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5 minutes ago, Retr0naut said:

No sure this did feature in the "The Lady in the Van" - the whole point of the film/play was that it was badly painted but I can't be bothered to check...at least it does not mention Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine.

Looks more like a groovy undercover TV Detector van - and now that the destitute over 80's will be pursued for watching BBC 1 without paying (with what remains of their funeral savings) - perhaps it will be pressed back into service. 

 

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2 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

No sure this did feature in the "The Lady in the Van" - the whole point of the film/play was that it was badly painted but I can't be bothered to check...at least it does not mention Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine.

Looks more like a groovy undercover TV Detector van - and now that the destitute over 80's will be pursued for watching BBC 1 without paying (with what remains of their funeral savings) - perhaps it will be pressed back into service. 

 

It was certainly not the van from the film. It is a van and is mainly yellow though ?

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17 minutes ago, willswitchengage said:

Amazing - would that have had a carburettor? Wiki says early 'Energy' engines weren't fuel injected.

Don't think I've seen carburettors in cars beyond the 1992ish model year in any European market stuff.

I had a 94 with Motronic (I think) single point injection. Were all the Clios fitted with Energy engines?  I mean, most of them would have had cats by 92 which practically needs Fuel injection of some sort. 

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12 hours ago, egg said:

Have I said, I really like the goona 3 coupe? V6 auto dizzle, in GT spec 230bhp. Low cost, high liability? Mebbe. But I can't imagine a better looking modern car for £4.5k. 

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202006180277797

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(I even prefer the looks to the 406 coupe).

Why would you buy Bavarian instead?

That’s a cracking looking car, nice inside too. Pretty spry to with 7.3 seconds to 60.

Would.

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7 hours ago, w00dy said:

I tried repeatedly - over the course of about three weeks - to buy that car at the end of last year. The seller was a friend of a friend, but he just kept giving me bullshit about “not sure I wanna sell it m7” and “got someone else interested”.

Despite having laid some serious pipe into one of my friends over the course of several months, he wasn’t helping me out. 

I now suspect he knew it was pretty ripe and didn’t want to sell it to someone he knew. Fair enough I guess, but I wish he’d just said! 

Hope someone here takes it on - but looks like it’ll need revitalising and a tickled undercarriage. 

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2 hours ago, cort16 said:

About a decade or more ago Heralds were 'cool' (they may still be I am completely out of touch). This looks like it was owned by some hip owner who tired of it. 

Location wd be good for one of those missing abduction series you see on TV.

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5 hours ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

What does 'laying some serious pipe' into someone mean? I can imagine it in a '90's lad mag' context e.g. "I'd lay some serious pipe into that Philippa Forester/Gail Porter etc" but I suspect that's not the case here.

Thank God you asked the question, as was having exactly the same thoughts :)

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On 7/11/2020 at 12:45 AM, cort16 said:

A genuine 12/50!  This is the model that wore my L plates all those years ago, except ours had been resprayed Valencia Blue.  Actually I like it in the pink, so much so that if I had money I'd be all over this.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:43 AM, BorniteIdentity said:

having laid some serious pipe into one of my friends over the course of several months,

I suspect that means exactly what others are thinking, that the phrase is a reference to horizontal jogging....

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1 hour ago, gadgetgricey said:

Thank God you asked the question, as was having exactly the same thoughts :)

It must be a Dahnn Sarff thing , the toffs understand cockney rhyming slang now so it's evolved into , what,  if you're not in the know

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8 hours ago, cort16 said:

Last year I went to a car show in manchester , I was talking to a guy with a herald convertible which looked in similar condition , I assumed he'd trailered it there as the before with the intention of returning next year with the after.

He'd gaffer taped the worst bits of bodywork, only after talking to him for a few minutes I realised he'd driven it there, cost him £100 to insure it , when I asked about MOT  he just said it doesn't need MOT or tax and laughed, cheap motoring.

He seemed to miss the part about it having to be roadworthy which it most definitely wasn't

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A Herald sits on a proper chassis, so ratty bodywork is only a problem if it affects mounting/hinge points.  The bonnet is a huge heavy item so that end is quite significant; but panel edges, for example, are much less serious than they might be on unitary-construction cars.  It's easy for a Herald to look rough, yes; but it's a fair bit easier to fix than, say, a Morris 1100 or Ford Escort.

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43 minutes ago, Wack said:

Last year I went to a car show in manchester , I was talking to a guy with a herald convertible which looked in similar condition , I assumed he'd trailered it there as the before with the intention of returning next year with the after.

He'd gaffer taped the worst bits of bodywork, only after talking to him for a few minutes I realised he'd driven it there, cost him £100 to insure it , when I asked about MOT  he just said it doesn't need MOT or tax and laughed, cheap motoring.

He seemed to miss the part about it having to be roadworthy which it most definitely wasn't

I suspect he’s not the only one who thinks like that unfortunately . The herald doesn’t actually look too bad (although I haven’t seen underneath ). My dad Said he saved up enough money to move house by working overtime welding outriggers onto triumph heralds in the early 70’s. 

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