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Looks like it causes cattle stampedes.

When I decided to move to Ireland I realised I would have to leave my Dolomite behind, as an 1850 engine would be too expensive to insure and run. So I looked around Cardiff for a cheaper to run car, and settled on a Citroen Visa Super E. Which was very different to anything I'd had before, and was ridiculed by my friends. It was identical to the one above, except rhd, with the same blue, blue interior. I expected to not like it, but I still have nostalgia for it now. Cheap to run, reasonably reliable and very comfortable. We've only had three non-French main cars since, two disastrous Passats and a Rover 620 SDi, which was very good.

There was a fair bit of hate for LNs from Citroenistes back when they were new but time has made people recognise their virtues. I've never driven one but I'm quite nostalgic about my Visa.

These aren't cars in the normal meaning of the word, just rich men's boasting tokens.

Yes, but it was far more sensible for BL to keep making the non styled ADO17 for another 6 years.

Does it have a spare wheel?

Nice 10mm, a good deep jaw.

I had a Peugeot 3008 with it as a courtesy car last year. It worked perfectly and was almost the only thing I liked about the hateful thing.

The grille does look strange on a PA, but it might have been a nice car. The Daimler engine would be a big improvement on the GM engine.

A much nicer car than the Jaguar 2.4/240. The XK6 engine is great, but very heavy for a 2.4. It needs to be a 3.4 at least. So if you wanted something a bit smaller the mk2 was always going to be a better car as the engine was a lot lighter, reducing understeer, also it had more power.

I'd always like a post with an Aurelia in, but looking at that I'm not sure the metallic grey really fits it. Great colour on the E though.

It's being seen to do something, especially as wine is a normie's drink. The campaigners pushing it are probably also all out in favour of dope legalisation.

At some point Triumph changed over from quoting HP to SAE standards to doing it to DIN standards, which are lower. Early TR6s are 150hp (SAE) and later ones 125hp (DIN) but there's not much real difference between them.

I was thinking GM but didn't realise it was Australia so gave up puzzled. The knee length socks should have alerted me 😊

There was no brake sphere on BXs. The safety valve on the subframe made sure that the brakes were prioritised before any other systems. As it's a 1.4 it will have the simplest of any Citroen LHM hydraulics, with no power steering, just suspension and brakes.

Looks like they came from the same batch on the same day, so not a complete surprise that they would fail in a similar way. Is the tensioner running smoothly without jerks?

Not nice, a friend* did that to me once at Port Eynon. He had two or three pints of rough cider, got an upset stomach, then puked all over my (borrowed) sleeping bag and folded trousers while scrabbling for the tent zip. I spent the night with only a long narrow strip of canvas wrapped round me in a spiral to keep warm, and had to crouch in the tent until 1pm, by which time my pants had almost dried after being swilled off under the campsite tap. Not among my most treasured memories.

Great, no turquoise and cerise swirls.

The GT6 is the 2litre version, the TR6 has a 2.5. So fairly brisk by 1970 standards.

They are inordinately heavy, like 200kg more than a lot of their competitors, so might not appeal to FIAT enthusiasts,as that takes any zip away in the lower powered versions.

It just shows how ridiculously unprotected the inner wing area used to be before plastic wheel arch liners were invented. Although very early Minis had a steel plate protector for the scuttle/A panel/8inner wing joint. It was deleted fairly early on, probably when they realised Issigonis had saddled them with a design that couldn't be sold at a worthwhile profit. But also making the aforementioned area very prone to disintegration once a nice cake of salty wet mud got stuck up there.

You forgot the bolo tie.

I ran one for a year back in 2003/4 and did a very light renovation of this one in 2014, then sold it on. Almost invariably 1.6Ds, though

Most of them don't even notice you overtaking, they just keep staring glassily ahead.😊

I'm not sure Orkney is far enough away.