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Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Junkman

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Hurlin' Shit, this doesn't disappoint!

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151317020979

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1800cc MGBGT Engine

 

OMGOMGOMGMGBGTBYMG! How much pain, etc etc?

 

 

This is a collectors item

 

It should go straight into the Louvre next to the Mona Lisa.

 

 

PLEASE NOTE THE VEHICLE IS IN MAINLAND SPAIN

 

Yow! EPIK collection thread imminent!

 

 

drive if you wish to risk avoiding the Guardia

 

I wish! I so wish!

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messerschmitt owner Rank: Renault 16

messerschmitt owner

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Sorry, but after the Roller, this needs posted!

 

 

This unique Messerschmitt Kabinenroller was built in the late 1960s/early 1970s by the boys of Roxeth Manor Secondary School in Eastcote Lane, South Harrow, Middlesex. Overseen by project director Charles Hull, it took several years to complete, consuming over 2,000 man-hours in the process. Once seen as a possible competition car suitable for sprints and hill climbs, the Messerschmitt - known to its creators as 'Bubble and Squeak' - incorporates two Mini front sub-frames, one at either end. The rear wheels are locked in the straight-ahead position, though with some built-in flex and hence a measure of rear-wheel steering when pressing on. The original engine started life in a Minivan and was purchased for £5.

Mounted aft, the engine currently fitted is a 1,400c BMC A-Series unit equipped with two Weber 45DCOE carburettors (with one choke blanked off), a multi-branch exhaust system and an oil cooler. An article about the Messerschmitt/Mini hybrid was published in The Motor magazine (week ending 24th March 1973 edition) an extract from which is on file together with photographs of the car's restoration in 1994. Re-commissioning will be required before it returns to the road. There are no documents with this Lot, which is sold strictly as viewed.

 

One of twelve Messerschmitts for sale this weekend in Kidlington. Auction is worth a look - a few reasonably estimated old bangers there.

 

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21749/lot/196/

 

 

 

 

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Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Cavcraft

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Is there an expert for those cars, Barrett, or is it a general car restorer you're sending it to?

Ratdat Rank: Renault 16

Ratdat

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this thing was on ebay last week and I didn't see what it sold for in the end. Up for £2250 on the green site. Such a great colour, and really nice well-used but looked-after condition that few of these seem to achieve. I was really having a crisis trying to work out what I could sell to buy this, but instead I am going to try and get my one sent to Wales and let a man tinker with it and just give it back to me at some point with an MoT. It'll probably cost 5 times as much as buying this one and it'll never be as nice, but that's sort of the point of shit old cars, right?

 

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http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C503971

 

When I used to work for a Triumph specialist years ago were restored a rather rough one of these. It was a massive job as it effectively entailed removing all the GRP body, chopping down a solid Herald body and grafting it all back on. They way the original was put together was an eye opener. Pop rivets, screws, bits of wood and ally sheet, resin and putty all over the place. Really home-made looking. Interesting car though and it looked amazing when it was done. All painted underneath and everything as new.

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