When you see those in wedding car service the door/sill fit is always wobbly as fuck. I imagine they're fairly naff to drive, being from the era when one was driven in their Rolls rather than drove it themselves. The earlier cars are the lookers, the SIII with the quad lights and chunky side/indicat...

Looks a nice spot that, is it as rural as it seems? It's a little planned town, started in the seventies. 20220219_154227.jpg Basically what Southern American suburbia looks like. Hefty rule set but basically you've got whim in terms of the house you want to build, no trailers, no modular houses, n...

The Acclaim's handbrake wasn't working properly. f84b2be0-4697-4782-95b3-8f732d81110a.jpg bb15dc5c-db4c-4b7d-afd0-d16b490e766d.jpg 7a639409-f021-4fbc-a5be-6f4bbe5c055a.jpg 8498d489-eef6-48d8-9c07-81b19496958e.jpg 0cca806a-1e10-4b1a-8cf0-b88e31a21e97.jpg Fuck me I hate winter. The adjuster seemed to ...

I did a double take the other day as I saw a giffer driven 106, first I've seen in ages. Much like K11 Micras and R8 Rovers they were everywhere until they weren't. I always had a bit of a hankering for a 106 as my first car, I think it's because I had one as my starter in Need For Speed Underground...

My van does nothing till about 1500 rpm. Literally no acceleration at all in 3rd. It really has the most shitty ratio'd box I've ever experienced. My Pug Partner and Dad's Vauxhall Combo are the same way and we both do the same thing of trying to pull away from a roundabout from a rolling start in ...

Wood and aluminium was easier to obtain for motor vehicle bodies than steel at the time. Presuming left over aluminium from aircraft production? I'm thinking of the way the woodwork is entirely enclosed rather than the ally panels being inset into the frame work as with the Morris wagons of the ear...

Interesting how the lower woodwork is clad in, presumably, aluminium panels. Quite modern for the time.

Worth bearing in mind that even if the cassette deck won't play an actual cassette it might play an adaptor as that doesn't rely on the spindles spinning. This can be tested without throwing it in a car by just rigging the radio to a 12v battery. If you want an adaptor to try give me a shout as I ha...

The conversion to van is staggeringly half arsed with the door lines still being there.

From what I can tell they were Irish market only so presumably built locally from estates?

I got fed up of using a bluetooth FM transmitter that kept picking up interference no matter what frequency I tuned it to. I also found this an issue once I moved to civilisation, although I went the other route and fitted tape players to use those cassette to aux jack adaptors. I think you can get...