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Epically shite.......post-2866-0-87483200-1548868400_thumb.jpgpost-2866-0-54289300-1548868419_thumb.jpg

 

'71 Cresta.sans power steering, avec POWERGLIDE...........very solid, no rot anywhere, drives well, but some interesting giffer mods, some of which will be binned.

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Lusher than a lush thing at a lush ball......I actually like those Viscount bezels with the blacked out front, mean looking!    

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Yup, 3.3....possibly the smallest amount of POWAH ever extracted from an engine of this size........123 bhp. Tidemark is not actually hiding anything nasty.............this may possibly be a vendre shortly. White paintwork is probably original, and could do with repainting. Vinyl roof has been badly done. Drives well though, got me from Luton to Maidstone in last night's 'horrible weather without drama

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Yeah, lorry engine innit - more about torque than power.  I had a PB with the same engine and a manual 'box - went like f*ck.

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... *legendary 'scaffy pipe' inlet manifold F.T.W.

 

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yup, complete with the most inefficient carb [Zenith 42]..apparently Weber 38 DGAS is a fairly easy conversion, and wakes them up a treat.

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I love these. Bought this Viscount in Truro out of the old yellow Freeads paper on my 23rd birthday for £450!

 

Electric windows all round, power steering, wood veneer and Recaro dentist chairs.

 

3.3 and 3 speed GM box. Great cruiser but thirsty as fuck

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I'm pretty sure I can beat you at Shite Trumps. I had a 3.3 Mustang once. Don't know the bhp, but didn't feel like very many!

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Cool, I thought it was an American car like an AMC at first, the mild customising threw me! Isn’t this engine called the ‘lazy fireball’? I think my Humber also uses a similar carburettor. Well bought, you can’t beat a large old car.

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I thought that was a yank when I saw it. I wouldnt have been able to identify it in a hundred goes. Well bought!  Hope it works out better for than the V8lvo man.

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How the hell did Vauxhall go from the PA to that? 

 

Via an over-inflated FB Victor, as I recall...  :D

 

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The queue forms behind me.

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3.3 aka the "lazy fireball."

 

Preferable to "damp squib", which is probably a more accurate summing up.......torquey bugger though.........

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