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4 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

"Parts Cat" would like to point out the the Factory Workshop Manuals and the Factory Parts Books are available to download at various locations on the interwang

Smithies of New Zealand is a particularly good library of LR materials

John Richard Surplus (UK) loads of stuff you can access 

Emberton has links to some Series One Club produced material

Have a read of the Instruction Manual,

a fine example of a real Instruction Manual,

rather than the modern Book of Disclaimers.

I'm beginning to wonder why I've kept these for so many decades now...

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1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I'm beginning to wonder why I've kept these for so many decades now...

Because you, like I, prefer reading paper?

I had a Series 1 Owners Manual, the 1950 publication with this cover:

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Sold it to a lad that had just got an 80" ,for a fiver.

Have a look what they cost now.

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I spotted a 'older' couple in a really tidy J reg pre-facelift Skoda Favorit in Burgundy on the way into work this evening. It looked like it was just their everyday car!

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Proper none-Turbo 1.9D shite. Also managed to see E140 CCF, a BX that has been spotted and posted a few times in the distant past; a 'new' one to me and a very pleasing sight.

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Second time in a couple of weeks I’ve seen this [checks notes] 99-year-old Ford Model T(?) parked here. 

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5 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Missive from Child Bride - live feed from Swansea
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Nice Ford Pop. My Dad had one in grey ( that colour was too exciting in 1961). Had a roof rack just like that too.

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On 04/07/2025 at 10:09, motorpunk said:

Sweet old thing 

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If it was not for the Foxcote House sign I would have said that was in The Netherlands.

Mooi & Zo means Beautiful & So

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Took my Toledo to the village Fete, it was soon joined by other red TriumphsIMG_20250705_143142_HDR.jpg.827ef157a7df0ea5ee5eb367933cffab.jpg

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11 hours ago, Gompo said:

All things considered, this looked stunning. 

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Looks like the 2.5v6 - for my ruinous sins, I ran a VR-4 version (twin turbo v6) for a year driving 450 miles a week and changing the AYC diff oil every 4500 miles. 

In that time it shat a £1000 driveshaft and eventually an impossible to spruce/repair invecs-2 gearbox too.

Awesome car, semi q car, 270bhp, a dash like a computer game, brakes like marshmallow and an ability to drift like I’ve never experienced before or since…

Its a saved search on eBay for a reason…

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On 05/07/2025 at 07:11, ProgRocker said:

Spotted this local registered Carina E a few days ago.

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GTI wheels on that. 

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21 hours ago, egg said:

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Is that in Wansford? If so I’ve just driven past it too. 

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