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Three I've spotted whillst out and about over the last couple of weeks.

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Series One Jaguar E-type Roadster, Burnham Market, Norfolk

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MK3 Ford Cortina 2000E, Colchester ...

I've been having this exact same conversation about 'barn finds' with my mates recently. Its everywhere now, one eBay listing said 'barn find' and when you read the description it says that he parked the car up in his garage 14 months previously! Its only a barn find if its actually a barn and he ...

Taking the trim off the 'A' post to discover the trim was attached to...err....very little was a shock and cutting out the rot in the rear inner arches to have virtually all the remaining arch that was silver paper and underseal fall on the floor was a sight to behold!! The 'B' posts were held in ...

I agree with the other comments that last night episdoe was good, I find this program a refreshing change to the usual rubbish that gets produced along this theme

Phil P wrote:Watch the Rover P6. I won't spoil it but if you needed plenty of practice at MiG welding.............

Phil

Why does that not surprise me Phil

I'm also really enjoying this program and really impressed with the job done on the Jeep. As I'm a P6 owner I'm really looking forward to seeing them work on one in a later episode, its about time a P6 was on a car program, thankfully its this one

I thought it made a refreshing change to the usual rubbish that is churned out and I was glad there was no 'filling' with stupid arguments and unescessary 'tense' moments.

Looking forward to the next one

darrencambs wrote: Plus I was fortunate enough to get it featured in Practical Classics mag recently which was a great experience.

I read this article Darren, a great car and a real credit to the amount of work you put in

Oh and yes I want one too

I didn't realise the V8 had 175s as standard.

They didn't.



My current tyres are 175/80 14 which is slightly smaller diameter than the 185/80 14 that it should have

Beat me to it :)


I'm still surprised that the Dunlops behave that way though. Are they ancient? I had 20 year old ...

Hi Willy, we meet again :)

Im currently running good quality dunlops all round and I have new shocks all round and new rear springs. My comparison is really against my modern car but the Rovers set-up is very advanced, especially for its time but it does squeal like mad round roundabouts and ...