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My first coon. My wife hated driving this with its column change manual and lack of power steering. And the one that eventually replaced it. Made it to 463,000km then got crashed one winter evening pulling out in front of a grey car with no lights in a stream of cars driven by normal people who know how to turn their lights on. travelled the majority of Australia in an EA wagon in 2001, fantastic car. Only time it ever let us down was when the water evaporated from the battery as we were crossing the Nullabor.
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Am I the only one who thinks that this all seems a little forced and fake? I remember the Mark Evans show, wreck rescue and it just seemed a little more genuine. don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of Edd but i just found some of it a little cringy, especially the last couple of scenes with the baby seat and the i in brackets. Maby I'm just getting old and cranky but I do think its a missed opportunity to not have more episodes of wreck rescue with Mark Evans.
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First cars I think of are the panther 6 and wolfrace sonic. Sorry can't seem to be able to post pictures.
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Congratulations luke, I finally gotten my fulvia on the road this week too.
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Feb 28, 2018 22:18:55 GMT
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As is at least one of the mods of this forum. Keep it on topic folks Serious question here. Not wishing to offend those whose dietary habits differ from the norm but it occurs to me to wonder whether vegans allow themselves to own / travel in vehicles with leather seats? a bit off topic but a great question, or even wear leather clothing. FWIW I have a fulvia that hasn't been moved in a couple of months and the tax is out for decades and even more comparable I have a Renault Avantime that hasn't been taxed, tested or moved in over a year which whilst I write this I feel a little sick about but would be mighty curse word off if someone had just decided to take it.
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Last Edit: Feb 28, 2018 22:19:33 GMT by kev13s
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Jan 19, 2018 18:48:37 GMT
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What annoys me is owning a very cheap and unremarkable car, but then finding out that just because Aston Martin and Lotus also ordered the same parts bin fittings from third party suppliers, the cost of replacement items is up in the £100's, even though they're cheap and often ugly bits of tat who's actual value is mere pennies. Ref: Scimitar SE5a rear lights. Ugly as sin. Awful plastic boxes. Cost for a decent original item replacement... hundreds, if you're lucky to find them. Try rebuilding a series 1 lancia fulvia, ignition switch indicator stalk door locks and the likes all shared with much more exotic Italian cars. I did get a buzz tho when I was looking into sterling moss's 250 swb at the weekend and recognise the switch gear.
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Got a phone call from a friend about 7 years ago telling me there was a car with a big V8 in it in a local scrap yard in co. Wicklow Ireland so I had to go over and investigate, what I found was a jenson interceptor which was complete but had a body like a lace curtain. I contemplated rescuing this car to harvest its parts because as I figured the large glass hatch alone would cover the expenses but when I got back the car was gone. I've also seen a rare lancia kappa coupe in there which some fool had condemned on the scrappage scheme.
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Dec 24, 2017 18:56:36 GMT
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Been in the same situation myself, having to give up a car that I’ve had for years, rebuilt everything on it etc. At the time I was really cut up about it. But it went to a good home and to be honest it was a relief when it went not having the problem any more. Don’t even think about it now. It had lots of memories attached to it, holidays, brought my son home from hospital etc but it’s just a car at the end of the day. I can always buy another one. Or something better in the future. Maybe not a popular opinion on a car forum but I speak from experience. But it's more than just a car, I lost my series 1 Land Rover because I needed the money for "more important things" and I never got over it, still kick myself 15 years later. That's why when we replaced the Renault avantime as a daily driver last year and the wife was bugging me to sell it on it was moved to a friends garage and hidden.
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Nov 25, 2017 21:25:32 GMT
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I have a 2003 Renault avantime that I've brought on trips abroad without trouble or fear, I'm nervous when I bring my 2012 Land Rover to the shops.
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Hi Luke, could you tel me what oil pressure you're car shows at idle. Got mine running this evening and the oil pressure shows 0 until you give her some rev's. I know it has oil pressure because it was running for an hour and a half, just curious as to what yours shows.
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Oct 29, 2017 11:04:42 GMT
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Always loved the lines of a Peugeot 306 convertible, converted hatchback or not.
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I'd Far rather manufacturers pulled out stuff like this than actually trying to run a profitable business by making cars that are all conventional and boring. Yep I agree 100% - when it turns out like this When it turns out like the Multipla I'd rather they just stuck to what they know. As an avantime owner there are plenty of details that belong in the other thread, a testament to its troubled development. But I love it for all its quirks.
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Was looking at a so called motor channel on YouTube where the presenter criticised the over use of circles and triangles in the design, didn't seem to understand the relevance.
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around 1999/2000, I was in no position to buy but I remember autotrader regularly having 70s lamborghinis for under £10k and Lancia evos for £5k. lost out on a delorean 10 years ago owned by a specialist for £12k.... its still painful. I remember about then buying a classic car mag that had a lancia stratos feature where the feature car was for sale in the classifieds for about €10,000, I was in the process of buying a Subaru Impreza for 9,000 at the time and had a good think about buying the stratos instead until my father discouraged me.
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That espace looks brilliant
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Last Edit: Jul 5, 2017 1:07:14 GMT by kev13s
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Had a beautiful 86" series 1 Land Rover that I took off the road to get a new bulkhead in. The rebuild took a little longer than expected and I sold it for what turned out to be drinking money for the World Cup 2002. The guy promised me first refusal if he ever wanted to sell again but when I went to look for it some years later he had sold it to someone else. Always going to regret that.
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That little moulded in lip on the edge of the tailgate of the MKIII Ford Grandad. It looks to my eye as if the design was finalised, and with 12 seconds to go someone shouts "aw sheet, its not aero enough", grabbed the nearest pencil, and scrawled it into the blueprints. French cars converted to RHD for the UK market - so many annoying niggles, from having the handbrake still mounted on the far side of the centre console, half the glove compartment missing because the fusebox is still there, or the shorter wiper blade left on what is now the drivers side. French car fans would call it character. My Renault avantime has a single door lock barrel which is on the passenger side as well as the bonnet release, come to think of it so does my freelander 2.
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Not able to post a picture but the steering wheel from a Ferrari 250, my mind the most beautiful steering wheel ever.
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Wooden steering wheels and wood dashboard and a key push start ignition. especially as it not too obvious. Also horn push and headlight flash in the centre of steering wheel.
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Jun 23, 2017 14:52:27 GMT
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Still calling a Glove box a Glove box bugs me when we don't even keep gloves in there... for like the last 80 years. They even do lockable Glove boxes to stop thieves from stealing the gloves that you haven't put in there. I've never put gloves in a Glove box and even if I did I'd forget that they were in there and be searching the house for hours looking for them. The Yanks must have some sort of cool name for it... 'Firearms stowerage Compartments'? Throughout the ages of the automobile the Glovebox has gone from: 1) useful; (1890's-1950's) where one obviously had a convenient place to keep ones driving accessories and hip flask. 2) Semi useful; (1960's- 1970's) where you could just about fit cassette tapes and that special rusty spanner in there along with all the random screws and bolts you found on the carpet. 3) Useless; (1990's-2000's) where it was a constant struggle to fit 3 CD's in there along with the Manual for the car, which all fell out anyway when the lid was opened. 4) Concealed rubbish bin; (2010>) Where now it just resembles the contents of a handbag, scrunched up letters from the school and the Sat nav that works when it feels like it. If you think that then surely the word dashboard must push you over the edge? Dashboard: a board in front of a carriage to stop mud being splashed (dashed) into the vehicle by the horse's hoofs Closest thing we have now would be the bulkhead, the dashboard is definitely not stopping mud! Erm... I think it could be by now in my rusty transit!!
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