SiC wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:47 am
Dunno if it had them but maybe worth checking any transmission oil/coolant exchanger if the engine was cooked.
Particularly as the traditional approach at Browns Lane was "Ey Derrek, ow big this ray-de-yayter gotta be?"
Derek takes a thoughtful sip of lukewarm sweet milky tea while Frank puffs on his pipe, hands in his brown warehouse overcoat.
"Well, we got that'un there. Them suits frum Osstin bruought it with'ey, it's quite big, from a Metro I think'ey said.'
Frank glances at the radiator, stacked up against a collection of rusting, dusty bar stock next to a lathe that hasn't been used since the war.
"Aye, I think Bob saiddee'as one o'they on 'is test freem outside, 'ee saiddee ran thu V12 on it an' it stey'd cool."
Derek looks outside through a filthy, cracked window at the drizzle in the yard, where an engine sits collecting rainwater.
"Mm. If it'll run in 'at, it'll run anywhur."
With that Frank stamps the work order and throws it in the mail slot, sits down and finishes his tea before wandering slowly back the long way round the floor to his desk.
...and that's the story of why the V12 got a bad rap in the USA.
