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
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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
Active Member
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
Active Member
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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- Suburban Poshshire
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.
figbat
Former slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I believe they were only sold in South Africa, known as a ‘bakkie’.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
The VDP R is the very posh Morris Oxford rather than the bigger ones isn't it?
I do like the VDP R though. I read they were trying to make it expensive enough so it was just under the maximum price for a company car not to be punitively taxed. Even with wood and leather they couldn't make it expensive enough so went for the straight six RR engine. No idea if there is really any truth in this, but it is plausible
raleighnut
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It's the 'Farina' body but modified, rear lights are flat rather than vertical like the rest of the range and the bonnet is different to accommodate the grill. It was the little touches that elevated it above the rest like the 'pull down' tables in the back of the front seats and heater under the drivers seat for rear passengers.
It had one other unique quality (apart from drinking fuel) in that no matter the weather it always started, other cars on the street would be grinding away but 'Queenie' (as my little sisters nicknamed the car) always went first time...............probably used half a gallon of fuel to do so.
It was also very fast (well it was when my uncle drove it) I should explain...............Uncle Jack had 2 very disabled sons (both spent their entire lives in nursing homes being spoon fed) so he kind of adopted me and every Saturday morning I'd go round to his house and sit talking in the office then go to the post office to get the national insurance stamps for him and his brother who had a building company, then as 12 'o'clock approached he'd be off to the golf club taking me with him (he was 'House Chairman' there for 10+ years.............The guy who organised the
