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wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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They are very oddly proportioned though.  Like someone glued the front end of a Humber Imperial to a Morris Minor.

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On 3/11/2023 at 1:02 PM, wuvvum said:

They are very oddly proportioned though.  Like someone glued the front end of a Humber Imperial to a Morris Minor.

Which is in fact what they did - it's the MO Oxford body tub - which had a side-valve-4 engine - extended for the -6. William Morris liked traditional looking cars so favoured the big upright grille. There is also an identical car called the Morris 6 - which was the Wolseley with a Morris grille.

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It was a Nuffield trait to badge engineer their cars long before BMC got involved. Various Morris' were 'Wolseleyised' pre-war - and the post war MGY used the Morris 8 tub.

The MO was a good car hobbled by a fairly dismal engine - it's successor got the BMC B Series.  The Wolseley 6-80 got a reputation for cam trouble and did not sell as well as it should have.  The successor the 6/90 used the new C Series engine instead...

A car called the Isis succeeded the Morris 6 - which is an extended 1954 Morris Oxford - again with the C Series engine. All very confused and must have soaked up a lot of development time and cost - alas all these big cars were pretty dismal sellers for Nuffield because buyers did not want an expensive car that looks mostly like one from a cheaper brand. 

The 6/80 and Morris 6 had a unique and one -off short production life engine.

This (out of print) great book tells the whole  saga of the immediate post-war motor industry. Worth getting hold of.

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Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Cavcraft

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RS ESCORT VAN..DIESEL INTERCOOLED | eBay

'I'm reluctant to selling some of my collections as circumstances has changed'

Laser eye surgery successful?

'PUT A RS COSWORTH ENGINE IN IT THEN YOU'LL HAVE A GOOD INVESTMENT'.

Put an RS Cosworth engine it and you'll have ten grands worth of motor in £73's worth of scrap.

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RoverFolkUs Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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A 1.2 Polo with a misfire... "About £150 to sort"

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I'll bet that shiny new coil pack on Cylinder 3 has nothing to do with it, and you've definitely* not tried replacing that before realising it's down on compression... Of course not! 😂

 

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8 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Registered as a 1.2 petrol. Police owned... weird?

999cc

Agricultural tractor!

No MoT history and no previous owners. I find it quite intriguing 

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Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I wonder if that 'door plan: agricultural tractor' thing is the reason it was never tested? Do they (tractors) come up as MOT exempt?

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