breakdown truck

[rich.]

you surprise me john, its beautiful

[JPB]

Sorry to shock you but to me, that's one of the less elegant - note that I didn't say "f'kin ugly" - conversions out there. Were that Marina a classic building, it would be this one:





Here's something much, much nicer to make things better:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DATSUN-120Y- ... Swjt5aiwx-

[rich.]

i was looking at that one this morning...
how about
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998E-FORD-O ... 3641.l6368

[JPB]

Me too.. On my phone screen, in the bathroom, covered in Castrol's finest 15w50 baby oil, having my baldy head caressed tenderly by the tongue of a large, overly familiar horse.

I think that the absence of the trim strips isn't an issue - I'm looking again as I type this - because I'm 68.907% sure that they shouldn't be there, but the slight colour mismatch in places must surely be worth a few quid off the asking?
My yellow 120Y - GMS124S - was only a five or six year old car during the short time I owned the festering sack of flaky rusty stuff held together with Blu-Tac, parcel tape and blind rivets. That car was quite the rustiest thing ever. It had only covered 71,000 miles from new when I bought it, but the engine had probably never seen an oil change and had some very worrying rattles within a week of my ragging the car around like a lunatic, its brakes always pulled violently but also randomly, so it was never possible to predict where it would go if hard braking were required. The driver's seat slid back and forth uncontrollably as the once-"captive" nuts that had been part of the floor, before rot had taken over, were now sliding back and forth in sympathy with the seat channels, which were soon so fall right through once I'd sold it on to a mate who'd borrowed a tenner from me in 1979 and still hadn't coughed up for the interest .
I had a huge Lee Cooper Jeans advertising sticker occupying the whole of the boot lid as the original paint from that area had fallen off by this time and the radio, far and away the best thing about the car, didn't tune above 250 odd metres on the medium band, which was a real trial because that meant that I could get radio one on 247, but not Metro Radio on 261 metres. That should be a "dangerous" category MOT fail that should!

Orions seem destined for the usual high values previously only attached to rare Escort variants such as RS1800. They weren't a bad old tool but I always preferred my then ten year old Maxi to the Onion. The Maxi had just enough character to be interesting and it was quite a clever car in an argument.

[GHT]

My yellow 120Y - GMS124S - was only a five or six year old car during the short time I owned the festering sack of flaky rusty stuff held together with Blu-Tac, parcel tape and blind rivets. That car was quite the rustiest thing ever. It had only covered 71,000 miles from new when I bought it, but the engine had probably never seen an oil change and had some very worrying rattles within a week of my ragging the car around like a lunatic, its brakes always pulled violently but also randomly, so it was never possible to predict where it would go if hard braking were required.

That sounds exactly like either or both of the Iveco delivery vans I once had the misfortune to own. My brother and I had a fleet of twenty or so vans, mostly Mercedes, with a couple of hi-top Transits that worked the IOW. We acquired a new contract and part of the deal was the transfer of those wretched Ivecos. My Missus, who spent her working life as a paramedic, told me a few horror stories of Iveco ambulances not fit for purpose. She was convinced that Iveco programmed their vans to break down on the day after the warranty expired.

As for that contract, six months down the road they went pop and took me for ten grand. But to be honest I got two grand VAT back, then I got three payments over a period of eighteen months, totalling six grand, from the receiver. The company was called Print Movers, they were a division of Kodak, in the days before digital cameras, Print Movers was the company that collected 35mm film, developed it and returned it to the shop. My brother and I had been wary of the advancement of technology, but being Kodak, we thought that they were 24 carat. Ha! They had ring-fenced Print Movers, but had illegally moved money from Print Movers to Kodak, that why we got most of our money returned. I did here that there were prosecutions for fraud.

[rich.]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/16291207 ... rmvSB=true

mmmmm fugly

[JPB]

I like what they did with the Eunos! Shades of Type 1 Karmann-Ghia about the front end methinks, but in a good way, and the other end's none too shabby either.
The only thing that fails to float my boat about that car is that it's white, which is fine on some cars but not, IMHO, that one. That car really needs to be a vivid shade of metallic orange, grey, brown or maybe lime green in the Kawasaki style.
Mmm, lime green..

[rich.]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/20223688 ... rmvSB=true
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Microcar-DX- ... 3641.l6368
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wartburg-Kni ... rmvSB=true
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/25343624 ... rmvSB=true
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/11282316 ... rmvSB=true

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1977-Daihats ... 100623.m-1

[JPB]

I thought that you'd probably find the Daihatsu. Interesting old thing that one. See the Riley though, wow! I want the people who keep that on their lawn to move in next door to me.

[rich.]

you know me too well... as for the riley, why not buy it & park it on the neighbours garden.. im sure they would really appreciate it.