mk2_craig

Just been catching up on this, amazing how things escalate when you start investigating!! Have you much else that’s going to want significant attention before you can call it usable?

That’s basically a @dollywobbler spec Charade isn’t it?

What’s the script with those Aussie PR100s having both the Renner diamond and MACK lettering on the front panel?

This was an interesting concept. Ikarus prototype from 1983, apparently:

Last time I flew into Edinburgh Airport there was still at least one M or N plate Dennis Dart parked up airside, which probably hasn't clocked up more than a few thousand miles.

That’s surreal! I reckon he would have enough time to do the job himself if he wasn’t so busy pestering people trying to sell stuff.

MoT history looks pretty decent on that Orion, must have been well rustproofed when young!

Possibly, possibly not. In the later years of the prefix series DVLA started holding back more and more combinations, not just the round hundreds and triples etc. So there might not actually be that many V328 marks issued.

Wow, nice use of black paint to disguise that step in the window line.

A white Jensen Healey, in the wild. Any tax on it? Oh. Maybe an export marker? Ah. Any other intel? From "wightbay" would you believe. OK. Does Google have any photos? There you go.

Dead cert futureshite? I was yesterday years old when I learned that a current shape Focus saloon existed.

Only life’s WINNERS get to park a Horizon Ultra on their property, and I am not one of life’s winners.

Nope. Mk3 before any Fiesta came with e/w (or c/l, for that matter) as standard or even optional. There was possibly a dealer fit kit for the mk2, later high spec models had a centre console featuring a pair of somewhat conspicuous looking switch blanks behind the gear lever, though it's also possible that's where they fitted heated seat controls on Scandinavian models. Cripes, that reads like a proper Fiesta nerd just wrote it, eh.

I think they did, I have some vague recollection that the window switches were mounted in the door bins, and an even vaguer recollection that the same switches could also be found in the T45 Roadtrain.

There's some horrendous bodges being talked about here! I can't bring myself to do that sort of thing to any vehicle where there's a risk of the next owner finding out and phoning me up to complain, especially if I haven't done it well enough and it breaks. I think about the worst lash-up I can recall carrying out is "fixing" the rear lighter socket drawer on the horrible E83 X3 that we had for a year. This is an unnecessarily over-engineered thing that you push to open (which it is supposed to do in a progressive, damped fashion) and push to close, however on this particular example it was all floppy and shite because something had worn/gone out of kilter/snapped/fell to bits. As no doubt is the case with any of these cars that have carried kids in the back at some point. Anyway it was pissing me off and I was coming to the conclusion that I didn't want to own the car any longer so I carried out the practically free repair of temporarily taping it in the closed position, then crudely firing a screw that I had lying around after being taken out of an old Sierra dashboard or something straight through two sides of the frame and into the lighter socket housing, and refitting it back to the console, never to be opened again. One less obvious fault for potential buyers to spot and take issue with. Hardly Macgyver-grade but I was quite pleased with myself! Of course, in order to be quids in from the endeavour, I took the opportunity to remove the lighter socket itself for potential retrofitting into some unspecified vehicle that I might own in the future, which fortunately didn't seem to create any issues with the on board computer sensing that it was no longer fitted and throwing a strop. Then got rid of the car before the turbo had a chance to shit itself.

Because Dacia.

Keep fit windows. Winning.

Great spot !! Crop out that white thing on the right and that could pass for a 20 year old photo.

Renault Build A Better Car, circa late eighties. I’ve said this before, but it reads better as a request than a statement.

Bini R56 with a cattled timing chain. "Just keep the oil topped up"

I'll take both the Mini and the Dolomite please!!

Rumour has it that VW sacked off forward control for their 1990s redesign of the Transporter, after Harry Redknapp nearly carked it in this one:

That Toledo, entirely possible someone has painted reflective plates black and the digits/letters white, I’ve seen that done before. Looks quite convincing, though it looks like there’s a (silver?) lip or surround where the paint/coating is flaking off.

Slightly tenuous Eddy but the current version of the Piaggio Porter: Is currently obtainable in the UK: https://piaggiocommercialuk.com/range/porter-range/porter-van/ My employer has one in pickup flavour, though it's left hand drive and I can't actually confirm whether RHD is offered.