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

[clayts450]

Totally with you on this forgotten hero. I've decided that I need to shoehorn a 600 in to my fleet long before a 75, simply because they're all just vanishing into dust.

 

I have my feelers out for a bit of a 'special one' at present, and I'm hoping the current owner comes through and decides to sell (although they're umming and aahing a little at the moment, not at all unsurprisingly)

[quicksilver]

After today's events (see Six-cylinder's motoring notes) I'd like to revise my opinion of the Rover 600. All Rovers are shit and suffer HGF, even the ones with the reliable* Honda engines.

[clayts450]

Yes, I'm feeling a little like that, but probably would still go for the "special one" (620ti) or an L-series. I'm determined to get one.

 

Mind you one duff Honda injun does not necessarily rule out other possibilities (he said cryptically)

[quicksilver]

As promised here's a write up of yesterday's adventure featuring Jolly Green Giants, assorted other bus and coach shite and some unexpected Rovers - the brilliant Thame Time Traveller bus tour.

[quicksilver]

Today I've made another addition to my fantasy garage. Inspired by acquiring a model and then seeing a real one in the ebay tat thread, I've decided I want an Isuzu 117 Coupe.

[Lacquer Peel]

I think I want a 117 Coupé diesel now. Really pretty cars and I enjoy your blog.

[quicksilver]

The weekend has provided a rich source of material for the blog. Here's the first piece, in which I drive a Range Rover around a field. Don't worry, there's much more interesting stuff to come...

[quicksilver]

I also got to drive something far more unusual than a Range Rover around the Field of Dreams. For those who weren't there, this is what you missed - what it's really like to get behind the handlebars of the legendary TWC.

[320touring]

Good blog on TWC:)

[quicksilver]

I'm sure you've all been desperate* for new content. Wait no longer, Rusty Old Rubbish has returned with a piece of Minor interest.

[quicksilver]

It's cold, dark and miserable and the show season seems like it was so long ago. What else is there to do but look back at the events I've been to and pick some of my favourites from the cars I've seen? I've started with the Chevrons Rally, where there was plenty to interest fans of air-cooling, LHM, Diravi and other strange French things.

[quicksilver]

You could be forgiven for thinking I had abandoned this blog but in truth there really hasn't been anything of interest to write about so far this year. That's now changed after a morning of Model T Fords (plus some bonus hot Italian action!)

[LightBulbFun]

nice to see a new article, throughly enjoyed reading it

 

if your looking for interesting things to write about, you could do a part 3 to your invacar entries, in light of all the new information thats been dug up since then 

[quicksilver]

At long last there's new content, hopefully the first of more regular articles now I have more free time. It's the Silver Aero, a unique Vauxhall that's not shit and unexpectedly turned up at a small village show last month: https://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-silver-aero.html 

[New POD]

I am sure I've seen that before.  It kind of makes me think that they got carried away polishing a turd *

 

*not that a mk1 cavalier / Manta  is a turd

** and I used to have a mk2 Cavalier CalibrE and if the irmcher kit on that it's polishing a turd I don't know what is. 

[quicksilver]

Funny you should mention the Cavalier Calibre as there's a well-known red one (E30 FTL) that must live somewhere local and I've seen it about 5 times over the last couple of months. I agree about the turd polishing as it came out of the factory looking like a Barryboys special with a bodykit that does it no favours.

[New POD]

21 hours ago, quicksilver said:

Funny you should mention the Cavalier Calibre as there's a well-known red one (E30 FTL) that must live somewhere local and I've seen it about 5 times over the last couple of months. I agree about the turd polishing as it came out of the factory looking like a Barryboys special with a bodykit that does it no favours.

I wish I hadn't sold mine to "rabbit" but with blown up engine, and 6 months of previous unreliability, I just wanted rid.  Not realising how rare it was to become.

[quicksilver]

Hooray for more free time! It's only been a few days but I have something else new to share. Everyone goes on about the Alfa Romeo Arna being one of the worst cars in history but its twin sister the Nissan Cherry Europe is even more bizarre. It doesn't get anywhere near as much attention though so to redress the balance I've profiled it as one of my Motoring Misfits.

Looking at HML while researching this article, I was surprised to see Ratdat no longer has the only taxed Cherry Europe GTI. The one on SORN is presumably his spares car but there are now two taxed - I can't believe the return of such a rare car to the road would have gone unnoticed so has anyone seen this second one?

[quicksilver]

More new stuff. FOTU may have been over a week ago but it was so overwhelmingly amazing that I'm still going through the hundreds of photos I took. I intend to break my coverage into several parts and here's the first, my top ten favourites from the concours. It was a very difficult choice so what do you think of my selections?

[quicksilver]

Time for FOTU part 2, this time a few of the gems from the classic parking. Our own @RobT's funky R11 is in there alongside many other amazing things.

[quicksilver]

Can't believe it's already been a month since that amazing FOTU weekend. Here's my full report of what I got up to: https://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-unexceptional-weekend.html

[quicksilver]

I managed to squeeze in a couple more blogs before the month is out, on two very different subjects: more Invacar goodness and a model that's the wrong scale

 

 

[quicksilver]

With all the recent talk of kit cars, I felt that Cheetah Cars' dreadful malformed lumps of fibreglass were worthy additions to the motoring misfits series and far worse than any of the usual stereotypical candidates for 'worst car ever'. 

[LightBulbFun]

27 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

With all the recent talk of kit cars, I felt that Cheetah Cars' dreadful malformed lumps of fibreglass were worthy additions to the motoring misfits series and far worse than any of the usual stereotypical candidates for 'worst car ever'. 

haha when I saw the thread show up I immediately thought "ah this shite is perfect for quicksilvers blog"

happy to see that is the case  

[quicksilver]

21 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

haha when I saw the thread show up I immediately thought "ah this shite is perfect for quicksilvers blog"

happy to see that is the case  

You know me well I was so captivated by their utter hopelessness I had to write about them, if only to prove the usual 'worst cars ever' were actually pretty good in comparison. The Cheetah range seemed to have no redeeming features whatsoever and most were so awful literally nobody bought one. Weapons-grade shite.

[quicksilver]

Here's a bit of fun - the untold story of Crazy Vaclav's 'put it in H' car and its relationship to the Invacar.

[LightBulbFun]

haha that was a very amusing read  (although you might want to put a disclaimer that its just a fun made up story or such, because I can very much see someone thinking that story is true!)

 

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The raised rear light sections were enlarged into tail fins,

(I do sadly belive its a real Model 70 but what happened to it I don't know sadly)

 

http://georginastarr.com/getaway.php

[Lacquer Peel]

Here's a bit of fun - the untold story of Crazy Vaclav's 'put it in H' car and its relationship to the Invacar.

I did end up searching for the Zlotny from Yugoslavia.