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I can rememnber these large Vauxhall saloons being a familiar sight until they all rusted away by the eighties. Alwatys thought they looked very stylish with their four headlamp front end, coke bottle styling and vinyl roofs on top of the range The Victors were the more basic versions, the VX 4/90 was the sprorting 2 litre version with more equilpment, and there was a luxury Ventora model with a straight six engine. Anyone have good or bad memories of the FD and does anyone still have one? Read more
I was out bided on this car by what looks like a total time wasting tyre kicker
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Morris-/155187255940?mk...
The car had been on bid for £1,380.00 for quite a while. Then I can and placed my bid of £1,550 five minutes before the auction ended
Then the £1,380.00 went upto £1,400.00 and then up a little bit more and a bit more and so on until it went to £1,550 and then finally £1,600
The original bidder of £1,380.00 had high feed back, but this latest bidder who was out bidding me only had a feed back score of 2
https://www.ebay.co.uk/bfl/viewbids/155187255940?i...
Again it looks to me like a total time waster. but if that time waster had not of bided then I would of won the auction for £1,420.00 not £1,550.00. So if the wining bidder dose not turn up to buy then the seller may offer it to me at my highest rate. But have I over paid for this?
Look at this site
https://www.hagerty.co.uk/valuation/tool/results/?...
it values the car at £1,600.00 for fair condition
Question, from the add do you think the car is in fair condition and do you think the evaluation is right?
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I have a Marina Roadster (Kit Car) whose donor vehicle was largely a Morris Marina 1800 TC.
But the kit got rid of the awful front lever arm suspension by replacing it with a top wishbone from a Mini and a separate shock absorber.
At the rear the mounting plates for the rear shocks were turned over and swopped sides so that the shockers helped keep the rear end on the road.
I also bought a MM 1800 single carb to eventually use as spares. I careful vicar owner (Really!).
BUT the massive problem with these cars was their habit of busting the reverse idler shaft, or gears.
I had my box rebuilt once by a cowboy company, then it went again, so this time I did it myself at great expense because the spares were eye-watering, and it went AGAIN. I then bought a recon box which had a reinforced reverse and it still runs fine!
TBH most 70s cars were rot boxes.
I once took a new rep to pick up his new Ford Cortina back in about 1976.
At the garage it wouldn't start so we and the dealer's bloke lifted the bonnet to look at the battery. To our shock the whole of the underside of the bonnet was cobvered in rust! It was one of the last of the coke bottle shaped mk 3s. There was an overlap between them and the mk4s. We guessed it had been parked up i8n a field in Germany or soemwhere, for months!
Could anyone recommend a carpet source + fitter around the Glos area ? (burgundy wool with beading).... Read more
Could anyone recommend a carpet source + fitter around the Glos area ? (burgundy wool with beading).... Read more
Hello, I'm trying to find my late grandads old Humber Hawk. I believe it is a pre war Hawk, he Painted it Maroon when he restored it. Reg HOH53. If anyone can help me it would be much appreciated. Picture attached is the old Hawk and my Grandad at a show at the NEC Birmingham.
Thank you in advance.... Read more
It is now being hired out for films:
www.vintagehoot.uk/our-cars
What are the best classic car shows you have seen or particiapted in UK ? Read more
The Festival of the Unexceptional.
Hello,me too, i love that car so much. I hope I'll have it one day and wish you the same :)
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Sorry for the late reply, i seldom (read never) look at the classic forum.
Yes i had a '69 Ventora, and loved every second of ownership.
When i got the car it was sat on Michelin ZX tyres and was, putting it mildly, utterly lethal in the wet, swapped those for a set of the recently released Goodyear Unisteel which transformed the car completely.
It was the tractability of that 3.3 6 pot engine that endeared me, engage overdrive top (5th gear effectively) at 10 mph and she'd pul cleanly right through to 110, with more to go, without the slightest hiccup.
The joys of smallish light cars with big lazy unstressed engines.
First mortgage meant selling it sadly, so no car for several months during which time if i recall i went to work on my mother's no longer used old Batavus moped, eventually spotted a Landcrab in need of a clutch for a princely £80 and dropped a new clutch into it on the road outside our new home, something you almost never see these days due to the inability of people to find the bonnet pull.