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Classic car spotting this week.
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AngelDeVille
·Ford Fairlane? What year? Very cool.
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Waltesefalcon
·Wow, it's taken me a week to pin this one down!
And the blue car in front of it is a Triumph TR4 or TR4A.
I took a moment looking at the P1800 thinking to myself, "that's not a hard one" before finally noticing that the TR4 was next to it rather than in front of it and looking to the back of the photo.
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rob#1
·This was in a local car park a few days ago - it took me back to my teens, as my first car was almost identical. A 1970 MG Midget IV in British racing green with wire wheels (and an Austin Healey grille for some reason). From memory the 1972 rear wheel arches were round, so this is probably the same vintage as mine.
These are so small compared with modern cars, and your bottom was literally inches from the tarmac. I also recall that you had to manually change something under the bonnet to get the heating working for the winter, it was that basic 😉
These are so small compared with modern cars, and your bottom was literally inches from the tarmac. I also recall that you had to manually change something under the bonnet to get the heating working for the winter, it was that basic 😉
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spe777
·I feel like you used to see MGs all the time in the 80s and 90s. Now, you never see them anywhere. I can't even remember the last time I saw one on the roads.
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Watch my Whisky
·I feel like you used to see MGs all the time in the 80s and 90s. Now, you never see them anywhere. I can't even remember the last time I saw one on the roads.
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MRC
·I feel like you used to see MGs all the time in the 80s and 90s. Now, you never see them anywhere. I can't even remember the last time I saw one on the roads.
A few weeks ago I saw three E-types in convoy, one red, one white, one blue. That Ferrari 308 posted before lives (and smokes) close to the centre of the village and the owner also has a Lancia Fulvia. That Spitfire 1500 seen upthread is very frequently parked at the village hall. Nearby town has Triumph Herald and Vitesse seen regularly. Often see Citroën 2CVs, introduced in 1948 so that makes them a classic IMO.
There's lots about.
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mrbreen
·They’ve finally all broken down.
But yeah, I have many fond memories of a green MGB GT a high school friend of mine had in the 90s. It was his daily driver and we were lucky when it fired on all cylinders. If that car is still on the road I’d be very surprised.
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Lonestar
·cool! New car thread!
Can I play? spotted friday nite locally 😀
casually parked downtown.... don't you love switzerland?!?
All the best, OF!
Can I play? spotted friday nite locally 😀
casually parked downtown.... don't you love switzerland?!?
All the best, OF!
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Danwales
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MRC
·That 1983/84 Land-Rover is probably fitted with the brakes I redesigned to the instruction "We need them cheaper to make."
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Joe_A
·Good eye! It’s a Midget if I’m not mistaken. I have a picture of it. And one of the rear of the AH just behind it. Yeah, it was a pretty neat show. Lots of trailer queens but also a lot of Sunday drivers for good measure.
There actually never was an A-H 100/4 though the early cars from 1953 to 1955 had 4-cylinder motors. The cars were actually referred to as Austin-Healey 100 (BN1).
The A-H 100 in the photo has a louvered hood (bonnet) which may well have been an aftermarket addition . . . or it could have been one of only 640 original 100M model vehicles. As it has drum brakes in the front, it cannot be a 100S.
When the 100/6 was introduced, some people started calling the 100 a 100/4, but no Healey aficionado would do so. ;-)
Here is my 1966 3000 Mk III (BJ8)
The fenders and doors are steel whereas the inner body panels are of aluminum. The panels are "isolated" by either felt or rubber. The chrome strips you see on the 100 through 3000 series cover the transition points from steel to aluminum.
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MRC
·Really? Did you work for them?
No, I worked for Girling who made the brakes for Land-Rover.
Anyone who has put new brake shoes into drum brakes will know that the web of the shoe has lots and lots of holes and that they need to be careful to get springs, retaining pins & perhaps handbrake linkages into the right ones. Making holes costs money which is not in any way recovered from the scrap steel. So, my task was to find out for what car models we made those brakes in current production (just L-R at that time) or older service replacement shoes we still supplied and what holes were currently needed. Then I could rework the manufacturing drawings without the holes that were no longer needed. I think I got rid of about a third of the holes. The records of what we made were in many drawers of index cards and the manufacturing drawings were in Mylar (probably TM) done with wet-ink pens on a drawing board, so it wasn't long before I quit to get back into the CADCAM computer way of doing things more efficiently with which I already had some experience.
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vbrad26
·Since there are a few other aircooled VW's in this thread...I'm going to go spot this one this weekend with the intention of bringing it home with me...
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ossodiseppia
·This was our family car we bought new in Germany in 1965. We drove though northern Europe before returning to our home in Tripoli. Libya. This first picture was taken outside our home in 1977.
We caught a boat in Bergen and took the car with us. That's me in the top right corner telling the crew how to load the car. 😀
We caught a boat in Bergen and took the car with us. That's me in the top right corner telling the crew how to load the car. 😀
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ossodiseppia
·My money pit a 1969 US spec Alfa Spider
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...My money pit a 1969 US spec Alfa Spider
