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So far I have yet to see anything on this thread that's old & slow - I mean proper old & slow - going slow in a vintage is the new going fast - you might not think so but these motors are a lot more fun than most people give them credit for so also on my list along with a 30's bus (people carrying type not the slang word type or worse still a type 2) is one of these I agree with everything you say... I hope one day to take care and enjoy a 1920's or 30's vehicle. For me though they don't belong here because this is about stuff we might be ashamed of liking and not willing to admit to... and frankly I don't think many people would say there is anything to be embarrassed about fine fine old machines like this. I was at a classic car event in Sussex this summer and got talking to a bloke who had turned up in a 1920's car... pick up truck style thing. I really wish I hadn't been quite so fascinated by what he was telling me and showing me because I was so entranced by it all I completely forgot to take any pictures or make note of what the car actually was. It was a Ford. It was in authentic, unrestored condition and the owner spent ages talking em through it all and it was utterly fascinating. Each plug had its own coil box (I think they were called tremble coils) and each was a hand made, dovetail jointed wooden box that simply dropped into a shelf at the side of the engine. That meant that with the straight six engine running I could lift out any combination of coil boxes I liked (the just lifted out, they weren't fixed) and the engine would continue running on the remaining cylinders with no fuss. The instrumentation inside the car all LOOKED normal, but wasn't. What looked like a gear stick was something else. What looked like a three pedal box was not in fact a clutch, brake and accelerator... they were different things. The whole thing worked in a profoundly different way, but it worked absolutely fine, he used it as a daily driver. Utterly mindblowing really. I wouldn't classify anything like this as a dirty automotive desire! You wouldn't but many, many others do - admit to wanting to own one of these and 99% of the motoring public would have you hanged and your car scrapped - even some of the later classic boys don't like them - they don't go quick enough and they hold everybody else up - they are seen has an inconvenience and not the wonderful example of our motoring heritage that they are - said modern motorist could be at there planned destination 3 nano seconds earlier if it weren't for the 1930's thing trundling down the road at 32.6 MPH flat out - so with the exception of this thread and a few others that know me I will continue to treat it has my 'Dirty Automotive Desire'
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Last Edit: Jan 5, 2018 14:00:23 GMT by Deleted
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Half of these aren't even remotely dirty! For maximum sickness I really want to do a Hyundai Atoz... WHAT A GEM! Then give it this kind of treatment...
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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misteralz
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I may drive a Volkswagen, but I'm scene tax exempt!
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Bear with me on this one... Yeah, it's a Skoda Citigo. The base could also be the Lower Saxon one or the Catalan one, it's not important. Because I've identified a gap in the lineup that needs filled. The Bavarian one. I'd build it into an Audi A1 if Audi weren't using that handle for their Polo-based supermini, so I guess I'd need to build an Audi A0.5.
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Growing up in the 70s and 80s I always loved Old recovery trucks ...yes please
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Last Edit: Jan 5, 2018 17:42:10 GMT by Mercdan68
Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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YES! I love old recovery trucks. Been lusting after a Bedford J-Type for a number of years now.
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i keep looking at old vauxhall luxo barges on ebay, like FD ventoras. dirty desire as i know it will be made of P40 and have zero parts availability and i also keep looking at bedford CF and CF2 beavertails, kind of whimsical retro track day transporter for my vauxhalls. top speed of about 50 unladen, with a tonne of astra on the back would more than qualify for @grumpynorthener slow
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Last Edit: Jan 5, 2018 21:51:12 GMT by darrenh
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I would very much like one of these: I would like to give it the biggest, most powerful engine I could find, then do burnouts at bus stops.
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I would very much like one of these: I would like to give it the biggest, most powerful engine I could find, then do burnouts at bus stops. There's certainly enough room to twin engine it
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I would very much like one of these: I would like to give it the biggest, most powerful engine I could find, then do burnouts at bus stops. There's certainly enough room to twin engine it I wonder if you could fit the engine from an Inter-City 125 in it?? Too much maybe?
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Maybe not enough room to fit a Valenta V12 but would be interesting to see someone try.
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Someone make it work... Got these details from Wikipedia:
Engine: 2x 2,250 bhp (1,678 kW)
Tractive effort Maximum: 2x 17,980 lbf (80.0 kN)
Continuous: 2x 10,340 lbf (46.0 kN) @64.5 mph (104 km/h)
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Ever since watching Breaking Bad a few months ago, I really want a Pontiac Aztek. Ugly as sin, but there's some part of me that just really, really fancies one. Didn't know all that. It's horrifyingly awesome, actually I'll add it to my list of shame...
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ivangt6
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Not particularly automotive but I quite fancy having one of those stationary engines. I wouldn't even have it doing anything useful, I'd just have it to start it up occasionally so I can watch it go put put put put pft put put pfft put put put put put pft put putput put put put
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1979 Mini 1000 1972 Triumph GT6 2007 VW Golf GTi 1979 VW T25 Leisuredrive 1988 Range Rover Vogue SE
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Not particularly automotive but I quite fancy having one of those stationary engines. I wouldn't even have it doing anything useful, I'd just have it to start it up occasionally so I can watch it go put put put put pft put put pfft put put put put put pft put putput put put put I've got one of the Jowett branded versions But mine goes: Putter - Putter Cough - Cough Putter Putter Put Cough Cough Half a Cough Very weak cough Backfires (loudly) Then stalls
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Milord
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This. Buick Special from 1962. The shape is just stunning! Sadly not easy to find in Europe.
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Currently: BMW E46 320i Touring BMW E34 525TDS Touring VW T3 panel van 1.6d Opel Kadett C1 Caravan 1.2 Fiat 411R
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That would look ok if they mended the suspension!
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69 Plymouth Fury Convertible 75 Range Rover 2 door 82 Range Rover 4 door 84 Range Rover 4 door 78 Datsun 120Y 2 door 78 Datsun 120Y Coupe 78 Datsun 620 Pickup 81 Datsun Urvan E23 86 Datsun Vanette van 98 Electric Citroen Berlingo 00 Electric Peugeot Partner 02 Electric Citroen Berlingo 76 Honda C50 04 Berlingo Multispace petrol 07 Land Rover 130 15 Nissan E-NV200 15 Fiat Ducato
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ivangt6 @grumpynorthener up until a steam show last year, hit and miss was just my love life and or BMI
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Oh.. another one.. Pickup trucks, absolutely love them & have absolutely no need for one lol. Not talking the latest greatest, lifted stuff. I'm talking Old farm trucks and minitrucks lol. Normal people don't seem to like them. My old one stood out like a sore thumb in works car park lol
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Last Edit: Jan 8, 2018 16:07:13 GMT by joem83
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... Didn't know all that. ... Me neither. But still all that funny camping gear is no excuse for its shape with the whole conglomeration of wrongness, as if a six year old designed it. Maybe a cheap alternative to similarly shaped things like nissans joke or bmws x6 - which I wouldn´t want to own either. looks like a really bad photoshop or that each panel was designed by a different person , on different continents , all with minging hangovers (or cataract's)!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Me neither. But still all that funny camping gear is no excuse for its shape with the whole conglomeration of wrongness, as if a six year old designed it. Maybe a cheap alternative to similarly shaped things like nissans joke or bmws x6 - which I wouldn´t want to own either. looks like a really bad photoshop or that each panel was designed by a different person , on different continents , all with minging hangovers (or cataract's)! I think it's something that one of the 2 year old's in kindergarten designed - while placed in handcuffs behind their backs and blind folded by the older brother - I also think that it's so dam ugly that the ugliness alone acts has the inbuilt anti theft device
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Last Edit: Jan 9, 2018 0:07:10 GMT by Deleted
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