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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Cavcraft in Cavcraft 2021: More Italian slow shite.   
    Yes, there's no looking past the fact that those rank wheels let the whole thing down, aestheically and probably performance/ride as well.
    It would immediately benefit from some standard VW van steelies.
     
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-TRANSPORTER-T25-T3-SET-OF-4-WHEELS-WITH-TYRES-STEEL-RIMS-14-BREAKING/233335166250?hash=item3653dc152a:g:KYAAAOSw6Olc0YIE
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Cavcraft in Cavcraft 2021: More Italian slow shite.   
    The Astra looks like it should be on a Lookers forecourt!
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    Sausage5000 reacted to fred in Autoshite dreams?   
    Tell me about it, wasnt the young Edwina either it was the haggard old version - be bugger
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from The Moog in the good, bad,dreadfull collection   
    theshadow buying a car off cavcraft?
     

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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Cavcraft in the good, bad,dreadfull collection   
    theshadow buying a car off cavcraft?
     

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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from SRi05 in the good, bad,dreadfull collection   
    theshadow buying a car off cavcraft?
     

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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Burnside in 1993 L reg Vauxhall Cavalier 1.8i LS. Mot'd May 2020. West Mids. Congrats to M'coli!.   
    SURELY one of the best cars made in the past 40 years or whatever!
    pistonheads/top gear fans all will agree with me
     
    ANY job on these is DIY, they’re so easy to work on and you can drive to work and back without oil or coolant (source my dad, cavalier 1.6GLS, 2006)
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Floatylight in 1993 L reg Vauxhall Cavalier 1.8i LS. Mot'd May 2020. West Mids. Congrats to M'coli!.   
    SURELY one of the best cars made in the past 40 years or whatever!
    pistonheads/top gear fans all will agree with me
     
    ANY job on these is DIY, they’re so easy to work on and you can drive to work and back without oil or coolant (source my dad, cavalier 1.6GLS, 2006)
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Bamboocarman in Car features   
    Agree with the simplicity thing, my current car is as simple as they come and it's great, but I miss things like cruise control, parking sensors, rain sensors, auto lights, satnav touch screen etc etc
    The radar thing and lane assistance is just un-neccessary, as is an internet browser in the dashboard, and that Sprinter steering wheel scares me.
     
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from catsinthewelder in Shite in Miniature II   
    Yes!!
    It was a Peugeot Quasar.
     

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    Sausage5000 reacted to Stanky in Shitting in the shallow end. *Bile Hatred* pseudo collection.   
    Vatican Domestic Market Yo?
    Looks like a tidy little car that does - top marks. Is it a Japanese-built one with the non self-destructing seat belt buckles?
     
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from twosmoke300 in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Trials with patients suffering from severe depression led to hospital management introducing a scheme called ‘Spend a day with someone trying to cure an overheating K-series’.
    It was a success, and cured 100% of cases who realised that their lives “weren’t that bad after all.”
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from stonedagain in Gearbox in sump   
    My old escort Rs Turbo had gearbox in sump when I changed to first instead of fifth at 100mph on the m62, as well as some other engine parts.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from HMC in HMC- AUTOSHITE 2.0   
    That gearknob is OEM MSport, it's missing the plastic thing obviously.
    Car looks great, I love those weird looking 5 series.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from TooManyPeopleMovers in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Trials with patients suffering from severe depression led to hospital management introducing a scheme called ‘Spend a day with someone trying to cure an overheating K-series’.
    It was a success, and cured 100% of cases who realised that their lives “weren’t that bad after all.”
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from cobblers in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    On the subject of saxamophones, the original Citroen Saxo began life as a saxophone by instrument maker Yamaha. The french car company took the tooling and developed the fruity brass instrument into the car we know and love* today. 100% true.
     
    Reliant cars were meant to be metal. Factory workers took the fibre glass concepts and assumed they should be made that way. Nobody in management noticed this cock up until 2005. Upon realising the error, CEO Dave Reliant made the company bankrupt.
    The twist of this story? All reliant concept cars were made from pressed steel. How did Reliant workers make this mistake? Was this a simple misunderstanding? Or was it something beyond our understanding ... something of a supernatural nature?
    Some stories are ... stranger than fiction. Goodnight, and don’t have nightmares.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from JeeExEll in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Trials with patients suffering from severe depression led to hospital management introducing a scheme called ‘Spend a day with someone trying to cure an overheating K-series’.
    It was a success, and cured 100% of cases who realised that their lives “weren’t that bad after all.”
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from mitsisigma01 in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Trials with patients suffering from severe depression led to hospital management introducing a scheme called ‘Spend a day with someone trying to cure an overheating K-series’.
    It was a success, and cured 100% of cases who realised that their lives “weren’t that bad after all.”
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Datsuncog in Shite in Miniature II   
    I also had a millionaire uncle in America. He was going to send me rare transformers toys, eventually. My friend used to mock me until recently about my obviously intended uncle.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from davidfowler2000 in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Trials with patients suffering from severe depression led to hospital management introducing a scheme called ‘Spend a day with someone trying to cure an overheating K-series’.
    It was a success, and cured 100% of cases who realised that their lives “weren’t that bad after all.”
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    Sausage5000 reacted to Parky in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    BMW's propeller logo is not a homage to their aerospace engine past. It a modified version of a Trivial Pursuit pie, the favoured game of the Quandt family.
     
    Guigaro didn't just design cars - he was also responsible for the Campari logo, the Brut 33 bottle and the Sodastream
     
    Stirling Moss is extremely selective about what he endorses. If it doesn't fall under the category of "anything at all" he isn't interested
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    Sausage5000 reacted to warren t claim in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Contrary to popular belief the Madonna song Vogue isn't about Range Rovers but actually a tribute to her late father who was the main US distributor for Singer cars.
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    Sausage5000 reacted to AndyW201 in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Harris Mann, designer of the Allegro and TR7 played saxophone on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. Not Bob Holness as previously claimed. Although Holness did add the side scallops to Mann's original design sketch for the TR7 so the two men do have a connection.
     
    Roy Axe invented the game 'Ker-Plunk'.
     
    Motoring writer LJK Setright was a fully qualified British Darts Organisation scorer and was the first to give the famous shout " ONE HUNDRED AND EIIIGGGGHHHHHTYYYYY" during a televised match.
     
    The Queen opened Santa Pod raceway in 1966, taking part, of course, in the first RWYB putting down a reasonable 18.2 second quarter mile time in her Hartwell tuned Hillman Imp
     
    Jaguar once developed an E type with a super-close ratio 16 speed gearbox. Only one was made however, it featured in the John Wayne film 'Brannigan'.
     
    It has been proved beyond all doubt that once a very ordinary, not very sought after old car has been bought at auction for £1200 then advertised by some chancer on ebay for £3000, that it will become rare and only go up in value.
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    Sausage5000 reacted to Bren in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    True fact.
     
    Engineers at powertrain stated the k series issues were down to unsympathetic owners.
     
    For unsympathetic read "they started them up."
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    Sausage5000 reacted to 320touring in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    The Rover K series was specifically designed to boil its coolant so you could have a nice cuppa whilst waiting for that lovely AA man to come and sort out the latest non engine related breakdown.
     
    All e30 318iS 2drs were galvanised* using the same technique as 1970s italian steel
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