So they were not all V-4 engined then. Red 5's is a 1500, Consul engine? Can't have been much of a road burner. Ford had a knack for making cars that looked like they should go well, but were really cunningly disguised versions of their family saloons - sheep in wolf's clothing, if you like. Indeed...

AlabamaShrimp wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 9:02 pm So from such a start how did you turn into a serial Frontera botherer?

Just lucky I guess.

Wasn't a fan when I was at Vauxhall and we were selling them. Well, not much of one.

Useless fact: the last time I didn't have one was 2009 I think. Hmmm.

83C wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 6:51 am Plenty of familiar names from the other channel I see

Hoi hoi

I can see my lads liking it. Mind you, the wife tends to be a bit 'meh' about other peoples right to share the road so...

Am now looking on ebay. Thanks.

As above - the tensioner is a simple blade type - if left too long it will rub through the case.

And they don't half make a racket...

cros wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 9:36 am Hello Sam. Do you have any other serious faults you can bring to this place?

Oh yes.

An unsavoury liking for Vauxhall Front-areas. The A type.

An inability to stop purchasing hopeless cases.

An unresolved desire to own a sidevalve engine motorcar.

I bought it out of a back garden - no floors both side at the front - and no drivers drop glass which I discovered when I attempted to wind it up.... Rare beast even then - a 1500 pre-crossflow , floor change 1964 model - no seatbelts either. Shameful end as well - abandoned by a subsequent owner in...

CLINT wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 9:36 am The road runs through your garden?

You'd have though so, the amount of cars I had...

Have a picture of my second car (on the road) just because.

Good morning.

It's me.

Hello. I like cars.

Sam