front axle. Thanks to Alec Issigonis the Minor had torsion bar ifs until the 1000, when a cruder, cheaper coil-sprung front end was adopted.
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And as far as I know, all Morris Minors had beam, leaf-sprung back axles.
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They certainly had solid back axles and cart springs. I don't remember the front suspension being other than the torsion bars and lever dampers, weren't they even carried over to the Marina, possibly even the first Itals?
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>> I don't remember the front suspension being other than the torsion bars and lever dampers, weren't they even carried over to the Marina, possibly even the first Itals?
I'm sure you're right Manatee. I certainly remember them in the Marina my father had. I tried to discourage him and go for something foreign with longer legs, but BL had a cosy deal with the CSMA and he got the Marina for a good price.
It was a POS but only had 26,000 on it when he wanted to switch to a new Cortina. I wanted to keep it - it was a 1300 and quite decently economical - but he had taken against it and gave me enough money to trade it in for the much nicer Renault 18 GTX estate (which very annoyingly was a vandal magnet in London).
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Tue 11 Aug 15 at 15:11
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>> I wanted to keep it - it was a 1300 and quite decently economical - but he had taken against it
What I found hard to believe was that my father allowed a drum-braked Marina to be delivered to him, when front discs were available. I suppose he thought it wouldn't be any worse than what he was used to, and it wasn't... but that didn't mean it wasn't awful under initial braking. It was the only serious fault of that little coupé, which wouldn't even have been bad looking if he hadn't bought one in a hideous shade of muddy military khaki. He was quite keen on penny-pinching for perfectly good reasons, but that can go too far as I tried whippersnapperishly to point out.
He liked cars and machines, the old boy, and had a very good influence on me. Didn't mind getting his hands dirty and doing it for real.
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>> They certainly had solid back axles and cart springs.
When I say cart springs, I mean what are commonly called semi-elliptical leaf springs. Thinking about it, I recall Minor springs looking very "thin" and wondered if they were actually parabolics (anybody who messes with old Land Rovers will know the difference). Apparently not, but they were replaced by parabolic leaf springs at some point in the production of the Ital.
This could possibly be the least memorable fact I have unearthed for a while.
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>> Thanks to Alec
>> Issigonis the Minor had torsion bar ifs until the 1000, when a cruder, cheaper coil-sprung
>> front end was adopted.
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All Morris Minors post 1948 had torsion bar front suspension. Some after market kits to provide dampers and coil springs have been available.
Torsion bars were continued to the Marina.
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>> Perhaps their greatest virtue was the SU carburettor which ensured first-time starting hot or >> cold
First car I ever push started was a 1000 Traveller, and I remember a couple of others around that time that were tricky to start, maybe that was damp, cold Glasgow weather to blame.
Nice wee cars though, especially liked the 1000 convertible that one of our teachers had when I was in 6th form which we went in to go sailing at weekends.
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Never heard of them before until I saw one today near Shrewsbury.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyno
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...bowling along through Lower Earley this morning. As it's only a single seater, it's about half the width of a small car - looks very small. More like a 4 wheel version of those BMW C1 enclosed motorbike/scooter things.
www.renault.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/twizy.html
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Now this IS unusual. So unusual, I'd never even heard of it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignale_Gamine
There's one awaiting restoration at the garage where I'm buying my Volvo S60 from.
At first sight I genuinely thought it was a toy car, some kind of Noddy mock-up.
Funny little thing. Only 300 ever made.
Last edited by: Alanović on Thu 20 Aug 15 at 14:00
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To give an idea of scale, here's one with someone sat in it.
www.mixe.demon.nl/gamine/gamine_dutch_rosso_corsa.htm
Apparently there was more than the one type, quite a range in fact....
www.vignale.org/vignale.html
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That (the one with the Village People member in it) actually looks bigger than the one I saw. Which was parked right next to a Dodge Charger, admittedly.
Last edited by: Alanović on Thu 20 Aug 15 at 14:12
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I've seen a few of them. But the thing was a girls' beach car, slower and sillier than its parent Fiat 500.
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K reg example in navy blue parked among the modern stuff on level one of Mayorhold carpark when I collected my 'lingo after work yesterday. Quite tidy and looked like somebody's daily drive.
Steering wheel was, by modern standards, implausibly thin in both wheel and spokes, and rather large in diameter. Nice wooden instrument panel though.
Parked next to a Volvo V70 that absolutely dwarfed it, though to be fair the V was so big it overhung it's bay by close to a foot.
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Well I never. How had these escaped my attention for so long?
Edit:
Sorry, that was a comment meant for Dog's ling about the FIAT.
Last edited by: Alanović on Thu 20 Aug 15 at 15:36
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As I walked from my car this morning, something caught my eye about a black E92 BMW coupé, only a little older than mine. I paused and looked again and the roof panel, between the gutter rails, had a black, crackly finish that looked for all the world like the kind of thing that used to adorn Granadas and Princesses when I were a nipper. Didn't have time to investigate further (how, anyway?) and when I went out again at lunchtime the car had gone, but did I imagine it? Are people putting such treatments on their roofs again, after all these years?
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>>re people putting such treatments on their roofs again, after all these years?
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My Cortina 1600E had a proper Everflex foff as fiitted to RR and Jaguar XJC.
tT was fitted by the original owner and was perfect condition 10+ years later.
I thought it was fantastic. It was also a great sound insulation as the centre section was padded.
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Some lightweight E92s like the CSL had a carbon fibre roof panel.
My dads final company car was a rather tired Triumph Toledo. He had been promoted to management at West Cumberland Farmers, and therefore his newish HC Viva estate was deemed unworthy.
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I don't think this car was anything fancy - 320d, I think, like everyone else's (except mine };---) ). I'll hope it appears again and I'll take a closer look. We've got work going on in the car park, so familiar cars don't always appear in familiar spaces.
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It's here again today so I had another look. Not a 320d - it has symmetrical twin exhausts, which may indicate a 330d - but not an M3 or a CSL either. Just a black 08 coupé with a red interior, and what really does look like a vinyl roof.
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>> It's here again today so I had another look. Not a 320d - it has
>> symmetrical twin exhausts, which may indicate a 330d - but not an M3 or a
>> CSL either. Just a black 08 coupé with a red interior, and what really does
>> look like a vinyl roof.
Put its reg number into DVLA or an oil website. That'll probably tell you.
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It tells me it's a 3.0 petrol and that its tax and MoT are in order. That and the symmetrical exhausts suggest it's a 335i; lesser 3.0s, petrol and diesel, have side-by-side pipes on the left, like my 325d. Doesn't explain the roof, though.
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But this might. It seems to be A Thing.
shadowlinetrim.com/shadowlinevinyls.html
You can do the window surrounds too, if you like.
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Spotted in Horsham, markings and lines disguised but definitely a Pickup version of the Evoque ,in fact it was because it was covered with masking tape that it drew my eye.
I was driving in the opposte direction so did not have a chance to grab a photo.
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Convertible perhaps? Don't think they are planning a pickup version .
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Not a convertible....definitely a pickup, ....I am sure time will bear me out.
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Caravan on the next pitch at St Florence was towing with a Chevrolet Orlando.
Can't say I've seen one before.
I've certainly not seen one of these...............
s479.photobucket.com/user/1400ted/media/St%20Florence%20%202015%20004.jpg.html
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On the M5 heading SW on Friday - a Hillman Imp Estate in an attractive two colour blue/white paint scheme. Cannot remember the reg but mid/late sixties. Looked like a preserved classic rather than a daily driver - probably headed for some classic/retro show in SW England. Keeping a steady 50+ in lane one.
I believe the model was also known as a Hillman Husky.
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Anorak on:
There may have been an Imp-based model called a Husky, because manufacturers recycle names.
But the original Husky I remember is a fifties car based on the Minx of the time, a rounded-looking three-door estate with very plain austere trim. It cost a lot less than a Minx but went pretty well despite its frugal carburettor.
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Thank you JB.
I didn't remember the Husky having a smaller sidevalve engine. Always thought it was a detuned Minx unit. Perhaps it was in some versions.
It wouldn't have been remotely stressed at 65mph which would have been its cruising speed on decent roads. It was a bit quieter and more 'refined' than equivalend Ford and BL products.
Once did a long trip as a passenger in one, that's how I know. A quiet naval colleague of my father's who had been around a few colonies and didn't mind getting a move on. Had a very pretty doctor wife.
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I had an Imp-type Husky, 1968 F, worn to near destruction by a TV rental firm before I was conned into it. It was even worse than the Imp saloon I had before. It was so clapped out you couldn't drive it with the windows open because the air current sucked the crankcase fumes straight in from the oil filler cap just inside the tailgate. My father used to call it 'the hearse'.
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I had one too. Leaky head gasket, so I carried 5 gallons of water for quite a while until it got so bad I had to fix it.
The worst experience I had in it was when, at night, I pulled off the road into a dirt layby to top up the water. I had probably seen the large rock I pulled up just short of when I stopped, but by the time I had done the water and got ready to set off I had forgotten it was there, and it was not visible from the driver's seat.
Anyway, I stopped rather violently and instantly about 0.2 seconds after I set off.
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Two of, early yesterday morning travelling in convoy. We were heading up the A65 for a days yomping over the Howgills and they came up fast from behind between Clapham & Kirkby Lonsdale heading toward the Lakes. Reg plates '?11 BMW' and F15 ???
Never seen one before in the metal, nor did I realise how much they cost.
Now, I wonder if you could fit a towbar on one?
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See quite few i8s around here for some reason. Possibly heading for the Port at Holyhead or the local race-track (Fifth Gear film there). Saw a green one on Friday on the way home from the BMW place. I'm told that the green ones are BMW promotional vehicles (green...gerrit ?) Guy driving it was eating at the same cafe as us and was rather a scruffy herbert.. there's an i3 in Bala - locally registered - it must be the petrol/electric version....(all those hills)
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I was at the Nurburgring last weekend for the DTM race and two I8s rolled in together to park up on the grass verge of the skanky back lane between the campsite and the track . Cheapskates!!
Also I was in Cologne yesterday and saw my first ever Tesla in the flesh, parked up outside a posh hotel. Fairly unassuming appearance given it's performance.
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At a car trial yesterday and this turned up. Circa 1930, Coventry Climax engine. The owner acquired it as several boxes of bits and built it. There was no body when he got it, so this one was made.
tinyurl.com/nauke88
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Not a car, but hard to ignore...
www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorbikes/11290917/Flying-Millyard-review.html
I've just been admiring it at a motorbike gathering nearby and the standard of construction and detail is awe inspiring. So is the sound it makes, which you can feel as well as hear - it certainly put the assembled Harleys in their place!
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.........what I saw yesterday, but it looked like a small version of the Anthill Mob's car from Wacky Races. i.e. old-fashioned four door saloon with sticky out headlamps, pre-war I imagine. They all look the same to my 1970 Mk1 eyeballs. There was a badge on the grille, but I couldn't read it from where I was. Darn. I got the reg number - VB 6313. Tried to look up what it was on the DVLA site, but you need to know the make of car, which is what I'm trying to find out. Google shows up nothing for this reg number.
The car looked for all its worth like it was used daily, obviously it's a loved car, but note over-loved or just used for shows IYSWIM. Driver looked about 80 years old.
Anyone know how I can find out what it was?
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>> Anyone know how I can find out what it was?
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Is a look at the following page a possibility?
tinyurl.com/pk5htx9
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>> Austin 7?
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Bigger than that, 4 door full sized car.
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Oh dear. Whatever type of car it is, it's not on askMID.........
Unless I got the reg wrong. I think this one will remain a mystery.
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Maybe describing the badge would help. It was a circular, plain matt steel badge with the manufacturer's name engraved around the edges and some kind of emblem in the middle. No colours or paints. The badge sat in the middle of the radiator grille. The car looked to be a kind of work-a-day car, nothing special like a Bentley for example, and if I recall correctly the roof was a kind of matt/vinyl type finish. I couldn't capture every detail as I was passing it in a bus.
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This seems to be the closest I can find, Hotchkiss (I'd never heard of them):
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623876973790/
But I don't think the car I saw had a spare wheel on the running boards. In fact I don't think it had running boards. But the badge is very similar. What other manufacturer badges were like this?
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>> If you do not recognise the cerated (crenellated) radiator grill as indicating that this is a Royal Daimler, then that is your "peasant" ignorance!
What cobblers. All Daimler radiator grilles have the crenellated top, even the one on the Jaguar-bodied Daimler V8s.
Tchah!
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>> What cobblers. All Daimler radiator grilles have the crenellated top, even the one on the
>> Jaguar-bodied Daimler V8s.
Not the Daimler Dart, my all-time dream car. :)
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I'm pretty sure the Dart does have vestigial crenellations (a phrase I have never used before) on its grille surround.
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>> I'm pretty sure the Dart does have vestigial crenellations (a phrase I have never used
>> before) on its grille surround.
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I agree
www.a-k-d.com/dart/grill_new.jpg
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There was a photo somewhere in today's comic, which I don't have to hand, of a lovely glamourpuss getting out of an even more gorgeous Saoutchik-bodied Delahaye it looked like. Not really my sort of car to tell the truth, a bit baroque and Riviera for me. The best-performing cars are, er, stark compared to that. Damn beautiful thing though, and in its day it could really go too.
Camera was on the lady's legs so one only saw the surrounding bits of car. Enough to see what it was though more or less. Those must have been the days if you had the bread (most people, even the middle classes, were dirt poor in the thirties by modern standards).
Got a lift in France once in a slightly rough old Delahaye tourer (unless my Alzheimer's has made me confused and it was really a Delage), much less flash than that one, in the rain. The owner drove well and fast, very relaxed for him and the car, neither one stretched in any way. Memorable. Sounded good too of course.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delahaye_235
For anyone else who's not heard of them.
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Woof woof.
As in, I like it. Not that it's a dawg.
Last edited by: Alanović on Fri 16 Oct 15 at 19:43
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'Maserati' indeed!
Not even certain it's the same car really. Those chrome door shuts in the first photo are to die for if you like that sort of thing.
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Saw a Jensen Interceptor in Caversham today. Shifty looking geezer in a leather jacket at the wheel, fag dangling out of the window. I think he'd just arrived through a worm hole from 1976. Motor looked a bit rough too. Proper job, not some poncey garage queen. Nice.
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>> Saw a Jensen Interceptor in Caversham today. Shifty looking geezer in a leather jacket at the wheel, fag dangling out of the window. I think he'd just arrived through a worm hole from 1976. Motor looked a bit rough too. Proper job, not some poncey garage queen. Nice.
A genuine old 4wd crossply-shod Interceptor, not one of its swing-axle boulevard-cruiser successors à la Cliff Richard?
Actually the first of the boulevard cruisers was an ugly glassfibre job, but V8 auto and well tasty. I knew someone slightly, a sporting shrink I seem to remember, who had one.
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Not the recent DB9 derivative, this one:
www.astonmartin.com/en/heritage/past-models/virage
Can't have been that many sold, much classier than the current range.
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Citroen 2CV pickup - John Boy
