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Did exactly this with a marina and a bunch of mates years ago, but it DID start snd we’d driven about 10 miles before the driver said ‘this isn't my car!’ Since all but one ( the driver) were drunk we parked it outside the police station about 1/2 a mile from where we’d ‘nicked’ it and slunk away quietly, after all who’s going to believe a bunch of drunken yobs that it was an accident? Before I was born my Dad had a two-tone MG 1300 (something like the one below) which was the first of umpteen ADO16's he owned. He'd parked up in shopping street in Cardiff and gone off to do a few chores. As he returned to his car he noticed an Afro-Caribbean gent opening his car door and getting into it, (things were not so racially tolerant in those days), he ran to the car, dragged this poor chap out by his lapels and was just about to have a bit of a dust up when he spotted his own identical car parked a few spaces further back.
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Morris Marina Coupé. Worcs. £6K 1972. 1300. Low mileage. Looks to have been recommissioned around 2010. No longer MOTd (exempt) but MOT history is fairly clean. Photos aren't wonderful but the car looks to be exceptionally clean from what can be seen.
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Lot 75 has found its way back onto the market. Hammer price was £3½K, which by the time you add buyer's fee and VAT on buyer's fee would have been £4,340.00 (plus transportation costs). I'm guessing the buyer found more issues than they had bargained for and are just trying to get most of their money back. www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1182657
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Not lost keys but wrong keys; 1984: I'd just passed my test and bought an XJ6 which was a comfortable, if not an economic, improvement on my Honda PC50 moped. I was used to carrying umpteen sets of keys on leather fobs as I disliked having a large heavy bunch dangling from the ignition. I clambered into the Jag one night in an unlit car park and drove home, it was only when I arrived home in better lighting that I discovered I'd let myself into and started a 4.2 litre 180+hp saloon with the steering lock key off a 50cc 1.8hp moped. For triple bonus points it wasn't your jag you drove home? Late '80s I parked my Flamenco red Allegro with beige velour seats outside Tesco and 20 minutes later came out with my shop, I let myself into the Allegro but puzzlingly the ignition key wouldn't turn in the ignition. It slowly dawned on me that the interior of the car was a lot less cluttered than when I'd parked up. My car was parked a few bays away by good fortune I wasn't able to inadvertently steal this doppelgänger.
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Wow, that's got be rare! I've never seen one of those before. Not the most attractive version it has to be said.
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I think you find it’s actually £20.55. I don't know if I've missed something as I didn't get as far as inputting personal details to create an account? Yearly subscription 1 year = €38.25 Yearly subscription Europe registered mail = €19.00 Total = €57.25 Total in GBP = £48.82 ÷ 3 editions = £16.27.3
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2019 23:10:26 GMT by MkX
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I'm personally not huge on customised cars so wouldn't have been your target audience anyway, your publication looks interesting but I'd reflect Dez 's comments on cost, at £16.27 for one edition delivered to the UK it looks to me as though you may be shooting yourself in the foot before you've got a readership. Recent history is littered with failed auto magazines. If this magazine is to have a chance of a future you probably need to consider making a digital edition available at significantly lower cost.
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2019 22:27:37 GMT by MkX
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More pics / better pics on this listing too.
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Just ran an insurance quote, the cheapest is £3700 with £1000xs to be fair the way I did all the others was pick the first quote with xs below £1k so the comparable quote to the previous quotes is....... £4300 Rediculous when you consider a 2006 Audi A6 2.0tdi is £2700! Wow! That is absolutely bonkers!! So the insurance groups don't seem to mean very much?
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I mentioned Peugeot 106 before, I reckon THIS could make the ideal starter car:- One, (presumably elderly), lady owner from new. (Chapel Chariot?) Very low mileage. Probably always garaged. Full MOT with fairly clean MOT history. Frugal, (average 46mpg). Cheap insurance, (probably around group 7). Good parts availability. Easy to maintain. Having been cosseted and with such low mileage it should still be pretty reliable. Negatives:- Not Grand Prix material. Less safety equipment. Poverty spec. And just in time for Xmas!
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2019 17:23:00 GMT by MkX
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XJ6 3.2S (XJ40). Yorkshire. £1,395.00 1995. Drives well. Long MOT. No horror stories in MOT history. Problems with paintwork. Peugeot 106 Aztec. Cambs. £1½K 1995. 1.1 litre Phase 1. Low mileage. One lady owner from new and has remained in garage for 3 years since her death. Fairly clean MOT history.
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Spotted today at Standen House which is a National Trust Property in West Sussex Nicely executed camper conversion on a LHD Dutch registered MAN Chassis cab - looks to be 4 x 4 in configuration too I've always thought that one of these would have good potential for a camper conversion;
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Comes from posting from halfway down a bottle of grouse . . . My preferred tipple is Laphroaig 10; it will get you comfortably numb but with a sledgehammer of peat smoke, iodine & sea spray while you get there.
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I'm guessing at maybe a bellows to operate a flap on the air intake, to draw in either cold or hot air, perhaps... So, not to let the bathwater out?
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Last Edit: Dec 2, 2019 0:29:50 GMT by MkX
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What is the purpose of the plunger type object above the carbs with what appears to be a sink plug chain attached? Without access to a workshop manual I'm afraid I'm unable to be of any help.
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The wheels on the ones you have shown certainly give the cars a better look, that helps no end. Thing is, I still would rather live with the coupe, it is just so right, in my personal opinion. Hey, you don't have to sell the XJC to me, I've loved it since I was a teenager which was a looooong time ago. Number 3 on my lottery win car list is the XJ5.3C! I just don't happen to think that they look 'sodding hideous' in convertible form. (Apart from this one perhaps!)
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Talbot Samba Cabriolet. Merseyside. £950.00 1983. Project. Parked up in garage for past 25 years. Low mileage. There are only 44 of these left in the UK - 75% are SORN'd. Toyota Corolla 1.6 GLS. Kent. £1,700.00 2000. 5-dr. Low mileage. VVTi. Drives well. Spring MOT. Pretty clean MOT history. These are tremendously good and super-reliable cars and this looks to be a spectacularly nice example, this will go on and on and on . . .
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I'm sorry to say this but, as a convertible, it looks sodding hideous. As the original coupe, it would have looked wonderful, as all Jag/Daimler Coupes do. As much as I love the XJC as a coupé I'm afraid I can't agree, I think it also makes a fine looking convertible, how could you not like this? The one thing that can spoil it is if they've mucked the hood up and it's stacked 2 foot high behind the rear seats. It provided inspiration for the later Daimler Corsica concept which I think is one of the most drop dead gorgeous cars from Jaguar / Daimler.
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Last Edit: Dec 1, 2019 17:47:01 GMT by MkX
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Not lost keys but wrong keys; 1984: I'd just passed my test and bought an XJ6 which was a comfortable, if not an economic, improvement on my Honda PC50 moped. I was used to carrying umpteen sets of keys on leather fobs as I disliked having a large heavy bunch dangling from the ignition. I clambered into the Jag one night in an unlit car park and drove home, it was only when I arrived home in better lighting that I discovered I'd let myself into and started a 4.2 litre 180+hp saloon with the steering lock key off a 50cc 1.8hp moped.
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Nov 30, 2019 22:53:20 GMT
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SW475 (SW = station wagon).
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Last Edit: Nov 30, 2019 23:07:02 GMT by MkX
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