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Austin Westminster was made to last.
A bloke had a '63 model in a cab firm in Chatham in the mid 70s. |
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now the westie was a beast to behold
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Me any my best mate used to dabble in 2nd hand cars for sale.
Best one without doubt was a Mk2 Jaguar. Had all sorts, Humber Snipe, Cortinas galore, Capris, Beetles, had a deisel Corsair - facking pig of a car, morris minor that fell to bits on the A2, an old Merc that got destroyed in a banger race, a Rover 90 - all aluminium body, couldn't remember all the cars as we had too many over the years. |
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Mk2 Jaguar ,lovely motor ,always thought gangsters were driving them
when i was a kid .. and didnt the old bill have them at one stage as well ? |
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lot of people buy them and restore them BC ..
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if i could afford the petrol Id love one :-(
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Back in the 70s one of the best cars I had was a Rover 3500s P6,for its time it was fast,and it did handle well,one of the best driving cars I had in the early 80s was a Ford Capri 2.8,I loved that car fast,but like so many of those I did write mine off.
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casemoney 07 Jan 01:17
lot of people buy them and restore them BC .. As a fellow lover of them, my honourable friend Orioles restores Jaguars as a hobby, and he will leave you in no doubt as to the cost of such a mission. 'It ain't cheap' is a rough summation. I drive a 1995 XJ40, which does its best to bankrupt me when it goes wrong, but I keep hanging in there. |
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i had a ford capri
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dad had a sunbeam rapier, hillman minx, ford cortina, morris marina and many others
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I love Triumph Stag and also Simitars, looked great but ran like cr@p
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another car I had at the time was a Jaguar xj6 the 4.2 series three,that was a nice car but a couple of years ago i drove one it drove like a antique,but it does get people looking at you,mine was silver about the best colour,and talking of people looking at you years ago my parents had a Silver Shadow,people used to give us the two fingers in that,how things have changed!
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My first XJ6 was a facking nightmare. I bought a J reg 2.8 model and the bodywork wasn't as light as it is these days. It shifted, no doubt about that, but I lived 50 miles away from work, and the petrol consumption was astronomical, apart from the mechanical problems. It died in London when the gearbox packed up. I had had enough of it by then, and scrapped it.
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the piston gobbler charlie!
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Old timer mechanic in a garage told me that.
I could hear a rattle so I took it to him. He put a stick of wood on the engine and his ear on the other end. ' Upper timing chain, 'got a radio ?' he said I said ' Of course it facking has.' He said ' Turn it up and ignore the rattle. I could repair it today and the bastid could go again tomorrow... and one more thing.....' ' What.' 'Do yourself a favour, get rid of this piece of sh1t, get a 4.2 model, because the way you drive (we obviously knew each other) you're going to blow number one piston right out of the engine' |
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A freind of mine had a 2.8 and decided to make it into a estate,so he got a old ford escort est,cut them both up welded the two together,when we got to see it he asked me what Ithought?A forking mess what a shame to do that to a nice car,he drove it around for a few months,people always commented on it,but it was a terrible thing to do after he got fed up with it and scrapped that one to.He called it "The Escuar".
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