You had it easy young man.. my dad had an 1100 and was way more sophisticated than my first - you had things like self-cancelling indicators and didn't have to bang on the B pillar to get the arrow to come out. At least mine still had a starting handle...
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Is the M3 the new Ford Cortina?
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You had it easy young man.. my dad had an 1100 and was way more sophisticated than my first - you had things like self-cancelling indicators and didn't have to bang on the B pillar to get the arrow to come out. At least mine still had a starting handle...
Starting handle?
Luxury!
We had to turn the engine over using our teeth and do an oil change by sucking it out with a straw....
RobDickinson
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A straw? What luxury...
Tesla's plan has always been to build and make mass volume evs, Its by far the most popular (ev) car globally for now, its still to expensive and the market is more focused on suv's so I expect the 'model 2'/cuv vehicles to smash it even more.
Tesla's plan has always been to build and make mass volume evs, Its by far the most popular (ev) car globally for now, its still to expensive and the market is more focused on suv's so I expect the 'model 2'/cuv vehicles to smash it even more.
EVer Hopeful
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I thought the Sweeney used the Consul ... the one that looked like a Granada - oh I see I was a bit late to post this one
Right Tinkerbell ... You're NICKED!
But if the question is "Is the M3 the new Ford Cortina?" perhaps given the possibility of it getting the new yoke, it's more of the Austin Allegro - with the Steering Square(tm)
The Allegro was a car of two halves. They just needed welding back together occasionallyI thought the Sweeney used the Consul ... the one that looked like a Granada - oh I see I was a bit late to post this one
Right Tinkerbell ... You're NICKED!
But if the question is "Is the M3 the new Ford Cortina?" perhaps given the possibility of it getting the new yoke, it's more of the Austin Allegro - with the Steering Square(tm)
DigbyChicken
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As per my post here - Is the M3 the new Ford Cortina? - yep, 3-litre Consul GT V6 in the title sequence and much of the first season. (In the pilot episode, Regan's driving a dark blue Granada and the squad car's a light blue Zodiac.)
I'll put a lid on it (guv) as I'm wary of boring everyone to death, but if you ever watch any of those old episodes back... Let's just say, the handling of the cars leaves a little to be desired. (In one early episode there's a chase involving Carter's pea-green Allegro. And most weeks the villains were driving S-types that wobbled around like beached whales.)
Zigway
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I also hoped the Honda factory (capable of 250,000 vehicles per year) would have been an ideal target for EV manufacturing, but seems not; the whole site has been purchased by a company that is going to convert it into a large logistics/distribution park (Panattoni Park Swindon - Panattoni UK). Although Tesla started with taking over an old car plant in Fremont, I guess the Honda site is probably not expandable enough in Elon’s view of a Gigafactory, where he would just aim to replicate his existing blueprint rather than convert an existing facility.
But anyway, back to the good old Cortina, I was jealous that my best mate’s dad had a Cortina Mk3 compared to my Dad’s Morris Marina, right up until my Dad got a new Marina HL that had velour seats, front head rests, two door mirrors and a single speaker AM radio - a Top Trumps win for me! So easily impressed in those days, but to be honest just not burning your legs on vinyl seats in the summer was enough for me back then, though I do have that problem again now in my M3!
Sparkeur
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OK...OK..I know Reagan used the famous Ford Consul but Cortina NHK 296M made more than a few appearances - sometimes with different plates..
EVer Hopeful
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I'm currently watching George Gently on Acorn and I watched Endeavour before that. Fascinating to watch the world of my youth recreated like that - and interesting to see how many dark blue Triumph Heralds there were. There's one in almost every scene of Endeavour
The only thing that jars in those type of productions is how clean and well looked after all the vehicles are ... even the old Bedford delivery vans with the sliding doors! In the real world they'd be completely knackered and slobbering oil by the gallon
The only thing that jars in those type of productions is how clean and well looked after all the vehicles are ... even the old Bedford delivery vans with the sliding doors! In the real world they'd be completely knackered and slobbering oil by the gallon
I never had to worry about changing the oil - just pour another pint in every 100 miles....
Regulo
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I had a Riley Elf (mini with a boot), and enquired about using it for TV and film shoots. There is an agency that deals wth that sort of thing. However, before I got much further than finding out about the possibility, some numpty in a Ford Sierra (where'd they all go?) totalled it by jumping a red light. Shame, I loved that little car.
So true! The vehicles look pristine, like they've just come out of classic car showroom. They definitely need more faded paint, rust, ill fitting doors, bald tyres and smokey exhausts! Back then a winter morning in any street was a cacophony of starter motors churning away. There was always one that turned slower and slower until the owner gave up and you then heard the mettalic rattle of a bonnet lid being hoisted accompanied by some muffled curses. Eventually all the cars could set off on their respective journeys ... full choke on and the waft of raw petrol inside and outside! Ah, those were the days ... who would choose a "souless" EV in preference? Well, me for one!
EVer Hopeful
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The bloke two doors up from me had a Hillman Imp wot he'd painted himself
. . . with a paintbrush
. . . with a paintbrush
Regulo
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Not unusual, a fellow apprentice did quite a decent job on his A30 with a can of Dulux gloss!
The yard and handyman at one place I worked painted his morris traveller by brush using Woolies household gloss. A perfect result following tradition of progressively thinned several coats followed by another few coats of varnish which could be rubbed down and redone easily.
I cheated and resprayed my second car using mum's vacuum cleaner and cellulose paint
I cheated and resprayed my second car using mum's vacuum cleaner and cellulose paint
Regulo
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If I had to guess, I'd say most contributors to this thread were a bit North of the State retirement age! Am I right?
Regulo
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