RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 7, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2015 A Couple of interesting conversions appeared on Facebook over the last few days. First was a 4X4 conversion of an ex GPO Morris JB van, apparently using Austin Gypsy bits making it a virtual 'bolt on job'. The second was an estate car conversion of a four door 100E Prefect, done in the same style as a Farnham conversion of the larger Consul/Zephyr/Zodiac. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadoak Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 A rather attractive racing car. https://www.youtube....h?v=bsdWgmp4TaQ Peter M 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 That's spot on what I get with the Rover and I've even been at a set of lights on a two lane road with me in the left hand lane with nothing behind me and about ten cars in the right hand lane. its at this point that I get the devil in me as even though the car is a 1949 model with a long stroke engine its still a 2.1lt six cylinder and very low geared so it can hold its own against a great many unsuspecting modern cars up to about 45mph. I'm often already sat at the next set of light laughing my head off as about ten drivers at least half of them now behind me pull up with looks of disbelief on there faces. Baiting the modern drivers is one of my favorite past times Pah, that's nothing! Try doing it in an Optare Metrorider 23 seater minibus! I won. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Harumph! Still don't think, in FIAT terms, one can beat Mephistopheles........140-odd mph? One isn't so much a driver, more of a klingon? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/8566579/Goodwood-2011-the-mighty-Mephistopheles-returns.html 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Don't know if this happens much with cars in the UK, but I refer to the dreaded 'check engine' light on the dashboard. Every so often it remains on and causes fearful thoughts of imminent problems. So you dutifully take it to the garage who tell you they can't find anything wrong. All goes well until after a few months or so, it reappears and eventually goes out and all's well again. In the end you give up so the light comes on every so often and you take no notice of it. Not what the manufacturer intended! Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 (edited) Don't know if this happens much with cars in the UK, but I refer to the dreaded 'check engine' light on the dashboard. Every so often it remains on and causes fearful thoughts of imminent problems. So you dutifully take it to the garage who tell you they can't find anything wrong. All goes well until after a few months or so, it reappears and eventually goes out and all's well again. In the end you give up so the light comes on every so often and you take no notice of it. Not what the manufacturer intended! Brian. All the time. My sister in law bought a Fiesta brand new in the mid 90's. After the last free service the engine warning light came on. She took it back to the dealer, they found nothing wrong & turned the light off. A few weeks later it came back on, this time she ignored it. My wife then bought the car when it was three years old. The light stayed on. Four years later we gave it to our daughter. The light stayed on. Two years on she sold the car to a friend who worked in a garage. He plugged it into the computer at work & simply turned the light off again!! I did the normal regular servicing on the car through its life with us & it ran fine! More recently my son has bought an RX-8 & now a Saab 9-3, both of which had the engine management light come on within a week or so of him buying the car. His mate who manages a garage plugged them both into the computer & both gave some ridiculous fault code that had nothing to do with the engine so they simply turned it off on both occasions! Edited July 7, 2015 by keefr2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 How do you repack an airbag? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 How do you repack an airbag? Same way you get an elephant in a Mini...?? I dunno... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Same way you get an elephant in a Mini...?? I dunno... Two in the front, two in the back? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Two in the front, two in the back? Four elephants in a Mini? I'd like to see that....!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Four elephants in a Mini? I'd like to see that....!!!How can you tell when you've got an elephant in your fridge? A: Footprints in the butter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 7, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2015 Four elephants in a Mini? I'd like to see that....!!! It's not too bad unless you get the ones with their toenails painted yellow..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 It's not too bad unless you get the ones with their toenails painted yellow..... That's only because they've been dipping into the butter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 7, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2015 They've been hiding upside down in bowls of custard, so they're covered in custard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 How can you tell when you've got four elephants in your fridge? A: There's a Mini parked outside. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 They've been hiding upside down in bowls of custard, so they're covered in custard. In the autumn.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Chaps, I remember most of these elephant jokes from school - I left school in 1965 :yes: :yes: Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 The old ones are the, er, best...!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 .... remember most of these elephant jokes from school - I left school in 1965 :yes: :yes: Presumably the elephant jokes didn't exist before the Mini's creation in 1959. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted July 8, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 8, 2015 How do you get two whales in a Mini? Over the Severn bridge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 The old ones are the, er, best...!! Of course we are! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweasel Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Found this gorgeous beauty sleeping in the Anglesey Transport Museum. My late father had one and I took my test in it. 4086 cc sidevalve engine, and a 55 foot turning circle. My examiner asked me to do a 3 point turn in a small road. Needless to say, it couldn't be done. Still passed me though as I demonstrated that I knew the car couldn't do it. Wish I still had it. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ELTEL Posted July 11, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2015 Just looking through my library of my many road vehicle pictures and came across this old favourite. A quite rare Austin A35 Pick Up I think they were around in fifties from memory, my local brewery Joules of Stone had one as I remember. I think I read somewhere that there was only a very small production run. Eltel 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 This may be of interest to some in this thread http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33475734 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Like the Chevette, the Cavalier design was the work of Opel. VM lost responsibility for car design to their German counterpart which caused a certain amount of ill feeling within their ranks, or so I found when the Opel and Vauxhall commercial divisions were amalgamated in 1981. At least they still retain a UK manufacturing presence unlike FoMoCo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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