steve1 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Seen making sedate progress earlier today was a two-tone green 1951 (approx) Armstrong Siddley saloon. Not seen one in years. Sorry no pics as I was driving in the opposite direction. steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2018 Minilites look good on most cars of the period. Back in 72 my dad bought a yellow celica and fitted slotmags but I think minilites would have been better. I like the modernised minilites rover did for the MGf, if these had been the right stud pattern I would have put a set on my MG ZR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) From Sh*tefest Festival of the Unexceptional: "There'll be Bluebirds over The sh*te cliffs of Dover...." Edited July 15, 2018 by Horsetan 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I nearly bought a 5 door Bluebird Hatchback in 1999. Luckily I bought a Saab 900SE 5 door instead... steve 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Who remembers the Lancia Trevi? ...and its Swiss cheese dashboard? 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2018 A pal had a Trevi - I always thought the dash looked like it had been machine-gunned! Saw a wedding car on Friday, and exact match for the maroon and black Rover (60?) posted on here regularly. Don't suppose you have been to Fraggle Rock this week? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 ...Don't suppose you have been to Fraggle Rock this week? Nope. Fancy an orange Lada 1600? 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2018 Nope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Or a last-edition Wartburg 353? 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2018 Is that still a 3cyl two stroke Ivan? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Is that still a 3cyl two stroke Ivan? This was one of the "modernised" ones, with a VW 1272cc engine in it and a new front end, similar to what was done for the Trabant, the last ones of which had a VW 1093cc engine from the Polo. It was all too late, as the newly-liberated East Germans soon went out and bought secondhand Western cars instead. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2018 Obviously a lot more reliable but not much character. My mates Dad had original one in the early 80s , I remember going for a day out and he had to stop about every 10 miles to clean the plugs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) Obviously a lot more reliable but not much character. My mates Dad had original one in the early 80s , I remember going for a day out and he had to stop about every 10 miles to clean the plugs! That's reliable? I went out in the MGB for a thirty mile trip today and didn't have to stop and clean the plugs once. Edited July 15, 2018 by Jol Wilkinson 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Fancy an orange Lada 1600? If it's as solid as it looks it'd be a great basis for a historic rally car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisr40 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) Some of the gorgeous historic cars at Goodwood FOS today. Edited July 15, 2018 by Chrisr40 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2018 That's reliable? I went out in the MGB for a thirty mile trip today and didn't have to stop and clean the plugs once. I meant the Wartburg was reliable with the VW engine but lacked the character of the old two stroke 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 16, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16, 2018 Nope. Fancy an orange Lada 1600? DSCF3622.JPG DSCF3623.JPG If it's as solid as it looks it'd be a great basis for a historic rally car! The Lada is now very rare in the UK. A few years ago when you couldn't give one away Russian seamen used to buy them up, put them on board their ships, strip them for spares and push the remains over the side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Back in the 1970's, I used to live in Bridlington [i know, I know....... ].......the home of Satra Motors, the Lada importers [at Carnaby]......Ladas were two a penny...especially as Lada employees got some sort of a discount. The original tyres they came in with..[which were swapped for other rubber]....were often for sale under the counter...rubbish in the summer, brilliant in the snow....I lived next door to the fella who fitted the centre consoles! Got paid more for that, than he did doing proper mechaniking..... Now, the real rarity in Brid was the Moskvich...... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 I had a Datsun Japcrap 120Y because I was offered a good deal on my Ford. It had everything that one would only get in a top price Ford Ghia. Unexciting but reliable, it passed to my eldest son and then to my youngest. It didn't go as rusty as some Datsuns I saw. Friend Derek Lawrence's Datsun had a carbuncle of rust right in the centre of the bonnet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 I had a Datsun Japcrap 120Y because I was offered a good deal on my Ford. It had everything that one would only get in a top price Ford Ghia. Unexciting but reliable.... The early Datsun 120Y (the 2-door with its reverse-angled rear side windows) was, for me, very near the pinnacle of the Japanese "grey porridge" designs. The body was more or less prone to fall apart in about eight years, but the mechanicals would go on forever. A family friend had a 1973 Toyota Celica 1600ST for donkeys' years, and the only reason why she sold it on (for £150!!) was because certain parts of the body had corroded and she didn't want to spend any more cash on welding. The running gear was flawless. A few years later, that generation of Celica became sought after, and good ones now top about 10 grand. If only she'd hung onto it....or passed it to my old man..... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 The Datsuns with smoke glass windows, radio and heaters and Amstrad music centres with twin tape decks (cool man), radio and vinyl record deck, all wrapped in a unit with glass door made to look like a piece of furniture, were all the rage in the 1970's. So too was gold vinyl wallpaper which was so un-reflective of light that we had to fit larger watt light bulbs to read at night! Black vinyl car seats that tore the skin of yer back on a hot day and vinyl roof covering designed to make your car look like crap within a few years. Not happy days for car owners. But this jap-crap invasion did force car makers like Ford to wake up and make their cars more rust proof, longer lasting and fitted with useful accessories. The turning point for me (and no doubt many others) was the Focus that could be thrown foot-down into any corner and still come out the other side! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 A family friend had a 1973 Toyota Celica 1600ST for donkeys' years, and the only reason why she sold it on (for £150!!) I'd bought a Mk1 Fiesta XR2 with less than 8000 miles on it from a friend in the model railway club for £500 when it was about 5 years old. His dad (who'd had it from new) had just died and my friend didn't want it (his daily driver was an 850 Mini auto and his 'weekend & special occasions' car was a huge 1930's Lanchester of some description!) Anyway fast forward a couple of years & the wife wants to buy her dad's hateful Sierra Azura I've mentioned before. OK I says we'll keep the XR in the garage. No, SWMBO says, it'll just clutter up the place. It still had less than 10K miles, was absolutely mint - & she made me sell it to the local MOT centre for £250....!! This was in about 1998, if you can find even a half decent one with 100K miles on now you'll be lucky to get change out of £15000...!! Struggle to get that return from a savings account! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 ….Anyway fast forward a couple of years & the wife wants to buy her dad's hateful Sierra Azura I've mentioned before. OK I says we'll keep the XR in the garage. No, SWMBO says, it'll just clutter up the place. It still had less than 10K miles, was absolutely mint - & she made me sell it to the local MOT centre for £250....!! This was in about 1998, if you can find even a half decent one with 100K miles on now you'll be lucky to get change out of £15000...!! Struggle to get that return from a savings account! Not one of your other half's better investment decisions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Not one of your other half's better investment decisions? No, & more fool me for listening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 16, 2018 More from Woodcote - A nice Moggy An extremely nice TVR - not sure which model And now something completely different - A Ford Model T with interesting bodywork, not sure if it was a factory option or home built! And from the T to the A, in Roadster form with dicky seat A lovely (in my eyes at any rate) Morris 8 convertible, smashing little cars An MG TA Maybe to Nidge's taste but very definitely not to mine - a later, and far less hairy, Mini 1275 GT And the sort of thing I was really there for. Richard Hazell's fully restored addition to a local collector's ever growing collection of steam powered vehicles and an original Burrell Showman's Scenic Engine from the 1930s. Mr Hazell, a local waste and haulage contractor, also has a unique collection of Sentinel steam lorries including the sole 8 wheeler which is reputedly capable of 60 mph and which regularly runs on roads at 50mph. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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