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pogweasel Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Presumably the buyer has to do all the hard graft and then hand the plate back once it's MoT'd. If that was the case I would simply tell the bloke to STFU when he asked for his reg number back.

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Alaways fancied one of these: Posted Image

Well, you can go fancy it in Mombasa in a few weeks!
mouseflakes Rank: Renault 16

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Apologies for being so predictable...

 

Both have the reliable old 8 valve engines.

 

TX.

 

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Lower powered GTS - did these use a carb even in the mark 2?

 

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Mash Rank: Renault 16

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This one seems to be doing the rounds, wasn't it the one Ratdat spotted at the farm sale?.

 

This car really attracts attention, just because it is so rare. I cannot imagine there is another in this colour in the country.

Funny that because about half a dozen in the same hue have turned up variously between AS, OJC and eBay this year! :P
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To be fair that ex Clarkson Starion looks alright, and it's a decent advert.The silver one is bollocks though. Has he clouted something whilst trying to do a SIK DRIFT?

outlaw118 Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Am i opening myself up to massive amounts of ridicule by admitting to liking this??!! :oops:

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Am i opening myself up to massive amounts of ridicule by admitting to liking this??!! :oops:

Not by me anyway. I like that myself but would paint it another colour and ditch the stupid exhausts though

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I wonder about the 2 weeks mot and wheather the work has been checked ok for strength etc though. That would need an engineers report/vosa check wouldnt it?

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Rocket88 Rank: Lancia Gamma

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[i wonder about the 2 weeks mot and wheather the work has been checked ok for strength etc though. That would need an engineers report/vosa check wouldnt it?I think that would depend on wether the V5 has been changed to state that it's now a convertible [which, of course, it won't have been.].

Mr_Bo11ox Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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That elf/hornet thing looks like a fuggin deathtrap to me, those mini shells make a terrible soft-top. Theres absolutley no depth to the sills and the shell has no proper 'chassis' as all the bits are hung on separate subframes, that doesnt seem to deter people from trying to build them though. did Rover ever offer an official one? I have some vague recollection of a hideous thing with a massive folded roof that looked like a pram. I would like to see what they did to strengthen the body shell. Whatever it was I imagine there was a lot more to it than a poxy bit of bed iron fastened to the inner sills and a plate bolted through the kick panel like that one. I can only imagine that the talented and experienced engineer who fitted those dumb-ass exhausts, was the same one who decided to saw the roof off. Pass the crusher!

Rocket88 Rank: Lancia Gamma

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There was an "official" mini covertible, badged as an ERA, I think most of them were green, and they were all turbocharged.

Torsten2001 Rank: Renault 16

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There was a Rover one too, built in Germany I believe, I had three as wedding cars!

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The Rover one ( by Autohous, based in in Achern in Germany)was like this-pram like as Mr B states

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The Elf posted above is a good looking car IMO but Mr B is right in the Deathtrap quote-I thought so myself which is why I posted the pic of the comedy strenghening. With the right work (to stop it folding) and paint I would have it.

dollywobbler Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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The only difference between Scrappage and that RIley is that at least the government didn't bung £1000 into the creation of that!

 

It looks quite cool, but as has been said, probably an absolute wreck - so a good car wasted.

carlo Rank: Renault 16

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Didn't Heinz sell 50 special edition Riley Elf convertibles in a competion? Or perhaps they were saloons.

Pillock Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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ISTR an article on the Rover ones, and they basically had strips of box section welded the entire length of the floor to keep the car square.

Conrad D. Conelrad Rank: Lancia Gamma

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The only difference between Scrappage and that RIley is that at least the government didn't bung £1000 into the creation of that!

It'll cost the taxpayer more than £1000 when it folds in half on the drive out of Bournemouth and the police have to close the road.
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