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Dec 27, 2014 10:23:55 GMT
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They are getting very thin on the ground now, a look at the "how many left" website shows that. As you know its well worth finding one, great cars. I have two although one should have been scrapped years ago, it reached critical condition, its in intensive care now and is stable although has a long way to go to be roadworthy again. If you haven't already it might be worth posting on TC totalcarlton.com/forums/index.phpOr the Autobahnstormers forum (you have to join the club first) www.autobahnstormers.org.uk/index.php/mainmenu-club-forumApologies if you already knew all this. Good luck with the search.
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Fantastic pics, thanks for posting.
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I've just spotted this thread, we have similar fleets coincidentally, mine includes 2 x Garlton GSis and 2 x Grifters. I have restored a few bikes but not the Grifters.
Nice work, in fact outstanding work on those mudflaps.
You could get the original rivets from someone on ebay to fit them a while ago (I used some) not sure if they are still available bu it might be worth a look. For painting them, it might be worth a visit to your local vehicle paint suppier, you can get aerosol plastic primer to prevent peeling and paint with plasticiser added so its flexible.
I don't know if you care about it but a crank with the black plastic disc might be good to get, a lot got broken so a good one is nice to see.
Great work.
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Oct 28, 2014 23:25:33 GMT
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I had cosmic spacers on a Reliant Robin (rear wheels only).
I didn't have any problems in the short time I used them, but remember that as well as all of the correctly pointed out problems with the design it was not possible to tighten all of the extensions to the same torque. If you tightened them all the same and the flats weren't in line with the slots you had to either overtighten them severely or undertighten them.
They are a terrible design from an engineering point of view, anyone who has had no problems with them has just been lucky. Some owners being lucky is not a reason to say that they are safe and fit for purpose if fitted and checked properly, they simply aren't, ask a mechanical designer or even anyone with a basic knowledge of materials and forces what they think, I'll tell you myself that they are an accident waiting to happen because of a complete lack of knowledge about materials and forces by the designer of them.
They do make a nice period garage ornament though, the only thing they are good for.
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Oct 23, 2014 17:52:39 GMT
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^^ Excuse me, but what are those rear lights in the last picture from? Reliant surely had not their own lights made, so what car were they taken from?
I'm fairly sure those lights were only made for Reliant.
Back then the Robin was a good seller for a lot of years so tooling up for some lights was probably economical. They used them for near enough 10 years.
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Oct 22, 2014 22:47:05 GMT
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Sept 19, 2014 21:47:15 GMT
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My second offering was admittedly made under the watchful eye of Ford, but was a concept from the BL ownership of Jag days. The fact that there was much turmoil in getting the car to production and the fact that they rust quite happily confirms them as a BL product in my mind It will have the BL logo in some of the castings, mine did on the head anyway, that's enough evidence for me.
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Aug 22, 2014 16:42:11 GMT
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The v6 petrol was Ford, from the duratec, same as used in the mondeo. However, the v6 diesel is different (still ford built though) and is shared with a few others, such as, iirc, Peugeot and Citroën and is, I believe, a different bolt pattern. I also think this shares the same base as the v8 diesel in the landy, etc.... whether they're really the same pattern as the ajv8 or not though... Thanks very much for that, interesting. I'll sell the Jag and investigate the alternative gearboxes.
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Aug 21, 2014 23:17:03 GMT
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Someone must have tried to use a jag v8 by now. I have heard tell that the manual box from the jag s type v6 diesel shares the bolt pattern with the 4.0 (or if you're feeling flush, the blown 4.2) AJV8 from jag, but not sure that's true... still, where there's a will....
I've been considering using a Jag blown straight six (not V8 I know) in something and considered using the manual box from a Jag S Type 3.0 petrol that I have, but I read that the boxes fitted to the V6's were Ford derived and probably not compatible with the proper Jag engines.
I would love to know for definite if any V6 S type boxes will fit the proper engines as V6 S types can be had for not much cash at all but performance Jags are quite hard to find with manual boxes.
Anyone know anything for sure?
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Jun 19, 2014 22:30:45 GMT
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Not for a very long time.
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The Fiat and Cord look more like 50s cars typically did rather than 30s ones, they must have been way ahead of their time with styling including the built in headlights.
Tatras on the other hand are just amazing cars in so many ways, I love them.
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It is also legal to use the smaller motorbike font plates...... but only on American cars where the plate recess is often too small to accept a British plate in standard font! Had them on my 84 Caddy Seville and never got grief from plod or MOT. Steve Not just American, any import where the plate recess is too small for a full size plate. Japanese etc.
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Last Edit: Jun 6, 2014 23:28:21 GMT by chris y
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I have a 3.0 petrol, manual gearbox, 2000.
I would advise not buying an early one like mine, its been terrible and I think a lot got sorted later.
At 69k miles when I bought it it had worn out bottom ball joints, all 4 ARB droplinks, a rear stabiliser and both front wheel bearings, and I had to do all of those to get a decent quiet ride quality that you need if you are buying a Jag.
This work was all very difficult, the suspension is quite impressive except for the fact that everything is made from steel parts fitted into aluminium castings, everything was horrendously corroded in which is common.
It also had a new heater valve (common fault), a water reservoir (common) and a couple of hoses. I,ve had central locking trouble too.
Worst of all is the knocking from the engine, I was sure it was a slightly sticky hydraulic tappet, it was fairly quiet and would disappear at the first rev of the engine or after a minute or so but now its quite a bit worse, very noisy for a while, then it'll disappear in an instant. Apparently it could be tappet or VVT trouble. I wish I knew for sure because I don't want to keep chucking money at it.
On the plus side, it was cheap and its comfortable
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May 23, 2014 21:18:40 GMT
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Put it in back to front, the shelf will fit under the bumper of the car, disconnect the torch connector if it helps.
Put it in sideways, its not hard to modify a wooden bench.
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May 22, 2014 18:39:52 GMT
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I was disappointed with the second episode. The fake burglary an dramatics ruins it for me same for me
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May 19, 2014 23:09:22 GMT
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The man in question is called John can't think what his surname is but he works out a small garage outside Royston Herts.I worked with him in a bodyshop a while ago but he left to do his own thing. And the stag was one of his first big jobs
A credit would have been deserved though, a man with that level of skill should have the chance to build his reputation.
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May 19, 2014 23:05:13 GMT
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Ant Anstead owns a company in that area and employs people, quite probably as and when needed, it would be no surprise that he didn't do everything personally, he has a company to run and no doubt uses the person with the highest skills to do each part of the job. I don't doubt for a minute that he has plenty of skills himself too.
I'm sure I read that they had no intention of it being a restoration documentary, its about the whole history and culture thing.
I think its by far the best program of its type, and at least the restoration looks to be to a great standard rather than filler paint and spark plugs like some other programs.
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May 18, 2014 23:41:55 GMT
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Written by a numpty, what more do I need to say.
Car builders are not years ahead of production requirements, where on earth would they get the vast amounts of cash needed to have it all sitting around.
Nissan for example are building about half a million cars this year in Washington UK, about 2k per working day in one plant. You couldn't put a miniscule portion of that in a few car parks, they are selling them, just look at the roads, all those cars came from somewhere.
Most of those pics were taken years ago when the recession hit and for a short time car builders hoped not to have to close for some of the time or lay people off and had a bit of stock, it soon went when they matched production to demand again.
The writer seems like a complete loon who has no concept of how many cars come out of a plant every day, a few thousand parked somewhere is not significant, and the most ridiculous suggestion of all that some cars were recycled so that they could build more is just incredible.
Car companies do not have loads of cash to waste, they are the most tightly run and waste free businesses in the world, to be honest there isn't much money in car building for ordinary cars, very little profit margin and huge pressures to reduce cost.
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May 14, 2014 23:41:48 GMT
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I hate the American fake drama car shows, but that one was OK, still a bit much drama for me but not to a ridiculous degree, not so much of the usual OTT massive ego people and plenty of interesting content.
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"evercool" written on the windscreen, cant argue with that.
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