A few of us on here like a little French car

[2b1ask1]

We had two diesel automatics. Fab things in their way. Stamp on the throttle and leave it hard down.

C

Sound advice if travelling up to Boston and you had any notion of overtaking a lorry, somewhere around Peterborough!

 

[CatmanV2]

Sound advice if travelling up to Boston and you had any notion of overtaking a lorry, somewhere around Peterborough!

Well you sure as **** didn't want to ease off. You'd be going backwards.

I should probably stress these were the base level diesels with the teeny tiny engines.

C

 

[2b1ask1]

Well you sure as **** didn't want to ease off. You'd be going backwards.

I should probably stress these were the base level diesels with the teeny tiny engines.

C

Mine was a company car, I’m sure it was a 1.8 or 1.9 litre diesel. It didnt have a turbo, it was totally gutless.

 

[zagatoes30]

Something about gutless French diesels, we use to have a fleet of Peugeot 205 1.9 XD for the engineers they were truly woeful in terms of acceleration. The art was to build up speed and then never brake, fortunately the 205 handling helped but it didn't stop one engineer or two putting them on their roof when trying too hard.

 

[Tallman]

Something about gutless French diesels, we use to have a fleet of Peugeot 1.9 XD for the engineers they were truly woeful in terms of acceleration. The art was to build up speed and then never brake, fortunately the 205 handling helped but it didn't stop one engineer or two putting them on their roof when trying too hard.

In those days most diesels were gutless, at least the ones I drove..not many with turbos yet, that really made diesels useful. We drove some Merc diesels, same story gutless (and heavy). I’ve had a a few BMW turbodiesels and the 330d I had was a bomb, so much low down torque.

 

[CatmanV2]

Mine was a company car, I’m sure it was a 1.8 or 1.9 litre diesel. It didnt have a turbo, it was totally gutless.

I think ours were 1.9s. And yes. No guts at all. Which was part of the fun

C

 

[2b1ask1]

I think ours were 1.9s. And yes. No guts at all. Which was part of the fun

C

Never any fun, back in the early 90’s there used to be the worlds best mobile catering waggon on the A10 about 10 miles south of Kings Lynn. Unfortunately it was also on the only bit of the road the gutless wonder could actually build enough momentum to slingshot past a couple of wagons on; was always a balance as to which was more pleasurable, a full belly or getting past a rolling roadblock…

 

[RoaryRati]

I guess he was admiring the view half way down the Nufenen pass - at least his bonnet wasn't open as it was for an old Porch911 at the bottom of the Furka/Grimsel.

 

[philw696]

 

[Tallman]

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I guess he was admiring the view half way down the Nufenen pass - at least his bonnet wasn't open as it was for an old Porch911 at the bottom of the Furka/Grimsel.

I’m amazed he got that high!

 

[RodTungsten]

I’m amazed he got that high!

A retired army major had one in Lytham in the 50’s; we called it the hill-climber.

 

[conaero]

Went into the workshop yesterday in prep for the Festival of the unexceptional next month. Brake bleed, battery, adjust rear bearings and a few other bits

 

[philw696]

Françoise Conconi et Michèle Mouton au Rallye des Dames de Monte-Carlo, le 26 janvier 1976.

 

[Burf22]

Françoise Conconi et Michèle Mouton au Rallye des Dames de Monte-Carlo, le 26 janvier 1976.View attachment 116071

Very cool. Five days before I was born!

 

[DLax69]

Very cool. Five days before I was born!

Which of them was your mom...?

 

[philw696]

Bon weekend.

 

[philw696]

 

[zagatoes30]

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Is it Scottish?

 

[Hurricane52]

Bon weekend.
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I guess the modern one’s fuel pump has failed?

 

[DLax69]

Is it Scottish?

Just the airbags.