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Model T mate. But seriously what's wrong with a Landrover?
As an aside, a bloke I knew in the '80s had a Model T roadster pickup. Reckoned it would go places a new Landcruiser couldn't purely by virtue of it's high ground clearance. Apparently the Landcruiser owners were unimpressed.
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Last Edit: May 27, 2020 7:01:19 GMT by igor
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It started off with a spanner. Isn't that close enough?
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May 22, 2020 22:30:49 GMT
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Happy Birthday Tania George, if you're ever in New Zealand give this a try. It's a good drop.
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Ha, gotta love 30+ temperature outside and driving with the heater full on to keep the engine from cooking.
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Closest I ever came to alcohol poisoning involved tequila. It was back in the '80s. A mate turned up at home with a 40 oz bottle which we finished between the two of us. We really ought to have stopped then but we didn't. Being young and silly we proceeded to put down two more bottles of spirits. Not sure now what they were, possibly bourbon and ouzo, my memory is hazy.
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That rear end is a lot nicer than the Cortina version of it we got over here. I agree. Reminds me a little of some of the American Fords of the '60s and early '70s. Can't help wondering how it would go with the 4.1 litre iron head crossflow in-line six as fitted to XC Falcons and some Oz/NZ Cortinas.
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Last Edit: May 17, 2020 9:16:14 GMT by igor
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Tania shares her birthday with me. Beer drinking is likely here also on that day. I shall be thinking of you.
With regard to door locks I had a similar issue with one of my Falcons. Locks were fine but keys very worn. Purchased new keys through the local dealership and no more problems. Might be worth a try.
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Back on topic now. As a serial BMC owner since 1983 I may be biased but having driven both I prefer the Minor. I drove a fellow member's Beetle at a club event a couple of years ago and enjoyed the experience but it didn't strike me as something I could happily daily. The Minor (belonging to an elderly friend) that I drove in a VCC rally celebrating 75 years of Morris cars in New Zealand on the other hand I could easily have lived with.
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Two words Nurse Gladys End of argument. 😀 I would have been up for putting Nurse Gladys through her paces.
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Almost ten years ago we purchased a small block of land almost adjoining our rural small holding. On said land stands a derelict house, a garage, and many years accumulation of junk, much of which has been outside for a very long time. I'm still finding stuff. Items of interest here include an ancient Holley carburettor on a four cylinder Ford manifold (believed to be Model T), the petrol tank off an International Harvester crawler tractor, and a trailer axle with hubs that look very much like Hupmobile items from the wooden wheel era.
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I love how you still get older cars on the road in Oz. Same here in New Zealand. It's cos we don't salt the roads.
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My favourite Vauxhall. edit. the black beauty on the previous page.
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Last Edit: May 14, 2020 7:57:25 GMT by igor
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What happens if you put twelve volts directly across the starter motor? If it cranks over fine then it'll most likely be a bad connection somewhere as others have explained.
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2012 Juke per manual; Transmission in REVERSE, clutch depressed, brake depressed. Leaving you with zero spare feet to tickle the throttle it if needs it. Fool of an idea. Must be a way to disable that.
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In the late '80s I had another guy's wife in his HC Viva.
Also, just to keep it relevant to the thread, the Viva had a sheepskin steering wheel cover.
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My wife and I are in our mid fifties and both daily thirty year old cars too.
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Spied this EH Holden Special in the supermarket carpark in Kaitaia early last summer. Big cushion on the driver's (bench) seat and elderly person's preferential parking certificate on the dashboard.
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Last Edit: May 4, 2020 9:32:50 GMT by igor
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This sort of thing happens a bit here in New Zealand too. At a show in 2014? I encountered a '60 Fairlane 500 sedan. Had a yarn to the driver as one does at these events and discovered he was indeed the first owner. The car had 300,000 miles on it and looked like it but everything worked and it had not long since received a clean sheet wof/mot. In the early '70s mum's father worked on a farm owned by an elderly spinster. Her daily was a very tidy '39 Chevrolet sedan. No idea whether she'd bought it herself or it had been her father's or what the story was. Maybe it belonged to a boyfriend who went away to the war and never came back. We'll never know.
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Being many generations removed from the old country I was amazed to learn, from books as a child, of the existence of Lifeboats in the UK and Ireland. We have nothing like that here in New Zealand.
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