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·Remember Wolseleys had the illuminated grille badge.....yep the last word in luxury was to have a little light globe shining through the badge! 🤣
Classic car spotting this week.
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··Sunburst dial fanIn my first regular job after apprenticeship we had these as company pool cars. I hated them so much I tried my best to blow up the engines so the company would perhaps get something more modern. I failed to wreck even one. The engines would not rev past 4000 and I needed to get them above 5500 to do any damage (BMC 5-bearing "B-series" engines were tough, I'll give them that). Even my first car from years earlier, an Austin Mini Van with the "low-compression" 848cc engine, was faster.
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Pastorbottle
·In my first regular job after apprenticeship we had these as company pool cars. I hated them so much I tried my best to blow up the engines so the company would perhaps get something more modern. I failed to wreck even one. The engines would not rev past 4000 and I needed to get them above 5500 to do any damage (BMC 5-bearing "B-series" engines were tough, I'll give them that). Even my first car from years earlier, an Austin Mini Van with the "low-compression" 848cc engine, was faster.
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Scarecrow Boat
··Burt Macklin, FBIHung out with my dad and his ‘68 GTO. Recently dyno’d @ 460hp and 500ftlb’s of torque. 4 speed and a blast to drive.
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Pastorbottle
·Hung out with my dad and his ‘68 GTO. Recently dyno’d @ 460hp and 500ftlb’s of torque. 4 speed and a blast to drive.
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··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.Hung out with my dad and his ‘68 GTO. Recently dyno’d @ 460hp and 500ftlb’s of torque. 4 speed and a blast to drive.
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··Burt Macklin, FBIThat a lot of power even for a 455. What has he done to it?
Apologize for the quality of these pics as he screenshot these off his Facebook to send to me. When he said it was dyno’d, I didn’t realize it was just the engine, which makes the bhp slightly less than the figures I gave above.
These are from the shop that rebuilt the engine:
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Pastorbottle
·Well going from the pix I can see Edlebrock alloy heads, an alloy single plane inlet manifold, extractor exhaust manifolds, and a bloody great Holley 4bbl carbie sitting on a phenolic heat barrier.
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·Well going from the pix I can see Edlebrock alloy heads, an alloy single plane inlet manifold, extractor exhaust manifolds, and a bloody great Holley 4bbl carbie sitting on a phenolic heat barrier.
In my experience that heat barrier / spacer is absolutely essential.
Even on my 3.5 litre Rover V8 with the edlebrock manifold and 4 barrel webber heat was major problem to the carbie.
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Pastorbottle
·In my experience that heat barrier / spacer is absolutely essential.
Even on my 3.5 litre Rover V8 with the edlebrock manifold and 4 barrel webber heat was major problem to the carbie.
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanLincoln Forrester convertible - not an everyday sighting in London
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·So I was looking at the badging on the back, and the Forrester you refer too seems to be the dealership it was bought from, which actually is located in Chambersburg, PA.
I'd be interested to know the story of it getting there. Also, that canvas top is fixed on those.
Never understood the Lincolns and Cadillac's that had that....feature lol.
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanAn everyday sighting here in Oklahoma, usually driven by retirees.
It was a big car. Many UK retirees favour a small vehicle, like a Honda Jazz, but then our roads are narrower and the longest drive here, Lands End to John o’ Groats is only 603 miles
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·Yeah my grandparents would never drive that lol. Land yachts only!
In fact, they had a new Lincoln Town Car every couple of years from the early 90's to the mid-2000's until my grandpa rage switched to Cadillac for some reason lol
In fact, they had a new Lincoln Town Car every couple of years from the early 90's to the mid-2000's until my grandpa rage switched to Cadillac for some reason lol
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·It was a big car. Many UK retirees favour a small vehicle, like a Honda Jazz, but then our roads are narrower and the longest drive here, Lands End to John o’ Groats is only 603 miles
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanI'll drive 100 miles just to visit a friend for the day.
You’re a pal. Is that each way or there and back?
In London I much prefer to take the tube (Underground) but even so, my seven year old Golf only has 38,000 miles on the clock.
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·You’re a pal. Is that each way or there and back?
In London I much prefer to take the tube (Underground) but even so, my seven year old Golf only has 38,000 miles on the clock.
Just to drive home your point from earlier about distances, I also average around 38,000 miles a year on my car.
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