COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)
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dbdb said:
The XJ40 is my second favourite XJ too, and with Fishtanks. The stance of the car is just perfect and the roofline and profile is wonderful. I love that they tried to make a fully modern car with the XJ40, just as they had done with the Series car before it. The 'retro' path they took following the XJ40 was a dead end in my view.
Exactly this.The XJ40 looks sharper than the X300. Of course, as a design, the XJ (1,2 and 3) are objectively maybe more beautiful but then I am always a sucker for the underdog. And the XJ40 is definitively the XJ underdog.
uk66fastback said:
gt40steve said:
So is that a Mercury Capri as opposed to a Ford Capri?
Although many call them Mercury Capri for obvious reasons.
These federal Capris Mk1's don't carry Ford or Mercury badging. They were sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealers simply as 'Capri' .
Alongside the CAPRI lettered bonnet on the car pictured you can see the square holes in the front panel where the 5mph impact absorbing bumper would have been fitted.
The later Mercury Capri was a badge engineered, flat front version of the Mustang Mk3, called the Fox body Mustang.
Escort3500 said:
Years ago I helped a mate get an A30 through its MoT with copious amounts of Isopon filler and mesh. Getting the rotten curved sills to something like a decent profile took hours of sanding 
Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust.
A friends father, Irish guy, used to fix rusty sills, with concrete, skim of filler, job done. Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust. My mate fixes, read bodges, loads of otherwise good Fiesta and Focus with rusty lower front wings, with expanding foam, skim, and rattle can. no mesh needed.
anyoldcardave said:
Escort3500 said:
Years ago I helped a mate get an A30 through its MoT with copious amounts of Isopon filler and mesh. Getting the rotten curved sills to something like a decent profile took hours of sanding Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust.
A friends father, Irish guy, used to fix rusty sills, with concrete, skim of filler, job done. Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust. My mate fixes, read bodges, loads of otherwise good Fiesta and Focus with rusty lower front wings, with expanding foam, skim, and rattle can. no mesh needed.
I also used strips of oil can and pop rivets behind the Isopon P40.
Classic car, classic fix.
Dan Singh said:
GTRene said:
Yertis said:
TR4man said:
That Spitfire’s rear suspension looks suspect!
It’s way out isn’t it.
Either it's just been let off the jack and hasn't settled, or it's been wrongly reassembled.
anyoldcardave said:
A friends father, Irish guy, used to fix rusty sills, with concrete, skim of filler, job done.
My mate fixes, read bodges, loads of otherwise good Fiesta and Focus with rusty lower front wings, with expanding foam, skim, and rattle can. no mesh needed.
One of my mates was a slightly dodgy bodger. His tip was to mix iron filings with the filler so the repair would pass a magnet test.My mate fixes, read bodges, loads of otherwise good Fiesta and Focus with rusty lower front wings, with expanding foam, skim, and rattle can. no mesh needed.
dbdb said:
Stick Legs said:
I drove a very early 3.6 Daimler XJ40 in white on a D plate. It had navy hide & must have been about 10 years old then.
I was about 18.
It absolutely blew me away.
Quick. Comfortable. Silent.
It also had a rusty bootlid.
My favourite XJ of all time is the Series 2.
My second is the ‘fishtank’ headlight XJ40.
Something very retro-futuristic about it now.
Especially with the digital intstruments.
9 TonyBenns.
https://youtu.be/EYnGza8W-5w?si=I4D17AfmCLbXQMwE
Nine ToniBenns, I like it! I remember watching that when it was first broadcast. I was about 18.
It absolutely blew me away.
Quick. Comfortable. Silent.
It also had a rusty bootlid.
My favourite XJ of all time is the Series 2.
My second is the ‘fishtank’ headlight XJ40.
Something very retro-futuristic about it now.
Especially with the digital intstruments.
9 TonyBenns.
https://youtu.be/EYnGza8W-5w?si=I4D17AfmCLbXQMwE
My favourite XJ is also the Series 2 - for me, it is probably the best looking post-war saloon car of all. The XJ40 is my second favourite XJ too, and with Fishtanks. The stance of the car is just perfect and the roofline and profile is wonderful. I love that they tried to make a fully modern car with the XJ40, just as they had done with the Series car before it. The 'retro' path they took following the XJ40 was a dead end in my view.
Mr Tidy said:
anyoldcardave said:
Escort3500 said:
Years ago I helped a mate get an A30 through its MoT with copious amounts of Isopon filler and mesh. Getting the rotten curved sills to something like a decent profile took hours of sanding Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust.
A friends father, Irish guy, used to fix rusty sills, with concrete, skim of filler, job done. Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust. My mate fixes, read bodges, loads of otherwise good Fiesta and Focus with rusty lower front wings, with expanding foam, skim, and rattle can. no mesh needed.
I also used strips of oil can and pop rivets behind the Isopon P40.
Classic car, classic fix.
Edited by Escort3500 on Saturday 13th April 06:45
Escort3500 said:
Mr Tidy said:
anyoldcardave said:
Escort3500 said:
Years ago I helped a mate get an A30 through its MoT with copious amounts of Isopon filler and mesh. Getting the rotten curved sills to something like a decent profile took hours of sanding Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust.
A friends father, Irish guy, used to fix rusty sills, with concrete, skim of filler, job done. Like most cars of the era, they really loved to rust. My mate fixes, read bodges, loads of otherwise good Fiesta and Focus with rusty lower front wings, with expanding foam, skim, and rattle can. no mesh needed.
I also used strips of oil can and pop rivets behind the Isopon P40.
Classic car, classic fix.
Edited by Escort3500 on Saturday 13th April 06:45
The other one was the legendary rust bucket known as the Rover 827 Vitesse. I got a body shop to fix this one although the rusty seams were a different matter.
[quote=21st Century Man]R Type standard steel saloon in Norwich yesterday.
I had the earlier (smaller boot) version, the MKVI a few years back. [/quote
Parked outside the Maids Head. In the background is the venerable Samson & Hercules ballroom, scene of many a night's entertainment for me as a teenager. DJ by Howard Platt.
I had the earlier (smaller boot) version, the MKVI a few years back. [/quote
Parked outside the Maids Head. In the background is the venerable Samson & Hercules ballroom, scene of many a night's entertainment for me as a teenager. DJ by Howard Platt.
nicanary]1st Century Man said:
R Type standard steel saloon in Norwich yesterday.
I had the earlier (smaller boot) version, the MKVI a few years back. [/quote
Parked outside the Maids Head. In the background is the venerable Samson & Hercules ballroom, scene of many a night's entertainment for me as a teenager. DJ by Howard Platt.
Me too, spent many a happy night in the Sam & Herc, followed by a chinese on the top of the multi story carpark; in those days the waiters wore dinner suits with tails.I had the earlier (smaller boot) version, the MKVI a few years back. [/quote
Parked outside the Maids Head. In the background is the venerable Samson & Hercules ballroom, scene of many a night's entertainment for me as a teenager. DJ by Howard Platt.
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