Brian Damaged
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First outing in too long for the Gung-Ho mob, stupid o'clock this morning saw us heading the 120-odd miles into South Wales for the Tour Of Epynt Rally, organised by Port Talbot Motor Club and held in glorious unseasonal sunshine on the Epynt Military Ranges near Llandovery. I broke my trusty Nikon out from its winter hibernation, hope you enjoy looking at these pics as much as I did taking them. I'll let the pics do the talking, it was a fabulous day. GORGEOUS Mk1 RS2000. Mk2 four-door on the lockstops. Yet another Mk2 (this could get monotonous if you don't like Escorts....) See what I mean? It wasn't ALL blue oval..... Just most of it. See? I manage to photograph something non-Ford, and he's in the process of binning it. Tasty HSR-kitted Chevette. Back to the Escorts. I love to see an Escort exiting a corner sat on it's ar*e, waving a front wheel at the sky. ...or a Nova cocking a rear wheel in the air. The weather was incredible. I've actually burned my face! Car 0 (which was the Course Car) was this gorgeous Triumph TR8. Mk2 scaring the assembled motorsport media. Whoops!! Cracking day out, in excellent company.
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Brian Damaged
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Urgently needed for this: We're supposed to be using it on the Moonbeam rally next saturday night and the advance/retard unit's gone tits-up. Anyone got either the unit or a complete three-bolt dizzy? (Two-bolt's the wrong one). Thanks in fervent anticipation.....
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Brian Damaged
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This is an absolute game-changer as far as mainland British motorsport is concerned, whatever the discipline.
Come on people, use the time you'd spend whinging about T*p G*ar or free road tax and do something positive!
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Brian Damaged
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Morgan Factory [pics]Brian Damaged
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I was at the Morgan factory one morning a few years back waiting for Goods-In to open so I could deliver some wings (all 'Traditional' Morgans have wings made by Superform, and have done since 1997), when a couple of the lads out of the main Assembly Shop came out to pick a chassis from the area they are stored in (the chassis are galvanised, and bought-in). They looked a bit quizzically at me when I offered to help carry it in, until I explained that I just wanted to be first to start someone's Mog on its' journey to becoming a finished car. Someone, somewhere in the world is tooling round in one, and I set it on its' merry way. Not many cars get you like that.
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Brian Damaged
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It does look good. And a nice price for a late W124. How manŷ owners has she had? I take the E320 badging was someone thinking they were improving the car's image? That lump is awful and more thirsty than the V8 range It does look the part, thats for sure. I've just checked the V5 and its had 6 previous owners (3 of them on here) 1 of the previous owners fitted the badge, I was planning to remove it but didn't get around to it. Was on there when I bought it, so Not Guilty. I owned it for 15 months before Craig bought it off me last August, and it's a most agreeable place to spend time travelling anywhere. GLWTS, were it not for me being back playing in bands again and needing something to lug a dirty great bass rig around in, I'd happily buy it back in a heartbeat. Lovely, lovely car and an absolute bargain at that money.
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Brian Damaged
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Feb 22, 2014 13:27:56 GMT
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Nice to see Maguires' old DAF here. Two of my best mates drove V8 Scanias for them in the early 2000's. In fact one of them took part in the cortege of local hauliers' wagons at Steve Maguire's funeral in late 2012 (Toby's driving the Countrywide Scania in this pic) Toby drove their much-photographed Scania V8 T-Cab, pictured here:
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Brian Damaged
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bedford cf Brian Damaged
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Feb 19, 2014 13:22:21 GMT
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Those bumpers/lights make it later than 1978. Either a facelifted CF or a CF2 from the early 80s. If its got a slant-four in either 1978cc or 2279cc it's a facelift. If its got an upright Opel 2-litre in it it's a CF2. Post-1980 though in any case.
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Brian Damaged
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My dads Old Pics - MANBrian Damaged
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Feb 13, 2014 23:05:48 GMT
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I worked for a major sportswear retail group (now sadly defunct) for 14 years, our fleet of 7.5-tonners was exclusively Iveco-Ford with the exception of one MAN 8-163. I drove it daily for a year, always preferred it to the Iveco. Much softer on the suspension, smoother to drive (despite having a turbo four-pot when most small trucks were still six-cylinder) and faster (this was pre-speed limiters on 7.5 tonners). 75mph all day without breaking a sweat. The only fault I found with them was that they would eat brake discs.....that and the bed (all our trucks were sleeper cabs, I did Scotland and back twice a week) used to suffer with heat soak from the engine. Great in winter, a PITA in summer. N297RKV I salute you.
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Brian Damaged
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If you can get on top of the rot, the Honda-engined 213 was a fine car. One of my mates bought a one OAP owner 213 back in the 90s and ran it daily for 3 years without a single issue.
The Austin-Rover engined 216 was a dog.
Later 200/400 series was a completely different animal.
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Brian Damaged
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Feb 12, 2014 21:19:40 GMT
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Air cooled iirc, there was a snow plough like the one in the pic above ran by Longthornes of Hebden, N Yorks. It sounded like a combine harvester, you could hear it miles away on a still night. Maggie V8's were the stuff of legend. Iveco stuck with the engine for ages, by the end of the 1980s they'd managed to wring 500bhp out of it. Unfortunately the cabs were made of Alka-Seltzer so few survived beyond the mid/late 90's, by which time they'd been superceded by the Iveco Euro series.
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Brian Damaged
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The 'NUY' Worcestershire registration on the green/white Maxiload suggests it could be ex-Doultons of Redditch. They had a big contract to shift stuff out of High Duty Alloys which was just down the road from where I grew up. Prior to 1968 we lived on the main road out of Redditch towards Bromsgrove and the M5, and my bedroom faced out onto it.....up to about 4 years old, there was literally a bellowing two-stroke TS3 Commer passing my bedroom window every fibe minutes or so 24/7. Check this out for awesome. Commer TS3 unsilenced
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Brian Damaged
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Superb!!! That LAD-cabbed livestock transporter of Alf Arrowsmith was still working for a living in the early 2000's, I used to see it on the A5 around Shrewsbury regularly when I was driving for Wisepenny's.
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Brian Damaged
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Brian Damaged
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I've posted this one before, I'm sure. That's me (aged 2yrs 8 months) sat on the bonnet whilst Daddy Damaged looks sullen, stood by his '58 Zephyr. Of more significance is Daddy D's monumental quiff....bear in mind the date of the picture (June 1967) and the fact that Jimi Hendrix had just lain waste to the Monterey Pop Festival and The Beatles had just released 'Sgt.Pepper'....and there's pops aged just 22 and already looking like a Man Out Of Time. One of my treasured posessions for that very reason.
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Brian Damaged
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The 'firm ride' will be borked suspension spheres. Cheap fix (about £100 for all four). Or just ignore it and carry on....my last Xant had the same trouble, I ran it for a year with FUBARd spheres learning to brace myself when going over big bumps. Xantias shouldn't 'sink' overnight, post-1994 Xantias are fitted with anti-sink valves to stop it happening. Hope someone makes use of it, they are great cars and that one sounds like it may just have loads of life left in it. GLWTS.
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Brian Damaged
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Nostalgia's a wonderful thing. I'm lucky enough to have been driving for over thirty years now, and am old enough to remember Allegros and their 1970's competitors when they were all just average suburban driveway fodder. They were no better or worse than the Escorts and Vivas of the time, in fact in certain respects they were better. They certainly didn't dissolve as fast as Escorts did (and more importantly didn't refuse to start at the first hint of a damp morning...my overriding memory of teenage lies-in is the sound of various neighbours attempting to coax wheezing, asthmatic lumps of Crossflow pig-iron into action) or suffer the amall Vauxhall's innumerable gearbox/driveline maladies. I'll admit to a bit of bias, growing up as I did a stone's throw from Longbridge. That also meant that there was a helluva lot of BL tin knocking about when I first passed my test, making it cheap to buy second-hand. I never owned one, but plenty of people I knew did. I think the Allegro's place in the history books is assured, because of (rather than despite) their rather ill-deserved reputation. Nobody can deny that BL had a torrid time in the 1970's, it's well-documented. But the Allegro wasn't anywhere near as hopeless as the naysayers would have you believe. I'll have an early 3dr 1300 Deluxe please, in Glacier White with navy vinyl seats.
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Brian Damaged
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What this thread really, really needs. Is cats.
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Brian Damaged
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Jan 31, 2014 14:03:53 GMT
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I've stood in the very spot where the bulk of this movie was filmed, on W.Main Street in Mesa, Arizona. As you can see it's changed a bit in 34 years, Darner Auto Center doubles as Roy.L.Fuchs garage for the movie and has only quite recently closed its doors. What was the vacant lot where New Deal Used Cars was situated in the movie is now the apartment complex you can see on the left. IIRC they were building this when I visited in 1995. Great film, worth watching wether you've seen it before or not.
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Brian Damaged
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Jan 19, 2014 11:07:23 GMT
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