Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - INCOMING!

[Stinkwheel]

swap you for a 17RD 😉

[Six-cylinder]

8 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

swap you for a 17RD 😉

It is tempting as it is road tax free, not £345 like the 1986 17RD, but we have had it 15 years and love it.

[Stinkwheel]

Just now, Six-cylinder said:

It is tempting as it is road tax free not £345 pound for the 1986 7RD, but we have had it 15 years and love it.

Completely understandable. As I've mentioned before, really regret selling my old 17D. Had hoped the super E would be as good as that, but a Visa diesel (or gti, I also had a115ch ) is really the ultimate Visa

[Mrs6C]

50 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

a Visa diesel (or gti, I also had a115ch ) is really the ultimate Visa even though the gti has to stop for fuel twice as often as the diesel...

FTFY...

[tooSavvy]

This 'crisp packet' Visa + torque monster derv.....

Truly the 'sleeper' of lore 🤔

Eh?

🚙💨

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

Completely understandable. As I've mentioned before, really regret selling my old 17D. Had hoped the super E would be as good as that, but a Visa diesel (or gti, I also had a115ch ) is really the ultimate Visa

In 2002 I had a white 17D as an antidote to my 17 mpg Range Rover and that gave me a fleet average of around 30 mpg, after 3 years I sold it just because I wanted a change.

In 2007 I wanted another Visa diesel but could not find one so settled for a maroon 10E. The 10E was never the same and I started looking for  another diesel without much luck. Then in early 2009 the Club was offered a blue 2 owner Visa 17RD to rehome for free and because I had been actively looking, it was passed to me. What I got was 2 owner, 73,000 mile running car with a short MOT that had been street parked in Bristol all its life and was dented all over, Also it looked like a sucked smarty. A good ride home and an easy MOT a month after I got it meant I was ready to recover its appearance with replacement panels and a full respray. 

I traveled across Europe in our 17RD in the company of Mike Harker in his Visa GTi 115ch and could not understand why we keep having to stop for breaks. Every stop the GTi need fuel compared to my every other stop. Several years later I broke down in Germany in my Triumph Vitesse and Mike was good enough to travel with me to Germany to collect it when it was fixed. We took the Visa 17RD and Mike drove it home. The Diesel was a revelation to him now he understood why I never needed to stop, apart from sipping fuel it was quiet, smooth and comfortable running at 120/130 kph