Sugestion for PC vehicles/projects/saves!

[suffolkpete]

OK, so we'd be more likely to find a concours FSO Caro 1.9D hatch than a Tagora, but sometimes it's good to enjoy something vicariously.

If you really want to do that then I'm sure the Simca Club could find you a Tagora.

[M Paul Lloyd]

Um...... can I? .... possibly? suggest that the ubiquitous 'taxi' the Mercedes w202 C Class be considered as a future Practical Classic?. I know.. no one loves it, Mercedes (proper) classic owners shun it and everyone else just runs it into the ground but that, I believe, is the very reason why it should be preserved.

It's Mercedes answer to the Austin Allegro. No?

NO it's not rare if there were less than 100 left on the road out of all those registered than yes!

I accept what you are saying Mitsuru but given the rate that they are rusting to scrap because they are simply not worth repairing I doubt many will be left at all in another ten years.
Ford Cortina anyone?
But I could well be wrong.

[FrazzleTC]

Um...... can I? .... possibly? suggest that the ubiquitous 'taxi' the Mercedes w202 C Class be considered as a future Practical Classic?. I know.. no one loves it, Mercedes (proper) classic owners shun it and everyone else just runs it into the ground but that, I believe, is the very reason why it should be preserved.

It's Mercedes answer to the Austin Allegro. No?

I'm afraid I really think the W201 would be a better project car. I know that finding a W202 needing major bodywork will be dead easy, but as neither the W201 or W124 have received much coverage in PC, I think perhaps one of those two would be a better project at present. W202s are still very common, though most are rotten.

[CompoSimmonite]

What about
Trabant.
Volvo PV.
Saab 99.
Ford 103E.
Allegro.

[bubs]

how about a full on works replica Mk1 Escort?

there are so many like mine bodged within an inch of their lives, if not further, you can pick up a total rot box with no V5C for less that a grand, that way you can cover all the panel repairs, the fitting of inner arches and bubbles, and even how you manage to legally register it via BIVA where you have modified such things as the gear box tunnel or turreted rears?

wanna out sell the best selling issiue 2 to 1, do an escort

oh and to the guy wondering how i got a 4 cylinder lump in an fso 126p pickup....ever thought that was a typo? or have you actually seen an fso 126p pick up?

[JPB]

I thought that the 126 pickups were (all 84 of them) built in Italy, which was what confused me. But I have seen the regular saloon with a four cylinder (70bhp, Reliant F750) engine in the back, it's just that the Ford motor weighs twice as much and is 5" longer.
Had fun trying to imagine it though.

Typo? Now he tells us.

Ford engine in an FSO though but? Sick of straightening pushrods in the original were you? I used to see a massive 3000 miles between doing that and doing it again.

[Mrotwoman]

I'd buy P.C if there was a picture of my nan in a basque on the front,but then I buy every copy without fail anyway.
Howabout something eighties then?
Might attract all us codgers who are pushing 40 and evoke some rose-tinted nostalgia ?
As much as I hate to say it ,it would have to be a performance derivative of an everyday car,so :-
Mk3 Escort (XR3,XR3i,RS Turbo) ?
Fiesta XR2
MG Maestro or Montego ,for the real perverts?
BMW E30 325i,or bust the budget for an M3 ?
Mk1 Astra GTE,or try and seek out an Opel Kaddet 1.6 SR (purely for my own nostalgia)
Renault 5 GT Turbo,or early 19 16valve ?
Sierra XR4i (oops,done that one,but it was consigned to one solitary page at the back of every issue )
Mercedes 190 Cosworth ?

[Martin Evans]

My vote goes to http://www.terrybone.co.uk/car2.php?CAR=319

[MG Mal]

I did'nt think PC's project budget went beyond a few buttons and some sticky back plastic?.

Is'nt that why pretty much most of the work is done by specialist's in lieu of free advertising (as if any more ads were needed).

[M Paul Lloyd]

I think the clue is in the title MG Mal, 'Practical' as in within the financial and engineering constraints of those of us not endowed with a Dentists income, or a Teachers holidays.
(I will probably now be deluged with complaints from members of both proffesions who feel themselves to be equally time poor and skint but I doubt their claims will hold much water)
As far as I'm concerned Practical Classics do a damn good job.