Found pics

[Eddie Honda]

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15½k FRF (~£1230) for a Maxi? GREAT HEADLIGHTS THOUGH.

[mercrocker]

Eddie likes his headlamps unadorned.....

[slowanimals]

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[BusmansHoliday]

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Newer than I thought, June29, 1967, Leeds according to the web.

[mercrocker]

Would seem about right, given the D plated 1100. Definitely end-of-steam era with the loco in that state, I can well remember seeing them looking like they were on their last legs, never cleaned and caked in grime.

[BusmansHoliday]

Would seem about right, given the D plated 1100. Definitely end-of-steam era with the loco in that state, I can well remember seeing them looking like they were on their last legs, never cleaned and caked in grime.

You can see in that picture that the centre wheels are flangless which is why the preserved ones are banned from main line running.

[Warren t claim]

I know most on here will be aware of it, but I just love any chance to show this picture;
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Now I don’t know what they were smoking in Luton when someone suggested a V8 PC Cresta , after all there was acres of room under the bonnet and they already used the 2 speed Powerglide which was attached to plenty of Small Block Chevy engines. Opel used the 283 in the Admiral and I think Holden and Opel in SA plonked them in various cars with very little modification.
Vauxhall, who, remember didn’t make a front wheel drive car of any size until the Astra decided to fit Toronado running gear under a Cresta!
It got crashed at the test track , of course . And the V8 Cresta idea never took off, although a V8 ( 350 RWD) FE got as far as Earls Court before the Raghead engineered oil crisis killed it on the eve of the Motor Show.

Wasn't there a Black Prince FD?

[mercrocker]

Yes.

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Corvette engine, supposedly built by Gordon Keeble for Vauxhall but I seem to recall it was actually Jim Keeble on his own as part of the "Keewest Development" engineering firm he founded down here in Southampton after the cars themselves finished.

Only one or two cars made I believe.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Yes.

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Corvette engine, supposedly built by Gordon Keeble for Vauxhall but I seem to recall it was actually Jim Keeble on his own as part of the "Keewest Development" engineering firm he founded down here in Southampton after the cars themselves finished.

Only one or two cars made I believe.

There’s a Road Test of that car on Trigger fromAS’ Retroroadtests on Flickr. Takes ages for me to find anything as technocripple.

[mercrocker]

I have the original MotorSport (I think) test somewhere but that will be even harder to find than something buried behind 3 paywalls and 2 lost passwords.....