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Apr 30, 2021 10:33:14 GMT
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Once completed please drive it around london until some photographer captures it, then wait 50 years, keep quiet and watch the fireworks. Edit: I see I've been beaten to the mystery car jokes!
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Apr 26, 2021 16:15:03 GMT
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Great to see this being brought back from the brink. Can't quite believe you're a complete amateur to this welding malarkey as your work looks pretty professional to my untrained eye!
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Apr 25, 2021 19:54:19 GMT
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Ever wondered what happened to some old modified magazine feature cars or maybe a car from an old show etc? I'm sure many go overseas to greener drier pastures but just how many highly modified cars from old now sit in a field rotting away?
I'm talking about cars that were built and modded pre sva/Iva days that you’d likely not be able to build today
one that interest me is this..
REGISTRATION: 4124AW *Is this your car? Please PM me*
id really like to know what happened to it? if anyone has any information or remembers the car please do post or perhaps you’d like to know the whereabouts of a car you remember? Please post that too.. please remember to add the registration * please don’t post negative opinions or reactions - keep it clean people * I think I remember the magazine feature of this one. If it is the one I'm thinking of i saw it parked outside my school once and it left a big impression at the time!
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Apr 22, 2021 20:02:47 GMT
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Some amazing work on the imaging here, clearly a work of passion! I can certainly see that it has very similar dimensions and wheelbase to an Alpine. I'm persuaded that it could well be based on an Alpine in some way. I may be being thick, but what I'm not quite following is how this proves it hasn't been drastically altered, and could even have been returned back to standard at some point.
Aside from the rough dimensions and the wheels I'm struggling to see a single panel that matches, so is the theory that the entire car was re-bodied? How is this not drastic alteration of a monocoque vehicle?
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Apr 20, 2021 14:36:24 GMT
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Around 1984-ish.... I may have mentioned before that Dad liked a road trip, so we’d driven up the full length of Botswana in his elderly and very high mileage Peugeot 404 wagon laden with camping gear, food water and fuel. About 1000km, but good roads. Straight, flat, pothole-free tarmac. But we were having overheating issues. Red warning light (no gauge!) glowing balefully whenever we went over 80km/h, which is not ideal when there’s big miles to do. Rearranging the tent on the roof rack so it’s big canvas bag wasn’t opening out like a parachute helped a bit. 90km/h is still a bit limiting though........ We also discovered that if we ignored the light for more than about 5 minutes then meltdown would follow with the rad cap letting go and dumping steam and brown water, causing an unscheduled halt for cooling and topping up. We were camping at our first destination. Facilities were..... limited. The only running water was the Chobe river. We dumped the coolant - thick, evil brown gunge. Swilled the rad out several times with comparatively clean river water, shaking it vigorously. Eventually the water coming out was clear-ish. Refit rad. Fill cooling system with river water. Go for late afternoon game-spotting drive. No overheating, but this is all low speed stuff on sand tracks so nothing proven. Repeated the exercise the following day to find that a whole lot more crud had appeared, migrated from the block presumably, so that was also evicted. After a week at Serondella watching elephants in the river and fending off vervet monkeys and baboons (baboons are really bad neighbors when camping), we moved on to Zimbabwe. Destination Victoria Falls. Being 1984, things we still somewhat delicate in that region with bandits still skulking in the bush around the Kazungula to Vic Falls road. This meant convoys from the border most of the 90km to Vic Falls and convoys mean groups of vehicles travelling with army escort vehicles..... and our escort wanted to drive fast. This proved that while our efforts had certainly helped, there was still room for improvement, 100km/h on the flat was ok.... uphill, not. We were ignoring the light at this point...... Luckily there weren’t many hills and the car managed not to spit all it’s water out until the end of the convoy section, where the army guys helpfully topped us up...... tense times though! Vic Falls brought an actual hotel, running water and a hosepipe begged from the gardener, with some decent water pressure! Amazing how much more gak can be shifted with a decent hosepipe. We even hoicked out the thermostat and flushed the block too.! Turned the hotel gravel a funny orange colour...... Oops. That did it. Convoying back to the border caused no more appearances of the red light of doom and we were able to maintain steady 100km/h + all the way back south. Still a really long “day” on the road with the last 300ks in the dark. That’s quite a big deal as the cows come out of the bush at night to lie on the warm road...... and a black cow lying on a black tarmac road doesn’t show up until it looks round and you see it’s eyes..... if it looks round..... And yes, Victoria Falls are quite magnificent. Watching elephant families crossing the Chobe, which is a big river, (significant tributary to the Zambezi) when even the biggest adult has to swim is quite something too. There are other stories involving this car (we had it for 8 years in two countries so there were many road trips for it to survive!) including one involving an engine fire in a petrol station with no working fire extinguishers...... luckily there was a lot of sand! Nick My wife is Zimbabwean and we honeymooned at Vic falls in 2011, we had a similarly sketchy journey there! Driving my Father-in-law's old twin-cab halfway across the country, we nervously set off on the last 400km, petrol station free leg of the journey from Bulawayo, eager to arrive before dusk. Roughly halfway through this section in the middle of nowhere the rear wheels completely locked up and we got out to find the tread had somehow separated from the tyre and wedged itself up in the wheel-arch. I found the jack and the spare, but with the jack on full extend, it didn't even reach the bottom of the truck! So now I'm in the middle of nowhere in Zimbabwe, with my new wife, a broken truck and it's getting dark. The bed of the truck had a load of funny rubber matts, so I tried stacking those to get some extra height on the jack, but still not high enough. Thankfully some guys driving past stopped and they basically physically lifted the truck to get the wheel changed. Very thankful for them to this day! We got there before dusk and had a great honeymoon.
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Last Edit: Apr 20, 2021 18:02:31 GMT by Adambt
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Never heard of Melkus so learnt something here! It's certainly similar, but don't think it's the one. No gull-wing doors, different rear end design etc.
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I was expecting a top gear reference after last night's episode
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Mar 25, 2021 11:16:38 GMT
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Also the "desktop" view on mobile is a bit broken, but I'm planning to improve it over the coming week Is it not compatible with Safari, or am I a cretin? It used to work fine with Safari, but I haven't been able to upload with it since an update (to safari) last year
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Mar 19, 2021 10:37:45 GMT
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Yes I just checked their current offerings and it is a bit uninspiring, shame. As a teenager in the nineties quite a few of their cars were on my want list.
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Having just discovered that Mitsubishi is to end UK car sales later this year, I thought we could share some of our favourites from them. They've made so many great cars, but I think on balance I would go for a Sapporo:
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Some amazing cars there, somehow I had missed the news about Mitsubishi ending sales in the UK. The end of an era! No more evos, shoguns, l200s etc etc.
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Mar 18, 2021 17:17:09 GMT
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Thought it was worth another shot from a different angle, I'm trying to avoid giving away location, though anyone local would struggle to miss it! Another 6 wheeled volvo , a golf cab whose ripped roof is probably not helping matters, an american looking beast (can anyone name the car?) and I'm not sure what the angular looking red car in the distance is either.
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Mar 18, 2021 14:18:43 GMT
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Mar 16, 2021 22:14:18 GMT
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Do like a green car, here's a couple of mine from pre decent camera days:
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Mar 11, 2021 10:17:07 GMT
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Good idea for a thread. I used to race at a local club as a teenager and had touring car, mini and a mardave. Plus off road stuff (I was quite spoilt looking back!). I sold it all once real cars came along and recently looked into getting back into it, but even with my past experience I find it a confusing world to break into again.
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I like how this thread has turned into teacher's cars! The only teacher's car of note I remember was one of my primary school teachers driving a black 300zx (a pointy one from the 80s). It always bugged me as a young car spotter that I didn't know what it was as I didn't recognise the badge and had never seen one before. But the reason everyone in school knew the car was because this teacher was a bit of a goth and she always drove it around with a fake skeleton in the passenger seat. Freaked us all out no end.
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I saw the thread title and thought, what on earth is a cosumph? I'm glad I clicked through to find out - awesome machine!
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