What classic vehicles have you seen?

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TerryG
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#771 Post by TerryG »

One of the Aforementioned Series Landies keeping my RR company in Tesco the other morning :)
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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
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#772 Post by Martin Evans »

There's a V12 E Type in the garage near the shop at the moment. There is also the resident Alfa Spider, with the engine out, that has been sat there for years (I think the owner is hoping that the engine will repair itself....or that the owner of the garage will take pity on him).
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#773 Post by JPB »

TerryG wrote:One of the Aforementioned Series Landies keeping my RR company in Tesco the other morning :)...
Wow, that Land Rover's doing a great job of pretending to be an early '60s example :roll: . I'd love to be the person called upon to do the test on that and then I'd also love to be the one who seizes the vehicle pending the VOSA enquiry that's likely to end with its being allotted a Q. :evil:
Bleedin' vehicle identity cheats, grr.... July 1962 my backside! [/rant over :) ]
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#774 Post by TerryG »

I know a man who bought a 1971 range rover that was ROTTEN, he fixed the chassis and dropped the body from a 1993 on it. It is a bit of a cheat but if you have enough points then it's not a problem.
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Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
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#775 Post by kstrutt1 »

On a seperate chassis vehicle the body counts for nothing when determining identity and after 50 odd years of usually hard work very few have the original mechanicals or chassis components ( or even the chassis come to that) I don't know how anyone would determine it's identity or even really be able to question it.
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#776 Post by Paul240480 »

It's the same car, 4 new bodies, 6 new engines and 2 new chassis's Del :roll:
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#777 Post by JPB »

kstrutt1 wrote:On a seperate chassis vehicle the body counts for nothing when determining identity and after 50 odd years of usually hard work very few have the original mechanicals or chassis components ( or even the chassis come to that) I don't know how anyone would determine it's identity or even really be able to question it.
Who said anything about the body though? Even so, it too has a points value and Land Rovers are very much on VOSA's radar just now, as is anything else where the correct age governs whether there's a cost for the VED.
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#778 Post by CologneV6 »

Sitting on the train today going from East Croydon to London Bridge. Just before we went through Forest Hill station I noticed a gold coloured Sunbeam Rapier fastback - not seen one for ages.
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#779 Post by Grumpy Northener »

This appears at our office on the outskirts of Guildford every day to deliver our lunch
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1937 Jowett 8 - Project - in less pieces than the Jupiter
1943 Jowett Stationary Engine
1952 Jowett Jupiter - In lots of peices http://Jowett.org/
1952 Jowett Javelin - Largely original
1973 Rover P6 V8 - Original / 22,000 miles
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#780 Post by JPB »

That's just lovely. Sadly, our sarnie van at work is some bland Peugeot thing :( from the caterers' fleet of a dozen similar, but at least the driver has a Dixie horn to announce the coming of lunch.
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