Practically Classics Forum

GHT wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 19, 2021 1:12 pm

Old Book Face won't let me see, not unless I sign up and give up my details. Tell you what though, does anyone know who makes these? Had one go by, couldn't catch the decal, he was flying!
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The earlier model wasn't nearly so aerodynamic. The only way you could get it airborne depended on how hard you hit the kerb.

Lwb 2cv camper?
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A hearse or 2

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Dick wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:10 am

A hearse or 2

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Love the Maserati version! Although I'm not sure it would every be used to it's full potential with the extra passenger in the back!!

gazza82 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:09 am

Dick wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:10 am

A hearse or 2

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Love the Maserati version! Although I'm not sure it would every be used to it's full potential with the extra passenger in the back!!

I suppose you wouldn't be late with your deliveries

Dick wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:14 pm

gazza82 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:09 am

Dick wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:10 am

A hearse or 2

https://www.leboncoin.fr/utilitaires/1888995496.htm



https://www.leboncoin.fr/utilitaires/2077465509.htm

Love the Maserati version! Although I'm not sure it would every be used to it's full potential with the extra passenger in the back!!

I suppose you wouldn't be late with your deliveries

Late for your deliveries to where? Hades? Meantime here's a hearse or nine, to meet your maker in.

GHT wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:27 pm

Dick wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:14 pm

gazza82 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:09 am

Love the Maserati version! Although I'm not sure it would every be used to it's full potential with the extra passenger in the back!!

I suppose you wouldn't be late with your deliveries

Late for your deliveries to where? Hades? Meantime here's a hearse or nine, to meet your maker in.

Apart from no 2... have a weakness for not so pretty cars but those are beyond ugly for my taste... i do wonder what goes on in some peoples mind..

Meanwhile in my quest for a jag i found this...

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Has somebody's Land Rover had pups?

I had the dubious pleasure of working on a Whitby Warrior once long ago, its owner, who had just bought the thing that day, brought it into the workshop complaining of its terrible performance. He'd been a mini nut and had owned a Moke, a Mini Marcos and a Stimson Scorcher so, for this guy, the Warrior had seemed like a sensible buy. The cause of the sluggishness was very easy to diagnose; that car was equipped with an 850cc engine and I serviced it, then drove it on a test route that took me past a scrapyard whose owner allowed me to use his weighbridge. An original mini 850 would, if I remember correctly, have weighed in at somewhere around 700Kg. The Warrior read 1230Kg on the 'bridge! Last time I saw that car at a show, it was equipped with a 1275 A-+ from an Allegro. Much more like the job, especially as the 12" Imp wheels were kept, but the nature of A series engine swaps tends to dictate that the final drive from the donor would be swapped over rather than split the unit. The chap who had the Warrior at that event reported that it accelerated satisfactorily, but would run out of grunt at a mere 60mph in 4th.

By comparison, an average Series 1 LR weighs in at a mere 1200ish Kg and even if it's an early 80" can muster 55bhp, which makes the Warrior the equivalent of a human baby being heavier than its mother at the time of its birth. They don't seem much smaller from the driver's seat either, thanks to being one of the larger mini based devices that used to be a common enough sight.

Also, the price asked for that Warrior would buy a pretty decent Defender 90" with a roof and a 300tdi. Pound (Lb & £) for pound, I reckon a Land Rover would be the better buy, but I'm perhaps biased as my current Dickshovery 300tdi automatic has been my everyday car since the 1st of November last year, has covered around 5,200 KM since and has yet to display any actual faults, apart from a prolapsed rear arb drop link ball joint - £4 each so I replaced all 4 - and the usual rattles from deep in the bowel of the dashboard.
Irrelevant I know, but maybe Honda built ones are better?
Could a Whitby Warrior be put to daily use in the 21st century? I think so, but only if it came with cruise control, dual zone aircon and big, comfy seats, in which case buy a Disco 1, even a rust free fresh import won't cost as much as they want for that, admittedly rather cute, "little" thing.