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Nostaga is great. But I might exclude quite a few Ford products... OK the Mk 1 Cortina was a great concept by them. Lotus gave them a huge boost with dropping the Twin Cam into them, along with suspension mods (some quite extreme..)
Ford produced great cars for the 'people' but they needed quite a lot of tinkering to perform. BL produced quite different cars. Much more advanced, but did that matter to Jo Blogges?
I remember an interview with Bentley, shortly before he passed. At the end the journo asked what he thought was a 'good car'. Bentley answered, 'One that starts in the morning when one turns the key'. The next question was what did Bentley have in his garage?
He replied, a Morris 1000.
Ford produced great cars for the 'people' but they needed quite a lot of tinkering to perform. BL produced quite different cars. Much more advanced, but did that matter to Jo Blogges?
I remember an interview with Bentley, shortly before he passed. At the end the journo asked what he thought was a 'good car'. Bentley answered, 'One that starts in the morning when one turns the key'. The next question was what did Bentley have in his garage?
He replied, a Morris 1000.
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No that one is twice as long.
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Nice Job!
Slightly curious, but after rebuilding my brother's Cooper with a new factory shell in errmm, '66? I wanted to do similar on my highly tuned van. Found an early saloon shell in the scrappy with a bit of frontal corner damage, so sorted that and had an idea to do Mini 7 racing. The early shells were about 40lbs lighter. Does yours fit in that? Slightly thinner metal.
After busting the crank on the 850 unit.. ( Do not use 7,000 rpm with a 731 cam!) I put in a 998 unit built from a destroked 1100 (same block and loads in the scrap yard..) Ended up with a little over 80hp and a really fun car. Deseamed it too. But, it tended to attract the 'Official' attention, as just a bit odd. Friend offered an Alpine and I never got stopped again..
Quite a while ago, but much fun had at the time...
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I recall reading that the very early shells were lighter, 59-61?? Mine's '63. The steel used in the early cars seemed to be better quality though as a lot of them didn't rust as badly as the later cars which you could hear rusting!
My 850 engine still runs the early narrow tail crank with the coil spring clutch, it could do with a rebuild now, its a tired little engine. Keeping an eye out for a decent spare 850 engine to either rebuild and use or to fit while I have mine rebuilt.
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Spotted this at the end of my street today.
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Something different to play with today
Crikey - a Blackjack - I've not ever seen on on the roads.
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Read a road test in Road & Track quite a few years ago. Couple of guys who normally did race cars, built a three wheeler with a Citroen GS1220 engine/transmission. Huge amount of fun. Called a Tristar, dunno if they ever built any more.
Localy I saw a couple of little sports cars. Didn't recognise the logo, so looked under. Very well put together jobs based on a 2CV chassis. I will grab a photo next I pass.
Kitcars not OK about here. But you can do one on an existing chassis like a 2CV or a Renault 4.
Localy I saw a couple of little sports cars. Didn't recognise the logo, so looked under. Very well put together jobs based on a 2CV chassis. I will grab a photo next I pass.
Kitcars not OK about here. But you can do one on an existing chassis like a 2CV or a Renault 4.
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Lomax were another 2CV based three and four wheeler kit car, I've also seen them with GS 1220 four cylinder engines as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomax_(kit_car)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomax_(kit_car)
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Unusual one I saw on FB, apparently it's a Ford Bantam built by Ford South Africa.
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Seem to remember the Ford P100 1.8td had a few years back was made in SA
It was but what a useless thing it was! (Sierra pickup). I had a German Tischer demountable camper body I used to put on the back. One day on the way back from a day's windsurfing I had to kick my mate out on a short steep hill to push! I changed it for a 2wd Hi-Lux which always flew up no trouble.
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That looks like a cortina as opposed to a sierra
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My last batch of Ford rangers were all from SA too
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Yes they were. Looked like they were assembled after a bin raid of tina and grannie parts iirc.
I was given a crashed one[mk V looking] that was dumped on a mates drive! I put the front end off a mk4 tina on it.
I pulled straight some of it, as I think there was something grannie looking about front suspension.
When did they switch over to Sierra looking P100s?
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1987 for the 1988 model year.
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These used to be kind of popular:
I've seen a fiberglass version, have become quite collectable, as they don't seem to deteriorate as much,
here is one version:
I think those are permanently attached to the cab, I could wind mine up on legs and drive out from underneath leaving the living accommodation behind like in the first pic.
The little girl in the Toyota pic is 44 now with kids 16 and 13! And the woman on the right (mother in law) died ten years ago aged 86. Still got the wife though..
