What would you buy & why?

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Re: What would you buy & why?

#981 Post by GHT » Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:54 pm

rich. wrote:
Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:13 pm
I seem to have touched a raw nerve :oops:
Not really Rich, Pete explains that looking after his B/L car has resulted in a reliable, not to say enjoyable experience. But you can't deny that someone leaving a sandwich to rot in the air/heater duct is anything but deliberate, and childish. If only the sabotage was all so simple. At the risk of being repetitively boring, the case of the Morris Marina that kept pulling sharply to the left when braking, shows the depths of the stupidity of the workforce. The driver managed to pull into a dealer where it was discovered that one front wheel had a disc brake, whilst the other had a drum. How it ever got past pre-delivery inspection is beyond me.
Now if you want to touch a raw nerve, just try rubbishing my dream car: (models included)
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Re: What would you buy & why?

#982 Post by GHT » Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:30 am

GHT wrote:
Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:39 pm
As for not looking after the car, well you may be right about the grease monkeys,
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Re: What would you buy & why?

#983 Post by JPB » Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:45 am

GHT wrote:
Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:54 pm
just try rubbishing my dream car: (models included)
No chance! :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :thumbs:
GHT wrote:
Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:30 am
As for not looking after the car, well you may be right about the grease monkeys..
That poor young chap ought to consider a more comfortable and appropriate form of footwear if he's going to last in the trade as a mechanic..
;) ;)
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:

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Re: What would you buy & why?

#984 Post by GHT » Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:47 am

The badges fitted to Austin Maxis really should have been on the outside.
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Re: What would you buy & why?

#985 Post by Paul240480 » Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:10 am

I think my Montego DID have one of them :lol:

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Re: What would you buy & why?

#986 Post by rich. » Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:36 am

john, this is what you want..
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292911336584
:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

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Re: What would you buy & why?

#987 Post by JPB » Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:29 am

rich. wrote:
Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:36 am
john, this is what you want..
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292911336584
:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
Damn! OK, so does anyone want an early Discovery TDi with a perfectly solid chassis that's still attached to the shell at all of the appropriate places? I can't help thinking that an Allegro is the only car which could replace the big 4x4 currently idle outside the house with an advanced case of ignition barrel collapse syndrome.

:oops:

Bournemouth though? Lovely place, but way too far to go. ;)
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Re: What would you buy & why?

#988 Post by Paul240480 » Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:02 pm

Its never too far if it's the one you want :D

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Re: What would you buy & why?

#989 Post by rich. » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:03 pm

Paul240480 wrote:
Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:02 pm
Its never too far if it's the one you want :D
i once towed a trailer from Cinderford (Gloucestershire) up to Hull to see an Austin metropolitan, & came back empty as it had been butchered.. we didn't even offer a tenner for it in case the seller accepted.. on the plus side we did find a decent chippy...never mind that mazda i went to see :cry:

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Re: What would you buy & why?

#990 Post by rich. » Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:02 am

john?? i know its a manual but im sure a man of your talent could find a solution?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283333976684#viTabs_0
meanwhile another mx5.. although the chap is a bit odd :?
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1548551916.htm/

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