Drago
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The Rettendon murders Range Rover has become quite notorious and has changed hands a few times for serious wedge.
One For Classic Car Fans.....
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Profpointy
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I have a soft spot for the various big Farinas. I like the styling, and "gentleman's carriage" ambience, and I think they are mostly straight sixes too, the format I'm most keen on having owned a Vitesse. Not driven nor ridden on one, but have driven / ridden and liked smaller Oxford or Riley variants on the shape
raleighnut
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Jags were the most common for that
raleighnut
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My uncle had the big one that he later sold to my old man..............Vandem Plas Princess 4 litre R
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
The Peugeot 404 was a remarkably similar Farina design. I remember driving a friend's at speed along the A2. At a certain point it began to 'float' in a disconcerting way.
diplodicus
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I had a Wolsley 16/60 in my twenties.
It had column shift with an "overdrive", which according to the manual was for "rapid overtaking"
You could press the overdrive and floor the accelerator and absolutely nothing happened for ages
It had column shift with an "overdrive", which according to the manual was for "rapid overtaking"
You could press the overdrive and floor the accelerator and absolutely nothing happened for ages
diplodicus
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Saw this today outside tyre shop.
Fairly rare now, I should imagine.
Fairly rare now, I should imagine.
A few are coming in from South Africa, most are virtually rust free and have the 3.0 V6 Essex engine
That’s a rare survivor
Drago
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Horrible things though.
Jenkins
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- Felixstowe
Yet another Ford. What's not shown are the '1600' badges on the back and a DVLA check confirms that it has had an engine swap.
raleighnut
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Back in the 70's a lad in Enderby (Wilf Mayne) shoehorned a 3.0 litre Capri engine and gearbox (from a 'write off') into his, not for nothing was his nickname 'Maniac'
Back in the early 80s there was a bunch of lads in our area who put Rover V8s in Escort MK1s along with race suspension and brakes etc.
Trained on the race track then raced yuppies in their Porsches* who thought they were showing off on the twisty roads at the weekend. The Escorts won.
*It wasn't about the Porsches, it was about putting people who think they can buy everything in their places.
raleighnut
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Yeah there used to be quite a custom scene then, there was a pub in Leicester located on one of the service roads of a section of the A46/Narborough Rd known as 'The Mad Mile' which was a fenced off dual carriageway with a service/residential road either side. Game was drive up to the traffic lights at the Holiday Inn, blast down 'The Mad Mile' to the roundabout ( M1 Junction 21) round that then blast back up the other side before (hopefully) returning to the pub car park down the side road. Lot of big 'Yank Tanks' with sidepipes, a few Escorts and strangely quite a few Beetles.
