Lovely Cars: Interesting, Classic, Retro, Barge 5-10k
Discussion
The Crack Fox said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
There are times that 122,000 miles completed is reassuring. This is one of them.
Who's got the balls for this?
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C835549
Waaaaaay overpriced. But lovely, nonetheless.Who's got the balls for this?
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C835549
soxboy said:
Balmoral said:
Get rid of the awful plate and straighten up the wonky nearside inboard tailpipe, and that's quite nice.
I don't mind the plate, at least it definitely goes with the car! There's something very cool about this. It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see Scooby and Shaggy bounding out of the back of...
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C853343
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C853343
don29 said:
There's something very cool about this. It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see Scooby and Shaggy bounding out of the back of...
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C853343
Crazy expensive, but utterly delightful and cool as anything. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C853343
As it's the last Friday of the month I thought I might get away with bending the budget somewhat.
Daimler V8 250 - 1968 £15k
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222457385741
It's just too nice to leave stranded in to ->£20k dead thread.
Daimler V8 250 - 1968 £15k
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222457385741
It's just too nice to leave stranded in to ->£20k dead thread.
don29 said:
There's something very cool about this. It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see Scooby and Shaggy bounding out of the back of...
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C853343
Flowery and wordy advert you know it won't be cheap... Scroll down to price, yup I was right!http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C853343
It's very nice though
K12beano said:
... longer he should have spent proof reading the advert?Unless those are the wrong photos, of course, I can see plenty of rust.
bob-lad said:
Daimler V8 250 - 1968 £15k
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222457385741
It's just too nice to leave stranded in to ->£20k dead thread.
That is really nice. Good spot. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222457385741
It's just too nice to leave stranded in to ->£20k dead thread.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
I do like the look of that.My father had a beige one in the 70s - I guess when it was about ten years old and I was about 14-16 - so nostalgiaville for me.
It was one of those V4 Ford engines (which everyone said was nicer than the earlier triples). Before that he had (what I presume was) the same engine in a '66 Corsair. I always thought the Corsair waaaay cooler, but the eccentricities of the Saab were fun.
The acoustics were terrible - we had a little radio wired in which sounded awful when the boot space acted as a one-note bass. But it would rattle its way up the hills (and sometimes up to 70mph - unlike many other of his old bangers through the years) and freewheel for miles down the other side all along the A35 through the New Forest. I don't know what the actual mpg was like (we'd just had the oil crisis) but I remember we were all very impressed. (And I bet I'd be pleased if my "modern" car was anywhere near.
Being relatively light (panels the consistency of cardboard - but at least they sprung back if you leant on them) and so aerodynamic it also seemed ahead of its time - and now looking back seems very "pretty" compared to the obese look of yer average modern tin box.
I can only guess that it'd be goddawful to drive on today's roads - but we had very few Motorways to contend with in those days. It might be delightful if you were just tooling around Dorset or Norfolk where M'ways are still yet to be invented...
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