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Both shorter than a Bugatti Royale (FCVO 'production car'); the Royale was 6.4m long (21 ft/252").
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Yeah; it's a fact which stuck in my mind from a book I had as a kid about classic cars. Bugatti liked to have a pop at Bentley for building what he considered great ungainly things (the Speed Sixes and the like), but then for his ultimate luxury car built something that had wheels as big as a London bus's...
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All I can hear right now.
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So the Fiat 850 coupe, abarth but a 1000cc engine in to many. But did you know they put the 2l engine in to 3! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs6g8Zp0Zcg
(german video no subtitles) in the 1960's.There is one in the Nicki Lauda collection, I read about it and thought it was a typo. But I was wrong.
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Thought I had replied.
Didn't know about the ring gumming problem, thought if there would be issues were with the pumps. The VW engines were supposed to be fine on I used SVO as I was lazy and could get 20l for £15 so ran the 2.2 laguna (called chippy as it smelt like a chipshop) on that but used to go through halfords glowplugs in about 6 months a set. But then they were being replaced for free.
Bore gauge, that is posh isn't and old piston ring and feeler gauge enough for you ;) Had access to a scanner that I found fascinating as the accuracy was interesting as you could 'see' different manufactures tolerances. Lancia v4 tolerances were better than the ford/lotus pre crossflow blocks compered to the ford pre crossflow and crossflow block from around the late 60s, then manufacturing gets better at ford for the crossflow blocks used in formula ford.
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Rest of system happy running on whatever. Pump is super happy with its life!
Never thought of using an old piston, don't have any floating about either. Was i think £120+ vat (become a work tool now) which is obviously at the cheap end of a tool like that but im only ever gonna use it a few times.
Worked briefly in a metallurgy lab, they had some epic tools, made use of their mad money cmm a few times for checking stuff, the whole room it lived in was specially made from the founds up to have this specific machine put in it. What amazed me was how easy and quick you could get data out of it, the future! -
Sorry I didn't mean to be unpleasant but i find the lifestyle notion of elderly landrovers XXXX..
They are truly awful to drive and in practical terms only bought latterly as an alternative to japanese pickups for their towing capacity.
The new one looks like an improvement but it's a case of when will it breakdown rather than if.
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Haha.. Enjoy your car (truck?)
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Important to be able to stow your all-terrain skateboard on the roof
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When foods running low, the sun's going down and you are stranded far from any help, sometimes getting rad is your only option.
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Saw an immaculate, unmolested Lada Niva in the obligatory beige, thought it looked rather cool. csb
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Shark fins spotted in Old St, a 1960 series 62, Cadillac
I thought this had to be the longest production car ever made, just checked and no. Excluding limos and pick-ups, the Cadillac is 225 inches long, but the longest of the land yachts was apparently the 1973 Imperial LeBaron at 235.3 inches. But even that is eclipsed by a modern Rolls Royce Phantom at 235.5 inches. CSB.