MR TIKI
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Oct 10, 2007 10:31:50 GMT
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Found these in Mother's attic.this was my first car.back in 1988 you could'nt even give these barges away.my Dad managed to though,he gave it to me.When I got it, it was bronze and had all the toys.I at the time was studying art and going to music festivals all over the country. painted by hand with MOD desert camo that my uncle got from his job at the local tank factory THE TANK was born. its hydro-gaz suspension ment I was always playing with the ride height and swopping wheels. it scraped'n'sparked sometimes during its scrubliner phase one year on the way to Glastonbury festival I pulled a big crowd while I painted this sun on the bonnet with rattle-cans in a service station. the body was pretty rusty and I used to patch it with tin-plate,pop rivets and sealer.the spoked wheels were Weller from a jago jeep that a friend scrapped and all those lights on the roof were wired to the fog lights.It used to light up like christmas! ;D. for sounds it had a cassette deck and a dash top 8 track with huge wooden cased lounge steakers in the boot.I even went to Scotland and back without a hitch for the fringe festival.despite how it looked it was mechanicaly sound and a luxurious ride,oh happy days! ;D Until this......... on a cold and wet October night I lost control on a bend having hit a bank of leaves.Instead of turning the corner I went off the side of a hill down a ditch through a tree and then got stopped by an even bigger one! Thanks to its Barge like structure I climbed out with only a cut to the head which remains a scar today. I still think these are under rated and very cool,any of you got one?
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Last Edit: Oct 10, 2007 12:43:35 GMT by MR TIKI
Boldly driving faster than a tin worm can wiggle.
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Oct 10, 2007 10:37:02 GMT
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MR TIKI
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Oct 10, 2007 10:42:46 GMT
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Boldly driving faster than a tin worm can wiggle.
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Oct 10, 2007 10:44:59 GMT
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kustom paint skillzorZ
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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MR TIKI
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Oct 10, 2007 10:50:15 GMT
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are the pictures up yet?
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Boldly driving faster than a tin worm can wiggle.
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Oct 10, 2007 10:56:30 GMT
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yep, oh I want a Princess! Camo in 1988! before Nev was even born!
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Nathan
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Austin Princess 'THE TANK' Nathan
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Oct 10, 2007 11:03:06 GMT
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I am looking at these as a sort of winter retro, as i am kind of going off the Capri thing.
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MR TIKI
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Oct 10, 2007 11:16:37 GMT
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how they are ment to look!
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Boldly driving faster than a tin worm can wiggle.
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Oct 10, 2007 11:43:59 GMT
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I'm sure I remember seeing a camo-painted one down at Trevelgue on the Run To The Sun back in 1992/1993-ish. Was that yours??
I had one in 1990, a really tidy 2000HL in Pageant Blue. It cost me £40 off a neighbour and about a tenner to get it through an MOT, then I used it for 6 months before buying an MGB, when I splurged it thru Bromsgrove Motor Auctions and got about £100 for it.
They were better cars than anyone would have you believe, only the lack of a fifth gear stopped them from being fantastic motorway mile-munchers.
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MR TIKI
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Oct 10, 2007 11:52:23 GMT
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;D that was me! I won a mud bogging race against a beach buggy which was great fun at the time and then I had to spend all afternoon digging baked in mud out of the engine bay ! I think it was '92
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Last Edit: Oct 10, 2007 11:57:32 GMT by MR TIKI
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Oct 10, 2007 12:17:05 GMT
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;D that was me! I won a mud bogging race against a beach buggy which was great fun at the time and then I had to spend all afternoon digging baked in mud out of the engine bay ! I think it was '92 Ahh...if it was mud it was definitely 1993. That's the year they put everyone in tents in the field behind the clubhouse, into which drained all the surrounding fields. EVERYTHING was up to the axles, all you could hear across the site was the sound of tortured flat-fours trying to escape the quagmire. IIRC in the end they had to call in the local Land Rover club to pull everything on and off the field! I'm so glad we had a caravan.
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Oct 10, 2007 13:43:03 GMT
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I believe that was the year we used the truckman top of my old pickup to sledge down the muddy hill and broke it, which was a pain as i was sleeping in the back of the truck. :S I had a Maxi, you could put it on full lock and leave it ticking over in first gear and it would go run and round by itself for hours, the seats all folded down and made a double bed, ideal for a young lad especially as it had a webasto roof so you could lay back and watch the stars. princesses not have 5 gears? I'm pretty sure the maxi did
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Oct 10, 2007 14:10:29 GMT
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The Maxi, the Allegro 1500 and 1750 and probably the 4 cylinder Princesses had the 5 speed box with its awful cable shift, but the 6 cylinder princesses had a 4 speed. Spotters tip - round headlights == 4 cylinder princess, big rectangular ones like the camo one above == 6 cylinder.
A very good friend of mine has a 6 cylinder Princess. 4 speed doesn't matter too much, they're amazing cars. Think of it as the size of a Roller with the handling of a Mini.
If you see a 6 cylinder Princess, buy it. If you don't like it, I'm sure you can find someone who does.
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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klunk
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Oct 10, 2007 15:35:21 GMT
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I remember one of the lads at school's dad had one, but for some weird reason it had absolutely no suspension. Something had gone wrong with the hydrospastic and it was rock hard solid. I went to school on the Isle of Wight, so it wasn't like any of the cars had to go very far, so I think they just kept using it 'til it broke.
Those were the days........aaarrrggghhhh, cue phsycadelic wibble of the screen....etc etc.
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Oct 10, 2007 16:21:21 GMT
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I had a 6 clyinder princess and it was FAAAAAAST. Id love to own another one day, not a rot box though! Outstanding value at the moment.
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.
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Oct 10, 2007 17:49:25 GMT
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The Maxi, the Allegro 1500 and 1750 and probably the 4 cylinder Princesses had the 5 speed box with its awful cable shift, but the 6 cylinder princesses had a 4 speed. Spotters tip - round headlights == 4 cylinder princess, big rectangular ones like the camo one above == 6 cylinder. A very good friend of mine has a 6 cylinder Princess. 4 speed doesn't matter too much, they're amazing cars. Think of it as the size of a Roller with the handling of a Mini. If you see a 6 cylinder Princess, buy it. If you don't like it, I'm sure you can find someone who does. You have to love 1970's BL and their perverse sense of logic. Build a mid-sized car and develop an all-new 5-speed box for it. 5 years later design a new executive express, and..... "Shall we put the 5-speed gearbox in it Skip??' "Ah b0ll0cks to it, put the 4-speed in" It wouldn't have been so bad if it'd had significantly better change quality, but both cars IIRC had gearchanges like stirring a bucket of gritty p00 with a knitting-needle. Almost makes me proud to say 'Ich Bein Ein Midlander'.
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impmann
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Oct 10, 2007 19:13:46 GMT
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I had an Ambassador - the Princess with the hatch that slammed on your head each time you went to use it. Wonderful thing. Sadly mine ended its days as a minicab in North London in around 1990
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Just cos something is good for you doesn't mean its good for everyone - for example Marmite does not make good Dog Food.
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Oct 10, 2007 19:27:15 GMT
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That looks fantastic !
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Oct 10, 2007 20:09:49 GMT
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i had an ambassador 2.0 hls as my first car! deep red with a cream interior. i must admit i was deeply embarresed when dad brought that one home. it was a fantastic thing tho ;D i later on bought a maxi 1750 mk1. id have another tomorow
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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Oct 10, 2007 20:14:56 GMT
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Me and my Ambo' , about '92 IIRC... Note that I am wearing the classic uniform of the 80's A-R owner ;D It was probably the first 'modern' car that I owned... Very comfy, and the handling was greatly improved by tightening the front hub nuts up to the correct 150 lbs/ft instead of them being finger tight...
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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