Mr Pastry
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1974 MGB GT - The Mustard (Mit) Mobility Scooter - Local car meet and (surprise surprise) it's broken again...
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1974 MGB GT - The Mustard (Mit) Mobility Scooter - Local car meet and (surprise surprise) it's broken again...
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1974 MGB GT - The Mustard (Mit) Mobility Scooter - Local car meet and (surprise surprise) it's broken again...
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I have changed an engine in one of these, leaving the gearbox in place, and I do not remember it as being difficult once the bonnet is out of the way. I wouldn't bother trying to get the sump off in situ.
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The "WTF is that?" thread
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Should Austin Rover have become Triumph instead of Rover?
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I always thought Moses was a biker. As in: "And lo, the roar of Moses' Triumph was heard throughout Israel"
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
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European Road Trips - Travels with Montaigne
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1974 MGB GT - The Mustard (Mit) Mobility Scooter - Local car meet and (surprise surprise) it's broken again...
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It will be closed most of the time.
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The MGB does not need an oil cooler for normal road use. It was fitted as a belt-and-braces precaution when the 5 bearing engine was introduced, as a result of bottom end problems with the early 3 bearing engine. And it has continued ever since, because sportscar. In reality, the oil will take longer to get up to working temperature, if it ever does. You would need an oil temperature gauge to observe this of course. Thousands of identical 1.8 B series engines went into Marinas without oil coolers, and there were no problems as a result. Admittedly oils have improved meanwhile. You are better off without it. But no MGB enthusiast will believe that. Cue: "Yes I hear what you are saying, but...." so I'm wasting my breath. Btw. I am an ex owner.
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
Mr Pastry replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
That sure is a phun phact! I thought the Naco screen might be 100E, as are the tail lights - in fact the whole thing is a fake 100E, which makes it a bit pointless because by 1960 you could probably buy a genuine used 100E for the cost of building a Naco. -
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
Mr Pastry replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
Yes I believe I saw the survivor, and it did look quite well sorted. I doubt if many were made. What is the windscreen from? National Historic Specials meeting at Cotswold Wildlife Park this Sunday 14th, IIRC. Today's restorations are mostly far better built and finished than they were originally. -
Sprite Mk 3, because door handles, taller screen, and proper windows with quarter lights. The equivalent Midget was a Mk2.
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Mr Pastry replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
It's a Naco. Ford special obvs, very obscure one, can't find much online. -
Dunno M8. I have seen the "Declaration required" thing but didn't ever pay it much attention. I would guess that the People in Charge realised that it needed a bit more explanation. As you say, not all old V5s have it, but I think given the number of documents involved there would be more than one printer in use and they were perhaps not all working from the same template - it could just be something quite boring really.
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I remember seeing that at one time. I think it was just DVLC speak, reminding the new keeper to fill in the changes section.
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See also: Vision of the Future (The Nightmare Begins) (icenicam.org.uk).
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Yeah this sort of thing is irritating, but bear in mind the author may have had nothing to do with it. His story might well have been ghost written or edited by someone at the publishing stage who did minimal research, and the photo was probably just a stock image chosen by the book designer because it looked nice. Unless it is a serious textbook or something of that sort, the author often has very little to do with the finished product once they have submitted the text.
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Hmm yes possibly, though the Land Rover(s) seem to have a better story than the lorry. If it was impounded by the police, and the false number seems to have been removed, I wouldn't have thought they would have put it back on before selling or scrapping it. Maybe they just weren't so careful in those days.
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Edit - I remember the robbery but was too young at the time to take it all in, so have just been reading up on it. Interestingly the 2 Land Rovers used both had the false plate BMG 757A. Which now comes up on DVLA as a 1949 Land Rover, first reg. Feb 1984!! Someone is having a laugh here, or was in 1984. I wonder whether the Austin truck is the original.
