Pictures of old or rare vehicles

[outofthefire]

The electronics of modern stuff will be the death of them before they become classics

Unlike the tin worm and unreliability of cars of the escort mk2 and earlier era That's why most of us never thought to keep old cars from our youth, but choose what we think of modern cars now, surely some of them will be thought of as classics in 30/40 years time, especially if all thats available are electric. Or will petrol and diesel cars be so hated by then that they won't be worth anything.

 

[Other Daniel]

Quite amazing, the progress that hasn't been made

 

[roblane65]

Bit of a dream motor for me , I'd love a 70's 2 door resto mod ' hope you have a great time with the rebuild

 

[roblane65]

Say hello to Phill, he's from Auz
They only built them for 2 years with this engine, it has a Leyland 4.4l V8 and Factory aircon!!
This years project, body off, Galv chassis, Rebuild engine and fit upgraded r380 box and uprated transfer case.

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Bit of a dream motor for me I'd love a 2 door 70's resto mod , Hope you have a great time with the rebuild

 

[Dozzer]

Bit of a dream motor for me I'd love a 2 door 70's resto mod , Hope you have a great time with the rebuild

Thanks, used to have an M reg years ago, and have sat in the No1 Spen king Velar (RR first name) when i worked for JLR and got a private tour of the heritage centre.
used to work on them at Foley Landrovers building 6x6 ones and other oddball ones before i went back to Uni. so its a bit of a busman's holiday working on them

Phill was saved from the scrap yard, one of the posh vehicle importers brought 6 off them into the UK and Phill was going to be used for parts to rebuild the others
its so original, the Chassis still has the original paint on it.
The LT95 is not bad but i dont want to thrash the brains out of it.

 

[roblane65]

Looks like your well grounded for the rebuild then , my first taste of a two door was when I was 19 my old mans mate had a scrap yard in Hereford and they had one they'd fitted a big 6 cyl perkins out of a small truck ( blown V8 ) . Had a loan of it a few times it was fun to drive rocked side to side when you revved it happy days . Be a project to see if you could graft a full set of 4.2 SC running gear into a 2 door . I know chassis / no chassis but I bet it could be done .

 

[KemppiFrog]

They used to import two door RRs into portugal, with a rather iffy italian donk . And, when they officially entered the EU, there was a huge queue at the border at midnight of rather smart cars. Rangies, Porcas and other desirables. The customs said 'tough' and ignored the EU rules (still do) and said, same rules as before. That meant huge capacity taxes and effectevely doubling the price of an import.

 

[minimutly]

I thought about it for the MGTF when they were a dime a dozen a few years back. But i lost my free storage so it was a non starter :-(

wife had a 135 MGTF which we found had loads of fixings only half tightened by some "proffesional" garage, one of which was the suspension mounting pin (in shear) attaching the top arm to the rear spring/shock. It got a good going through, but still took a lot of maintenance to keep as a daily driver (brakes, suspension bushes, track rod ends etc). When I drove it I found it turned me into a hooligan again. The issue was though, that it didn't have enough power (or too much rear grip)...
I had a VVC engined version with a roll cage and grp hard top, stripped out to do hillclimbs. again, not enough power to excite. I had plans for a turbo, but thankfully no time. It got crushed.

 

[james butler]

This always makes me wonder if there's a modern car or bike this principal should be applied to. Something affordable like the escorts were back in the day.

mx5s
they are rocketing in value and a good basis to restore

 

[Puglet1]

1971 Mk2 Vitesse having a well deserved rest in South West of France lat year.

 

[Hood]

My dad had quite a few Heralds over the years and one Vitesse that he was given, turned out it was a rust bucket so we cut it up with a hacksaw to take it bit by bit to the skip

 

[Farside]

My dad had quite a few Heralds over the years and one Vitesse that he was given, turned out it was a rust bucket so we cut it up with a hacksaw to take it bit by bit to the skip

Bloke that lived just down the road from me had a garage containing a couple of Imps and a couple in his front garden. He was getting rid of the worst shell by slowly putting it in his rubbish bin every week. One year, one shell. That was long before scrappies would come out and take them away for free, they'd charge you for collection, quite a bit, too.

 

[Hood]

.... That was long before scrappies would come out and take them away for free, they'd charge you for collection, quite a bit, too.

That was the reason we chopped it up with a hacksaw, it wasn't for fun I can assure you

 

[Hood]

I have many happy? memories of the Heralds. Every year we would swap houses with my mums cousin and holiday down at the borders. I think from about the age of 5 or 6 I was helping replace gearboxes etc while on holiday so we could get home

 

[Migmac]

My oldest brothers first car was a Herald. It travelled from Aberdeen to the Borders fairly regularly without issue. The only problem I can remember was the cables that operated the roof stretching.

 

[Bullet2012]

Riva with twin Lamborghini V12.

 

[beeRS]

That’s a lot of Webers to adjust

 

[Hood]

Riva with twin Lamborghini V12.
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Made a few bits for a similar vessel, stainless milled badges (used a 1mm cutter), knob for something at the steering wheel, looked like an indicator lever but don't have them on boats so no idea what it was.

 

[Hood]

Just found a pic of it, a Taroni Mistral.

Had to draw the badges from scratch as all I had was an old paper image.
This is what it was like, I don't think I have a pic of the badges themselves but this is the 3D model.

 

[Hood]

Just found a pic of the badge.