Chris S
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Quite a few cars came out of Longbridge like that as wellI'm pretty sure that the 16 and the 4L weren't the only models to feature the odd-leg wheelbase.

Quite a few cars came out of Longbridge like that as wellI'm pretty sure that the 16 and the 4L weren't the only models to feature the odd-leg wheelbase.
There is a 'Special Tool' which bolts to the manifolds to remove the head, we had one at Status. Cant find a picture but this guy had obviously seen one and made his own version.I discovered that the hard way many years ago. I was trying to take the head off but had one stud seized. I thought that I could spin the head round on the stud but when it had turned about halfway it started to dig in. I think I ended up sawing through the stud and BIL's dad drilled the stud and used the tang of a file tapped in to extract it.
Headlamps and the wipers had been set-up for left hand drive.ah, so you are the perfect person to educate me. A friend's dad had an Ital. I gather that some Italian outfit had a hand in styling/upgrading the Ital from the standard Marina, but on a casual kid-look I was lost as to what the difference was. What was it?
My mate Vince had one of those - the Holbay version - beefed up clutch, 2 twin-choke webers and a lumpy cam.View attachment 390644
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My father always hankered after one... I can see why :-)
I had a bottle of Corona in the 70sanyone here ever have a Toyota Corona ?
My Dad had a mark 2 1973 - that was a beast of a car that was.
Daimler Dart SP250 they had a mean look about them.
I think Jaguar killed it and the engine off when they took over Daimler. The bodywork was glass fibre.View attachment 390669
My old Art teacher at grammar school, Dick Emery (yes, really!), had one the same as the one above. Lovely sounding car with that small V8.
I think Jaguar killed it and the engine off when they took over Daimler. The bodywork was glass fibre.
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My father always hankered after one... I can see why :-)
When I lived in Kilnhurst years ago on a nice steep hill one of the neighbours had a Rapier. One day I sat and watched him park in his drive and go indoors.
He'd forgotten the handbrake, and five seconds later the car rolled off the drive by itself. Thanks to the steering lock it ran in a graceful curve, only to perfectly end up in another drive a few doors down the hill.
10 years after he sold it the police turned up at his door. Buyers had never changed the V5 so the cops wanted him to go and remove his car from wherever it had been dumped.