Vampyrebat
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Too true Wattie, could be London in a few months time!
That's the very reason I liked them Richard.. being an ex hooligan an all thatIs that an ie Turbo? Death trap, remember them back in the day. Made of wafer thin metal, lightweight and pretty quick.
God, had forgot about these! Had a bright orange 2.8 with a black vinyl roof.......thought I was the dogs, of course I had the mandatory bakers tray of bricks in the boot to keep it straight on the road was a gorgeous car looking back but usual ford problems, could open the door with a 2p coin lolThis was one of my favorites an 82 4 speed box sold in the mid 90s for £650 no one wanted them then
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Those old Ford clunkers were actually ok, I had dog sh*t brown 2 liter GXL with a black vinyl roofGod, had forgot about these! Had a bright orange 2.8 with a black vinyl roof.......thought I was the dogs, of course I had the mandatory bakers tray of bricks in the boot to keep it straight on the road was a gorgeous car looking back but usual ford problems, could open the door with a 2p coin lol
Those old Ford clunkers were actually ok, I had dog sh*t brown 2 liter GXL with a black vinyl roof
You always went into the hedge backwards, happy days!
Dave
Real men had a V6 but you have since made up for itI had a 1.6 with sills so rusty and bendy that the doors opened if you cornered too quick. Hummed along well enough in a straight line, and never let me down. Had a 2l after that, Cracking car, really, but it definitely needed that bag of cement in the boot.
Real men had a V6 but you have since made up for it
I happened to come across a very nicely restored 1985 Mk1 Uno Turbo the other day.
It was absolutely mint, totally original.. everything made from unobtainium!
I'm still tempted.
Dave
I know people slated turbo lag back in the day and modern ones are so much more linear, but I loved those turbo kics on older cars.A mate of mine had one of those. His dad was a tech on a rally team or something so it had uprated brakes, shocks, intercooler, exhaust, a MUCH larger turbo on it and was lowered.
And was resprayed a lovely metallic green.
Went with him to a rolling road and it was pushing out 232bhp!
Which was absolutely mental for a car with body panels like tissue paper! Nothing could stay with it when the boost kicked in!
But the lag was shocking, foot on the floor count, 1......2......3 whoooooooshhhhhhhhhhhh!
Went through a set of front tyres every 2-3000 miles.
Wonder if it still exists?
Also noted French impenetrable author Albert Camus was killed in one...
I worked PT for Europe car back in the later 90s and we would regularly dispose of hundreds of cars prior to certain periods of the year for a number of reasons.
We often found that we could keep a car for six months and sell them for more that they cost us... why so you think depreciation is so bad on most cars in the first year.
- most of our larger automatic fleet after the US holidays in the UK
- late spring for small cars, we held on to the new ones over the winter as they were used to cover contracts for car crash insurance.
- when ever Ford Vauxhall etc had a glut of new stock and wanted to sell 2/3k cars ASAP.
Yeah back in the day Phil , they were all at it , british gas , post office, seeboard electicity, water boards, used to see huge car parks full of brand new vans , all sold off after shortish periods of use , more so when palstic wrap signage came into effectBack in the 90's a bank employee told me how his bank used financial leverage to obtain huge discounts for their fleet cars, then sell them a few months later. He said the bank regarded it as a significant revenue stream.
PH
Yup, crazy isn't it.
Hertz files for bankruptcy
Hertz filed for bankruptcy Friday night, the latest victim of the sudden economic downturn sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic.www.google.com
This is the fallout we are going to start seeing due to CV issues I guess. Many business can't withstand zero to low revenues for very long the way they are geared up these days.