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Tadhg Tiogar Rank: Talbot Tagora

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11 hours ago, Schaefft said:

200 Avant with Quattro which needs some tlc for 1200 quid. Price might be a little ambitious but its probably rare....

Not sure if that's a 200. There were certainly C3 100 Quattros sold here.

The headlights are wrong for a 200, which had more elongated ones.

Would be interesting trying to find a replacement wing panel, but I see there is rust breaking out in quite a few places around the car, so the sparkle stick's definitely needed!

vaughant Rank: Lancia Gamma

vaughant

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9 hours ago, Austat said:

Early Cavalier MK2 Estate, ruined by matte black paint and shite wheels, but cheap nevertheless:

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/vauxhall-cavalier-1983-mk2/133322677565?hash=item1f0aa69d3d:g:QmcAAOSwilNeNeT6

Now this made me chuckle. 

Many moons ago a mate of mine who loved his Ford diesels had a really nice escort 3dr estate. He put a nice set of XR3i alloys on it and tinted the windows as you did in 1994/5.

Sold it for an escort van and a load of cash. 

He then got offered a swap for 2 cavalier diesels despite being a vauxhall diesel hater, it was a bargain. 

One was a black and silver saloon, bodywork immaculate and the other a hatch in terracotta, pure autoshite even back then. 

However, after a day the black and silver one would only start on a bump. This was apparently a common feature on the 1.6d engine in that it was shite. 

He ended up buying a complete estate for £80 from Rhoose near Cardiff airport, engine mint but the bodywork looked worse than that one above and this was in 1996, in fact the bodywork was horrific, no arches left, could pull the front wings off by hand, it really was terrible.

It hadn't been MOT'ed in years and not been driven either so we decided to tow it using the terracotta hatch. We got to Swansea after towing it down the A48 on a rope (painful) and decided as we were quite close to home, I'd just drive it anyway. 

*DISCLAIMER for our younger viewers , it was 1996 and in truth unless a copper caught you red handed you could do as you liked and even if caught you generally only got a big bollocking rather than 8 points in your licence*

Of course, the drive turned into a race (see above disclaimer) and the old girl moved along well,better than the terracotta one in fact although under heavy cornering the handling was truly terrifying which I just put down to old tyres but as the journey went on, the rattling and bumping was pretty extreme and the steering got more and more vague. 

Next day one of the boys started pulling the engine out, this was the type of guy that swapped an engine on his drive in his council house for £60 and didn't get reported to the various authorities (again see above disclaimer) . 

Next day he pops over to see how progress is going and finds a rather pale faced mechanic. He'd jacked up the old estate to get the motor out and basically the front came up so far then it did a "Navara", sheared off and effectively removed the engine in one hit!!! I've never seen rot like that, I'm wondering whether it was stored underwater it was so bad. 

Still the engine went into the black and silver saloon and drove about for many years so some good came out of it. 

dc2100k Rank: Austin Maxi

dc2100k

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12 hours ago, Schaefft said:

Now this is awesome. Clean '87 Camry with super low miles for just 650 quid. Someone needs to get this asap!

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https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/208491063526452/

Have made contact as it's not far from me but no response so far, I'm sure he's batting off potential buyers.

 

Anybody know anything about running one of these? Looks like it's going to need a minimum of 4 tyres and probably a brake service, general service and cambelt change to get it back on the road.

 

 

Rod/b Rank: Renault 16

Rod/b

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23 minutes ago, dc2100k said:

Have made contact as it's not far from me but no response so far, I'm sure he's batting off potential buyers.

 

Anybody know anything about running one of these? Looks like it's going to need a minimum of 4 tyres and probably a brake service, general service and cambelt change to get it back on the road.

 

 

I had one, a 2.0GLi Executive auto, F23KWC, back in 2005. My mate ran it about for a year with no problems at all, then we took it on a banger rally.  It was great, right up to the point where the sticky caliper presented itself in the form of a knackered pad and boiled fluid halfway down a mountain in Switzerland. Which would have been fine but we couldn’t find anywhere to get a set of pads, so we settled for a guerilla brake fluid change at the side of the road and just carried on.

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Tadhg Tiogar Rank: Talbot Tagora

Tadhg Tiogar

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8 minutes ago, dc2100k said:

Have made contact as it's not far from me but no response so far, I'm sure he's batting off potential buyers.

 

Anybody know anything about running one of these? Looks like it's going to need a minimum of 4 tyres and probably a brake service, general service and cambelt change to get it back on the road.

Boringly reliable, supposedly, without the increased bulk of later models. There used to be a couple in the neighbourhood here that seemed to hang around for years.

Rod/b Rank: Renault 16

Rod/b

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3 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Boringly reliable, supposedly, without the increased bulk of later models. There used to be a couple in the neighbourhood here that seemed to hang around for years.

Notably, The lightest steering of any car i’ve ever owned, before or since. 

dc2100k Rank: Austin Maxi

dc2100k

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9 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

I had one, a 2.0GLi Executive auto, F23KWC, back in 2005. My mate ran it about for a year with no problems at all, then we took it on a banger rally.  It was great, right up to the point where the sticky caliper presented itself in the form of a knackered pad and boiled fluid halfway down a mountain in Switzerland. Which would have been fine but we couldn’t find anywhere to get a set of pads, so we settled for a guerilla brake fluid change at the side of the road and just carried on.

I'm sure I did similar in a horrible 740GL back in the late '00s. I'll always remember the looks we got bump-starting it in an Interlaken car park.

 

dc2100k Rank: Austin Maxi

dc2100k

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6 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Boringly reliable, supposedly, without the increased bulk of later models. There used to be a couple in the neighbourhood here that seemed to hang around for years.

This is what I would have thought, probably quite a decent candidate for recommissioning. If he gets back in touch I'll check out the MOT history (unless it's been parked up since before 2006) and maybe go have a look. The colour matches the red of my '98 Landscruiser... what a formidable driveway combo that would be.

Tadhg Tiogar Rank: Talbot Tagora

Tadhg Tiogar

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1 hour ago, Rod/b said:

....The lightest steering of any car i’ve ever owned, before or since. 

How does that compare with Jaguars and Hondas of similar age?

Tadhg Tiogar Rank: Talbot Tagora

Tadhg Tiogar

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1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

Miller Cycle!!!

They were the answer to a question that hardly anyone seemed to ask. My cousin ran a Xedos 6 for a while, and he said it drank petrol like it was going out of fashion.

dc2100k Rank: Austin Maxi

dc2100k

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13 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Miller Cycle!!!

 

Very cool motor.

wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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9 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

They were the answer to a question that hardly anyone seemed to ask. My cousin ran a Xedos 6 for a while, and he said it drank petrol like it was going out of fashion.

The 6 never got the Miller cycle engine though - that was a 9 exclusive.

vaughant Rank: Lancia Gamma

vaughant

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1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Supposedly rough Spitfire in the parts section.  I'll be honest, I've seen a lot worse...

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Guy who runs our community unit has one that was in way, way worse condition than that. 

To be fair his weldathon has been nothing less than incredible really and he's ended up with quite a solid car but i think that would have been a far better place to start. 

We swapped out an engine in one of these and it's pure childs play i must say, even the transmission tunnel unbolted to get access, I can see why these were popular back in the day. 

Shame the prick we helped with the engine swap was:

A) totally ungrateful

B) wasn't prepared to spend about £50 on bits to get it running right instead trying to repair 45 year old fucked bits

C) was a thieving cocksucker anyway. 

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triumph-Dolomite-1500HL-Parts-Bin-Spares-Spitfire-Engine-Gearbox-Breaker/333503205604?hash=item4da65710e4%3Ag%3AZGcAAOSwlPleN0Bb&LH_ItemCondition=3000|7000

 

'I would not guarantee that it would tow'

Tadhg Tiogar Rank: Talbot Tagora

Tadhg Tiogar

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31 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

The 6 never got the Miller cycle engine though - that was a 9 exclusive.

Regardless, they were both expensive to run and didn't sell well here.

Rod/b Rank: Renault 16

Rod/b

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1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

How does that compare with Jaguars and Hondas of similar age?

Fuck knows. It was almost too assisted though, you could steer it lock to lock at standstill with one finger pressed on the steering wheel.

Also being fwd auto you could yank the handbrake on and keep the accelerator down, and get some fairly prolonged sidewaysness out of it 

Tadhg Tiogar Rank: Talbot Tagora

Tadhg Tiogar

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2 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

Fuck knows. It was almost too assisted though, you could steer it lock to lock at standstill with one finger pressed on the steering wheel....

Jags and Hondas used to be that light as well. The latter were very popular with OAPs

dc2100k Rank: Austin Maxi

dc2100k

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34 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Wrong section roulette Saab that's been off the road for quite a while.

 

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Smol rust on passenger door... of course

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