Guest Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Designed for maximum pedestrian damage and promoted by the crusader for (necessary) motor racing safety improvements. A flimsy nudge bar probably doesn't increase the damage from a 70's car all that much. Unlike the massive things they bolt to 4x4s these days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 A flimsy nudge bar probably doesn't increase the damage from a 70's car all that much. Unlike the massive things they bolt to 4x4s these days. Yep, get hit by a Clubbie front end at any sort of speed & it's going to sting.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Discussion of Oz muscle cars over in another thread has prompted me to dig out and scan the only existing photo of my first set of wheels on arrival in Australia in 1996. Muscle car it wasn't. It was a 1976 Holden HX Kingswood SL (the basic model). Straight six 202 (3.3l) "Red" motor, 3-speed Trimatic auto (with a reverse release button that would occasionally ping out of the shift lever and disappear under my legs), basic brown vinyl everywhere, no power steering, no aircon and plenty of water leaks around the scuttle, as I was discovering on the weekend the photo was taken when the worst storm in years hit the South West. Of course, being a newcomer to Australia I didn't know that the HX was the model noone wanted, being strangled by dodgy 1st generation emission control gear but lacking the improved suspension of the later HZ. Cost me $2000 from a mildly iffy dealer in Wangara, sold as seen. Ah well, in spite of its limitations it was a lovely, friendly, woofly old dinosaur with cavernous load space, comfortable seats and simple maintenance and repair needs. I wouldn't mind another better one, but prices for even rather mundane 70s Australiana have got a bit silly for anything half decent so it's unlikely to happen now. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Streak Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hey Pat, Re the HX Wagon. I remember when My Mate and I went halves in one of those (it was about a $1100 if I recall). It had a 4.2 litre V8 that was so choked with emission control gear, that it would have struggled to pull a sailor off My Sister It did however have an electric tailgate, with which one could wind the rearmost window down with the flick of a switch (very High Tech) but which left us both with an enormous headache as it sucked in all the fumes from the tailpipe, on our Maiden voyage from Armadale to the Sunday Session* at the Leisure Inn (AKA The Pleasure Bin) in Rockingham. Good Times * Sunday Session was when the pubs were allowed to open between the Hours of 5 and 9pm on a Sunday. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 ***Another test post... please ignore...!!*** 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 (edited) ***Another test post... please ignore...!!*** Yay, I can tax the CX and give it a proper run out this weekend Now, these look like a very good laugh Edited October 31, 2017 by Horsetan 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 All for a quid. One day back in the 60's when I lived in Sundon Park, Luton I was waiting for a return phone call from a transport company in Ayelsbury to see whether or not they were prepared to let me loose on the roads in a Foden eight legger when there was a knock on the door. It was my mate, William Holden lookalike, John Lloyd with an offer that only a maniac would turn down - for a quid I could become the half owner of a car hire company that was based at one end of Hubbards factory that stood almost at the bottom of Castle Hill, Luton and comprised of a fully equipped workshop, a spray booth, offices with overnight facilities ( as one or two rather tasty dolly birds from the Solicitors offices opposite were well acquainted with ! ) 12 Vauxhall Victors, a pink Ford Fairlane convertible waiting for a prop shaft, a moggie and a Ford Thames mini bus - Oh, and an Alsatian guard dog that would lick you death as you robbed the place ! Anyway, why, what and wherefore is another story other than to say that after only a month or so, I had to get out of town - quick, very quick ! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 ....I had to get out of town - quick, very quick ! Some might say Luton's still like that, but for wholly different reasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted October 31, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 31, 2017 (edited) Derek red robbo,Robinson passes away http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41820070 Edited October 31, 2017 by russ p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 "I had a girl called Nina in the back of my Cortina" Note to the the Mods: this thread is going the way of Holywood, the theatre and the Houses of Parliament. We might make it onto the front page of the Sun. dh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 ***Another test post... please ignore...!!*** DSCF7691crop.jpg I've still got a shed full of them. 10,000 rpm too. All brand new. My full scale (and unlike Smiths originals, fully calibrated) Smiths vac gauges got nicked though. They left me the crap Yazaki stuff. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Derek red robbo,Robinson passes away http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41820070 I like this bit. "He is quoted as saying: 'If we make Leyland successful, it will be a political victory. It will prove that ordinary working people have got the intelligence and determination to run industry'. Ahem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 A friend of mine was an apprentice at BL during Red Robbo's days. From what he tells me, Mr Robertson used the word "working" but didn't actually do any, along with his brother Union "officers". They apparently preferred to sit around in their union office, at BL's expense. Like other notable Union activists, he seemed to think conflict was the answer to getting the UK's industry back on its feet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 ^^ Yes, that went well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 I've still got a shed full of them. 10,000 rpm too. All brand new. My full scale (and unlike Smiths originals, fully calibrated) Smiths vac gauges got nicked though. They left me the crap Yazaki stuff. If you've got the SPQR metal pods too you can flog them and pay off your mortgage! (I know this thread has a habit of meandering from one topic to another but that's one of the joys of old car enthusiasm, it isn't just about the cars themselves, it's also about the nostalgia and paraphenalia that goes with them. Over on Pistonheads there are separate threads for all kinds of classic related stuff but on here it tends to be a nice old mish mash, long may it continue). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Late news on that old white car half-hidden in a garage in Carlton Gardens, behind my office. Turns out to be a Fiat 500 Giardiniera. Never heard of that variant before! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Late news on that old white car half-hidden in a garage in Carlton Gardens, behind my office. Turns out to be a Fiat 500 Giardiniera. Never heard of that variant before! Aaahh..the FIAT 500 estate car...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 This came to my attention...couldn't resist sharing it..... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUSTIN-MINI-MINI-1000-VAN-BARN-FIND-White-Manual-Petrol-1979/162732270983?hash=item25e3996587:g:4dMAAOSwjvJZVjDN Apparently, it comes with 3 months warranty, full MoT....and a full valet before sale?? According to the blurb further down the listing! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Aaahh..the FIAT 500 estate car...... I thought 'Giardiniera' was Italian for 'window box'... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 I thought 'Giardiniera' was Italian for 'window box'... According to google, it's an italian vegetable relish....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 From the photos I've now seen of extant examples, I say the car is shaped like a box, from the B-pillar onwards. Didn't know it was even available over here, which probably explains why I was struggling to identify it every time I walked past the garage. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 This came to my attention...couldn't resist sharing it..... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUSTIN-MINI-MINI-1000-VAN-BARN-FIND-White-Manual-Petrol-1979/162732270983?hash=item25e3996587:g:4dMAAOSwjvJZVjDN Apparently, it comes with 3 months warranty, full MoT....and a full valet before sale?? According to the blurb further down the listing! A nice find but it'll need at least twice the asking price spent on the shell before anything else gets touched, unless the buyer does it him / herself. Oh well, at least you can actually buy new front and rear doors for it.... but they are not cheap! Odd reg' number... 'KS 074' or 'KSO 74'...? I'll post the link on the Mk1 Performance Mini forum and see what the consensus over there is... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 (edited) CX update: we are now taxed and street-legal for the next 12 months ....Odd reg' number... 'KS 074' or 'KSO 74'...?... If the former, could it be Cyprus? Malta? Or even Kenya? Edited November 1, 2017 by Horsetan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 A nice find but it'll need at least twice the asking price spent on the shell before anything else gets touched, unless the buyer does it him / herself. Oh well, at least you can actually buy new front and rear doors for it.... but they are not cheap! Odd reg' number... 'KS 074' or 'KSO 74'...? I'll post the link on the Mk1 Performance Mini forum and see what the consensus over there is... when new you could have bought one of those for 600 quid, rust included. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolseley Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 Talking about old FIATS, here are a few: 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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