I lived just down the road from trevor Crowe. Great variety of cool cars-70s Vette, Jenson Interceptor mk III, V8 Avenger, 120Y SSS [the wifes car!] used to go sideways past our house, esp in the wet!
A mate had an Interceptor Mk 3 did a total body strip for repaint and discovered about 25Kg of factory applied bog to get everything looking right. Also did about 10mpg - you could watch the gauge drop as you pottered down to the shops! Putting in a new worked 383 fixed that - 12mpg but a bit more oomph.
The old man had a Mk 2 Triumph 2.5PI. Not to bad a car, as long as you kept Joe Lucas's mechanical fuel injection adjusted up properly - like - every fortnight! Very comfortable on a rough road as a touring car. TR6 cams helped a bit......
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Cor blimey! A few are appearing out of the woodwork around here!
You had better order up a series of The Professionals!
Which is precicely the problem.
I'm looking for "something" which eliminates any form of electrickery or computers, of any sort, between my foot and the carb/s.
Modern stuff be damned!
I know what you mean but a few cold winter morning commutes driving/riding with an old school choke and EFI starts to look good again. Fiddling around with summer/winter idle speed and mixture settings soon looses its charm. Fuel injections great as long as its setup for ride-ability and not for emissions.
The old man had a Mk 2 Triumph 2.5PI. Not to bad a car, as long as you kept Joe Lucas's mechanical fuel injection adjusted up properly - like - every fortnight! Very comfortable on a rough road as a touring car. TR6 cams helped a bit......
Dad had one of those too. It needed the PI tuned just about every time he drove it.
My dad had a new Triumph mk 1 2000. Had to wait on a list for 3 years to get it! Any colour you wanted as long as it was white with red interior. Lovely car. I had an English assembled Triumph Mk 1 2.5 Pi with full leather. Stunning car (rose tinted glasses firmly on) and the injection was not overly troublesome. Could devour petrol.......
I know a guy through work that just paid $8k for a mk3 Cortina. Apparently in storage for 15 years, it's a 1600 auto with 25,000km and all original but for the tyres & battery. What a cock.
I know a guy through work that just paid $8k for a mk3 Cortina. Apparently in storage for 15 years, it's a 1600 auto with 25,000km and all original but for the tyres & battery. What a cock.
That sounds like a lot of dosh for something that was never remarkable, innovative or particularly memorable.
That sounds like a lot of dosh for something that was never remarkable, innovative or particularly memorable.
It might be memorable for him and that's all that counts
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I know a guy through work that just paid $8k for a mk3 Cortina. Apparently in storage for 15 years, it's a 1600 auto with 25,000km and all original but for the tyres & battery. What a cock.
It also depends on how much 8k means to him, it may well amount to fuck all in his scheme of things.
Now on series 3 of The Sweeney. Pure motoring porn. Many P6 Rovers and some blaggers using a Transit for a getaway. The bugger wouldn't start - how's that for realism?
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Dad had the 2.5 TC version from memory. I was a big fan of Triumph cars. Out of school I soon ended up with a Toledo, then a red GT6, so cool. Then on to a TR6 (had two over the years). Bloody well designed cars TR6 with multiple roof options; a hard top, soft top up, soft top up with rear screen unzipped or topless. Only once did the PI need servicing by the Lucas experts.
Put a 307 chev into 2.5tc. Went a lot better but was very hard on diffs. Spare diff in the boot with 2 jacks and some sockets. Under a hr on the side of the road to replace one.
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That sounds like a lot of dosh for something that was never remarkable, innovative or particularly memorable.
Probably be able to sell it for the same or more than he paid in 10 years time if he looks after it. Some 80's cars are getting really scarce - even if they aren't remarkable sometimes the rarity factor alone is enough to appreciate in value.
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