Mr_Bo11ox Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 YO, take a look at this absurdly cool Peugeot 204 van. only £100, its in Nantes though, a long way away. http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220134476857 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Livered Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Well there's a new Ryanair line to Nantes from Stansted Mr Bo11ox...Edit: I've just seen the engine bay and actually it might not be suitable for driving home eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Leave it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Awesome!!! Go Bollox! A-frame from Nantes to the UK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel bickle Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Yep -why not? I did it with a Fiat 1100R -which I still have. Spotted it on Ebay France- and since it didnt sell asked for 1st Option if I got there within a month.Took the wife on a weeks hols in La Baule -lovely -with A frame hidden in the boot. A day before we left -we went to St Nazaire -should have seen her face as the deal was done!However- it didnt slow us up on the way back -and it cost nowt on the boat - so she couldnt really complain. Basically free homeward transport -on the back of a splendid hols...Lovely little thing -St Nazaire comes recommended (OK-crap town -but lovely locality!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I had a bit of a calamity with the A-frame this morning. I was towing my Prisma to the MOT shop, and going round a roundabout, the frame came loose, and the Prisma twatted into the back of my Audi! Now the Audi has a big dent in the rear wing and a smashed tail light. Luckily no damage on the wopshite apart from a slightly scuffed placca bumper, cant be often that the italian car comes off best whan clacked into an old audi.The Prisma has funny-shaped lower suspension arms (wider at the outer end than the inner), and what had happened was the a-frame legs had moved slightly sideways on the roundabout, to a section of the lower arms which was smaller (causeing the chains to not be tight any more) sending the steering on the prisma all to hell.After untangling the mess I re-fastened the A-frame, this time wrapping the chains round a tie-rod as well to give a positive side-to-side location. Live and learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 MrB: Ooh, bugger... shame about the Oidi. Nigel: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 That sounds very not good.I thought that wasn't suppoed to happen with these frames, although it is something that does nag at the back of my mind. I had a similar crack with that manky old escort wriggling alot on the frame, but thankfully it didn't come loose. I'm far happier lashing the chains round a nice sturctural bit, no chance of it coming adrift the, but this is rarely possible on newer / fwd stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 It won't happen if the frame is secured 'properly', however I have now adjusted my definition of the word 'properly' cos it was nice and tight to start with, however I had fastened it to something of an unfavourable shape.Its these wop cars with their clever-ass suspension linkages man, the Alfa 33 is a sod to tow as well, whereas a nice simple Escort or Fiesta with struts and an ordinary 'perpendicular' lower arm is super simple to lash on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester drawers Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Anyone fancy a Z project?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Datsun-240Z_W0QQi ... dZViewItem 1 day to go for this...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DATSUN-100A-TWO-D ... dZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 100A looks to have sold off eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester drawers Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 100A looks to have sold off eBay.Hadn't noticed that! Had no plans to bid, but it was in my watch list out of idle curiosity (the old couldn't remember the last time I saw one routine)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel bickle Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Sorry to hear about your A frame-I tend to stop 1-200 yards up the road, and perhaps again after a turn to check its settled OK. Could you not feel it was loose -feels 'orrible as it moves around -even a little.Many years ago -with the old a frame type -the ones with buffers against the bumpers -I had a very lucky escape. Collecting a scrap Citroen HY van (the corrugated one -for spares on mine) with my un MOT'd untaxed Saab (oooh err -only car available with a tow bar) -it came unhitched- completely; at a downhill roundabout. Overtaking me in the fast lane -with the frame pointing forward like a spear -it glanced off the roundabout , turned left up the first exit and came to a halt on the grass centre section of the dual carriageway, front wheels raised by the frame now wrapped around the wheels. Stopping to rip off the trailer plate- I proceeded north 'in an orderly fashion' to find Plod in a layby, oblivious -200 yards up the road.Would he have been interested in an old Saab towing a broken down Van? What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Anyone fancy a Z project?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Datsun-240Z_W0QQi ... dZViewItem as spotted a couple of weeks ago by moi!From my journey to and from work yesterday I give you...A Datsun 240z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaTom Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 These must find a home here...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1978-CITROEN-GS-C ... dZViewItemand thishttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1982-FIAT-STRADA- ... dZViewItemI am thinking of having a punt on one of those 127's currently up for my future commute from Cologne to Grevenbroich. There is a nice R6 and a Tercel 4x4 vying for my attention too. Quite a lot of tempting stuff at the moment. Have you seen that whacky 240 pick-up?Stop press: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1985-NISSAN-CHERR ... dZViewItemtempting, but it looks to be going for good money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 That Strada is v.nice. Saggy roof lining is a bonus - you could drive along with the windows open, pretending you're in the open gondola beneath an early airship, with the billowing envelope floppelling about above yer bonce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Tempted by those GS's. I bought my CX Turbo off boyie88 - he's a good bloke. That Strada was on about six months ago - wonder why it didn't sell?edit: I'm sure that GSA was the one I used to see on my way to work sometimes. Wonder how it ended up in London? I never saw it advertised up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milford Cubicle Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Another Mk1 Justy, brown interior and rust. Shite!http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1988-SUBARU-JUSTY ... 0150981242 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 lovely cheap 104 in Bracknell!http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/peugeot-104-sl-ha ... dZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 How about a cheap Daf in Kent?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CLASSIC-DAF-66-19 ... dZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaTom Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Daf 66 & 1108cc. Is that a standard Daf motor, and is there a connection with the Renault 1108's? I had a schoolfriend whose parents ran a 66 Marathon. What did that have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Same engine - Volvo inherited the Renner link when they bought DAF. They also inherited the basic design of the 340, which was already well-advanced - just Volvo-ised it with massive bumpers.Pretty sure 66 Marathon had the 1289cc lump that the 12s had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 That Daf was on there last week with a £50 starting bid. I was half tempted then. At £35 it's gotta be worth a punt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 I really fancy the Daf, I really fancy the 104 too but I have no means to get them to Saaarf London and I've just bought this uninspiring lump for £50 taxed and tested: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 I really fancy the Daf, I really fancy the 104 too but I have no means to get them to Saaarf London and I've just bought this uninspiring lump for £50 taxed and tested: UNINSPIRING LUMP? How very dare you! Trust me, those 323s will grow on you. Like mould, perhaps. But grow on you nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 My heart's not in this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 I assume it's a 1.5, so prob'ly even better than the 1.3 I had a while ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Bosh the 323 Turbo engine in it, job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 It's back! 1982 Toyota Carina And I bet it'll end up in Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Basic english clearly taxing for that individual.CHUMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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