Often the way. I had a Lancia once that I really wish I'd kept. Mind you, got to know all the Little Chefs on the route back home while owning it - good place to break down and be able to stop in the warm with a cup of tea, while waiting for the RAC breakdown driver, some of whomI ended up on first name terms with!1987 Ford Escort 1.6 Turbo RS 3dr | eBay
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I sold my RS Turbo for £800 just to get it off the drive when I needed something more reliable. Mint bodywork as well.
Now they are going for 10-15k!!
Thought you may have learnt in a Model T HH?
And ridiculously you can apparently pick up a decent one up for less than a Sierra Cosworth?!
@Nick, I had the most fabulous old car back in the early 1980's A Vauxhall Cresta. Column change gears, leather bench seats, overdrive. She was a beauty! But, the gears started slipping and it needed a new clutch. Couldn't afford it at the time so sold it for about £200. Gutted! I still have a memory of it though.1987 Ford Escort 1.6 Turbo RS 3dr | eBay
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I sold my RS Turbo for £800 just to get it off the drive when I needed something more reliable. Mint bodywork as well.
Now they are going for 10-15k!!
Wonderful old barge. Mate of mine bought one to learn in and asked me to pick it up for him. I'd only just passed my test in a 100E Pop (all I'd ever driven) and promptly ran over the kerb on the first two corners. It felt effin' huge!
My dad had a later model cresta & me and my 2 brothers loved it because we could all sit in the front!!
Gerry Marshall raced a Triplex Capri in the 70s and his main mechanic, John Westwood, lived just up the road from us. My brother went with John loads of times to watch them, I went once to Silverstone once and couldn't believe how loud the racing was.I love these, rare as hen's teeth nowadays. I borrowed a mate's 2.3 Viva for a while, even rarer, but basically the same car.
If you get a chance, have a look on YouTube for Gerry Marshall. I never knew much about racing, but he used to drive these sideways for a living before drifting had even been thought of...
I think the E type looks are overrated and the MK1 & MK2 Jags are beautiful.
I purposely didn't pick a Mk1 or Mk2 Jaguar as they are too obvious, as is an Aston DB6, and I was hypothetically keeping to a budget of up to £30k. Would I have a Mk1/Mk2/DB6?, too bloody right I wouldI completely agree, but as with all things it's each to their own I suppose.
Big flashy sports cars always feel a bit ostentatious to me, but I've always liked understated fast saloons.
Jag, imho, were the kings of this for a while... I'd still have an E-Type if one was forced on me of course.
So first instincts were right.Can you throw an Austin Apache in the container while you're at it..?
Enzo Ferrari called it the most beautiful car in the world..... and I agree
No allegro in there but yeah, an 1100 with a boot.
Enzo Ferrari called it the most beautiful car in the world..... and I agree
but, it’s all down to personal choice I guess.
you’re right that the mk1 & mk2’s are beautiful though, just not up to the e-type level of beauty
Yeah, Michelotti designed them both. I remember seeing them in Spain (Austin Victoria, there) and they do actually look pretty good.I'd honestly never heard of these. The twin headlight version is a good looking thing, imho, kind of like a shrunken 2.5PI. I'll add it to the list
I vaguely recall SA and Australia did some interesting things with our motors, sticking V8s into things like Cortinas and Sierras, if I recall correctly.
I suppose it's something to do with the fact that you don't tend to get eaten by predators or die of thirst if your 1.3 leaves you at the side of the road over here.
Remember Lucas ignition components? Hello darkness, my old friend
Forerunner of the SD1 SERIES over here?Yeah, Michelotti designed them both. I remember seeing them in Spain (Austin Victoria, there) and they do actually look pretty good.
One large engined nonsense Australia did was in the Chrysler 180 (renamed Centura). 4 litre effort in that, styling rumoured to be what it was supposed to look like when it was slated as a Humber.
BL's greatest crime of all was designing lots of different cars all over the place, and not adapting them in return for their home, captive market. Here's a monster, the Leyland P76. Somewhere, with some fine tuning and anglicising of the front, there was a big Rover in there...
Bigger than that. Could have slotted in above the P6. Problem is, then it would have been seen as internal competition for Jaguar, but there was a market for a solidly built, large car... if we ignore oil crises, anyway
Yeah, Michelotti designed them both. I remember seeing them in Spain (Austin Victoria, there) and they do actually look pretty good.
One large engined nonsense Australia did was in the Chrysler 180 (renamed Centura). 4 litre effort in that, styling rumoured to be what it was supposed to look like when it was slated as a Humber.
BL's greatest crime of all was designing lots of different cars all over the place, and not adapting them in return for their home, captive market. Here's a monster, the Leyland P76. Somewhere, with some fine tuning and anglicising of the front, there was a big Rover in there...
Two sides of the same coin. As per above, why bother with an Allegro or Marina, when you've adapted an existing design for foreign markets that could be tooled up as a stopgap for 3-4 years, until you've done a proper job of an 1100 replacement?
