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but the less said about 33's the better ;)
always fancied one of those 164 TD's, drove one from Ancona (Italy) to Paris (Not Texas) a few years back, went like stink, did 40+ MPG. IIRC some lunatic used to race one here, used to beat the petrol ones hands down..
Ooooh.....better one of those than that lump of useless Germanic s**te I have on the drive. I'll stick with my nice reliable Italian cars from now on ;-)
Yeah, ISTR it was a 2.5TD engine. don't know why they never came to the UK - probably because Alfas are pretty 'normal' in Italy whereas they're a 'sporty' brand in the UK.
The JTD engines are supposed to be real crackers. Might have to blag a test drive sometime.
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Touché !! Except my lump of useful German s**te is an injection one.. Sorted that carb problem yet? ;-P maybe you should convert it to Diseasel ;-)
No - not sorted the carb. Mainly 'cos I'm too tight to splash out £180 on a Weber.
Must get round to ordering soon - then I can pop it over to a mate's place and molish together an exhaust system from the various bits of new pipe that don't currently fit.
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£180 ????? That's insanity! there's a loads of VW breakers round here ( hence the rude and ongoing health of my trusty GTi) If it helps, I'll pop down and see if there's any carbs there for you. Will be cheap, this IS Liverpool...SteveH waffled on in a quite bewildering manner to produce...
*scribbles on scrap of paper*I'll have a mooch for you on Monday. I'm off to this Ellesmere Port thing tomorrow.
Wouldn't have much luck with breakers on a Sunday anyway.
Anyone getting some pics of the Ellesmere Port thing? - I'd have loved to have come along myself, but was on the late shift at work today, and need tomorrow to recover before a week of early shifts next week.
Starting?? :-)
Yes, it would be good, as long as they improved the styling to make it a bit less bland. The Lotus Carlton was one great looking car (IMHO).
Peter
I reckon Dervy'll probably take a camera along to take some piccies for his website.
Peter
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Not Vauxhall-badged, and priced in M5-territory.
Good god - you've turned into a nancy-boy !
What about the gearset (and the whole gearbox for that matter) from a Sherpa? Not sure about it, but in Ford land, the widest set of ratios available always belonged to a Transit.
Hiffle :P
But to be fair, so was the Lotus Carlton. And if they were to make a Lotus Carlton Estate (or, ever so slightly more realistically, a Lotus Omega Estate), it would also be similarly priced. The attraction would be, that it would be completely redesigned by Lotus through and through, with the only similarity being a broadly similar shell, which is why the LC was so popular.
Peter
I've driven a Sherpa with a Rover V-8, and it *felt* like it had the same ratios as the SD1. The van V-8 has so much low speed torque it doesn't really need a wide ratio box.
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The LC could get away with being expensive because it was exclusive - now uber-saloons/estates are ten-a-penny ;-)
i think they start at around the £25k mark but then you have to import them and that jacks the price up quicker in a straight line than an M5 but without the fancy gimmicks the uber germans have to make it go round corners at the end of the day, it's a big, grunty motor and that's what anyone who enjoys driving is looking for
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