Practically Classics Forum

Thanks for that mate. I'm liking the compact Japanese Diesel engine, that would be rather fun installed in a RWD car of a certain age. I'm thinking that [the engine] could be the ideal upgrade for a mark 1 or mark 2 Escort, maybe a Chevette, a Mazda 323 or an Avenger for those who like their old cars without a Ford badge?
As for the rest of the lot, these carriages would make an ideal, highly portable glamping village that could be taken to festivals to keep the posh crusties out of the mud. As a form of practical, classic transport though, the thing could be somewhat challenging to live with, IMHO. And it would need more than one parking spot to itself.

how about
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-bus ... rmvSB=true

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/barn-find-Tr ... ken=cUgayN
you know you want this john
https://drivemag.com/news/meet-microlin ... edCalipers

edit!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-505- ... 3641.l6368

Hmm, the Dolomite is a 1974 car, yet the seller makes a point of telling a porkie regarding its age? It would be issued with an age related plate if the buyer wanted to go down that route, or keep the pre-1983 import reg that's on it just now, but either way he's misleading potential victims buyers and must think we're all complete tools.
My first Dolomatic was also an import, it was issued with a correct 1972 issue after its original owner gone grovelling to the local DVLO (RIP them..) to ask whether they'd mind doing the necessary, they did and I shortly afterwards acquired ACU64L, which was nice.

I do like a 505, saw me in half, place the bits inside, then glue me back together in situ and it'll do the job just fine, or would if some of its recent MOTs hadn't hinted at structural issues to come for the lucky new keeper.

The electric thing seems like a decent motor, but without a side door it's about as much use as pierced nipples on a halibut and less amusing. Plus they think that its £12k asking price is cheaper than a car & dearer than a bike. Dacia Logan estate owners are laughing into their Starbucks carry outs as they read that part, because they only paid £9000ish for their split new motor, and that's much more useful than a twin seater for a taxi driver who can't afford to import a nice Japanese hybrid at only four times the OTR cost of the funny foreign wagon with the oddest car name ever.. Apart of course from the Toyota Isis, or is that just a badly timed car name stolen from a nice old BMC product of the fifties?

That only leaves the electric bus and as that's the only vaguely sensibly described motor vehicle on eBay just now, I'm probably obliged to have one just like that. But with a nice V8 that runs on Diesel fuel.

Ahhhh, that's better, I feel human again now.

JPB wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:23 pm Hmm, the Dolomite is a 1974 car, yet the seller makes a point of telling a porkie regarding its age? It would be issued with an age related plate if the buyer wanted to go down that route, or keep the pre-1983 import reg that's on it just now, but either way he's misleading potential victims buyers and must think we're all complete tools.
My first Dolomatic was also an import, it was issued with a correct 1972 issue after its original owner gone grovelling to the local DVLO (RIP them..) to ask whether they'd mind doing the necessary, they did and I shortly afterwards acquired ACU64L, which was nice.

Ahhhh, that's better, I feel human again now.

I'd be very wary about buying a vehicle with no V5C and a damaged ignition lock.

suffolkpete wrote: Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:40 am I'd be very wary about buying a vehicle with no V5C and a damaged ignition lock.

Indeed, as would I in most circumstances, here I'm getting the feeling that my earlier comments were probably way too harsh since most things about the description suggest that the seller may simply be ignorant rather than devious, but caveat emptor as with any purchase of a motor vehicle. The fact that the current plate was issued after the point in time when it supposedly came off the road is odd right enough. Oh, and the seller's arithmetic seems somewhat less than satisfactory too:

The seller of the Dolomite wrote:Tax ran out 1 November 1981 so been off road for 20 years....

So we have a car that's clearly from some time around 1974 judging by, erm, everything really as the badging, the dash layout and the colour (Sapphire I think, perhaps Mr Toledo Man could confirm this please ) are appropriate for a '74 car and the SU carbs and instruments whose needles point upwards put it in that sort of period, as does the left exiting exhaust tailpipe, the number plate lamp fitting and doubtless many other small details long forgotten by the general public. And this is being sold by someone who can't subtract 1981 from 2018, has no V5C (I tend to believe that this could be lost in the case of a car freshly dragged from a barn) and states that the steering lock is damaged, another point that can be explained by a car's having been off the road for a lengthy period.
Heavens above, I managed to lose the keys to a Fiat Panda - the first car I ever sold on the then-newfangled eBay - and I'd been running about in that for a whole fortnight so that I could describe accurately its funny little ways and which bits needed to be attended to first, then I'd put the car on a friend's driveway, handed her the keys and, when the buyer came up from Bradford in a large commercial vehicle with a proportionately large car transporter attached to its towbar, these damned keys had vanished, a few days after I'd last had them in my hand!
There was a rumour doing the rounds that one of the friend's sisters had eaten the keys for some reason known only within their family, but the buyer fortunately saw the funny side as he took his angle grinder out and asked whether we could find him an extension cable. Well it was quicker than buying a box of laxatives and waiting..

did you ever find those keys??
meanwhile..
for the lady
https://shop.carthrottle.com/collection ... nt=Candles
for the home
https://www.etsy.com/fr/listing/5700008 ... a2d81d6915
& for john the new type of dr
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AA-Emergency ... rmvSB=true

I love the idea of a Diesel scented candle! That's sis-in-law's Christmas present for next year taken care of.

The knocker is waaaaaaaay too dear, I reckon that even if I charged for my time taken to build one, I could cobble such a thing together for well under a tenner using parts borrowed from next door's grass cutter at dead of night bits that I have sitting around in the hut.

But the AA box at a mere £875 is a work of sheer brilliance and I'm so impressed that I've a good mind to ask the seller for a list of parts used, dimensions and how to put one up myself. Ooh-er, suppository outbuildings, what will they think of next?
Seriously though; I do love that and could see myself enjoying looking at such a thing if it were in my garden, its shelves filled with my Haynes and Autodata manual collection, my old copies of a certain magazine and a tesla coil, ready to be deployed from the roof of the structure if the new neighbour over the way should happen to replace the last set of his bamboo wind chimes that I accidentally incinerated during a sleepwalking session..



And no, sadly the Panda keys remain lost. The car, funnily enough, is still going strong, it was a good one to begin with, being the super desirable "Parade" model in metallic turquoise with the twin fabric sunroofs and the Voxon modular radio, which came in various different sections that could be plugged into a small box on the front parcel shelf, seen here with the am radio module in place and ready to provide some wonderful medium waveband tunes on the way to wherever.

https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1369067785.htm
hmmmmmmm

Two or three years ago I was going to bid for a Jaguar at auction. On the day of the auction we had a family crisis resulting in me taking my wife to see her sister.
If you can fiddle about without doing your party piece and breaking the web again, you might be able to find out for me how much The Jaguar sold for: It's not that important though, so don't go crashing the web.............. again.
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/194 ... -15-saloon

rich. wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:07 pm hmmmmmmm

I concur, though maybe an extra is appropriate as those XJ8s really are a special feeling old bus in which to waft about in near silence, knowing that there's grunt enough available to provide acceleration that matches a great many more openly performance oriented motors. I love the things.

GHT wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:50 pm
If you can fiddle about without doing your party piece and breaking the web again, you might be able to find out for me how much The Jaguar sold for: It's not that important though, so don't go crashing the web.............. again.
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/194 ... -15-saloon

Ooh, many more jobbies for that gorgeous, older thing. It was previously sold for £18,500 in 2014, link here: https://www.soldbyauctions.com/homes/ad ... sIyRQCmAK/ and that looks like a real bargain at that sort of money, considering that it's unlikely to have been a bad investment at that. Yeah, Rich, tell us what it made at the sale in GHT's link please. I reckon at least £22,795 would have been needed to get anywhere near to it, these things are lovely to look at and better than having the money sitting in an isa at some paltry rate of interest. Probably..