HMC

A car that had a “ boost leak” whereas in fact the clutch was slipping like hell. I could never quite decide if it was ignorance/ misdiagnosis or a deliberate attempt to mislead.

Just watched Used Cars (1980) To film buff it’s a bit of commentary about America itself. I tend to watch it for the car overload. It’s based around 2 competing used car lots and the more ramshackle of these is a great spotting ground for tired US tin. This time round I did a spot of a 73 coupe de ville, (make model and year as huggy) which is shot at during a pirated commercial during a presidential address Got me wondering if @danthecapriman has spotted his make model and year amongst the ranks of stuff for sale.

another spot of this locally used wolseley. Really characterful.

Could be a perished breather hose. At least if this was a w208 merc I’d of said for definite.

Went to Tesco bought some juice (1.5L.) as the redneck bumper sticker states only juice should come in 1.5L 😂

Have we had the land rover discovery 2 commercial? Shades of previous sharing of doors and pressings come what may; a 2 seater with the 5 door shell and rear passenger doors still notable by their presence in the rear load space.

I was in a similar position recently - everything that was a £500 car 3 years ago now nudges £1k. Hence I found myself paying toward a grand for a k11 micra which I’ve bought similar for £500 4 years previously .

Daddy told me I was a SPECIAL car

Excuse me whilst I have a crisis… The ultimate cav for me. My dad had a white cdi hatch (h537yto) as a company car. The interior brings back memories, it was the first car I had been in that had wood of any sort, and I used to wash it for him every weekend. I loved that car. Sadly it attracted wrong uns like moth to a flame in early 90s Bolton and it got joy ridden twice and was never quite the same after it got repaired the second time.

A38 south of Bristol, I’ve papped it before but I’m sort of documenting it’s total disintegration over time.

BL/ARG/ ETC cost saves have already been mentioned, they are famous for it even if it sometimes backfired. Honourable mentions also to bmc 1800/ maxi door sharing. You would have thought they might of learnt how it can hamstring stylists of later cars…. but they did it again with the 800 facelift into the 90s 800 where the doors again were reused and it dictated certain things such as the roof contour. Apparently the door tooling was worn and later replaced which somewhat negated the point.

Early standard 8- no opening bootlid. Rock bottom penny pinching; later reconsidered.

Sometimes these little short cuts are beneficial- some manufacturers supply a fairly standard loom to most models so lower spec models are often plug and play with DIY bolt on extras - eg elec/ heated seats.

Mercedes of a similar era did this but then also revised the tooling to avoid having the redundant hole. So very thorough- except they then did a short cut and time save on the rust prevention instead.

@dollywobbler ^ Rover 45- later models have the passenger front windows lift on the transmission tunnel only - so it doubles as the main passenger switch and in lieu of extra componenty on the driver’s door. Clever but stingy.

Guilty secret time - id really like a fiat 500c (the sort of convertible body) twin air. Sort of a 2cv but less needy?