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My dad's cars as follows;
195? Standard 10, his first car. I remember this being so rusty he was afraid to wash it. 1970 Isuzu Bellet (purchased new replacing worn out Standard 10 shortly before I started school) 1976 Toyota Corona (purchased in 1980, replacing Bellet) 1974 Mazda B1600 (we became a two vehicle family at this point) 1982 (I think) Mk5 Cortina 1.6 wagon (replacing Corona) 1980 Toyota Hilux (replacing B1600) I got my licence in this. Year unknown Nissan Navara(replacing Hilux) My younger brother eventually claimed this as his own. 199? Nissan Sentra (purchased new replacing Cortina) 199? Nissan Sentra (purchased new replacing previous Sentra) Year unknown Nissan Navara (purchased new replacing last Sentra and old Navara claimed by my brother, parents now back to one vehicle) Year unknown Nissan Navara (purchased new replacing previous Navara) Year unknown Nissan Pulsar (purchased new replacing last Navara) His first automatic, the dealer couldn't supply a manual one without a huge lead time. There may have been a third new Navara before the Pulsar, memory is hazy on this point.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:01:37 GMT
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Good point re automatic choke. My dad had a Mk5 Cortina 1.6 with auto choke. It was horrible. His mechanic replaced the carb with a manual choke one off an older Cortina and no more starting problems.
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Oct 26, 2020 21:09:27 GMT
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How cold are we talking? Sub-zero or just uncomfortably cool? If everything ignition related is in good order it shouldn't need anything more than plenty of choke for a cold start. I dailied a Wolseley 1300 for several years (this century, it was 35 years old when I bought it) and never had trouble starting it from cold on snowy days.
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Oct 26, 2020 21:02:11 GMT
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I must show this to my youngest. He's been playing with a forge of late attempting to make swords. This may give him some inspiration.
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Oct 26, 2020 20:58:47 GMT
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Grandpa's ('75?) 1750 Marina Super certainly had plenty of stoke as I recall. Still a bit mad that my useless uncle sold it for next to nothing when the old boy died. I wanted that car. It was immaculate.
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Oct 24, 2020 22:54:40 GMT
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Why was the 1.3 Marina even a thing? Was there a tax advantage in buying/driving an underpowered pig? I like Marinas but seriously, why?
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Oct 23, 2020 19:57:58 GMT
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My youngest has his eye on a '52 Morris Oxford. It's 1000 miles away from where we live and hasn't had a wof/mot in years (no exemptions here). He's keen for me and him to fly one way and drive home. A sort of boys' own road trip. His mother is encouraging him in this madness. Am I crazy to even entertain the idea? igor where abouts is it? Let me know if I can help. Appreciate the offer. Where are you based? We live in South Otago. The car in question is in Northland. It's advertised on trademe. Doesn't look too bad in the photos but it's anybody's guess what it's really like.
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My youngest has his eye on a '52 Morris Oxford. It's 1000 miles away from where we live and hasn't had a wof/mot in years (no exemptions here). He's keen for me and him to fly one way and drive home. A sort of boys' own road trip. His mother is encouraging him in this madness. Am I crazy to even entertain the idea?
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Oct 22, 2020 18:36:16 GMT
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I doubt there were many about when it was new. Also why is it not column change?
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Oct 22, 2020 18:33:45 GMT
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That's what makes this forum fun.
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I agree that plastic would be worse than useless in that situation. Was thinking more along the lines of malthoid or a similar bituminous material if only to protect the steel from the effects of treatment salts leaching out of the timber over time. I'm an engineer's draughtsman and that's one of the standard things we specify for bridges with timber spiking pieces on steel main beams. Admittedly a bridge deck gets a lot wetter in service than the underside of a roof so you may well be old and grey before the potential corrosion becomes a serious issue.
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Are you putting a damp proof membrane between the steel and the timber? I think I would probably consider it.
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But the system needs to sleep sometimes, it's not a machine. Oh, wait...
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what, no Phase 3 Falcon GTHO?
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Oct 20, 2020 23:43:54 GMT
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Had one of those knobs on my Bedford. Was a great thing on a vehicle with a six and a half ton gross vehicle mass and no power steering.
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Oct 20, 2020 20:02:27 GMT
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Good to see progress being made. Can't see how the designer thought screw in wheel studs were ever going to be a good idea. Enjoying your writing style too. A brilliant combination of description and humour.
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What I can remember down the decades. Not necessarily in chronological order. 1975 ADO16 in Austin flavour (1275 manual) regular 33 mpg in a mix of town and open road driving, mostly hard thrashed cos I was young and silly. 1951 Phase One Standard Vanguard routinely got 22 mpg, once again mostly driven fairly hard. 1974 Bedford TK (214 petrol, four speed, single speed diff, 16" wheels, 6.5 ton gvm) equivalent to 10 mpg but running lpg all the time cos it ran really rough on super petrol and lpg was way less expensive. 1979 RX30 Cressida (18r and 5 speed) used to get 18 mpg around town. Never did the calcs for open road use. 1980 EN1 Civic (1335cc Hondamatic) got 37 mpg between Dunedin and Whangarei (1000ish miles pretty much non stop) hard thrashed all the way. 1978 XC Falcon wagon (4.1 crossflow and column three speed) averaged 22 mpg, didn't seem to make any difference whether it was fully loaded or had just the driver on board. A friend had a 2002 Holden Monaro (5.7 V8 and six speed manual) for a while. I went on a trip with him once when it was fairly new. We were pootling along behind something slow on a rural highway then when we came to a straight bit of road he whacked it down into second gear and nailed the gas to pass. At that point the onboard computer was reporting fuel consumption as 40l/100km or around 5.8 mpg. 1991 EA2 Falcon GL wagon (3.9 and four speed automatic) went from Whangarei to Porirua (802km) on 78 litres, that's almost 29 mpg. 1990 EA Falcon S wagon, my current daily, (3.9 and five speed manual) usually gets mid 20's but returned 14 mpg on a long day trip towing a double horse box. 1990 BG Laser, my wife's daily, (1.6 and five speed manual) recently returned 43 mpg on a long day trip which impressed me enormously.
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Oct 16, 2020 20:10:45 GMT
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Nothing wrong with overkill. Obviously designed with snow loading in mind.
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Oct 16, 2020 20:04:15 GMT
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Yes please for vids. Do the smaller animals bother the hives/bees much? We don't have bears here thankfully but we found that wooly sheep and one particularly hairy billy goat would push through a three wire electric fence and graze right up to the hives without seeming to care about the clouds of bees flying all around them. Not sure how pigs would go. They don't like the electric fence so it might keep them away. Are there wild pigs where you are?
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Given that the Sierra is pretty much a Mk6 Cortina it should be possible to fit in a Falcon six like Ford Australia did to the Mk3, Mk4, and Mk5.
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