Design flaw

[Ratman]

Ok , ok . You may have to google this for the body shape but, I built/had  a Renault  750 body with a Dauphine Gordini engine and gear box in . The usual wide wheels and yellow paint with a purple stripe running over the body . Work shop made small steering wheel and other stuff I made in the tool room . . Bit like an oversized go cart . really fun car/hot rod . Alas I wrote it off with an end to end roll . I was 16 at the time . 

LEGEND!!! [emoji108][emoji106][emoji16]

[5thelement]

38 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I find that hard to believe, the internal combustion engine hadn't been invented then...

Stubbys first car was what the illustrator of The Flintstones used as the basis for Fred’s.

[Moose McAlpine]

40 minutes ago, PeteB said:

4th was a Lancia HPE, twin cam 2ltr and was lively but rusty!

 

My dad used to do marketing for Lancia UK. At one point (maybe towards the end with the Gamma or whatever it was with the subframe rotting out) they gathered all the European marketing teams in Turin. They were asked how Lancia was seen in their respective countries.

 

The Belgians said "The joke in Belgium is that Lancias go rusty in the brochure." Went down like a lead balloon apparently.

 

40 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I find that hard to believe, the internal combustion engine hadn't been invented then...

 

Savage. 😂

 

 

Good to know i'm not the only one who binned my first car. Stuffed it into a tree at 60mph. The tree won, car caught fire on impact. My back and neck have never quite recovered.

 

[PeteB]

1725 Hunter? Holby tuned engine if I recall right, rare in those days too!

 

Modern cars don't have design flaws, they just cussed to working! Changing the alternator on my D4 was best part of two days! They (modern cars) are just not designed for DIY repairs! You are right about Renault Stewart, half a day to change a light bulb sounds right!

[Ratman]

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[PeteB]

I had a fright in my Dad's brand new Volvo 340 back in the early 80's. They were flying out of Heathrow early one Saturday,  asked me to drop them off. Lovely summers dawn morning, good tunes on a fancy stereo, new car, sunroof open etc. Came hooning up the Great North Road at a lick, realising too late that the slip road was there, jumped on the brakes with a load of lefthand down and went broadside to  broadside to broadside up the slip. This two week old car launched up the kerb to 360 up the grass with mud/soil/stones and grass flying! Got out shaking, light a Marlboro, a check all four wheels were still attached and drove it straight into the garage! It got thoroughly washed and polished! 

 

My younger sister found out and snitched!  Six years later, I brought it off him and then he told me he knew all about my adventure and the thought of my panic, embarrassment and efforts to check it out and clean it made him chuckle!

[Will C]

My first was a 72 mini pick up with a 1275gt engine in, I left the rear subframe behind on landing after a hump back bridge between Melton and Woodbridge in Suffolk.
The second was a mk1 golf gti campaign edition that cost me £1400 to insure 3rd party only (I was 18 and earning £185 a week minus 40 lodgings!) A friend of mine parked it in a tree 🤬

The one I wish I parked in a barn was the Porsche 914-6 sold for £375 and a mk2 golf gti which I sold next day for 500 and brought a Nissan pulsar gti-r with the proceeds plus a bottle of jack Daniels, I felt like a king in 2002 at 20 year old, 😂

 

 

[manco]

On 30/07/2021 at 14:01, eggsarascal said:

Post them up.

 

This is a 2021 £80k+the extras Motorhome. You can't open the cutlery draw without opening the habitation door.

 

 

thats what you get for buying a motorhome and clogging up my roads, serves you right, hahahaha 

[eggsarascal]

3 hours ago, manco said:

thats what you get for buying a motorhome and clogging up my roads, serves you right, hahahaha 

If brains were trains you would miss yours.

[manco]

13 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

If brains were trains you would miss yours.

charming im sure, but surely the train/brain was faster thus me missing it, rather than slower as im sure you hoped to mean?