weareHKR
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Was that the one with a hissing carb?My first car (1953 Ford 100E Anglia) had one of those!
Was that the one with a hissing carb?My first car (1953 Ford 100E Anglia) had one of those!
Was that the one with a hissing carb?
It happened to my dad. His Volvo 340 dropped on him. How the hell he wasn't killed is beyond me.
"My other car is a Porsche"
Our fridge has themOr stickers showing places in the UK you had visited
Filling gaping rust holes with nespaper and P38/P40 filler. Alas, not many of these crafstmen left now.
I don't think I imagined/dreamed this.
I seem to remember that when I was very young, sometime in the 60s, there was a brief fashion for putting stickers on your car (usually the rear window I think) that made it look as if you had bullet holes in it.
Suppose it was supposed to make it look as if you had an exciting life in your underpowered runabout, running roadblocks or something.
Filling gaping rust holes with nespaper and P38/P40 filler. Alas, not many of these crafstmen left now.
I'd agree it was a bit bizarre, and too quirky for the market at the time, but it wasn't stupid. Plenty of cars today, including many F1 cars, have asymmetric or non-circular steering wheels. It was an idea before its time, which I would class in the category of 'answers to questions that no-one had asked'.Possibly the most famous and certainly the most stupid was the 'Quartic,' steering wheel on the Allegro:
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Can you imagine the development meeting at BL when it was decided to put this into the new Allegro?
Enough cars got onto UK roads to ensure the MOT had rules about the rear steering that were similar to the ones on front wheel king pins, CV joints and linkages. It was banned on FIA competition cars eventually, which suggests that there were advantages to be had.One of the one's i can remember well but not seen for years was Honda's 4 wheel steer mainly on Prelude's if i remember rightly .
I wonder what happened to this fad and many others
I had an A35 van like that, bean cans and soup tins pop riveted to fill the gaping rust holes, filler and a Halfords spray can, jobs a good un.One of the fellas I worked with in the 1970's had an ancient Hillman and used to use old tin cans, pea and been cans mostly I think, to fill holes in its bodywork.
Correct. Thus turning your mum’s Austin 1300 into a DB6....yes I remember, I think something to do with one of the Bond films.