In news: snipped-for-privacy@brightview.com, Mark W decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
I can't include *any* Mk2 Escort on a list of bad cars. I adore the Mk2, no matter how dodgy it is.
In news: snipped-for-privacy@brightview.com, Mark W decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
I can't include *any* Mk2 Escort on a list of bad cars. I adore the Mk2, no matter how dodgy it is.
A standard Rialto with normal back axle will do into the upper nineties, I, erm, understand. And yes, that wedgie bonnet does help enormously at speed.
I bought mine just to see what it would be like, and was very pleasantly surprised by the handling. Apart from country roads with grass up the middle, it's hard to tell that it's only got three wheels. I was also surprised to discover, in delicate testing, that the back end lets go before the front on corners, which was not what I expected.
I'll be sorry to see it go (only 300 quid with new MOT, folks...)
Ian
Any car (using the term loosely) that can do 100mph with 40hp has to have reasonable aerodynamics at least!
Ian
As in low ratio? ;-)
A few years ago I remember being overtaken by one coming down the hill on the M62 towards Manchester. He/She must have been doing the thick end of 90. I'm not sure if it was a Rialto or Regal.
Are we suggesting one as the answer to the OPs requirement?
Malcolm
But where would he get one in fetching beige with new MOT for three hundred - yes only three hundred - pounds?
Ian
Do tell..... I'm after a decent 2CV myself, not too worried about colour :-)
Cheers Mike
Mike P from the North ( snipped-for-privacy@othere.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Email me. There's usually something going.
The regal top end is more like 70MPH. 600 / 700cc engine with 28+ BHP.
Handling not as good as the Robin series due the 13" wheels and higher centre of gravity. Mine was even wirse due to a crack in the chassis. :-)
But BMW's don't have working indicators, or at least all the ones I see don't seem to...
I will.. or already would have done if I didn't get made redundant this morning :-( Oh well, have to stick with the old ZX TD for a while longer.. which, although not a classic (could buy a Volcane TD?) it is bloody good fun to drive, fast ish and it handles great..
Cheers
Mike
Get yourself a Saab Luxo Barge. Again ...
That unforunatley was how mine "Went". Wet road, late for work, NSL road, niuce old grippy tarmac. Went into corner and found a patch of shiny ungravelled repair. Back end went.
I opposite locked like a star, had it full sideways. Felt like Erik Carlsson.
Pulled it back, and it went the other way. Spun the lock back on again the other way, just started to feel it stop sliding any further out, when the new tarmac ended, I hit the old grippy stuff with the back well out. The back of the robins stopped sliding, the weight transfered to the front mid corner while turning, Every thing went kind of Sky, Ground, Sky Ground, and I ended up facing the correct way, on the opposite side of the road, on the grass verge, feeling even more like Erik Carlsson (on me roof). While dangling there in a strange position, with my seat belt holding me in, I calmly applied the handbrake, took it out of gear with the clutch, switched off the igntion, released the seat belt and instantley regretted it as I thumped down (would have been up when in the right direction) onto the steering wheel as I shot downward.
What about a Porche 924? Hatchback coupe?
2+2 VW derived Audi built Porsche badged engine. Not fast, but pretty quick and handle well. Over the years, the specs have changed so, so have the buying prices.
Not 60's or 70's but Saab 900 16v Turbo (mid 80's-early 90's but doesn't look it). As long as the box is good. It is a goodun. Saab 9000 2.3 16v Turbo (early to late 90's) Will one day be a fine classic, but right now, cheap as chips, even with good leather and working aircon and seat adjustment etc.
No it won't, it'll always be some dreadful GM bore-box.
SAAB _9000_. I think you'll find you've mis-typed "FIAT"..
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Sleeker GT Phwoar saying something like:
Heh. Sort of automatic reaction, even upsie downie.
Ouch. Cracking story.
Dreadful Fiat bore-box.
I think you will find all the GM product was 9-3 or 9-5 etc. 9000 is not contanimated by GM but has some Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Lancia thrown in for luck, even though GM part owned them for part of the production run.
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