[Misc] Any classic car fans on here?

[zefarelly]

I spent a day faffing with these last week. . .

 

[Easy 10]

Wow, the bodywork on that Aston

 

[zefarelly]

The bodywork on that Aston

It is a pretty truck. a DB5 isn't a great race car, too heavy . . a db4 is better, the DB5 Vantage is worth a few good family houses as a road car, but what do I know!

 

[Icy Gull]

Clarkson drove one of those Alfa's around Scotland in an episode of The Grand Tour last year, and was raving about it. Till the propshaft went. I think he (well, Amazon) paid about £10k for it.

Looked a lovely motor though, one with a bit of character.

The Ultimate GTV

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9BuZmJmpTdk

 

[Insel affe]

I would love another classic car and would just love a 1953 Studebaker or an El Camino 1969

I did have this bright red morris minor pick up split windscreen (me with steel toecap cheery boots!) for a few years, when i lived in Southgate.
I had to sell it in the end, after it got vandalised several times, they even cut the break cables, by mistake to be honest when they were siphoning the petrol !! horrible some people. I miss driving round in that, but then again I miss my hair aswell....

shame this is the only photo of it I have left.

 

[symyjym]

I've just discovered Car SOS and am amazed at the neglected unfinished project junk they can turn around.

 

[symyjym]

I would love another classic car and would just love a 1953 Studebaker or an El Camino 1969

I did have this bright red morris minor pick up split windscreen (me with steel toecap cheery boots!) for a few years, when i lived in Southgate.
I had to sell it in the end, after it got vandalised several times, they even cut the break cables, by mistake to be honest when they were siphoning the petrol !! horrible some people. I miss driving round in that, but then again I miss my hair aswell....

shame this is the only photo of it I have left.

All that's missing is the banjo

 

[Stat Brother]

I've just discovered Car SOS and am amazed at the neglected unfinished project junk they can turn around.

#TeamWheelerDealers

But crucially

#TeamEd.

 

[zefarelly]

I've just discovered Car SOS and am amazed at the neglected unfinished project junk they can turn around.

theyre never very accurate with the real cost of actually achieving the results though.

 

[zefarelly]

I would love another classic car and would just love a 1953 Studebaker or an El Camino 1969

I did have this bright red morris minor pick up split windscreen (me with steel toecap cheery boots!) for a few years, when i lived in Southgate.
I had to sell it in the end, after it got vandalised several times, they even cut the break cables, by mistake to be honest when they were siphoning the petrol !! horrible some people. I miss driving round in that, but then again I miss my hair aswell....

shame this is the only photo of it I have left.

Nice, there used to be a few vans about too, Eddy had one for ferrying broken scooters about . . . . down bear Rd, ignition off, then on 100m later 'BANG' there was a mini pick up around too in the late 80's which just about fitted a lambretta in the back. I had a van in '92

 

[Icy Gull]

#TeamWheelerDealers

But crucially

#TeamEd.

Mostly Bodge jobs I reckon, the MOT history on cars they have spivved up and sold on (totally ignoring the man hours involved in the resto) is generally poor within a year or so. I am sad enough to check this when I watch the programmes, which I do enjoy. Or should I say I enjoy watching Edd and get pretty irritated by Mike Brewer.

You’d think they’d be really good buys but in fact nearly all of them have pretty serious fails on the MOTs just a year or so later

I think Edd seems a good mechanic but they only seem to do jobs that make the car look better and have no big problems when driven rather than actually sorting the upcoming problems “whilst they are in there” Talk of spoof buyers abounds too.

 

[Insel affe]

Nice, there used to be a few vans about too, Eddy had one for ferrying broken scooters about . . . . down bear Rd, ignition off, then on 100m later 'BANG' there was a mini pick up around too in the late 80's which just about fitted a lambretta in the back. I had a van in '92View attachment 117062

Ha, I don't miss pumping the brakes, had a few scary moments on the North Circular....

I could fit my Vespa in the back of the moggie, I have been toying with the idea of another classic or another scooter, but a few years off from the scooter, i am wondering if it is a good idea, as the roads are so much crazier and I am risk adverse now a days, as opposed to when I was a scooter boy whizzing around like a dickhead...

Classic car I think in a few years.

 

[zefarelly]

I am risk adverse now a days, as opposed to when I was a scooter boy whizzing around like a dickhead... .

Thats still possible . . on the right roads, we went 300 miles to West Wales in August . . . .just to meet a load of other scooter boys and get pissed. proper weekend.. A properly restored scooter, or car for that matter is a much better proposition than the turds we had in the 80's!

 

[Uncle C]

I have one of these babies.

 

[marcos3263]

I've had a few,

1973 MGB GT (chrome bumper)
1968 Marcos 1650 Cosworth GT
1992 TVR Griffith 4.0l pre cat

also these if they count

Mini 1275 GT
Mini 1300 Special
MG Metro Turbo

all have a story, all are fondly remembered, all were a ****ing liability, all cost my a fortune and/or a relationship

 

[symyjym]

theyre never very accurate with the real cost of actually achieving the results though.

They never mention the costs. It's just a gift show for people who have had serious health issues and cannot complete the project. It's the Surprise Surprise show for the petrol head.

 

[symyjym]

#TeamWheelerDealers

But crucially

#TeamEd.

Yeah that's okay but Car SOS is more about the gift than the profit.

 

[zefarelly]

They never mention the costs. It's just a gift show for people who have had serious health issues and cannot complete the project. It's the Surprise Surprise show for the petrol head.

Ah yes, I'm thinking of something different, I don't watch any of them!

 

[Insel affe]

Thats still possible . . on the right roads, we went 300 miles to West Wales in August . . . .just to meet a load of other scooter boys and get pissed. proper weekend.. A properly restored scooter, or car for that matter is a much better proposition than the turds we had in the 80's!

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Ah yes, my good friend from The Sunday Sport Scooter club is a well known figure at rallies, you must surely know the guy on the left...
Bigun....

 

[zefarelly]

Looks very familiar.

three of us rode from Brighton to Wales and met a few other ex Brightonians one now near Glastonbury and the other, for some bizzare reason now lives way up in Hartlepool!