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[brickwall]

I think it's just an image problem.

[willswitchengage]

What were the last cars to be sold in this country designed with imperial measurements not metric?

 

Obvs when you fix it with imperial tools not your usual metrics.

[Bobthebeard]

Tricky......

Chrysler Imperial?

[red5]

TR7 I suspect.?

[Richard]

I would think any American car to this day would use Imperial fixings.

[willswitchengage]

I would think any American car to this day would use Imperial fixings.

 

Most Fords and Vauxhalls are engineered in the UK/Germany these days so I wrote those off. Obviously imports are still made in imperial-speak though.

 

It's such a mess over there, whenever we get drawings of American components at work it's pretty much flip a coin what it'll be dimensioned in.

[Richard]

I was thinking more along the lines of the Jeep and that Bentley* Chrysler thing. Actual Bentleys probably stuck with Imperial until quite recently too.

[Bobthebeard]

What were the last cars to be sold in this country designed with imperial measurements not metric?

 

Obvs when you fix it with imperial tools not your usual metrics.

Have no idea really, but presumably something from the late 1950's.

Austin?

[rml2345]

Would the original Mini not have been designed and built with imperial bits?

[Bobthebeard]

Would the original Mini not have been designed and built with careless workers and poor quality imperial bits?

EFA

[Richard]

It was, and I'm pretty sure BL were designing in imperial right up to the end of the 70s.

[rml2345]

They sold sold those up to 2000.

Hang on, what are Defenders made in nowadays?

[catsinthewelder]

Have Morgan changed over to metric yet?

[willswitchengage]

Wiki says the British civil engineering industry changed between 69 and 72, so I imagine other industries about the same time. But surely the Mini had components designed before then? I thought the Defender was redesigned from the ground up in the 80s

[Bobthebeard]

They sold sold those up to 2000.

Hang on, what are Defenders made in nowadays?

The land of Dreams and Aspiration?

Presumably not made in the land of Value For Money or Panel Gap world?

 

(Tongue in cheek... Ahem..)

[Des]

Spark plug threads are something imperial, and I think Jap engine temp or pressure sensors are or were some wierd old BSP thread.

After the war, when Bristol had it away with BMWs blueprints, they changed all the metric dimensions to Whitworth, because Whitworth helped us beat the Hun.

[Danblez]

How the hell to I get my tunes off an ipod without itunes? I have now downloaded 6 stupid twatting programmes which only download the first 10/100 tunes or 10 seconds of each tune unless I pay. Do they think I am stupid or something?

 

GRRRRRRRRRR

[Bobthebeard]

How the hell to I get my tunes off an ipod without itunes? I have now downloaded 6 stupid twatting programmes which only download the first 10/100 tunes or 10 seconds of each tune unless I pay. Do they think I am stupid or something?

 

GRRRRRRRRRR

Download itunes possibly?

Or failing that, undo the four tiny screws on the case, remove the cover and empty the tunes into a suitable container. Put tin foil over the container to stop the tunes evaporating and keep it in the fridge.

[barefoot]

Last imperial measurement car - Vauxhall Viva?

 

and here's my sfq of the day

 

Is the 16 digit reference number on your V11 the same every year?

I've never kept one to find out.

[castros_bro]

Not quite a car but an (Royal) Enfield about year 2000 as Watsonian were still selling off their stockpile of classic 350/500cc "Bullets" imported from India

 

What were the last cars to be sold in this country designed with imperial measurements not metric?

 

Obvs when you fix it with imperial tools not your usual metrics.

[twosmoke300]

New Holland tractors kept on using imperial on the oily bits til about 2000 ish . All the rest was metric tho so you needed every spanner in the box .

[wuvvum]

If one were to so desire, could one legally ride a Honda Stream / BSA Ariel 3 style trike with no crash helmet?

[twosmoke300]

Don't really know but I've worked on an ariel 3 when I was about 14 and got a hell of a belt off the ht cap. Weird thing to ride too.

[drum]

By the 80s land rover were using a mixture of metric and imperial on series motors but I'm sure they were still using imperial wheel nuts well into the 90s.

[wackywacerwill]

If one were to so desire, could one legally ride a Honda Stream / BSA Ariel 3 style trike with no crash helmet?

Can of worms that one. I don't really know the answer which is of no help at all but I have summarized that it is complex and dependent on many factors that could well just be BS.

On our outfit you need a lid if on the bike as rider or pillion though can have the wind in your hair in the chair. Consequently I went for the morning shift as rider on our tour of the highlands and spent many a fine afternoon watching the world go by whilst getting stuck into the single malt.

[saucedoctor]

The law in NI used to be you had to wear a lid, or a lap-belt. Mind you, the last time I rode a trike was in 1991. NI Road Traffic legislation is slightly different to the rest of the UK.

[red5]

27mm on my ''92 Classic.

 

Surely you mean 1'1/16 af ? 

[wackywacerwill]

The law in NI used to be you had to wear a lid, or a lap-belt. Mind you, the last time I rode a trike was in 1991. NI Road Traffic legislation is slightly different to the rest of the UK.

 

Pretty sure with the big trikes here passengers need a belt though all can go sans lid, just not sure on the smaller stuff?

[Ghosty]

Where are the sidelights on a Dolomite? Above or below the bumper?

[drum]

I reckon they're the same 1 1/16 wheel nuts with the same imperial thread that they've used since 1969 or whenever it was that they stopped using 15/16 nuts and called it 27mm 'cause it was the nearest metric equivalent. I could be talking shite of course