Scimitar 5a for 9k?

[plasticpig]

Yertis said:

We got an SE6 as the practical car when our eldest daughter was born. We (or rather, I) fastened a Britax baby seat to the weird folding rear seats with loadstraps. My memories are these. One – it was always overheating – IIRC this was a design flaw in the SE6.

The overheating issues with an SE6 are similar to the Triumph Stag. It will not overheat if the cooling system is in tip top condition.

[Yertis]

Hmmm, I suppose so, if you count introducing fleas and old methadone prescriptions (the clue that ultimately explained the mysterious apprarance of the fleas) as ‘enhancements’.

[irocfan]

I must admit that were I to be in a position to buy one, the one I'd be looking at (and I'll happily duck here!) would be the SE6a

[anonymous-user]

My issue with late model Scimitars, apart from bloat, is that they maintained at least some of the level of interior shonk from the earlier ones, whilst positioning to be ever more upmarket smoothmobiles, and charging accordingly. Also, and because of the up market blah, too many of them are autos, and - except in a Ford Granada - a Cologne mated to an autobox is an abomination before the Lord. Also, my inner Tommy Robinson disapproves of engines made in Germany placed into shonkytastical small output British sports jalopies. If Britmobiles are to be bitsers, they should have engines stolen from America, or possibly even Japan (I am looking at you, Lotus, you tossers).

[TooMany2cvs]

So, umm, would anybody like to give me a good reason why not to...

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C973930
or
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C999739

[anonymous-user]

The red one. Avoid the School for the Gifted gearbox versions.

[anonymous-user]

Also, Lowtimer will not beat you to the red one, despite it being all up in his business, because Lowtimer comes out in a rash when any car is red. Do not tell him that it needs a re-spray anyway. On second thoughts, do. He's from Yorkshire, and therefore stinking rich but also tight as a gnat's chuff. Because Yorkshire.

[Furyblade_Lee]

I sold my SE5a for around £2k in 2011, it was otherwise stunning but was suffering from paint osmosis... Hundreds of bubbles appeared in the and I was quoted £10k for a respray!!!!! That was I think by Walkers in the midlands somewhere....
I would not hesitate to pay £9k for a show quality 5a, or a 5. Compared to sinking £9k into a cheap new hatchback , finacial suicide, 9 on a tidy Scim seems fine to me.

[TooMany2cvs]

TooMany2cvs said:

So, umm, would anybody like to give me a good reason why not to...

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C973930
or
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C999739

Oh, bugger. After a ride in a mate's TVR S (2.9) yesterday, I'm now really quite liking the combo of tupperware and Crapi leftovers. Wonder what it'd take to make a Scim sound like that...?

[Lowtimer]

Breadvan72 said:

Also, Lowtimer will not beat you to the red one, despite it being all up in his business, because Lowtimer comes out in a rash when any car is red. Do not tell him that it needs a re-spray anyway. On second thoughts, do. He's from Yorkshire, and therefore stinking rich but also tight as a gnat's chuff. Because Yorkshire.

I shall not be jumping in on it. The redness is certainly strong. If I bought it and painted the outsides green, like my old one, then every time I opened a door or the bonnet it would look like some sort of horrific medical experiment on an amphibian. If I bought it and stripped all the oily bits off and did the entire shell painted properly inside and out, then I would be a very poor Yorkshireman indeed at the end of the process, and in any case baby Turbonutter needs new shoes, and the Panzerkampfwagen is ahead in the queue for paint.

[anonymous-user]

Told you, didn't I?

"I'm not mean. I'm just careful. Now put that teabag back in t' sideboard - 'appen she be worth at least three more goes."

[anonymous-user]

PS: has the Turbonutter Nazipimpenwagen still got the stripy disco dancing seats? Does the turbo still come on half way around every corner and fling you cheerfully into every available ditch?

[Lowtimer]

The pimptasmic pinstriping endures but the tyres are six years old now, so I think it's time for a change before the lure of the ditch becomes irresistible.

Also I could do with a wheel refurb, so am doing a bit of a mix and match amongst my sordid collection of Design 90s. I favour the daring innovation of having all four tyres the SAME SIZE, oo-er, gosh, as finding four nice ones of the same make and speed rating in the quaint combination of obsolescent 16" sizes insisted upon by the marketing department in 1990 is less than entirely amusing.

Furthermore it's Big Service year: belts, pulleys, rollers, water pump, etc etc. Bloody thing. Might have to start renting out the whippet.

[Lowtimer]

TooMany2cvs said:

Oh, bugger. After a ride in a mate's TVR S (2.9) yesterday, I'm now really quite liking the combo of tupperware and Crapi leftovers. Wonder what it'd take to make a Scim sound like that...?

Practically nothing. The Essex is a nicer sounding engine than the 2.9 Cologne anyway, wth a lovely gurgly idle. Ditch the factory air filter for an 80s style Pipercross or similar for gasping hissy induction thrills, and the exhaust on a 5a is pretty elemental anyway, being a full dual system from manifolds right back to the tailpipes. Mine always sounded fab.

This one has the front boxes deleted, which is basically about an hour's cutting and welding, and phwoar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWIg2NgA59o

This one is even nicer sounding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhUKLSPXoj0

[brucky74]

Had a 6a now have a 67 3Ltr GT Coupe. The Essex engine is great for very little you can nudge 200BHP in a 1200 kg car. These cars are bargains when you look at similar cars with the same engine from this period. Every one goes on about the break the bank paint jobs. Well get your typical classic with rotten sills arches etc it soon mounts up. The chassis do rust but can be sorted fairly easily as they aren’t steel tubes. Scimitars really grow on you and are something British and really different. Mine sits at 100mph all day long, not many classics you could name in the same price bracket can compete, period.

Edited by brucky74 on Saturday 16th June 08:35

[hidetheelephants]

Breadvan72 said:

PS: is the shooting brake/sporty estate car the best ever type of car ever invented, in ever? The Lancia HPE, The Lynx Eventer, that Volvo the name of which I forget, the Scimitar GTE, the Alfa 156 Sportwagon, and so on.

P1800ES if you're Roger Moore, or 480ES if you're a fan of shonky dutch electrics and water leaks.

[anonymous-user]

Shonky is always good!

That Scimitar above has mega grippy tyres, eh?


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[citizensm1th]

I swear i heard you do that thing all the way over here in carcassonne

at least being a canoe they can just tow it over to you and save on shipping (or is that become a danger to shipping)

[rene7]

IMO They're all overpriced - a few month's ago I was hoping to do a GTE restomod [chevey V8 etc etc] - looked at several possibles, all around £2-4K, I wouldn't have paid more than a few hundred for any of 'em. The owners/sellers were all dreamers - all the cars I saw needed silly money spending on them, I wanted a solid car, would've done the body/paint myself but I never saw a decent car at a sensible price - Oh well

[anonymous-user]

My one is in South Carolina, yee haw.

Nothing could be finer,
Than to be in Carolina,
In a shonky British plastic bitzermobile with an aaaaawning.*






* OK, a Webasto.