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Marconi

Nut cracker

My Minor lights have convex lens (They came from ESM). They would fit a chrome bumper Midget but for the 1500 or a Mini, you'd need the type with built in side lights.

I wouldn't go that far and it would depend on what kind of Lottery win it was. In my "Dream Collection" ( http://www.practicallyclassics.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=59 ), the only cars I mentioned, that would be in the hundreds of thousands of pounds bracket, were the Bugatti or the Frazer Nash. I thi...

Hard sell

Our Moggie is almost completely standard and unmodified, but one of the few mods are halogen headlights - in spite of still using a dynamo, they are brilliant, and more than up to the needs/performance of the car. I love the foot-operated dip switch too, a retrograde step IMHO when that switch was ...

The V8 has some Carello lights (They were fitted by the original owner, so pre 1985) and they are superb. During the 1970s, my father had another V8 and the standard lights did not match the performance of the car. He then had a Volvo 245 and the lights on that were superb (They wouldn't be put to s...

E Types can fetch a lot of money, especially earlier examples. Sometimes the price when new has little bearing on the value in later years. I've recently seen Austin Healeys for £65000, Ford Escort twin cams for a similar sum and an Allard for £325000. None of these cars were super expensive when ne...

Crimea

Politician