Brian Damaged
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Apr 30, 2014 19:39:00 GMT
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still up for grabs fella? No, it's been mine for a month now. SUPERB car. I haven't bothered with a Reader's Rides thread or anything because it's ummm.....not very interesting, but I've racked up almost a thousand miles in it since I bought it. Had the cambelt/tensioner/waterpump done (peace of mind...) and a new radiator (precautionary, as it was looking a bit wooly), other than that it's needed nothing. Cracking daily hauler/rally marshalling barge that'll sit at 85 all day if you want and still do 50mpg on anything you care to put in the tank. AND it's entertaining to drive on the twisties as well. Brilliant.
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Brian Damaged
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Aye, Andy was blisteringly fast at MIRA last Saturday, taking top honours by just ten seconds after eight stages. No pics unfortunately as cameras are banned at MIRA for obvious reasons....apart from this one. We take our marshalling seriously in the Gung-Ho Rally Team.
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 26, 2014 22:08:06 GMT
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the silver escort is that wil bach? phf 346t nice pics No, Paul King. Fellow GHRT member Gary Whittington sat alongside him for three events early this season (Brands Hatch, Goodwood and Bovington), and said the car was incredibly quick. Mind you with over 310bhp......
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 25, 2014 21:26:41 GMT
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The shell's getting a bit long in the tooth now after 15 years of competition, but will live on as a plaything/road car when the new one's finished next year.Great thread and superb car What's the story with the new car.... Another Sunbeam??? Yeah, another Series 2. It's being prepped down in South Wales at the minute. Full-on welded-in cage and everything. Gung-Ho Rally Team HQ is in Droitwich.
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Brian Damaged
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That's going to be a nice car when it's done. XEs in Sunbeams are great fun. Here's my mate's.. Gennie Ti shell that was built by Safety Devices many years ago and was on display at their HQ near Cambridge for ages before being rallied, I don't think it's ever been a road car. Runs a 250bhp Toovey-built XE on TB's through a Quaife six-speed sequential Type 9 into a full Atlas rear end (hence the Carlos Fandango rear arches, made by grafting two sets of Sunbeam 'Forest' arches together). Not a front-runner any more (some of the lads running big-bore big-money XE engines are pushing out over 300bhp now) but still great fun. I've driven it a couple of times and it's got way more grunt than I have ability to control it. The shell's getting a bit long in the tooth now after 15 years of competition, but will live on as a plaything/road car when the new one's finished next year. Bookmarked, I don't think you're that far from us are you?
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Brian Damaged
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Cracking jokes, drinking coffee, smerking tabs and talking rally cars, whilst the boys get the Sunbeam ready for the TSH Stages down in Cornwall three weeks from now.
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 21, 2014 15:01:52 GMT
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Pigeonholes? They're for pigeons.
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 13, 2014 22:33:29 GMT
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Lovely set of pics. I'll have the three-wheeling Alfa, please!!
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Brian Damaged
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Great pictures, thanks for posting. Is there anything similar done in Coventry other than the transport museum? I don't think there is, but there should be. I'd have somewhere to take my 306 then.
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 12, 2014 19:56:28 GMT
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the heritage centre gaydon 16-06-2002 These were actually built over here. IHI had a factory in Doncaster between 1938-2007 building tractors, but marketed the Loadstar in the UK between 1965-67. Power came from Perkins if I remember correctly.
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 12, 2014 17:09:41 GMT
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 11, 2014 18:52:55 GMT
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Look like phase 2 Citroen BX/Xantia/Peugeot 306 steels to me, I've got a set up the side of the house!!
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Brian Damaged
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Drop it off at the local car wash, give the keys to any one of three very pleasant Eastern European chappies, go and have breakfast, come back, give them £20, go home. Job done. expensive round your way, as a wash wax and polish (by some polish) up North is £6 No, that's a full valet, dashboard shine, vacuum, mats out and cleaned, underside cleaned, wheel/tyre dressing, the works. Obviously that's on the wife's car, not mine. That gets cleaned when it rains. Expensive or not, it's popular. When I dropped it off at 8.30 this morning there was already half a dozen motors lined up, when I picked it up there was a queue out of the car park.
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Brian Damaged
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Drop it off at the local car wash, give the keys to any one of three very pleasant Eastern European chappies, go and have breakfast, come back, give them £20, go home.
Job done.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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You win some, you lose some. I bought an 1800 Cav off a guy on here in 2010, lasted all of four weeks before running its big-ends one afternoon on the M5. No biggie, didn't make a fuss about it, just cashed the tax in and sent the rest over the bridge. The white Xantia I also bought off here afterwards for half as much lasted almost 18 months with nay a spanner laid on it before it died. When buying a snotter, set yourself a limit of the equivalent of a week's wages, use 'em till they die and throw 'em away. In the last ten years I bet I've only really spent about £2k on dailies, and got probably half that back when I've sold or scrapped them. Which leaves more money to play with interesting old shoooooite. Or guitars, in my case.
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 26, 2014 22:05:12 GMT
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PM'd.
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 23, 2014 20:00:06 GMT
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This floated my boat on Flickr this week: Know nothing about it, just like the look. More from Opel Fruits here.
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 20, 2014 22:47:38 GMT
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8v 2-litre Vauxhall/slushbox from a dead Carlton. Keep it simple, keep it GM, keep it cheap. 115bhp means you won't be struggling for power, and you won't be shovelling half the day's takings into the fuel tank.
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 11, 2014 19:49:53 GMT
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You may well have struck gold there with that, it's very very tidy and the Mardi Gras had a very comfortable set of seats in from memory (I've had several oil-burner 205's and a 1600 Auto Mardi Gras). Comfortable (outrageously so for such a small car) and economical mile-munchers. If it's got PAS you're onto an even bigger winner!!!!
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