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, 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. 
JPB wrote: Sat May 06, 2017 9:03 pmPilchards you say? Can you draw me a picture of what that would look like please? I'm intrigued.
, 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.
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.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!"
