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- Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:50 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Car Mags You Actually Miss Reading.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 18913
Re: Car Mags You Actually Miss Reading.
So rewarding to read this thread, its appreciation of who are to me heroes of the motoring world, who once upon a time dared call out the more cynical elements of a very cynical global industry.
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 5:21 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: RS's Adventures in Small Renaults
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17324
Re: RS's Adventures in Small Renaults
It's worth remembering that in real terms, the French built the best everyday cars you could buy in the 60's and 70s and arguably the eighties. By that I mean ride comfort, general pleasantness and ease of use although Citroens are just a bit too weird and needy. When I say everyday I mean run of t...
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: RS's Adventures in Small Renaults
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17324
Re: RS's Adventures in Small Renaults
Two grand little cars, there. I've driven many thousands of relaxing miles in early Clios, SuperCinqs, the original 5 and 4s, only once (a Budapest-Strasbourg ton up dash in tandem with an ID19) in a 16. The original R5 drives very differently from what followed because it's so different under the s...
- Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:05 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Cheap DS. WCPGW? Find out here.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15579
Re: Cheap DS. WCPGW? Find out here.
I’m shocked the suspension etc worked that easily straight away! I’d have thought that would have been the first thing to screw up. It's the first thing to screw up if you fill it with DoT4. Which obviously, most careful English drivers did. Otherwise, providing the pipes aren't rotten the LHM syst...
- Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:04 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Cheap DS. WCPGW? Find out here.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15579
Re: Cheap DS. WCPGW? Find out here.
I’m shocked the suspension etc worked that easily straight away! I’d have thought that would have been the first thing to screw up. It's the first thing to screw up if you fill it with DoT4. Which obviously, most careful English drivers did. Otherwise, providing the pipes aren't rotten the LHM syst...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 12:12 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: EBay Finds
- Replies: 12431
- Views: 2843822
Re: EBay Finds
Do you not fancy an Auntie Junkman? It ticks many of your boxes without the, ahem, character of the P6. I'm a bit off British cars generally since I had a succession of P6es. Should I ever get back into them, I'd fancy something a lot more toff. Think something with a hyphenated name. My experience...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:16 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Through The Past Darkly - Horrible Headlight History
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31863
Re: Through The Past Darkly - Horrible Headlight History
. Belting through the night at 110-130 clicks along RNs is still commonly practiced by French drivers, as Ghosty, Squire and I were able to experience last September. Their absolute refusal to lift off even for villages is fascinating, but after 8:30 pm they are blacked out anyway. Driving through ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:18 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Through The Past Darkly - Horrible Headlight History
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31863
Re: Through The Past Darkly - Horrible Headlight History
Some interesting info there, JM. I think Britain was slower to use halogen lamps than continental Europe, I vaguely remember looking out for Saabs, Volvos and other forrin stuff with those bright, bright lamps which made the old ones look dirty yellow in comparison. One good reason SY headlights se...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:58 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Through The Past Darkly - Horrible Headlight History
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31863
Re: Through The Past Darkly - Horrible Headlight History
As a lad, my Dad remembers the older guys (probably those in their thirties) using carbide lighting on their bikes, he says the smell is remembered well. One of his mates had a Miller dynamo lighting on his bike, which was considered the best. They'd sing at Evensong in the parish church then from a...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:10 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: The grin thread
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14518
Re: The grin thread
Here's an image somebody used to try and sell their bike on ebay,
It didn't go for much.
It didn't go for much.