Automotive bull5hit facts thread

[derskine]

Owners of 80s Volkswagens are civilised and educated people.

[fred]

You had to prove you owned a IKEA Wardrobe, dressing table and Mirror with a matching Billy Bookcase Before SAAB let you purchase their bespectacled model

[brownnova]

You have to prove that your Ikea MALM chest of drawers is fixed to the wall in an appropriate manner before they'll let you buy a Volvo XC90...

 

... But as I don't want one I'll live dangerously and leave it freestanding!!!

[New POD]

Alec Issigonis was a genius. and not as my father insists "A greek wanker, whose bodgery is legendary"

[brownnova]

The Morris Isis owners club have been banned from meeting under anti-terrorism laws.

 

 

Although to be fair, this is what happened when someone turned up late to their AGM...

[castros_bro]

Å koda made the main bearing for the London Eye.

[plasticvandan]

They did though,didn't they?

[inconsistant]

'Pop up' headlights were invented in trendy Shoreditch.

[Parky]

Range Rovers are still designed to be easily hosed out. So owners of Range Rover Sports can easily wash away the traces of blood and Charlie from the interiors, just as easily as Julian and Camilla would hose horse shit out of theirs back in the seventies.

[chaseracer]

The Morris Isis owners club have been banned from meeting under anti-terrorism laws.

 

 

Although to be fair, this is what happened when someone turned up late to their AGM...

 

As the photos show, the last few weeks' production of the Isis used leftover mk1 Consul shells in an unusual deal involving backhanders between Briggs Motor Bodies executives and junior management at Pressed Steel Fisher.  

 

Heads rolled, but the scandal was hushed up and led very quickly to the so-called "Dearborn Directive" on bodyshell re-use, referred to earlier in this thread... 

[brownnova]

As the photos show, the last few weeks' production of the Isis used leftover mk1 Consul shells in an unusual deal involving backhanders between Briggs Motor Bodies executives and junior management at Pressed Steel Fisher.

 

Heads rolled, but the scandal was hushed up and led very quickly to the so-called "Dearborn Directive" on bodyshell re-use, referred to earlier in this thread...

Oh good I'm glad there's a satisfactory* explanation for that, and not just that the original poster(me) couldn't find a picture of a burnt out Isis, and after a few minutes searching for things related to Isis, bombs, burning etc. was starting to get worried that the rozzers might knock at the door!!

[martc]

Å koda made the main bearing for the London Eye.

 

 

They did though,didn't they?

 

Yellow card - Skoda (now Pilsen Steel) cast the hub for the London eye. .http://www.pilsensteel.cz/en/?up=0&lang=0&id=119&m=303 , see towards bottom of this link. They are a separate company from the car manufacturer

[FakeConcern]

The fastest recorded Mini A Series bypass hose change is 16.3 seconds.

[twosmoke300]

Corrugated type or plain ?

[Bear]

The Mercedes SLK was originally going to be called the SSK and featured external chrome exhaust headers.

Ford designed a revival Capri based on the RX8 and using V4 & V6 engines, but a petition from Essex council urging them not to release another car that would appeal to Dagenham Daves made them reconsider.

 

Wolesley's light-up badge was actually an early form of radar cruise control, but the owners were sworn to secrecy.

[Bear]

KKK Turbochargers were actually made by the KKK.

[fred]

Quentin Wilson - famous motoring twat was used for creating Gollum in the Lords of the Ring Trilogy

 

 

 

[Felly Magic]

If Scotland had gone independent, Volvo estates would have become legal tender

[Station]

Jon 'Dugong' Burgess is a published author of one book. It is called 'Piazza Axles in Vauxhall Chevettes'.

However it only has one page, with the sentence, 'It's a straight swap' written.

[forddeliveryboy]

An EV has zero emissions and is good for the environment.

 

Any Mercedes will run on veg oil if it has a Bosch pump.

 

The max safe carrying capacity of an MGF's boot is 43kg.

 

A galvanised chassis makes your classic last longer.

[fred]

No one has ever climaxed in a Talbot Tagora 

on the other end of the stick

Every Ford produced has got Cum marks in it

[chaseracer]

No one has ever climaxed in a Talbot Tagora 

 

Any true shiter who ever even SAT in a Tagora has done that.  It's an instinctive response.

[chaseracer]

Jon 'Dugong' Burgess is a published author of one book. It is called 'Piazza Axles in Vauxhall Chevettes'.

However it only has one page, with the sentence, 'It's a straight swap' written.

 

Above Stockport, earlier...

 

[cyruspower]

Mark Curry; ginger bespectacled ex-Blue Peter presenter and all round good egg, owns three Maserati Quattroporte IIIs, from 1979, 1982 and 1983. He refuses to own an '84 onwards model, stating that it got the upgraded Gleason-licensed Torsen LSD from '84, instead of the original Salisbury type, so it isn't a 'true' Quattroporte III.

[Bear]

The Northumberland Police used Talbot Tagoras as pursuit cars, but modified with a Maserati engine mid-mounted with the radiators in the boot.

 

(I was told this in all seriousness by an ex-copper)

[chaseracer]

The Northumberland Police used Talbot Tagoras as pursuit cars, but modified with a Maserati engine mid-mounted with the radiators in the boot.

 

(I was told this in all seriousness by an ex-copper)

 

RED CARD!!

 

I lived in Newcastle upon Tyne in the mid/late 80s and can categorically confirm that this is TRUE*.

[John F]

Commer vans can be used as actual punctuation in an emergency.

[Pillock]

Due to an administrative error at the publishing house, Haynes Manuals have recently been wrongly classified as non-fiction. They were originally released once a year at Christmas alongside the Dandy and Beano annuals.

[Taff]

 The Sherpa van was designed by a Nepalese exchange student who was on work experience in Longbridge & named in honour of Sherpa Tensing. 

[warren t claim]

To maximise profits Vauxhall have called their new car the Viva not to be retro but so they don't have to tool up to make new badges, they just use two thirds of the Vivaro van badge.