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I do like the idea of deep fried mashed potato with parsley.

3 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

These have gone from a bit 'meh' to hell, yeah! quite rapidly

It's a shame we don't know anyone who lives in this hood who likes BMs, isn't it @sporty-shite?

BMW e46 1999-2000 323ci coupe auto | eBay

£500/submit best offer. Knock off £12.99 ('Powermaxed' coolant seal repair £8.99,  and say £4 in fuel to everyone's favourite* car parts supplier in Morston Point) and you're on to a winner*

WCPGW?

 

I would prefer that to any of the hideous monstrous fake grill electric shit they are attempting to sell now.

4 hours ago, worldofceri said:

Tried to get a shot of this immaculate Dodge six-legger earlier as it trundled past, but all I managed was a close up of one of  ol’ Robbie Bosch’s finest wiper blades.

I do like a Dodge Commando, the washer jet looks a bit why tho in a startled kind of way.

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

In other news, Renault 4 wipers are shite.

 

That’s just taken me back 30 years when I daily drove an R4 between Plymouth and Newton Abbot, I still loved the car though despite it’s deficient wiper tendencies.

9 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Ziebart was a good thing, I had a 1974 Renault 4 in about 1993 that had been thus treated from new and it was totally rot free.

6 hours ago, uk_senator said:

What is that? It looks to be Hondy Acty size in proportions.

5 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Think that's featured in an early issue of street machine.

I remember that.

20 minutes ago, garethj said:

From the late 1960s, VW offered a booster fan for heaters on their aircooled engines.  On Beetles and Type 3s, it was located in the scuttle distribution box and sucked warm air through when the engine fan was turning slowly.  On Type 4s the fan was in the engine bay and pushed the air through.

Both were very helpful and brought heaters almost to 1970s standards, but of course the heat source was still 10 feet from where it needed to be.  Water cooled cars bury the heater matrix right inside the dashboard, with good reason.

Additional Eberspacher (I’m not entirely convinced that’s the correct spelling) heaters were also available, much like the cab heater as fitted in all todays artic units.

51 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

If you think of it, a lot of modern engines now have about 25 thermostats and 7 electric water pumps (ok, slight exaggeration 😅) to precisely control the temperature of certain engine zones just to meet the highest possible efficiency/low emissions criteria. With that in mind it's no wonder that air cooled engines were left behind with the times 

They're great in many ways, just not that efficient which is quite important nowadays!

But they just kept on plodding along, in the late 1980’s into the early 1990’s my daily drivers were a succession of cheap VW Beetles, latterly I was commuting daily from Plymouth to Newton Abbot and the old nails did me proud and were simple and easy to keep going.

1 hour ago, martc said:

Good grief, those images are grim. Hopefully a Welsh valleys shitter Will identify these locations and post up pics of how it’s been gentrified now.

9 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Ouch!

Is that the hapless (read hopeless) Jeremy Vine.

9 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I fink i got it wrong again dad…

4 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

1965 AEC MERCURY LORRY | eBay

'Sea gear' sounds like heroin for fish.

What a lovely old thing, but the asking price seems wildly optimistic.

I’ve never owned a Fiesta but driven plenty, I learned to drive in a MK1 Ghia and have sampled a MK1 1300S, MK1 and 2 XR2’s, MK3 R/S turbo and many lesser models. The last 4 years holidaying in Cyprus has been with a rented Fiesta as will this September’s holiday, in my opinion the MK1 was the best to drive and was a brilliant little car in its day and it’s a shame the name has to be dropped.

I’ve just done the check on my phone and it’s fine, I don’t know why I couldn’t do it on the iPad, older persons and technology issues I think!

I’ve just tried checking the MOT history on a potential car for my son but I can’t do so now without the number on the registration document! Yet another change for the worse.

54 minutes ago, martc said:

Glasgow, Töölö, Helsinki 1972. The flood was caused by a thunderstorm.

 

Not climate catastrophe then.

Here it is many years ago when in service with a well known Westcountry showman

On 5/21/2023 at 6:37 PM, Crackers said:

In the Top Gear Burma Special, Hammond and Clarkson both had these. They weren't sure what they'd bought because they had Isuzu badges on the bodywork and Mitsubishi on the running gear. There must be a lot of them still running all over Asia. 

These do remind me a bit of the BMC WF series in appearance, much better built no doubt…

Old thread alert! I believe this car still exists just about in a field not far from home, I will try and get some pics….

10 hours ago, quicksilver said:

It's just ending the trial of these things (Longer Semi-Trailers) and finally accepting they're safe after 12 years. There's nothing really new or radical as over 2500 of them are running around already and they've clocked up hundreds of thousands of miles without major incidents so it's about time they came out of trial status.

These are only any good for trunking, certainly not for general haulage/multi dropping that I do, I can only just about get in and out of some places with my triaxle…

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Cor let’s have a look inside the box 

4mm : 1 ft = 1:76

Just for you Sir!

Just found this in the loft, l just might build it!