DarrenW
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 09:35 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveFJ
quote:
Originally posted by DarrenW
when i was in a posh part of Durham.
Didn't know they had such a thing   
[Edited on 16/6/05 by DaveFJ]
Whahey..... nice one. They most certainly do. There is a part where the whippets have seperate kennels. They are made from wood as well instead of old
roofing sheets. Very nice area. I think the wood came from the old mine shafts. They also wear dry cleaned cloth caps and smoke tabs with filters on
the end. One day i may be able to afford to live their............... Im saving my dole cheques right now
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DarrenW
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 09:36 AM |
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[Edited on 16/6/05 by DarrenW]
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phelpsa
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 09:42 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by DarrenW
[Edited on 16/6/05 by DarrenW]
I agree
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ned
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 09:50 AM |
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i don't
ps there is the delete option darren
beware, I've got yellow skin
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 10:00 AM |
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Originally posted by NS Dev
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Originally posted by tom windmill
No offence to any (R)over owner but who would buy a rover in the first place unless its a v8 for a kit
Tom
Rover P6 was (in many ways) a very nice car!!!!
I don't wish to try and defend BL group as most of their products were "poor" shall we say, but there were a few gooduns too!
The old Rover company built some very fine cars, the P4 in particular was very underated.
I can't defend any car BL produced durring the Stokes era but from the Acclaim deal with Honda things improved rapidly, then BAe asset
stripped the company, and didn't put enough money in to model development with Honda. The way the sale to BMW was handled deeply offended Honda
and BMW was torn apart by a faction who wanted to destroy Rover because it was competing in BMWs markets and those who wanted to bulid cars. From
the point Rover was doomed. For some reason the UK press turned on Rover.
Rover have a lot better reliability record than say Vauxhall (do you know anybody with a Vauxhall Omega that actually goes ?)
Most post Montego Rover were pretty good -- even the Montego in 2 litre Efi form was pretty good mechanically and a good drive --- the body and
interior were however the pits.
The modern Rover group just lacked a steady hand at the helm -- take a look around you will see a lot more early 90s Rovers on the road than
Sierra/Mondeo/Escorts of tha same age. Look for a pre cat 95 Mondeo on the road and you will be hard pressed to find one but you will see droves of
Rovers equivalent model the 600. You will also find a lot more old 800s on the road than Scorpios or Omegas.
The next car company to pull out from europe will be Ford, the only european market they make money in is the UK and that has been in steady decline
since they moved the design teams to Colonge. Look around it is amazing how few Fords you see on the road, and the Transit van market has been
lost
[Edited on 16/6/05 by britishtrident]
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DarrenW
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 10:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ned
i don't
ps there is the delete option darren
Thanks Ned. I thought i was getting ganged up on then!! I like the sport of it. Little do people know what we have to offer up here, im happy to
keep it my little secret - hence whippet and flat cap comments! Id hate my little area of the country to be spoilt by an influx of foreigners!!!!! LOL
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 02:09 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ChrisGamlin
A mate of mine had a Talbot Sunbeam, and when the block cracked between the bores, he just used some chemical metal to seal it back up again. It
miraculously ran fine for over 6 weeks, but when it failed again he patched it back up and flogged it quick.
My old man had a Daihatsu Applause (fairly awfull car but was astoundingly rapid for a 1.6i ) and the engine block cracked. He filled it with metal
loaded epoxy and made a 1/4" plate that bolted to some convienient holes in the block casting either side of the crack. It lasted for 3 years
until he sold the car to someone who just wanted the engine as their block was cracked!
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derf
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 02:22 PM |
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A freind has an M3 and he somehow managed to rip the rear shocks off the towers. The repair was $800us which he couldn't afford, so he zip tied
the shocks back to the struts. He used close to 100 ties all around. Car actually drives fine, but I wouldn't drive in it.
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 02:35 PM |
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reminds me of when we used to 'lower' cars by sticking a couple of large J bolts down through the tower and clamping up the springs -
alternatively we put big jubilee clips over a few winds and clamped them down....
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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steve_gus
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 10:19 PM |
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i had from new a rover 600, a metro, and a montego, never had a problem with them.
a year old 800 was a bit of a duffer at times, but still a nice car, and our 3 year old maestro served well for 3 years and was regularly seen in our
district for a further 10 years.
atb
steve
http://www.locostbuilder.co.uk
Just knock off the 's'!
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JoelP
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| posted on 16/6/05 at 10:23 PM |
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my old 800 was a great car... was thinking about it just today, as i trudged along at 80 in the ax, the vitesse did 130 down the same piece of road!
big too. Might get one to work in
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