Rusty Old Rubbish, a shite blog (11 Nov - put it in H!)

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The latest update should appeal to our resident bus and coach pervs: not one but two posts reviewing the infamously chaotic Showbus rally held this year at Woburn Abbey.

 

Part 1 (the chaos): http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/shambolic-showbus.html

 

Part 2 (the exhibits): http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/showbus-part-2.html

[dollywobbler]

The latest update should appeal to our resident bus and coach pervs: not one but two posts reviewing the infamously chaotic Showbus rally held this year at Woburn Abbey.

 

Part 1 (the chaos): http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/shambolic-showbus.html

 

Part 2 (the exhibits): http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/showbus-part-2.html

 

Enjoyed those. Thanks. What a fiasco it sounds though! As was said, you'd think experience would count for something...

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It's been a while since a car-related post but after discovering the fascinating Healey Fiesta yesterday I decided to write about it: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-last-healey.html

[mercrocker]

Good write-up, I had a vague memory of such a thing but even seeing the pictures on the Stony threads I still didn't click what it was...Makes a nice change to learn something interesting on t'internet!

[Felly Magic]

I wondered what that Fiesta was when I saw the photos. Nice write up of a very interesting, and unique car

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It's now been a year since I started the blog and I've celebrated by writing about everyone's favourite veteran car, the infamous Horsey Horseless. I honestly thought this had been made up by a shiter so I was quite surprised when I googled it and actually got some results. Incidentally, there are no fewer than 153 results for "Horsey Horseless" when searching this site!

 

Horselessness here: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/putting-car-before-horse.html

[stripped fred]

It's now been a year since I started the blog and I've celebrated by writing about everyone's favourite veteran car, the infamous Horsey Horseless. I honestly thought this had been made up by a shiter so I was quite surprised when I googled it and actually got some results. Incidentally, there are no fewer than 153 results for "Horsey Horseless" when searching this site!

 

Horselessness here: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/putting-car-before-horse.html

Enjoyed reading that, an interesting article. I've always wondered if it was a real car.

[HH-R]

I'd love a go in an Invacar. Can only imagine that they're absolutely terrifying.

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Something completely different from the Horsey Horseless this time but no less rubbish. The sad tale of Life, the shitest of all F1 teams: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-worst-f1-car-ever-thats-life.html

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I've neglected the blog for too long but here's something new at last, the tale of the obscure automatic diesel Montego: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/a-perkins-peculiarity-automatic-diesel.html

[carlo]

Interesting story!

 

Apart from Mercedes, Citroen were offering diesel autos on the CX and BX.  Always seemed a sensible arrangement to me, especially when matched to turbo diesels with their ample torque.

[djimbob]

Lots of Japanese import autos in the early nineties with diesel motors, like Liteace, Hiace, Townace amongst others, but them oriental chappies were always up to something interesting

[Felly Magic]

That car is the ultimate in shite. Must have grail like status

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Interesting car, I'd like to have a go in it. Article is ok but the facts vs. flam ratio is a bit unfavourable

[dieselnutjob]

It wasn't only Mercedes selling diesel autos then. Many of the 604 turbo diesels on the continent and USA were automatics, and the 505 diesel auto was common even in the UK in the late 80s.

[Lacquer Peel]

Volvo diesel cars were available with automatic gearboxes from the early-mid 1980s but it was an unusual combination in cheaper cars.

Interesting to hear more about it, I always thought Rover missed a trick not offering their diesels with automatic transmissions, especially with their aged target market.

[Richard]

I think the Peugeot 505 turbo diesel estate was automatic only.

[Noel Tidybeard]

birmingham airport ran automatic di transhits on car park shuttle duty in the 90's

[dollywobbler]

I know a previous owner of this car. He made the mistake of taking it to the BMC BL rally, where everyone told him it couldn't possibly be what he said it was. He rather lost faith with the crowd after that.

[solid61]

Back in 1996/7 I owned an ex gas board astramax van fitted with a 1600 non turbo diesel and a 3 speed auto box,drove ok if a bit slow,never saw any more autos but im sure it wasn't the only one.

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Something new today, the ultimate in coach shite. You may never have heard of Quest 80 but they had it all: dubious mechanical design, hideous unappealing bodywork, chronic reliability issues, a tendency to go up in flames and an enigma of some extra chassis that appeared out of nowhere. Read all about them here: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/a-futile-quest.html

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As it's been over a year since the Stondon museum closed and some more of the former exhibits have started to come out of the woodwork, I thought it was a good time to look at what became of them: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/stondon-year-on.html

[flat4alfa]

Excellent

[Pillock]

That's a nice read, thanks for posting!

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Been writing about the changes at Gaydon: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/all-change-at-gaydon.html

 

By popular demand I will do a proper photo thread a bit later but that should give you an idea of what the place is like now.

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More new stuff today, remembering the weird moment when Genesis collaborated with Volkswagen: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/genesis-play-polo.html

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Two new entries while the forum was down, following the amazing spectacle that was Shitefest.

 

Shitefest shenanigans: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/shitefest-shenanigans.html

 

The holy grey grille: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/the-holy-grey-grille.html

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I don't normally do topical but with Chris Evans's resignation big news at the moment I decided to summarise my thoughts on him and Top Gear: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/chris-evans-and-new-top-gear.html

[BorniteIdentity]

Two new entries while the forum was down, following the amazing spectacle that was Shitefest.

 

Shitefest shenanigans: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/shitefest-shenanigans.html

 

The holy grey grille: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/the-holy-grey-grille.html

Lovely write up there.

 

I will honestly never ever forget driving that car out of London. I was partly terrified and partly guilty for removing part of London's fabric.

 

It IS in good hands, and I have no doubt that it'll be around for a very very long time yet.

[Angrydicky]

I've just been outside tinkering with it! Such a brilliantly simple car to work on, I've become quite attached to it and will be sad when it moves on to its next custodian.