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by fried onions
Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:06 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12479
Views: 2951875

Re: EBay Finds

Just read the article. So you got none of the benefits of a small car and none of the benefits of a big car. Americans could really never do small cars.
by fried onions
Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:43 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: The Lost World of the BMC film.
Replies: 6
Views: 4147

Re: The Lost World of the BMC film.

You can get 50+ mpg from a 948 easily.
by fried onions
Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:01 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15707
Views: 3253747

Re: What did you do today?

by fried onions
Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:44 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12479
Views: 2951875

Re: EBay Finds

Tail fins are there to stabilise the car in a cross-wind. Chrysler Corp. said so.
by fried onions
Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:33 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
Replies: 780
Views: 343223

Re: Indecision : a spectral fleet thread

ghosty wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 1:19 pm Well you'll be disappointed.
Nothing new there, then.
by fried onions
Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:27 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15707
Views: 3253747

Re: What did you do today?

That is an early Hunter. Very nice cars, GIB.
by fried onions
Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:13 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Unparallel Renault 16 Happenings
Replies: 346
Views: 161785

Re: Unparallel Renault 16 Happenings

It's funny when your nice new oil goes all over the floor. Tell me you saw the funny side of it.

I brought some choice tyres back from Wales for you.
by fried onions
Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:48 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Squire's voitures
Replies: 1601
Views: 594368

Re: Squire's voitures

Changed the fan belt on the Snipe. I dare say the one which shed its outer covers would have gone on for a few hundred, if not thousand, miles more. I put it in the boot as a get-you-home spare. I won't be changing it at the roadside though, because access is from underneath in a confined space, due...
by fried onions
Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:15 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15707
Views: 3253747

Re: What did you do today?

Which reminds me, I'm picking my old station wagon up this weekend, to which effect I went to the car parts store in Longsight and bought 4.5 litres of Comma 20w50 for £9. It does like to go through oil and will be fed this until I rebuild it soon.