One For Classic Car Fans.....

[biggs682]

A few from a workshop on the old Kimbolton airfield industrial estate .

A couple of old Volvo's, an S2000 and a 911 cabriolet.

There were a few others around

 

[DRM]

Diesel p4 anyone?

https://ebay.us/m/JZgxn8

A Land Rover 2.25 Diesel! 0-40 Mph eventually

 

[srj10]

 

[Profpointy]

A Land Rover 2.25 Diesel! 0-40 Mph eventually

I've previously recounted a mate's P4. He'd decide petrol was too dear for him to continue with the thirsty IOE straight six petrol and stuck a Landie diesel engine in it. He'd then get fed up wirh the terrible performance of the sub 60hp diesel and swap back to the Rover unit. He did several to and fronswops over the years. He'd also converted it into an estate car using aluminium sheet and a Landrover tailgate. Oh, and it was painted matt khaki

 

[biggs682]

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Wow a late Alfa 33 that's done well not to be rusted away

 

[biggs682]

An aviator gaggle of Moggies

And a Dodge pick up

 

[Ian H]

An aviator gaggle of Moggies

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Pretty much a complete history of the split-screen Moggie. Note the black-painted plate to cover the gap in the bumper of the oldest one.

 

[Drago]

An aviator gaggle of Moggies

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And a Dodge pick up

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My first job from school was in a factory while I waited for my application to progress for the Army.

One of the old boys there was a Moggie nut andnhad several restored and modified examples. He also fancied himself as a bit of an inventor and was coming up with all sorts of devices to improve fuel economy.

Every Friday lunchtime he'd walk up the pub and the rest of us would have a whip round, 50p each, and one of us would nip out with a jerrycan and buy a couple of gallons of petrol which we'd quickly decant into the moggie.

Fortunately the fuel gauge was too vague to give the game away, but when it came to brim-to-brim fill ups and the following maths the owner discovered he was getting over 70MPG. He was excitedly writing letters to New Scientist, Tomorrow's World, anyone who he thought might listen, while we tittered behind his back.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 27th

Corsair V4

Spotted as l left work, in the visitors car-park
It’s still a big car!
A lot bigger than a Cortina mk2

Pinderfields General Hospital
Wakefield

The near-side had a few bubbles in the sills, & some potting on the chrome, but overall it looked good!

 

[diplodicus]

My first job from school was in a factory while I waited for my application to progress for the Army.

One of the old boys there was a Moggie nut andnhad several restored and modified examples. He also fancied himself as a bit of an inventor and was coming up with all sorts of devices to improve fuel economy.

Every Friday lunchtime he'd walk up the pub and the rest of us would have a whip round, 50p each, and one of us would nip out with a jerrycan and buy a couple of gallons of petrol which we'd quickly decant into the moggie.

Fortunately the fuel gauge was too vague to give the game away, but when it came to brim-to-brim fill ups and the following maths the owner discovered he was getting over 70MPG. He was excitedly writing letters to New Scientist, Tomorrow's World, anyone who he thought might listen, while we tittered behind his back.

That's what he wanted you to think!
In reality he was in the pub Friday lunchtime chuckling into his pint while you filled his Moggie up with petrol

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

An aviator gaggle of Moggies

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And a Dodge pick up

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/the-oldest-privately-owned-morris-minor/

 

[biggs682]

An iconic Italian beauty

 

[Drago]

An iconic Italian beauty



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I actually quite like those, but then I've always liked tiny cars.

 

[rualexander]

Not sure it's a classic but don't see many of them these days, Austin 1800.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Not sure it's a classic but don't see many of them these days, Austin 1800.

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They seem to have been popular with farmers based on where rusting examples turn up. We found one (actually a 'posher' Woleseley 18/85) in a barn on a site I worked on years ago.