Practically Classics Forum

JPB wrote: Our correspondent in Battle must have been out taking his puppy for a walk when you drove through.

iv'e been through the whole thread and not one picture of any of the cars we look after. we've recently moved so don't go through Battle as much but for ten years we had to go through Battle to take cars for MOT tests. quite often squeezed £million Jaguars through the Battle trafic as well as GT40's, Allards, Cobras etc. all good fun

I walked up one of Hastings' cliffs to-day (where the castle is). Here is some views etc and an old Bedford Ice Cream Van.

I saw this Jaguar in Battle to-day. Also I saw a H-Reg Ford Sierra.

Just saw a Danish classic car group pass by (At least I saw DK on the back of one of them and they were all foreign plated). The first one I almost missed but my father thinks it was a Wolesley (It was pre war for sure and had six cyclinders). It was followed by two Morris Minors, the first was a 1930s model (Pre Series E) and the second a post war Minor 1000. Then came a Triumph TR4 and I’m sure there was something else… ….I feel like a contestant on the Generation Game trying to remember what was on the conveyer belt…..it wasn’t a toaster or a teasmade!!

It raised the question why come over to this Pigpoo climate Such a shame, as if the weather was good, it would make their stay so much more enjoyable. We have some superb countryside etc locally but the weather is the opposite

Later that week - The green Morris Minor 1000 went by earlier on.

I followed a yellow Sunbeam Tiger from Ludlow all the way to the M6 and then into Lancaster services yesterday afternoon, it's the rally-prepared one that I see at least half a dozen times each year on the various classic rallies that I get to spectate, no piccies from yesterday as the car's camera was still (and is still now) full of finest Shropshire mud, but it's this C-reg, 1965 example I saw/keep on seeing:



It sounds absolutely glorious, as you'd expect from a V8 with what would appear to be only as much silencing as the scrutineers demand.

Croft road petrol station , Crowborough, this morning ..

JPB wrote:sounds absolutely glorious, as you'd expect from a V8 with what would appear to be only as much silencing as the scrutineers demand.

I too like the sound of a multiplane crank V8 (Apparently things like Ferrari V8s and the Cosworth DFV don't have that sound, as the cranks are single plane) and recently came accross this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVWvNIz ... re=related. They always sounded good, though the non turbo Aston Martin group C car sounded better, even if it wasn't as competitive. That said, the V12 Jaguar XJR 6/8/9 sounded good and won a lot of races

Having twin exhausts helps. The Morgan Plus 8 always had more of a V8 sound than the MGB GT V8, even though the engines were the same unit (If in a slightly different spec). Mine has more of a V8 sound on account of the Holley carb; it does sound nice inside when you open it up

I have just been reminded of a time (C 1985) when the Tiger Owners Club (Or whatever they are called) had a treasure hunt and the shop was a clue. As a result, we had more Tigers, than I have ever seen at one time, stopping outside. It was great and some comedy was provided by a pratt in a new XR2, revving up and trying to show off. I remember thinking that he should give up.

Sadly no pics but a Rover 110 (p4?) on the M1 yesterday and 20+ morris minors on the A50.

Wen't over to the next town to see a fella we know in order to get a couple of parts for the boys series land rover.

No pics I'm afraid but we did get to see a couple of David brown 25d's, and other old tractors, hillman minx, cortina mk2 1600, mk 3, and a couple of late eighties / early nineties Audis (100?'s I think) along with a couple of late eighties / early nineties Merc 190's.

Trouble is me and the boy ended up buying the Mercs, so pics later when I get to pick them up, Mines a G reg 190E, been (gently) into a ditch so needs a wing and two doors (doors provided) 88k on the clock and very clean prior to the ditch excursion, the boys is an L plate 2ltr Diesel needing an exhaust and back brakes with slightly tatty upper body (I'm sure both will need more by the time we are through).

The wife says I'm not allowed out without supervision anymore but at £125 a car I think its a possible home run. If not quite classic yet (jury's out) they soon will be......

At that price, it would have been rude not to buy these cars and we wouldn't want to be rude to folk now, would we. You don't need anyone else to tell you that there's a profit in there somewhere.

190 a classic? Well a certain motoring journalist and all-round good bloke going by the name of Peter Simpson likes these and has said as much in print. Anything he likes usually acquires some classic status by association.