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Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 1:00 pm
by Paul240480
As title, pics if poss please, I'll start:
^^^that was my 2nd car & it never put a foot wrong, Opel! Chopped it for a Vaux Cav 1.6GL the build quality between the German & Luton (?) built ones was miles apart.
^^^^My first Ovlov, a Torslanda, chopped it for a lovely 855T5 but always , after had a hankering to go back to a '240' shape. I did with 'The Tank', bit the B200e was never as refined as the B200f (even if the 'e' was more reliable).
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Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:02 pm
by megadethmaniac
99 Marea Weekend, should have replaced that diff and run it into the ground. Excellent motor
Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:53 pm
by harvey
I don't have any pics, and most of what I regret selling are bikes, but I do miss my plymouth volare wagon on the 4 wheel list, and as for the 2 wheelers, RD400 cafe racer, RD250LC (the actual press bike that was tested and featured in MCN), fast road tuned RD350LC, Suzuki Katana 1100, and a Rickman Kawasaki Z1000 turbo. All those bikes are making big bucks now.
The mk2 Escort van I put a 1600GT engine and diff in would be nice to have as well, and the Jag 420 M/OD, the list goes on......
Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:35 pm
by 2flags
The one car I do regret selling is my 1975 Rover P6. It is the car we brought our son home from hospital in. Great car, so comfortable and quick.
Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:48 pm
by Paul240480
P6’s were lovely. Never had one, but my Dad bought a P5 Coupe. That was nice, but being ‘just’ a 3.0ltr it was trouble!
Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:02 am
by JPB
Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:54 pm
by GHT
I recognise the top one, it's a Dalmatian, right? The other dog is a Morris Oxford, I had it's canine sister, The Austin Cambridge. The bottom one is probably the Triumph Dolomite, or something similar from that era,Toledo perhaps? B/L had a great knack of bastardising what were once great marques. The other pics are probably cards from Specsavers, "Do you like this car Sir?" "No it's a ****ing abortion." "Nothing wrong with your eyes then."
There was a time when I absolutely loved The MG TD sports car, now that love has turned to ashes. Have you seen our heir to the throne's Christmas Card? Get the aspirins ready:
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Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:53 am
by JPB
GHT wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:54 pm
...Have you seen our heir to the throne's Christmas Card?
No, but I'm thinking that you must be close to seeing his mother's telegram!
GHT wrote:I recognise the top one, it's a Dalmatian, right?
Er no, Morris Oxfords are slightly taller than a seated Dalmatian, "Bitch" - as that much missed, soppy great lump from the canine branch of the family was imaginatively named back in the day - was a Great Dane and when she wasn't sitting for hours trying to challenge the Oxford to a staring competition, she was my constant companion during the eighties. I didn't ask her to join me in the car, but as she was a good six feet tall when standing on her hind legs (with her front ones on my shoulders), I wasn't about to argue with her.
She lived a long life by Great Dane standards, managing some eleven years
before she eventually succumbed to the breed's known tendency to heart failure (as few as six or seven years of life is more usual
). She was scared of smaller dogs as they tended to shelter under her when out for a run on the beach but she never showed aggression toward anything or anyone. It didn't half hurt when she stood on my toes though.
Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:07 am
by GHT
JPB wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:53 am
GHT wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:54 pm
...Have you seen our heir to the throne's Christmas Card?
No, but I'm thinking that you must be close to seeing his mother's telegram!
She gets one from me actually. Too rude even for your experienced eyes
GHT wrote:I recognise the top one, it's a Dalmatian, right?
JPB wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:53 am
Er no, Morris Oxfords are slightly taller than a seated Dalmatian, "Bitch" - as that much missed, soppy great lump from the canine branch of the family was imaginatively named back in the day - was a Great Dane and when she wasn't sitting for hours trying to challenge the Oxford to a staring competition, she was my constant companion during the eighties. I didn't ask her to join me in the car, but as she was a good six feet tall when standing on her hind legs (with her front ones on my shoulders), I wasn't about to argue with her.
She lived a long life by Great Dane standards, managing some eleven years
before she eventually succumbed to the breed's known tendency to heart failure (as few as six or seven years of life is more usual
). She was scared of smaller dogs as they tended to shelter under her when out for a run on the beach but she never showed aggression toward anything or anyone. It didn't half hurt when she stood on my toes though.
Silly me, I should have realised. Walking into a pub down here in The New Forest, a family was at a table and their black and white speckled Great Dane was at their feet. I patted the dog and said: "Hello Domino," and as we walked to the bar I heard a child's voice say: "Dad, how does that man know our dog's name?" An answer like that probably makes her a contender for Love Island/Big Brother or any other contestant kind of lowest common denominator show.
One car that I did like was my 1988 Beamer, I only have celluloid photos of it and turning them into digital to post goes way over my head, but it looked exactly like this one. Can't say I should have kept it, but after all those B/L disasters that I went through in the seventies this was truly amazing. But when it did go wrong it was very big bucks indeed.
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Re: Ones you should never have sold?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:35 pm
by Paul240480
I can now add:
The one on the right, the 480 was a pita.
Tank, the 240 was far more reliable than its replacement V70T5 that I am currently striving to improve.....
Spoke to Tanks now owner recently & he is smitten, Tank is 31 this month & in use daily