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2 hours ago, egg said:

Pure AS, but I struggle to excited about it.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/229337916233749/

"No silly offers". Anything north of £850 is out of the picture then.

48 minutes ago, Asimo said:

WhiteRoomAuctions present:   late-plate Princess; right engine, wrong gearbox, weird paint and very wrong wheels.

https://wbandsons.com/listing/austin-princess/

Sculpted by a plasterer with Parkinsons and painted by Ray Charles after he died.

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27 minutes ago, captain_70s said:
1 hour ago, Asimo said:

WhiteRoomAuctions present:   late-plate Princess; right engine, wrong gearbox, weird paint and very wrong wheels.

https://wbandsons.com/listing/austin-princess/

Sculpted by a plasterer with Parkinsons and painted by Ray Charles after he died.

I'm going for an improvement* on this

 

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10 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

Still there, but I realise now it's a listing from a group so may need to be a member to view:

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Euw - does that mean I have to physically 'do something' with FB other than use Messenger/Marketplace?
 

 

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2 hours ago, captain_70s said:

"Sculpted by a plasterer with Parkinsons and painted by Ray Charles after he died.

But it is so Fugly that if I could get it for 10 bob I'd be soooo tempted - mind you what's this? A 1967 Princess? 

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No MoT history whatsoever? Eh?

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16 hours ago, grogee said:

I would bet mortgage that the bodykit isn't 'factory fit'. I very much doubt it's even dealer fit

It is actually the official Peugeot dealer fit bodykit offered for the 205 - bloody awful even 30 odd years ago.

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9 hours ago, Asimo said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1202891747097998

Underneath the fashion-fake patina there’s a nice old car waiting for your work. £3.5k gets you this and a rotten car for spares.

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These are interesting cars. The SOHC engine design was reportedly derived from a biplane engine produced by Wolseley for Vickers during the 1914-’18 war under license from Hispano Suiza. Lord Nuffield (William Morris) was  a true engineers engineer and it shows in this car.

They were let down by premature cam failure - but I think that can be cured by a modern modification. 

Reportedly 25,000 made. Nice old things. 

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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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1 hour ago, egg said:

£1,295 national Trust and English heritage stickers included.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/175140311953665/

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Mine still has dogs trust and cats protection stickers attached courtesy of the previous giffer owner, I've left them on to this day because I think they should be kept as part of the car :)

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