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[Martin (Admin)]

 
Favourite cars ...




Gone are the days when you could tell the make and model of a car at a distance..... sigh.
 

[Baldrick]

  My FAV TV programme, Bangers & Cash, leaves me drooling   https://www.mathewsons.co.uk   


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[Jonty]

  Those V8 Rovers were an absolute gas. Even the 2000TCs would see off most things around a corner, if not in a straight line. If I can find a photo I'll tell you about my Z28...

[raflaunches]

My favourite since I’ve actually got one!
MG ZA Magnette


I saw one complete at the recent classic car show and what mine currently looks like

[Martin (Admin)]

Wow!  That come a long way!


 Last time I saw it .....

 

[raflaunches]

Hi Martin


It’s come along way from the rust coloured cistern chapel effect underneath the car!
Hopefully I’ll get the seats back in February and hopefully into paint later this year whilst the engine gets rebuilt.

[raflaunches]

Something I’ve seen being built over the last few years is this Tipo 184. It’s actually a Mazda MX5 underneath but with the looks of a 1950s F1 car. If you get the chance to see Ant Anstead’s Master Mechanic he shows how he built the prototype from the chassis of MG TC and put in a Mazda engine/gearbox and made a fibre glass body shell to look like an Alfa Romeo 158 that won the first Grand Prix.

[Tug Fanatic]

A friend had a Jensen Interceptor convertible. His was in gold which wasn't my favourite colour but it is the car that I have always rembered most fondly. His fuel consumption was worrying however!

[Geoff]

Whilst I don't have a picture to hand, one of my favourite cars I ever owned was a 1600 Mk 1 Ford Capri - 1971 - light metallic blue, blue vinyl roof and blue plastic interior. And no it didn't come with furry dice!


Just a fun car at the right time in my life and I have very fond memories.


Cheers


Geoff

[Circlip]

Make sure the wig-wags work smoothly Nick.    Too easy to break the little b****rs orf when getting out if they don't. ZBs had winkers.


  Regards  Ian.

[tonyH]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, as were the prices when I bought one of these for £400.00 It was even one of the 400 or so right-hand factory built ones. Probably the best fun car I ever drove but when I was offered £1000 for it .........need I say more

[Liverbudgie2]

Because I don't build model bats anymore I work on these.
LB

[Fred Ellis]

Liverbudgie2 did you hang around when you did your model bats
Sorry just my bad sense of humor

Taxi for one

[Jonty]

Those 60s Alfas were all lovely to drive, even the four doors, but you were lucky to get 15000 miles out of an engine.

[Martin (Admin)]

A friend had a Jensen Interceptor convertible. His was in gold which wasn't my favourite colour but it is the car that I have always rembered most fondly. His fuel consumption was worrying however!

[Martin (Admin)]

Whilst I don't have a picture to hand, one of my favourite cars I ever owned was a 1600 Mk 1 Ford Capri - 1971 - light metallic blue, blue vinyl roof and blue plastic interior. And no it didn't come with furry dice!

Just a fun car at the right time in my life and I have very fond memories.
Cheers

Geoff

[Martin (Admin)]

Those 60s Alfas were all lovely to drive, even the four doors, but you were lucky to get 15000 miles out of an engine.

Alfa Romeo 2600

[tonyH]

Alfa Romeo 2600


Absolutely right about the 15,000 miles, especially with the early ones where they'd effectively just bolted a couple of wet-liner cylinders to the front! The saving grace was always the gearbox which was smoooooooooooth!

[KitS]

Favourite cars ...




Gone are the days when you could tell the make and model of a car at a distance..... sigh.
 



That's a very interesting Rover 3500 in the pic. The bonnet looks just like the ones that Rover used on the development cars that had US built V8s with Rochester (I think....) carbs rather than the SUs that were used in production. As it looks as if the pic was taken in the US I wonder how the car got there.


My fave car is one most of you have probably never heard of, the mid 1970s Vauxhall Sports Hatch, of which mine was no. 18 of only 197 built. A 2.3 litre engined Magnum Estate with the fiberglass snoot from the HPF Firenza added, and in only that one colour scheme, Extra Dark Wine with two red stripes going all the way round the car. And it had TARTAN upholstery too, subtle it wasn't!


Sadly mine was crushed under a falling tree in the 90s. 

[swiftdoc]

Martin, I have to correct you, the red Alfa is a 1300 GTA. Mine is a GT 1600 Junior, built in 1974. It is the original engine as the certificate of the Alfa museum confirms, and it is still going strong! Surely has more than 15,000 miles on the clock…..

[BrianB6]

I loved the look of the Alfa Sprint Special.

[tonyH]

They're a lovely set of cars, from the Ti saloon to the Sprint. The only odd thing about the Spider was that it had a single twin choke Solex carb, which I replaced with a Weber 28/36 DCD, rather than a pair of 45DCOEs. They still had drum brakes all round but they were HUGE ventilated ones and worked..........most of the time!

[KitS]

In the 'I bet you didn't know' category................... I bet you didn't know the tooling for the Alfa Gulia Ti salon was actually done in the UK.


Pressed Steel at Cowley made all the press tools and dies and assembly jigs in 1960-61 and one of the first jobs I did after leaving the Apprentice School there was to help pack all the tooling before it was shipped to Italy.

[Circlip]

Had a Ford 'Special' back in the mid sixties, E93A side valve engine, Ford Pop chassis BUT the fibre glass body was AKS. Think they must have lifted the shell from an Alfa sprint. Use to get flashes and waves from genuine Alfa drivers.


  Regards  Ian.

[Shipmate60]

I loved my Rover P6 3500 auto.
Got it too young and couldnt afford to keep it.
Great car, great drive.


Bob