Practically Classics Forum

:shock: Had that been a 997cc Cooper or a 1071 Cooper S, then maybe, just maybe, it would have been worth that much. But a later, "wet" (Hydrolastic rather than dry rubber) 1275 S? For that, I'd want the thing to be drivable. Someone must have been desperate for a log book donor for a Heritage shell...

I have never, ever before seen a Vanguard of that generation in turquoise. Loving that, especially as I grew up believing that they only came in the black or similarly non-turqoise shades of austerity.

There's a metallic copper Allegro estate :drool: and next to it, what appears to be either an Audax series Rootesmobile - Rapier maybe, or is that the smaller, earlier Minx. Then there's a Husky of the rear engined, Imp derived variety, an Avenger, a Series (3?) Land Rover and a Range Rover P38 by i...

Eeeewww! Thong! Really? With the kilt? GHT old chap, please may I borrow your eye bleach?

Hmm, that's an impressive bit of kit, but wouldn't an inverter and a regular, £89.99 AC mains microwave be more cost effective, as well as offering the option of using the inverter for other things, like an electric blanket.

No apology needed. The worst bit about parents passing is that there's nobody to write excuse notes. :oops: And moving swiftly on; I have found a vehicle that's surely a perfect plaything for anyone who wants to set off from point A knowing that they'll make it to point B: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm...

Only some Cortinas have struts. MK1 and MK2 models used these, with trap springs at the rear. Later MK3, 4 and 4 Facelift Cortinas had double wishbones up front and coils all round, the load on the fronts being borne by a separate crossmember.. Suspiciously similar to the one used in Spartans after ...

...if you still have an old Cortina knocking about somewhere......................... ... then I would tax it, insure it, get it through its MOT and use it! The Cortina has a roof, so that's very unlikely to leak (that's the job of the windscreen rubber and some hidden rust in the scuttle) and it's...

I like the idea of EVs, we have to embrace the idea if we're to carry on driving after the end of this decade, but only Toyota and BMW currently sell cars with the electricity supplied from hydrogen fuel cells and ISTR that only half a dozen uk fuel forecourts sell the hydrogen, just one in the whol...

I don't recall a Ford ever coming with that many instruments, thinking maybe something Italian? I did try a DDG image search and that led me to a site about learning to drive a wagon.

Can't help with the search for wisdom or men though..