What would you buy & why?

[rich.]

all your dreams have come true john...except for the ones with the tin of pilchards & ms friel

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/22250050 ... rmvSB=true

[JPB]

Yeah, I noticed that. It's very tidy but it's also a Hydragas one, so not a sustainable proposition even if I could still manage to get into a Maxi since I'd have to fit valves to the bell ends of its bottles before I'd feel able to trust the thing. Either that, or convert to Hydrolastic which is way too much graft for too little reward!
However, that grey A60, whose vendor didn't want to sell it to someone who planned to raise the front seat by a couple of inches because that would be a "modification" , is also back on eBay and the price has fallen to below the amount that I offered at the time (banging head against wall emoticon needed here methinks..), so if I hadn't already made my mind up to find a T147, I'd be sending someone to grab the 1967 grey BMC product for me by now, which would mean that I could buy it without the pompous twunt realising who had bought the car while it was too late for the family to do a damned thing about it.
Honestly; how can the idea of my fitting a pair of tasteful strips of quality hardwood between the front floor channels and the seat runners be reason enough not to let someone buy a car, even if it is quite a good, unspoilt example? I do like an A60, but that or the Vermilion Maxi might be a short term thing at best, where the VW's seat and ceiling height - along with the bB's similarly suitable dimensions - would see me right for years to come, meaning that I wouldn't be in the same position as I was in with the Corolla, having to get rid of it because I'd effectively become unable to use the car.

I'll have my Fridolin, mark my worms!


Pilchards you say? Can you draw me a picture of what that would look like please? I'm intrigued.

[GHT]

Pilchards you say? Can you draw me a picture of what that would look like please? I'm intrigued.

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[rich.]

the maxi isnt the car of your wildest dreams john
never mind, try this.. although you may have to cut off your legs a little...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1983-Honda-Ci ... 3641.l6368

have you thought about the triumph stag?

or one of these?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1968-AUDI-100 ... rmvSB=true

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-AUSTI ... 3641.l6368

[rich.]

or if you really insist on a vw i have never heard of...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volkswagen-Bo ... 2656231743

although i think you should give the renault avantime a chance.. why should i be the only one to enjoy the delights of renaults electrical pixies... or failing that get the a 60 just to annoy the seller

[JPB]

Lovely old ambulance, but there's a wheel where my legs would need to go to get into the cab. My Trader was similar but back then, I could bend at the knees sufficiently to squeeze through and to lift my feet that high. If the floor were at the same height as the step, that alleged star of Heartbeat would be fine. Hmm, can I think of a classic vehicle that provides that sort of ease of entry? The T147 Fridolin does, I'm having one of those, watch this space! That's not a decision that can be changed by a Maxi that doesn't even come with Hydrolastic suspension, the one thing that would offset the difficulty of getting into something that close to the floor, not by making it higher 'cos only Citroens and some Rolls Royces do that, AFAIK , but because the comfort afforded by the all-fluid suspension wouldn't make matters worse by as much and Hydrolastic is pretty much indestructible as long as the pipes and displacers are cared for properly. Even my much missed (Wedgiform) Austin 1800 - whose (Hydrasag) bottles and pipes were replaced just before I bought it, so had suspension that worked - couldn't come close to Hydrolastic levels of comfort.

No mate, I don't really want a VW named after a Madonna song. I did like many things about that Avantime that I checked out not so long ago but modifying the driver's door hinge arrangements so that I could have got alongside the seat to get into the thing would have taken time and effort that I'd sooner use to drill all four of a Hydragas Maxi's displacers and fit Schrader valves to them, and just getting the front ones out of the subframe and refitting those is a seven hour job for a team of extremely fit people, whose efforts still wouldn't yield something to match Hydrolastic or VW Torsion bar levels of comfort.

....get the a 60 just to annoy the seller

If it were simply about winding up the world's most anally retentive person, then yes, that would do the job, but the executor of the owner's estate is the one whose ignorance gets in the way there, and I suspect that is why the poor car, although one of the best examples I've ever met, is still sitting around waiting for an owner who'll promise only to drive it when there's a Z in the month, when the humidity is below 40% and when they sign a contract to the effect that they won't be using any chemical means of keeping it as rust free as it is. I'd imagine, if I believed in ghosts and such, that the owner is looking down on the proceedings and yelling at the top of his voice "FFS, JUST SELL THE BLOODY THING!"

[rich.]

there are some really odd people out there mate!
meanwhile
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jowett-Javeli ... rmvSB=true

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1980-VANDEN-P ... 3641.l6368

& another vw i have never heard of!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/Chenowth ... RTM2065553

[rich.]

how about this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1967-AUSTIN-A ... Sw5cNYWVe4

[JPB]

That was a list of everything A60 related currently on eBay! I'm guessing that the Countryman is the blue one, which is quite sound and good in all of the important areas, but it's a bit dear. Shame the other Countryman on the 'bay the now is a manual with the steering wheel in the wrong place, because it's much more sensibly priced and seems sound beyond the suspicious oversill job: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Cambri ... 4b159b86c7

But nay and twice nay, lovely though these BMC jobbies are. I'm having a T147 if it takes me to Christmas to find one!

[TerryG]

I found something more appropriate here john:
https://www.someecards.com/news/so-that ... -real-car/