Rich, I love that green thing but would it not be in danger of falling into the pit at MOT time?
Yeah. OK, so a 1949 car doesn't strictly need to be tested but wouldn't it be fun to try?
Also, could they not have made the twin tailpipes exit in a more aesthetically pleasing way?
More worrying than that, the seller is known to members of a watch forum that I visit on a not infrequent basis. Why that, you may well ask.
I took a screen grab of his feedback to illustrate that very thing and bear in mind that there are two sides to every story
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I shall gladly remove that screen dump if the watch buyer can be shown to have been in the wrong, but sometimes, when a seller accepts a "best offer" for a piece that later turns out to be slightly adrift of its description, a seller will say anything rather than accept that they were in the wrong. Just saying.
John, I hear you, but if a certain Netherlands-dwelling RKR subscriber can find a Reliant cab and take it abroad, is it not even more important that I find and attempt to keep a surviving specimen in the UK? OK, so by now I have realised that this is a pretty thin reason to chase after a particular vehicle but short of travelling over to the land of cheese, windmills and other stereotypically Dutch things, buying a Daf and bringing that home, how else am I to redress the balance?
It's only taken me a few extra months of careful consideration to acknowledge the fact - and sadly there can be no debating it - that both yourself and Pete, who made a similar point long before this thread had grown so random, (
) are absolutely correct about the ease - or lack thereof - of finding that elusive Reliant with four wheels that isn't a Scimitar or a small one.
That said, my daily transport is only present in the UK in double figure numbers and I've never been afraid of a challenge.. The possible exception being the challenge involving the acquisition of that (very) elusive, rear engined German device, which I may yet accept has gone nowhere and taken whole months of my time that could by now have been used to capture several rare Reliants, though one would suffice from a storage space point of view.
I may yet end up going back to the Japanese online auction scene for an older car, the small-but-tall Mitsubishi
pictured below precedes, but bears a remarkable similarity to a certain Reliant product, especially in the door tops and rear side window areas, but I have recently sat in one of two which are thought to represent the UK's entire population of the things, and I fitted easily. Better yet, I recently discovered that the Aisin/Warner autobox from 1970s Toyota Corolla autos is a "nuts & bolts" drop-in transplant solution, but then I remembered that when I was searching for a Datsun A-series engine and autobox donor for a Morris Minor shell that I had stashed away for a while, I ended up buying the 1990 Corolla Liftback so I won't rubber stamp any plan just yet, I'm apparently fairly indecisive!
Separated at birth, eh?
. OK, make that very little bother apart from the broken crankshaft in the "Staffordshire Racing Brown" kitten estate; NNL437R, the equally broken rear springs at various, usually inconvenient, times in each and every one of the wee darlings and not forgetting the incident with the then red but now blue Rebel 750 estate; GUS265L, when his passenger footwell carpet and glove compartment lid caught fire on a campsite on Skye in the summer of 1997, meaning that I had to drive home with a car full of white powder from the extinguisher{s} that I annoyingly (have you seen how much a decent one of those things costs?) had to deploy at the time.
If you say so mate, if you say so. 