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I'll sort some out after xmas – it's been dry-stored for the last 10+ years so not sure what degree of recommissioning it needs. Dark metallic blue, cream leather upholstery. It was replaced as my dad's motorway cruiser but he didn't have the heart to get rid of it as it was so lovely and there was zero market for them at the time, so it's been sitting under a sheet in the garage ever since. It's now time to sell the house and it's not moving with them as there's an automotive graveyard at the other end already so whether there's a market for them is irrelevant, I think it's just about saving something nice from being scrapped.
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We're moving in there in January while we wait for a house in the SW to pop up. They're in Dorset full time now, and once we're that way they'll never come back here so the garage either needs to be cleared or he needs to find a barn somewhere SW to move it all to. If he does that he'll never get around to sorting it all out. I'm sure there's some interesting things in there among the piles of more mundane bits n bobs, but I wouldn't know them if I saw them.
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Haha you'll need to find someone else's garage to rummage in to find one of those. I am slowly getting somewhere with sorting one of the other ones out though, in that Step 1: Check he is amenable to the idea is complete. Problem is it can't get out of the garage until the BMW is out of the way.
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The beast has arrived, 59BHP 💪
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The combination of gasworks, palm tree and steel wheels is rather evocative. Not sure what of though!
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still a lot of money, but about as cheap as fia racers get. so nice. mgb running gear, but you can use crossflow alloy head and twin webers. like a povv tvr
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They are considerably better on the eye than the 'actually a ford cortina/capri' Invader mk3, although maybe everyone will come around to slightly odd 70s styling in due course and they'll look great.
Questionable estate for @dammit:
The owners club is surprisingly strong – I spotted one in a traffic jam on the A35 about 20 cars ahead of me last time I drove to Devon. Sent a pic to my dad and by the time we'd arrived I'd been forwarded a long email chain confirming my spot with the owner, details of the car, where it was going and the fact that it had actually arrived without incident(!). Basically aged fixie skidders.
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RE wheels falling off; in August 1999 I was driving down the M5 in the pissing rain towards Mousehole to see the eclipse when we spotted a truck wheel and tyre bouncing gracefully towards us on the other side of the motorway, missed us by a matter of metres and boinged right over us onto the front windscreen of a Volvo 340 (the quintessential vicars car). The traffic was just slow enough for us to establish the occupants weren't harmed (hand of god?) but it was terrifying. The wheel bounced off the Volvo and into a field where I assume it came to a rest. That's unconfirmed though, it might have gone off elsewhere in search of more Volvo 340s.... thinking about it you don't see many of them around anymore
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Nope. Armco. Managed to bend a Ford English axle casing from an Escort Mk2 in the impact. It was quite a shunt. And in testing too...