Bo11ox' Aircraft Carrier

[500tops]

Why upload 24 photos when just 6 will do?!

[EyesWeldedShut]

2 hours ago, Boycie said:

Is there gun case in the boot .... Should only be driven wearing sunglasses and leather gloves 

Which gloves though?
Posh driving gloves (I'm the driver M8, I never get involved on the pavement. These knuckles are virgins.)

Or a la Bond (multi-tasking is a thing)

[mk2_craig]

8 hours ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266667137912

Ah shit man, just look at how much more you could have earned with a poorly-drafted description and a few hastily-snapped photos outside some old pile. 

£50 says this is back on the bay before the month is out.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I agree - £2500 was cheap, but £5150 after 12 hours on the bay seems very flakey

[sierraman]

What are we betting the £5,150 was from someone whose cat jumped on the keyboard. 

[sutty2006]

7 minutes ago, sierraman said:

What are we betting the £5,150 was from someone whose cat jumped on the keyboard. 

“Sorry my 6 yr old kid managed to log on my eBay account and buy 14 cars in one night” kinda story? Had that a few times in the past. 

[Boycie]

3 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Which gloves though?
Posh driving gloves (I'm the driver M8, I never get involved on the pavement. These knuckles are virgins.)

Or a la Bond (multi-tasking is a thing)

Id prob go for the Gorman in Brannigan look , however as it AS instead of a Ropey E type id be trying to knock the duke down in a black Hyundai coupe ...

[Boycie]

Regan  was in a squad Zepher in the The Sweeney pilot " Regan " , funnily though he ends up in his own consul later in the film 

[eddyramrod]

From the 1971 Richard Burton flick Villain.

...And the aforesaid Regan car.

[Dobloseven]

Saw a Mk 4 on the road yesterday.Looked lost amongst the moderns.Good to see one in use though.

[Boycie]

Fair to say these prob the last of the American influenced Fords

[Snake Charmer]

Found this in a damp corner today, came out of that car.  When bought in 2007 the then owner boasted how fantastic and reliable it was and he would jump in it now and drive to Scotland, it wouldn't miss a beat.  Took two days to drive home from Essex to Heathrow as it would run for 7 miles then stop, not fun on the M25. We made it to South Mimms and came back the next day armed with plugs and points etc., then dived into it.

I found a lot of very fine rust in the carburettor, the fuel pump has a glass bowl and looked okay but there was an additional inline filter that also looked clean. Then I noticed it was round the wrong way, took it off and it was packed solid with fine rust from the tank. New filter fitted and we sailed home.

With the carb top off there is a loose check ball for the accelerator pump, seems someone had dropped said ball down the inlet and caused all that damage to the piston compressing the ring lands so the rings were stuck hence the engine rebuild. There are still a matching set of light dings in one cylinder head Vulcan Engineering could not remove with a light skim!

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

7 hours ago, Boycie said:

Id prob go for the Gorman in Brannigan look , however as it AS instead of a Ropey E type id be trying to knock the duke down in a black Hyundai coupe ...

Brannigan? The John Wayne comedy  caper. Locations in that are totally screwed if you know Central London but it's one of those movies just worth watching to get a feel for mid-seventies London.
Plenty of Hyundai coupes seem to be for sale around here - maybe we could have a reconstruction. 

[Rustybullethole]

Photographing with nice backdrops does work. Me and a mate used to flip old heaps for pocket change and quickly noticed taking the snaps outside the posh houses up the road worked better than snapping them outside my council block. 

Hope it finds a good home. 

[garethj]

4 hours ago, Boycie said:

Fair to say these prob the last of the American influenced Fords

Mk3 Cortina could probably squeeze through on a technicality.

[Urko]

On 11/02/2024 at 16:39, Boycie said:

Fair to say these prob the last of the American influenced Fords

Disagree - 90s Fords looked extremely similar either side of the Atlantic - Granada vs Taurus.  Merkur Scorpio, though short lived was almost identical to the Euro one - unless you'd argue that Europe was influencing the US of course  

[Snake Charmer]

538 watchers on Ebay.

[eddyramrod]

2 hours ago, Urko said:

Disagree - 90s Fords looked extremely similar either side of the Atlantic - Granada vs Taurus.  Merkur Scorpio, though short lived was almost identical to the Euro one - unless you'd argue that Europe was influencing the US of course  

By the 90s?  Yes of course they were!

[RoadworkUK]

8 hours ago, Urko said:

... Merkur Scorpio, though short lived was almost identical to the Euro one  

Well, yes, because it WAS the Euro one. Exported from Germany in federalised condition.

[Snake Charmer]

On 11/02/2024 at 16:39, Boycie said:

Fair to say these prob the last of the American influenced Fords

I always thought the successor to the Zephyr Zodiac and Executive, the Consul Granada still had some American styling cues with the long rear lights and body contoured chrome bumpers.

[Metal Guru]

19 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

I always thought the successor to the Zephyr Zodiac and Executive, the Consul Granada still had some American styling cues with the long rear lights and body contoured chrome bumpers.

I always thought the back lights / bumper on the Consul / Granada were reminiscent of the Mustang.