Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

have a pic of the fuel tank, to restore my cred

RACECAR!

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I've got one. Thule narrow and long job. It's in my loft as kids don't need so much stuff nowadays.

Want to borrow it?

Would!

yeah, man that would be cool - cheers.

I strongly suspect that that Dolly Sprint up there isn't quite as nice as it photographs - I sold my fairly ratty one a few years ago for not much less than that :) That thing up there was very much my planned destination when I owned it though...

You could well be right, it does look really cheap. Still it's got to be better value than the equivalent <5K mk2 Escort.

For sure - and so much more fun, and probably without the guilt or paranoia of ownership. It's going to be a fairly laclustre 1.1L escort you'd be looking at for that money I imagine.

£612 later and both front seats in the C55 have heating elements in the base that work, that was officially the final thing on the "to fix" list.

There's a few things I want to do still, replace the rear ARB, a new RMS, and go over the paint - take the rear bumper back to primer, then re-do the wings, bonnet and leading edge of the roof as the whole front end is a magnet for small stones. I'll get that done in the New Year, and this time I'm going to PPF the whole front end plus the roof (as I carry bikes on the roof very frequently), and the rear bumper (to avoid fucking the new paint when loading things.

If I was Marchello. 😎 💪

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Yep I was surprised they don't go for more. More reliable than their reputation apparently and good club support too.

I'm a sucker for anything 70s and orange but it was pretty darn cool.

there's an M plate one in the road parallel to mine - near to de beauvoir. not as rad as this with the flared wheel arches and wide alloys. but pretty nice all the same.

love the fact there are quite a few nice classics regularly parked up in the Dalston De Beauvoir matrix. a viva, a mk1 capri, Renault 16, the dolomite, fulvia.

Think I know the fulvia owner.

Lift off oversteer.

They were just so quick, and so easily nickable that they were regular cat d beyond economic repair.

do you? I often see it parked up. and have seen it in at Priorietti before too. but the other day was a joy to see it on the road heading west on Richmond road. lovely car. I know I posted it on here a few years ago

Reliability was down to not running rust inhibitor and changing coolant regularly as it was an iron block and alloy head. I liked the 1850 as they were cheap and easy to fix and if the engine was dead get a tr7 2l engine to fit.

That car engine bhp seems odd as a decent close tolerance build seems to give around 190.

If it is the same chap that had it few years ago(edit over a decade ago), he would turn up and the LMC pub meet and occassionally the Fiat/italian car meet near golders green. The pub used to be where the holiday Inn is near the a1 turn off from the North Circular.

Lift off oversteer.

They were just so quick, and so easily nickable that they were regular cat d beyond economic repair.

Including Raiders, just 270 left on the road. Mine was stolen recovered x2, once blocking a major road when the steering lock came back on after attempt to break it.

The value of a good one must be tops now.

I wanted a raider but all I ever got was wheels and interior for my normal 5turbo.

No insurance would cover mine without an cat 1 alarm and imobiliser and being garaged. That was in the DY area.

I drove these two beasties today. They are magical.

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The blue one is basically a racing car without numbers. Savage!

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fuck yeah. that looks like it would be an amazing drive. and I am not talking about the shingle

Awesome

No one is going to ask how you fit in it ;)

Am so jealous, always wanted an Elan. I blame the avengers.

I can’t get my head around how nimble the little blue one was. All the bollocks about the sublime handling and the steering all seemed to fit, even from the short amount of time I had.

The blue one is a bit full on for my liking!

Apparently, the chassis/suspension is better on the one in my garage, but is more softly sprung.

Now to find 150bhp...