Practically Classics Forum

You're going to need a classic car transporter to take your collection to shows!
I think you should restore the singer next. I have a soft spot for them as my dad had one until I was 5/6.

Haha, no we are scaling down now (!).

The Singer is sadly beyond saving, the floor and chassis is rotted out, along with the fact the roof has been bent when it;s been lifted with chains. My brother has talked about reshelling it, but realistically he has more projects than he has time and money for so he's talking about breaking it.

Hey, 3xpendable, good to see you posting again, you've been missed around here.

Thanks JPB, life has gotten in the way along with work firewalls not liking the new site, but that seems to be fixed now.

Do I ready right you have a Toyota now?

Welcome to the new-new site.
Hopefully no more daft firewall issues
It is good to have you back.

welcome back

3xpendable wrote:...Do I read right you have a Toyota now?

I do, but in my defence it is approaching 26 years of age and doesn't have any of these newfangled toys such as fuel injection, engine management or brakes that apply themselves, so it's as easy to live with as a classic car, but with the performance of a newer one of equivalent size. It also has the comfiest seats I've found in anything since I ran the Farina-styled Morris Oxford and Austin A60 as daily cars.
Pictures are here and it looks the same now as it did then, in spite of having served me through the winter and covering more than 10,000 miles since June, without the slightest hint of misbehaviour.
When I bought that, I was looking at it as a modern enough older car that I found acceptable, but I've actually grown rather fond of its civilised nature, its grunt and its handling which - on good modern tyres - is extremely entertaining.

Lovely Job, very Victor Meldrew

3xpendable wrote:..very Victor Meldrew

That was exactly the image I was going for! That, or a slightly more daring version of Hyacinth Bucket's other half, who probably would have bought an openly Japanese car, but may have been nobbled with chloroform by his scary wife and bundled to the Rover dealership in the boot of Onslow's Cortina, before being forced to sign the cheque and buy something "British".

Remember the episode they took the Rolls Royce on a test drive?