Practically Classics Forum

Here you go Chris, just for you mate, although Rich will drool as well, he always does.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1978-Dodge-Vo ... 2417851263

GHT wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2017 9:36 am Here you go Chris, just for you mate, although Rich will drool as well, he always does.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1978-Dodge-Vo ... 2417851263

sorry, not quite fugly enough for my taste

besides its still a caravan...

Here you go Chris, just for you mate, although Rich will drool as well, he always does

Not my taste either - just too much yank box really

John - Check out the 'Casalina Sulky' for sale in this auction http://brightwells.com/classic-motoring ... arch-2017/ - it's right up your street

There are several motors that interest me that are in the sale - amazingly not particularly the Javelin hotrod but the Wolseley 6, Fiat Multipla & the Lancia Delta Integrale would be on my radar

Yep, that's the sort of automotive lost cause that I like! I could find myself buying one of these seventies voitures sans permis if I'm not careful. Fortunately, other shiny things are available and offer more excitement per Lb.

With the light quad genre in mind, scroll down about half way through the following link for information about a quad-based Fiat 500 lookalike:

https://www.challenges.fr/automobile/co ... isir_29428

Fiat should have built that, it's around the same size as the nine foot original Cinquecento and not massive like Fiat's own tribute turn!

Better the Javelin survives with a huge V8 and other mods than not at all, but I'd find an early (OHV) Subaru 1800cc flat four if a Javelin without running gear should drop from the sky and land in my hut, it's much more in keeping and the Subaru engine is within millimetres in every dimension of the famous Jowett motor. There's also a metalflake finished seventies-modified Javelin going around which has the aluminium Rover V8 fitted, but its ride height is more toward the tall end of the scale and it has very little Jowett DNA left in it, shell excepted.
I sometimes wonder just how amazing a Jupiter with engine, transmission and 4wd system from an Impreza could be. OK, so it would upset some purists but imagine the impact such a marriage would have on brand awareness!

John - We have had on hold for the last two years the very idea of a Scuby 4 WD Jav, we have a shell stripped & dipped ready for the project - the whole idea being to re-engineer a Javelin to modern car standards - so 4 WD, discs all round, power steering etc - this would be in line with club's centenary in 2023 - the alternative idea is build a Javelin as a European rally car that would be campaigned throughout Europe in the centenary year - all depends on time availability (more my time than anything)

JPB wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:48 amNot that the choice of engine would affect my lust for the Sherpa, they're all totally gorgeous to look at, comfortable to ride in and not as bad as some folk say they are to drive.

From the archives of BL. Work experience schoolchildren in the design office. Connor's winning design was thought sufficiently acceptable to go into production. A mock up model was made by his Mum, it was all that management needed. All they needed now was a name for the new van. It was noted that Connor's surname was Tenzing, well with a name like that there really could only be one name. Sherpa.

Here you go John http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/aucti ... ii-lx.aspx

Jowetts for auction

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/aucti ... ck-up.aspx

http://www.hvauctions.com/Motor_details ... 195_01.jpg

http://brightwells.com/classic-motoring ... arch-2017/ (1949 Jowett Javelin custom V8)

That Robin isn't really interesting enough to tempt me, plus 1992-1993 was the worst ever period for chassis rust thanks to something having gone horribly wrong with the pickling stage of the Galvanising process, probably the fact that Two Gates was a leaky hut with earth floors and incoming, freshly welded chassis from the fabrication shop were stacked horizontally which meant that the lowest two or three in the stacks would have sufficient corrosion and contaminants about them to prevent the dipping from working properly.
It was also a bad time for engine troubles as blocks were plucked from stock and assembled hurriedly without being flushed through first. The resulting amount of sand that remained in these engines would have blocked the area around the rearmost liner fatally had it not been for Reliant's "official" fix as detailed in a memo to the dealers: Fit a second radiator in the otherwise vacant space between the passenger's footwell and the front wing on that side! Every engine I've seen from the MK2 era (and a few earlier blocks too) had eventually died as a result of the back of the block turning to dust and causing a catastrophic coolant loss at around the same time as the block had become so soft that it was no longer able to contain the cooling system's 4Lb of pressure.

Now if that had been a BN Plastics, rather than a Reliant one, I'd jump on it as they were rather well sorted and are almost as good as a MK1 to drive.

That 1937 Jowett 10HP saloon is stunning, but shame on the auction house in the last link for selling that 1969-built MK2 mini on the identity of a 1960 one! If it had been refurbished around its correct shell and given the then-new grille, lights and that MK2 rear panel, then fine, but that's a MK2 shell and the reg plate is the only 1960 component I can see. We get used to sheisters on eBay doing that sort of blatant identity swapping, but a reputable auction house really ought to know better.