It has its correct, 2 litre IoE engine and, apart from a period heater, is totally as original inside too. That engine was barely audible as he drove off. I need one of these! There are some period auto conversions around so anything's possible..
What classic vehicles have you seen?
Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?
A mate popped round earlier this morning. He's having a period radio restored here for his rare GRP monocoque Willoughby caravan which he'll be towing to shows behind this rather sexy object, a 1955 86" S1 Land Rover in the almost inevitable Bronze Green:
It has its correct, 2 litre IoE engine and, apart from a period heater, is totally as original inside too. That engine was barely audible as he drove off. I need one of these! There are some period auto conversions around so anything's possible..
It has its correct, 2 litre IoE engine and, apart from a period heater, is totally as original inside too. That engine was barely audible as he drove off. I need one of these! There are some period auto conversions around so anything's possible..
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?
unfortunatelly you need a lottery win to afford a decent one nowdays.
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Bargains are still to be had. 
I'm sworn to secrecy regarding exactly how little he gave for this 86" specimen, but suffice it to say that the price wouldn't have bought an averagely worn out, ten year old repmobile. I don't know what made me more envious; the car itself or the ridiculously tiny amount of wonga that matey gave for the privilege of becoming its owner.
I'm sworn to secrecy regarding exactly how little he gave for this 86" specimen, but suffice it to say that the price wouldn't have bought an averagely worn out, ten year old repmobile. I don't know what made me more envious; the car itself or the ridiculously tiny amount of wonga that matey gave for the privilege of becoming its owner. J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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But when he bought it in 1965 it was a 10 year old repmobile
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?
having driven lots of landrovers i really cannot see the attraction 
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It depends what you are after rich. If you want something quick, comfortable, quiet, refined, warm and weatherproof then look somewhere else. If however you want something with a great club scene, recognised by every person in the country, plentiful spares, able to pull a trailer across a muddy field and when (rather than if) it breaks down being able to fix it with a potato: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... OTATO.html
Then an old landy is great.
Then an old landy is great.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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I can just imagine the conversation that I'll be having when the veg man comes round tomorrow:
Me - "Hey Fin, give me three pounds of potatoes please."
Veg man - "Nae bother, which d'you fancy, Bannock Russets is it, or I've some lovely looking cobblers and a pink eye or two?"
Me - "None of these mate, have you any two microFarad ones at six hundred and thirty Volts working please?"
The Daily Wail said it, so it must be true..
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?
Lol! Is your mate a plumber, those heater connections look distinctly un-Rover. 
1974 Rover 2200 SC
1982 Matra Murena 1.6
1982 Matra Murena 1.6
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Those are indeed plumbing fittings, he's a highly skilled engineer but one who can't stand to see leftovers going to waste. If it's any consolation, the heater itself is one of those round ones with a couple of hinged flaps that can be closed to keep all of that heat away from the passenger's legs in what passes for summer around here.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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Greatham Show on sunday. they were expecting more but Bemish had a show and so did Richmond!
ok mother started drooling over a certain car (I could hear the voice in her head going "I want one again!")
I hadn't realised that there was a glass partition behind the cabin at the certer pillar and the tailgate was hinged at that poimt
ok mother started drooling over a certain car (I could hear the voice in her head going "I want one again!")
I hadn't realised that there was a glass partition behind the cabin at the certer pillar and the tailgate was hinged at that poimt
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