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[irishcarguy]

Lovely car I never get tired of working on them , I have a gearbox to overhaul this week from a MK 3,the customer is spending a small fortune on it. I will just do the box & then he will fit it himself. It must be hard to lose a car like that,are you thinking of getting another ??. Thanks for the photo. Mick B.

[nhp651]

Lovely car I never get tired of working on them , I have a gearbox to overhaul this week from a MK 3,the customer is spending a small fortune on it. I will just do the box & then he will fit it himself. It must be hard to lose a car like that,are you thinking of getting another ??. Thanks for the photo. Mick B.

sadly mick, i'll never be able to afford another like that one........unless i come up on the lottery......then i'd jump at the chance.
so nice to drive, rock solid and really "chuckable" into the bends.........so much nicer than the MG C that i had a couple of years ago.

[irishcarguy]

The C was a nice highway car but too heavy in the front end, however they only made 8900 hundred of them 4500 hundred were convertibles & about 450 were automatic. It is my guess the C will become a collectors car in the not too distant future.Its a bit of a sleeper. The market for vintage British & American  cars has suffered terribly because of the recession here in North America & also the Uppies are moving on. The young generation want their rice rockets complete with their laptops. MGB what kind of car is that & who makes it???. Talk about dumb & dumber. Mick B.

[nhp651]

so now's the time to buy back is it, Mick from over the pond.

You don't know any one fancy swapping a nice old classic for a lovely big model lifeboat do you, lol

I'd be willing to pack in a strong crate, lol


somwe one out there must be made enough to swap a nice classic for a lovely model

[irishcarguy]

That is one nice model you got there. I think if a C came along now & you had the money it would be a good buy(didnt post yesterday had a disaster (wedding) to go . Divorce rate here is about 55%. It cost the parents around fifty thousand dollars, think of all the nice boats we could build with that ??, so much for a recession. One of my customers came to pay a bill Saturday morning,driving his newest toy ,a 1964 Ferrari luso in fully restored condition ( cost probably nine hundred thousand at least) just one of 17 cars that he owns & he was disputing a $1600.00 dollar bill for 3 months. At least he drives them all. stay in touch hope to have some pictures up on the forum soon. Mick B.

[JB]

Yes photo's of the Midget please!!

My son transport's cars, most are new for main dealers but today he has collected this for a private customer to move down to Birmingham in the morning, engine has no power so its going to a specialist for repair...looks reasonable but owner thinks its the turbos...Hmmm!!

JB.

[irishcarguy]

JB,  What make / model is that in the photo ?, I don't recognise it here in Canada, it looks fast. THE boss has a 2009 Golf GTI which is a hoot to drive. At the rate she is getting tickets she will be walking soon then I get to do the driving. I drive a Chrysler Mini van ( a brick with a V6 3.3 litre & terrible handling & poor brakes, but it can carry loads of junk & the 2 dogs love it)

[richald]

I wasn't going to do it but what the heck!....

this was my "no R/C" kit - sadly sold a few years ago when I ran out of somewhere to store it.

180BHP Rover V8 and weighed the same as an (old) Ford Fiesta - interesting!

[nhp651]

very nice too.......they are fetching good money these days.

[richald]

JB,  What make / model is that in the photo ?, I don't recognise it here in Canada, it looks fast. THE boss has a 2009 Golf GTI which is a
hoot to drive. At the rate she is getting tickets she will be walking soon then I get to do the driving. I drive a Chrysler Mini van ( a brick
 with a V6 3.3 litre & terrible handling & poor brakes, but it can carry loads of junk & the 2 dogs love it)

there's a bit of a clue in the jpg filename ....

its a Nissan 300ZX see.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_300ZX

Richard

[miarkaf]

This is mine I imported from the States, Stripped and totally rebuilt :-




Regards

Alan

[nhp651]

you lucky man alan...............a real beauty.....I still miss mine...30 years on.

[irishcarguy]

The Healeys have so much charm, but I like the MGB best for being so reliable & reasonable to maintain. Lots of parts & easy to get.Mick B.

[JB]

there's a bit of a clue in the jpg filename ....

its a Nissan 300ZX see.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_300ZX

Richard

Correct..1990 model twin turbo I believe,  I was hoping it would be here for a few hours but son was only here 15 minutes so no time to have a good look, I don't know if he will be asked to bring it back from the repair shop, it is a local car though, maybe 15 miles away, I've not seen one on the road for some time.

JB.

[irishcarguy]

Hi Richard, sorry I missed the file name,getting a bit( a lot ) slower these days thanks , Mick B.

[richald]

Hi Richard, sorry I missed the file name,getting a bit( a lot ) slower these days thanks , Mick B.

No Problem Mick - I seem to be getting more 'Senior Moments' these days!  

Richard

[herrmill]

Of course you can always Go Back to the Future, especially if you happened to have grown up across the wall in East Germany.

I would have loved having one of these big toys to play with compared to that missile-firing cardboard version I got out of the back of a comic book in the late '60s.