For those interested in old cars.

[peanuts]

Those of you who followed rallying in the 70s & 80s will have memorys of the late David Suttons legacy his funeral took place today .

[PhilJ W]

Where's the eye bleach?

[PhilJ W]

 

War surplus

[Enterprisingwestern]

11 hours ago, peanuts said:

Those of you who followed rallying in the 70s & 80s will have memorys of the late David Suttons legacy his funeral took place today .

 

Perhaps a funeral which shouldn't have been carried out at a funereal pace, I can just imagine the hearse doing a handbrake turn into the cemetery gates.

 

Mike.

[johnlambert]

This was in the supermarket car park yesterday:

 

Sunbeam Tiger, looking very smart in the supermarket car park yesterday.

 

Unfortunately I couldn't get pictures of the Mercedes 230SL, Porsche 356 or Renault 25 that I saw when I was driving around.

[boxbrownie]

17 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

Yes, it would where I am going to be living. My Vauxhall is on the other hand not.

 

McDo not a big priority for me. When lockdown ends, I will be going for proper meals out or using the enormous bbq in my back garden which only came to light when a local landscape came in with his heavyweight kit a few days ago.

 

I certainly would not go for a takeaway in the Alfetta anyway. That velvety upholstery would hold onto the smell!

Right......we’ll give you a week to get it fired up and then it’s all around to Joe’s for a nosh up lads

[boxbrownie]

Back to the thread now.....didn’t get a piccy as too far away but while waiting for Mrs BB in the docs car park an obviously daily driver poodles by, a Roman Bronze metallic 1300 Mk1 M reg Escort......even had an MoT until next year!

 

 

Edited April 23, 2021 by boxbrownie

[stewartingram]

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Where's the eye bleach?

What a tragic waste of a good car!

 

Stewart

[jcredfer]

35 minutes ago, stewartingram said:

What a tragic waste of a good car!

 

Stewart

 

Looks like an illegal overhang, too.

 

Possible cry for help, for the mental state of the perpetrator.

 

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, stewartingram said:

What a tragic waste of a good car!

 

Stewart

 

Jury's still out. I've worked on a couple of those. It may not have helped my PTSD....

[Oldddudders]

5 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

Right......we’ll give you a week to get it fired up and then it’s all around to Joe’s for a nosh up lads

Not at present you won't. France is quite funny about who arrives here right now - and you'll incur full HM Government hospitality charges on getting back to Blighty. Infection rates in much of France, which is currently on the UK red list, are 10 or more times those in the UK right now. This is why I haven't seen wife Sherry since October. 

[Joseph_Pestell]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Not at present you won't. France is quite funny about who arrives here right now - and you'll incur full HM Government hospitality charges on getting back to Blighty. Infection rates in much of France, which is currently on the UK red list, are 10 or more times those in the UK right now. This is why I haven't seen wife Sherry since October. 

Hi Ian,

I had no real problems coming back a couple of days ago. Has the situation changed since then?

Joseph

[Joseph_Pestell]

6 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

Right......we’ll give you a week to get it fired up and then it’s all around to Joe’s for a nosh up lads

 

As Olddudders says, travel in France complicated at the moment unless you have a specific reason. Fortunately for me, moving house is Box 5 on the appropriate form.

Of course, what the law says and enforcement are not necessarily quite the same thing. On Sunday, I passed by 4 groups of gendarmes keeping an eye on the situation. But they were not actually doing any checks on people's documents.

[boxbrownie]

3 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Not at present you won't. France is quite funny about who arrives here right now - and you'll incur full HM Government hospitality charges on getting back to Blighty. Infection rates in much of France, which is currently on the UK red list, are 10 or more times those in the UK right now. This is why I haven't seen wife Sherry since October. 

It says on the inside cover of my British Passport etc etc etc.......gunboat, gunboat, gunboat, SAS, SAS, SAS just watch it foreigner chappy!....

[boxbrownie]

2 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

As Olddudders says, travel in France complicated at the moment unless you have a specific reason. Fortunately for me, moving house is Box 5 on the appropriate form

I’d say having a BBQ and booze up with a complete stranger from RMWeb constitutes is a VERY specific reason, and actually food and wine in France would be the only reason 

[MrWolf]

Possibly the only Astra van that hasn't been thrashed up to 100mph along the hard shoulder of the M4 by a spiky haired lad called Daz....

 

[Oldddudders]

13 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

Hi Ian,

I had no real problems coming back a couple of days ago. Has the situation changed since then?

Joseph

Oh! I was under the impression things were tougher than that. Sherry gets her second jab next week, so if France can get itself off the red list, a visit might be possible in a few weeks. Getting tested for the return remains an issue, and she certainly wouldn't want to spend £2k on a 10-day Government hotel! I have to say my daily reading of the charts on LCI do not support the Castex view that Covid is easing here, so I do not foresee things changing for the better with déconfinement from May 3rd. 

[Mike Bellamy]

On 16/03/2021 at 11:49, great central said:

Came across this while mooching round the newsfeeds yesterday.

 

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/sneak-peek-classic-car-museum-5168743

 

Derby Telegraph have now posted an update as the museum prepares to open

 

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/motoring/gallery/17-pictures-show-classic-cars-5323427

 

Also a long article by Robert Hardman of the Daily Wail

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9505721/A-museum-revving-good-fab-ugly-writes-ROBERT-HARDMAN.html

 

So they are certainly getting a lot of publicity both local and national. Looking at the number of cars they have it should be worth a visit !

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[RANGERS]

On 22/04/2021 at 15:36, MrWolf said:

 

I have to admit that I have never seen one in the flesh. I've ended up with odd spare parts for them over the years, but I suspect that Australia and New Zealand would be the place to find one now.

 

I also wish I could buy this again for £350.

 

 

 

That has a Perkins badge on the RHS of the grille, is it an ex-taxi that’s had an engine swap?

 

In the early 1970s, locally we had a fleet of Austin A60 taxis that acquired Diesel engines, 2.5l BMC units I believe. Never saw under the bonnet but I’d guess it was a tight fit. They were progressively replaced with FX4s from 1972 onwards, I guess the last had gone by about ‘75.

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, RANGERS said:

That has a Perkins badge on the RHS of the grille, is it an ex-taxi that’s had an engine swap?

 

In the early 1970s, locally we had a fleet of Austin A60 taxis that acquired Diesel engines, 2.5l BMC units I believe. Never saw under the bonnet but I’d guess it was a tight fit. They were progressively replaced with FX4s from 1972 onwards, I guess the last had gone by about ‘75.

Fitting a Perkins P6 was a common conversion on the six cylinder Humbers. They used to drink petrol like it was going out of fashion is the reason why.

[MrWolf]

The P6 is quite a lump of iron, I had one in a Bedford TA5 flatbed. That said, the 4088cc sidevalve fitted to the big Humber's of the 40s and early 50s was about the same size.

The diesel A60's had a dieselised version of the BMC B series as used in some of the later BMC / Leyland Mini Tractor. I remember a very dog eared blue Cambridge saloon knocking about where I lived about 1980, the standout feature of which was the rather grand BMC Diesel badge on the grille, normally seen on the last of the Nuffield badged tractors.

 

 

Edited April 25, 2021 by MrWolf

[37114]

I decided to work outside on the Land Rover today, I wanted to try and start the engine but couldn't get the fuel pump to draw petrol through from the tank so ended up doing some other jobs on it.

 

 

Meanwhile over the border in Somerset, my parents gave a couple of the MGs a run.

[MrWolf]

Nice collection and a nice pad too! 

 

Do you have a mechanical pump on the Landover?

[PhilJ W]

39 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

The P6 is quite a lump of iron, I had one in a Bedford TA5 flatbed. That said, the 4088cc sidevalve fitted to the big Humber's of the 40s and early 50s was about the same size.

The diesel A60's had a dieselised version of the BMC B series as used in some of the later BMC / Leyland Mini Tractor. I remember a very dog eared blue Cambridge saloon knocking about where I lived about 1980, the standout feature of which was the rather grand BMC Diesel badge on the grille, normally seen on the last of the Nuffield badged tractors.

 

 

There was also a BMC diesel based on the B series engine as fitted to the A60 and Marina cars. It was offered fitted to those models for taxi fleets. It was initially only 1500 cc and delivered only about 40 BHP and was offered in the J2/J4/JU vans. Later the capacity was increased to 1800 cc when it was fitted in the early Sherpa vans. This is the engine most likely to have been used.

[37114]

33 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Nice collection and a nice pad too! 

 

Do you have a mechanical pump on the Landover?

Thanks, my parents have done well with the house they have.

 

Yes it is a mechanical pump, there is a lever to hand prime but despite much pumping no fuel came through. I will have a play one evening this week, they are pretty simple.