Pictures of old or rare vehicles

[Stueeee]

Here's one that I worked on for my eldest brother, who bought it from my next brother up, who in turn bought this early MG TD at a car show in the US when we were on holiday there in 2016. Being a US import, it was of course LHD. Eldest brother had owned one in his youf, and couldn't get on with the steering wheel being on the "wrong side" As Ian isn't as fighting fit as he used to be, I got the job of changing it over.

What I hadn't realised is that these cars were entirely built as LHD. No "mirror imaging" of the bulkhead pressing. The welded on pedal box hardware is on the LHS of the chassis only etc. RHD rack required obviously, now available new from Moss at a not outrageous price -Most T type stuff seems to fetch silly prices to me.

And the car nearly finished; the wiper motor turned out to be suffering from Joseph Lucasitis when I took the MG for a test drive, so needed fixing. That's my 1932 A7 special parked alongside.

 

[minimutly]

Here's one that I worked on for my eldest brother, who bought it from my next brother up, who in turn bought this early MG TD at a car show in the US when we were on holiday there in 2016. Being a US import, it was of course LHD. Eldest brother had owned one in his youf, and couldn't get on with the steering wheel being on the "wrong side" As Ian isn't as fighting fit as he used to be, I got the job of changing it over.
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What I hadn't realised is that these cars were entirely built as LHD. No "mirror imaging" of the bulkhead pressing. The welded on pedal box hardware is on the LHS of the chassis only etc. RHD rack required obviously, now available new from Moss at a not outrageous price -Most T type stuff seems to fetch silly prices to me.

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And the car nearly finished; the wiper motor turned out to be suffering from Joseph Lucasitis when I took the MG for a test drive, so needed fixing. That's my 1932 A7 special parked alongside.

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TB I built an engine for recently, I think I may have posted it before. The engine build was hard work - trying to keep it "original" from a pile of about 5 engines, when they were made from '39 to 1950 ish..

 

[nickk]

Just been instructed how to send photos on phone to my collection,so about to bombard the forums of all the interesting ones from last 2 years!
Spotted this at a pre 1930 off road hill climb.

 

[Nick DV]

I need to get some photo's from my dad, he had some nice cars Mk2 Jags, Holby Hunter etc, hope to get them soon

I had a Hunter GLS with the Holbay engine, which was much underrated especially if you knew someone who could tune twin Webers properly I used to take great pleasure in leaving the local boy racer in his 'highly tuned' Cortina 1600E in my tyre smoke!

 

[Nick DV]

Yeah I've got s Surf nowfftopic:

Sensible choice

 

[Migmac]

View attachment 249925 Just been instructed how to send photos on phone to my collection,so about to bombard the forums of all the interesting ones from last 2 years!
Spotted this at a pre 1930 off road hill climb.

Just a shame the tracks are so expensive.

 

[minimutly]

The ZS 180 was a decent bit of kit, arguably the best of the lot.

I had a ZT CDTi from new, had a remap after about 30k (at 1 year old) and loved it. Wish I still had it. Sadly written off by a bus in Newport just after it's first MoT at 80 odd thousand miles.

Had a zs 180 and zt 190, both good cars, the zt so simple to maintain, based on 90's civic floorpan. My daughter actually had a split rear screen civic as a rally car, we fitted zt front shocks, 220gti rear, zt hubs and cvs, brakes etc. All cheap as chips, it handled like a works car.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

The Saab 96 I sold on a couple of years ago:

Was it that model or a later one which had inboard rear brakes? Possibly disc + drum combo units, a la BMW?
My pal on the West had a Saab and said the rear brakes were proper bar stewards to work on.

 

[Rannsachair]

Was it that model or a later one which had inboard rear brakes? Possibly disc + drum combo units, a la BMW?
My pal on the West had a Saab and said the rear brakes were proper bar stewards to work on.

The 71 to 74 Saab 99 had inboard drums for the handbrake and disk brakes all round, suspect that was the one, though I heard they were quite efficient. After that I think that the later GM Saab's have the rear disk which is also a drum brake for the handbrake. My 900 had the handbrake through the front disk caliper 9000 through the rear disks then the 9-3 and the 9-5 had the combined rear disk drum. they were not that bad to do once you got the hang of rotating the adjusters through the hole in the disk.

 

[nickk]

My old LT,1998,had a handbrake drum inside the rear discs,although I loved that van ,I wasn’t impressed with the small surface area.

 

[carbon]

My old LT,1998

is that the one that shared the body with the sprinter van as that may be more merc rear axle than vw. But either way the park brake shoes were rather small for a 3.5 ton van

 

[Migmac]

The 71 to 74 Saab 99 had inboard drums for the handbrake and disk brakes all round, suspect that was the one, though I heard they were quite efficient. After that I think that the later GM Saab's have the rear disk which is also a drum brake for the handbrake. My 900 had the handbrake through the front disk caliper 9000 through the rear disks then the 9-3 and the 9-5 had the combined rear disk drum. they were not that bad to do once you got the hang of rotating the
adjusters through the hole in the disk.

My 99 had disc brakes and a drum handbrake. The system worked well, can only recall putting new pads in and possibly adjusting the handbrake. Great car

 

[stuvy]

The 71 to 74 Saab 99 had inboard drums for the handbrake and disk brakes all round, suspect that was the one, though I heard they were quite efficient. After that I think that the later GM Saab's have the rear disk which is also a drum brake for the handbrake. My 900 had the handbrake through the front disk caliper 9000 through the rear disks then the 9-3 and the 9-5 had the combined rear disk drum. they were not that bad to do once you got the hang of rotating the adjusters through the hole in the disk.

I’m sure the Carlton had that too

 

[nickk]

is that the one that shared the body with the sprinter van as that may be more merc rear axle than vw. But either way the park brake shoes were rather small for a 3.5 ton van

Yes,come to think,I recall a merc badge on the axle.

 

[carbon]

I used to do a little work in a vw one for someone, think I used to eat park shoes and rear shock bushes vw would only sell the complete shock merc would sell the bushes separately

 

[500e]

Modified Chevrolet father in law in the 1940s

Converting big cars to farm use was not unusual, father in law drove a 46 Chevy Feet-master all the time I knew him best FIL you could have, bit scary as he was 6Ft 11inches he was a member of the underground home guard, loved things that went "Bang"

 

[Guzrik]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3zo9FJgsScbJF9beA
Parked today at uni I work, details unknown.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rN4Hia1tprnoDw948

 

[Farside]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3zo9FJgsScbJF9beA
Parked today at uni I work, details unknown.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rN4Hia1tprnoDw948

Now, that's the kind of thing I've been thinking about, seeing as I've got a 12a engine in the kitchen.

 

[Guzrik]

Is this a Mazda RX7 engine?

 

[stuvy]

I think it is as the ports are on the same side