Maybe we should do a thread for vehicles unexpectedly working as taxis?
I got a ride in Pug 205 taxi - but the was in Cuba so wasn't that odd - in fact it was odd that it wasn't a Lada, or a late 50s/early 60s American car of some kind.

Also always like the Avanti.

I thought that Cedric was a Laurel. Nice MK2 Granny - a car I have always aspired to, but especially in estate form, but will probably never own. In my estimation they were a huge leap forward from the mk1 (of which my old man owned 2 “in period”)

The replacement I have ordered is the entire middle section shown in the above pic so with a bit of luck it will work.

Probably not easy to see in the pic, but it was a spectacular failure - about half an inch of play at the exhaust end and several bits missing from the vanes of each end.
Hopefully I can rebuild it - the casing looks OK. I thought these would be much more complex but they are actually pretty simple.

My joy at this progress is only tempered by the fact that it looks as if the bumper will need to come off to get at the intercooler.

Turbo is out!

Access isn’t as brilliant as I had hoped - the three 13mm bolts that fix it to the exhaust manifold can only be got at with a ring spanner - I have done the easy one but had to go and buy another spanner as despite having 3 13mm combination spanners, a ring spanner and 2 13mm ratchet spanners none o...

I generally agree but these Davanti ones seem ok.