Best smoker barges 1-5 large [vol11]

[BigBen]

Lowtimer said:

bob-lad said:

Apparently, when new, it developed 223hp and drank at a rate of 13.4mpg.

Both those figures are probably smaller now

If that was SAE Gross then it was probably smaller then, never mind now

On the plus side the gallons are also smaller so the fuel economy is probably better than the figures suggest.

[TheLordJohn]

Vaud said:

30hp per litre??? Talk about unstressed...

Talk about st engineering, more like.

[bob-lad]

BigBen said:

On the plus side the gallons are also smaller so the fuel economy is probably better than the figures suggest.

No, that's the imperial figure. The US was 12.

[bob-lad]

Vaud said:

30hp per litre??? Talk about unstressed...

Could you imagine how "interesting" it would be to drive with that chassis, suspension, brake, tyre combination with proper power outputs

[r129sl]

bob-lad said:

Vaud said:

30hp per litre??? Talk about unstressed...

Could you imagine how "interesting" it would be to drive with that chassis, suspension, brake, tyre combination with proper power outputs

According to Wikipedia, the 1968 T-bird with the 429cu in (7.0L) big block V8 had 360hp and was tuned down (!) for insurance reasons.

[BigBen]

bob-lad said:

BigBen said:

On the plus side the gallons are also smaller so the fuel economy is probably better than the figures suggest.

No, that's the imperial figure. The US was 12.

That makes senses, 16 (or whatever) wouldn't have been too bad....

[0a]

George7 said:

0a said:

The XJ8 went into restricted performance mode today (very restricted!) and goes there if you use significant revs several times. Annoying as I had been getting on with it very well.

Any ideas? Obviously get it to my mechanic and get the faults read. However I have 2 cars there already and owe him some parts!

Hopefully not the gearbox saying goodbye...

A friend of mine had a recurring 'engine failsafe mode' issue on his 2000 XJ8 which turned out to be a dodgy coil pack. We identified which one it was with a cheap ODBII code reader.

Excellent thanks! Hopefully it is something like that. I will get it to my mechanic next week.

[Pothole]

r129sl said:

There is something admirable about that. Our man Sedgwick (the Barigst's Bargist) was a big fan of yank tanks, running a couple of Lincoln Continentals and Cadillac Eldorados on his Surrey to Mayfair commute and on some of his long distance jaunts but nothing so base as a Ford.

Meh, A Lincoln's just a Ford in a posh frock.

[r129sl]

Pothole said:

r129sl said:

There is something admirable about that. Our man Sedgwick (the Barigst's Bargist) was a big fan of yank tanks, running a couple of Lincoln Continentals and Cadillac Eldorados on his Surrey to Mayfair commute and on some of his long distance jaunts but nothing so base as a Ford.

Meh, A Lincoln's just a Ford in a posh frock.

Everything is fake these days. Anyway, I quite like the 2017 Lincoln Continental.

[harrykul]

That's not bad actually, good colour choice by the marketing dept: would have just looked gangsta in black.

[SpeckledJim]

That car provoked an embarrassing Twitter dummy-spit from the guy who styled the MkIII Flying Spur.

[Vaud]

SpeckledJim said:

That car provoked an embarrassing Twitter dummy-spit from the guy who styled the MkIII Flying Spur.

Any link to the dummy-spit?

[Jimmy Recard]

TheLordJohn said:

Talk about st engineering, more like.

European cars too sold in the US at the time had much smaller power outputs than the ones sold in Europe. The emissions control systems really took any joy from 1970s cars.

It's also SAE net power, not bhp. I doubt that a Jaguar 5.3 V12 of the period was making any/much more power than that in US spec.

[Krikkit]

Vaud said:

SpeckledJim said:

That car provoked an embarrassing Twitter dummy-spit from the guy who styled the MkIII Flying Spur.

Any link to the dummy-spit?

Forgive Jalopnik, but a good summary: http://jalopnik.com/bentley-designer-calls-out-lin...

[SpeckledJim]

Vaud said:

SpeckledJim said:

That car provoked an embarrassing Twitter dummy-spit from the guy who styled the MkIII Flying Spur.

Any link to the dummy-spit?

sort of.

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/03/31/bentley-designe...

http://www.carscoops.com/2015/03/bentley-designers...

[BlueMR2]

Looks more Volvo S80 than Bentley, especially from the back, but that's no bad thing, the Bentleys pretty ugly.

Saw a new Benteyga too, eew.

[anonymous-user]

Lincoln looks great. Bentley, not so much.

[Max M4X WW]

This is for sale near to me, looks OK in photos and I had a brief walk round but can do some more investigation if required. MOT history not great but seen worse.

http://www.country-classic-cars.co.uk/listings/199...

[ian316]

not happy yesterday morning thieving gits

Edited by ian316 on Saturday 29th April 13:25

[r129sl]

Max M4X WW said:

This is for sale near to me, looks OK in photos and I had a brief walk round but can do some more investigation if required. MOT history not great but seen worse.

http://www.country-classic-cars.co.uk/listings/199...

Now that I like a great deal. The MOT history is not the end of the world. Can you expand on your comments? (Please.)