One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Drago]

For a given value of Hairdresser ..

Way back when my hairdresser entered the RAC Rally in a mk 1 Escort in the hope to finish class. He got some decent result in his class.

Hed have done better if he hadn't wasted time giving his co-driver a demi wave.

 

[Profpointy]

P6, larger, comfier, more plush. 2500, smaller, lighter, more sporty.

Sizes very close when I looked it up. Mk1 T2k slightly smaller @ 174" and the Mk2 very slightly slightly longer 183" against the P6 @ 180". Triumph has 3" longer wheelbase.

I'd have said the Triumph was the larger vehicle, but it seems they are very close in size

 

[Pblakeney]

Sizes very close when I looked it up. Mk1 T2k slightly smaller @ 174" and the Mk2 very slightly slightly longer 183" against the P6 @ 180". Triumph has 3" longer wheelbase.

I'd have said the Triumph was the larger vehicle, but it seems they are very close in size

Ignore my previous post.
I was thinking of the P5. A very different beast! 😂

 

[raleighnut]

The hairdresser just down the road has a Porsche with a private plate.

Re the TVR, those strange vents make it look to me as if the doors and bonnet don't fit properly.

Look at the reg number......................I Spose he could be a Vasectomist.

For a given value of Hairdresser ..

Way back when my hairdresser entered the RAC Rally in a mk 1 Escort in the hope to finish class. He got some decent result in his class.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 13th

Triumph 2500

Market Street
Kirkby Stephen
Cumbria

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I’ve been pointed towards this page, from a conversation on Facebook

https://www.paulstriumphherald.co.uk/triumph-2500s-estate-part-one/
(part 2 is also interesting)

 

[biggs682]

I know which one I would prefer and it's not made across the channel

 

[Drago]

Me too, although the Bimmer is made in Graz, Austria.

 

[Pblakeney]

Me too, although the Bimmer is made in Graz, Austria.

Is Austria not across the Channel? 😂

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Is Austria not across the Channel? 😂

Nah, that's France mate, innit.

 

[Drago]

Is Austria not across the Channel? 😂

Its in central Africa, I believe.

TBH I was never a moggie fan. Its so rare removed from Issigonis' actual designed its a real hodge podge. Crudely widened but only after the production tooling had already been made, hence the ridge up the middle. The envisaged flat 4 discarded for an inline. The original clean styling horribly bastardised. It was a real lash up.

 

[Ian H]

Its in central Africa, I believe.

TBH I was never a moggie fan. Its so rare removed from Issigonis' actual designed its a real hodge podge. Crudely widened but only after the production tooling had already been made, hence the ridge up the middle. The envisaged flat 4 discarded for an inline. The original clean styling horribly bastardised. It was a real lash up.

The widening was at Issigonis's insistence.

 

[Drago]

Indeed, he didn't known when to stop tinkering.

The side valve and then the A series engine, cheap suspension in place of independent tortion bar set up, and the slowly evolving dilution of the clean styling weren't his doing and he was jolly unhappy about it.

It ended up as bodged and lashed up mess that only did as well asmit did due to the lack of affordable domestically produced alternative, while the likes of the 2CV remained laser focused on the design brief.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Its in central Africa, I believe.

TBH I was never a moggie fan. Its so rare removed from Issigonis' actual designed its a real hodge podge. Crudely widened but only after the production tooling had already been made, hence the ridge up the middle. The envisaged flat 4 discarded for an inline. The original clean styling horribly bastardised. It was a real lash up.

Nor me, even when they were the kind of car your bank manager's wife drove bitd (you'll gather I'm a bitd sort of chap, myself)

 

[Bonefish Blues]

It ended up as bodged and lashed up mess that only did as well asmit did due to the lack of affordable domestically produced alternative, while the likes of the 2CV remained laser focused on the design brief.

Down with this sort of thing.

See also the modern trend towards 'leaning into' and 'pitch rolling'

 

[Drago]

Down with this sort of thing.

See also the modern trend towards 'leaning into' and 'pitch rolling'

But they could get the stakeholders involved and forge ahead with my idea. They won't get anywhere if they leave it on the back burner.