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TooManyPeopleMovers Rank: Austin Maxi

TooManyPeopleMovers

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On 12/30/2019 at 10:57 AM, gadgetgricey said:

I think a couple of bods on here owned one a while ago (Snagglepuss and Ken?????)

Seemed like a decent car if I remember rightly.

I have owned a couple of these - both 2.0 litre 4wd. Awesome little wagons with great power and very responsive steering (As far as tall wagons/people movers go). 

If I could afford a second car I'd have one in a heartbeat again. Sadly rust built in by Mitsubishi gets most of these (In New Zealand). 

Mr Pastry Rank: Renault 16

Mr Pastry

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7 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

And where in London can you buy a bijou, pied-a-Terry-and-June compact one bedroomed duplex linked luxury apartment with extensive waterside views for £29,995?

 

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/42ft-Springer-Narrowboat/174146808216?hash=item288bf56998:g:sscAAOSwQpNeEldq

 

There is certainly some sort of appeal to living in one of these. Probably the sort of appeal that wears off after 19 days when you try and have a crafty J Arthur in the shower, slip in the wooden bucket and your purple headed womb broom pokes through the rotten window frame and you expose yourself to Sean Bean there, causing him to throw his fag into those gas bottles and you ending up in A&E trying to explain away the 3rd degree burns on your custard launcher to a frowning nurse and your now homeless wife.

Canal boats look great until you discover that the canal and the mooring and just about everything else has to be paid for separately.   It can end up costing as much as a house.  I'd like to be proved wrong, but there are not many shite canal boats out there - at least not ones which float - and there is probably a good reason for that.  Sadly.

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Remspoor Rank: Isuzu Florian

Remspoor

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8 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

I've seen some pretty clever photography in my time, but capturing a mid-flight, upside down goose pissing on your neighbour's car is going to take some beating.

 

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHEAP-CAR-Stock-Car-Currently-SORNED/333466491469?hash=item4da426da4d:g:5AQAAOSwbPld2WJV

Missed the fact they run over Boris. Remains of hair to show the evidence.

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New POD Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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16 hours ago, Skizzer said:

Or there’s this slightly dishevelled Cortina 80 version for £1995 BINs. 

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https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254426737291

(Am I the only person that still calls the mk5 a Cortina 80?)

My memory is looking at brochures because my Dad's company car was being replaced, and he was upgrading from a mk4 1.6 L estate to a mk4 series 80 1.6 GL estate. It will never be a mk5 to me.

My other later memory is that my sister in law owned a mk3 series 2 escort which people insist on calling a mk4.  It was a simple face lift. 

I owned a cavalier mk3, but feel free to call it a Vectra A if it helps obtain spares.

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8 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Surely there must be a way of getting modern equivalent sized tyres onto the rims...

12 and 3/4 inch diameter tyres. In the 90s I used to buy my metro tyres from the scrap yard. You'd get 4 nearly new dunlop tyres, already attached to wheels, usually already balanced, for 30 quid.

There was so many metros that where mechanically fine but riddled with rust. 

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NorfolkNWeigh Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

NorfolkNWeigh

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What is it with these camper people?

It appears the photographer interrupted this bloke vigorously admiring this wealthy hipster Portaloo.

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Tenmil Socket Rank: Renault 16

Tenmil Socket

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12 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/544160306411369/

this is at mini & metro spares in warrington, they will have bought it to break it up so i hope that it escapes to live again.

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as its a nice looking late mark 1. all it needs is some 12 inch steels adding and then it would be perfect!

What an absolute honey!

Sir Snipes Rank: Lancia Gamma

Sir Snipes

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10 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Surely there must be a way of getting modern equivalent sized tyres onto the rims...

No, as many  an unsuspecting fast-fitter has discovered to their bosses horror. That eighth of an inch (?) difference makes all the difference.

A relative of mine has an e34 520. They paid over a £1000 for a brand new set of metric Dunlops not long ago. Probably the equivalent of 225/55 15 I think? I could have gotten them some imperial BBS rims in the 15x7 or 8 range for cheap and saved them £500 on tyres if I had known.

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Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Cavcraft

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2 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

No, as many  an unsuspecting fast-fitter has discovered to their bosses horror. That eighth of an inch (?) difference makes all the difference.

 

 

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What he said.

 

The metrics were funny sizes, nothing else fitted and you couldn't put tubes in them. They also constantly had to be re-sealed due to leaking round the beads, this being mostly due to the shit paint flaking away and the poor quality of the actual wheels.

 

 

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Sir Snipes Rank: Lancia Gamma

Sir Snipes

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Those Metro metrics probably kept Colway remoulds in business for a few years longer than they may otherwise had been though.

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mitsisigma01 Rank: Lancia Gamma

mitsisigma01

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I've got a set of metric BMW rims if anyone has a wanting for them 

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6 hours ago, New POD said:

My other later memory is that my sister in law owned a mk3 series 2 escort which people insist on calling a mk4.  It was a simple face lift. 

If you follow that logic then the Mk2 Transit and Mk2 Fiesta never existed either.  In fact the current transit would only be the Mk4 rather than the Mk27 or whatever it is.  That would confuse a lot of people.

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7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

If you follow that logic then the Mk2 Transit and Mk2 Fiesta never existed either.  In fact the current transit would only be the Mk4 rather than the Mk27 or whatever it is.  That would confuse a lot of people.

Well, given the interchangeable parts between mk1 and mk2 fiesta, especially in the first few months, I'd be fine with that. 

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egg

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24 minutes ago, spartacus said:

I'm in if you think it's a goer!

Probably too soon after the Visa! And too practical...

Shows it could be repeated though.

Dick Cheeseburger Rank: Talbot Tagora

Dick Cheeseburger

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5 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

 

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What he said.

 

The metrics were funny sizes, nothing else fitted and you couldn't put tubes in them. They also constantly had to be re-sealed due to leaking round the beads, this being mostly due to the shit paint flaking away and the poor quality of the actual wheels.

 

 

Shame really, as I reckon the metric steelies on  an early Metro look 101% better than anything else. 

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anonymous user Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Sitting in the driver's seat of the Daimler may be ok, although if you are tall/long legged you may find driving it a pain (literally). The driving position is very upright, the seat will not go back very far due to the division. Much better to ride in the back and ignore the horrible whining from the front (coming from your cramped, complaining, driver) by putting the glass partition up.

And get those awful jump seats taken out so there is room for a decent cocktail cabinet.

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