Your favourite car or bike that you owned.

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by Owen, Apr 13, 2007.

  1. Kieron Hill

    Kieron Hill Senior Member

    This is my little beast a 1969 ex military Landrover Series 2A
    she didn't look like this when I first started. When doing
    various jobs found desert paint and camo, a bit of history I
    guess. Top speed of 65mph with a tail wind and a fuel consumption
    of about 14mpg...a little thirsty!!!

    The bonus is she is so easy to work on none of this electric
    ignition, fuel injection rubbish and guess what Landrover
    celebrates its 60th Birthday this year. I read somewhere that
    they reckon that 75% of all Landrovers built are still on the
    road today...I find that a little hard to believe.

    Cheers Kieron
     

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  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    I read somewhere that
    they reckon that 75% of all Landrovers built are still on the
    road today...

    I think the quote is 75% of all Landies are still going in one form or another.
    Well that's what my bruv-in-law said.
    That can include vehicles that are for off road use only.
    Lovely Landie, Keiron.
     
  3. BulgarianSoldier

    BulgarianSoldier Senior Member

  4. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    Land Rovers easy to work on ? Wait until you have to take the gearbox out through the cab (mind you, mine was a Series 3 so it needed the box out more often).

    I got my 109 up to about 20 mpg in the end. The biggest difference was having the head re-worked by Turner Engineering.

    Mine was a LHD version that had a Recklinghausen telephone number stencilled on the driver's door.

    Kieron, you're not interested in a pair of radio operator's seat are you ?
     
  5. Kieron Hill

    Kieron Hill Senior Member

    Hi Rich,

    I have bench seats fitted in the back
    at the moment, what do the radio seats
    look like?

    Cheers Kieron
     
  6. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    They're just little single seats with a small back that sit on the boxes and hook over the tub sides. They only fit with a canvas. I seem to remember that they are shown in the drawing in the military manual with the FFR equipment, one each side.
     
  7. Kieron Hill

    Kieron Hill Senior Member

    I think I've seen them now in an Landrover
    magazine. I was thinking about doing the whole
    FFR thing but it would cost a fortune and not
    very practical.

    Cheers anyway Rich
     
  8. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Top speed of 65mph with a tail wind and a fuel consumption of about 14mpg...a little thirsty!!!

    But then, did you buy it run like a madman on the M1 or traverse ground a donkey would fear to tread?
     
  9. Kieron Hill

    Kieron Hill Senior Member

    A few years ago I lived not that far from the
    Ridgeway, an old roman road that runs from
    Dover to Land End I believe. Had a Discovery
    and went up there a bit, not to mud plug just
    a casual drive. I brought this one as a bit of
    running a project. Replaced just about everything,
    which was a big mistake...that old saying if its not
    broke dont touch it comes into mind.

    How she once looked
     

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  10. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Ridgeway, Kieron, from Ivinghoe Beacon , Bucks to Avebury, Wilts.
    Home - The Ridgeway - National Trails
    Been up there a few times in Landies, a few more on a mountain bike.
    I also took my Astra along it. Got stuck once & rescued by some Landies.
    We also used to go up in in Mollusc's SAAB 99 with Swubb & I lead on the roof holding onto the seatbelts we crossed over the roof as a grab handle.
     
  11. cash_13

    cash_13 Senior Member

    I'm a bit greedy my first car was MK 1 Ford Capri 1600GT and bought it for £60 only had it 2 weeks and it got knicked.......

    Had loads of Rovers P5 P6 SD1's etc and various escorts and an Audi 100 2.8 V6 which was lovely car

    But since the Audi all I have had is german cars the lastest being a BMW E39 528i SE Touring

    and an BMW E46 M3 SMG11 ( nothing to do with guns ) in Carbon black with red Imola leather......awesome car

    Wont bore you anymore with with my toys but the best bike was my old Honda TSR250 Grand Prix bike ( he says boring them some more ) and my 95 RS 250
     

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  12. cash_13

    cash_13 Senior Member

    Whoops nearly forgot a post about cars would'nt be a post unless you had a pic of a Jaguar in it and of course and in what car park are we sitting??:D


    Also a picture of a pie fest out near Overage Hobling of the Maginot line;)
     

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  13. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Would that be Bovington's car park?
    How did you break you leg, Racing?
     
  14. cash_13

    cash_13 Senior Member

    Triped over my credit card bill coming in the door one day it was so big:p

    Yes mate broke it at Snetterton circuit in Norfolk


    And yep you've guest it day out with the family;)
     
  15. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Favourite Car E Reg Ford XR2

    Favourite Bike B Reg RD125LC

    Best Car 60 Reg Audi A3 TD Sport

    Best Bike 54 Reg Yamaha R6
     
  16. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    Call me a redneck but I still have a soft spot for my first 'new' vehicle. A 1980 Ford F-150, 6 cyl., 300 cu in, 5 speed manual with overdrive.
    Marriage and kids made me give it up.
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    Second choice was my 1990 Grand Prix.
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    I entered the Minivan phase after that!!
     
  17. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    I sat down and counted last year, and came up with 37 bikes that I remembered!

    I've had some gems - a first model Aprilia Pegaso once it was tweaked to stop the rear wheel breaking free on changing up or down was a beautiful bike that steered itself as if it was plugged straight into my brain, a Kawasaki W650 brit-clone that I put 80,000 miles on in two years despatching...were runners-up, but 23 years ago I ownd the best bike I ever owned;

    An old Honda CB 550/4 F2....standard frame, six inch-over forks, Sportster tank, banana seat, homemade sissy bar, western bars with 10 inch rise, 16 inch back rim and tyre (laced up by me), solid struts replacing the shocks, little XT500 6-volt headlight running a 12-volt bulb (searchlight!), and the famous Honda Four ha'penny brake tweak....

    For some weird reason - doing all THAT resulted in a bike that handled amazingly! Really looked like a child of the 1970's transferred to the late 1980s...but for some strange reason the steering geometry was just perfect once rear suspension was taken out of the equation. A hardtailed custom simply shouldn't have been able to handle like she did...some day I'll build a "Phylo Replica" :)

    I had a brainstorm and sold it to buy a Harley 883 Sportster. I've never been able to get rid of the nervous tic since...
     
  18. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    The year was 1963 and my kids posed in front of the family Hillman Minx.

    Forgive the quality of the snap, it started life as a transparency and then was digitized quite a few years ago.

    Ron
     

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  19. KevinC

    KevinC Slightly wierd

    I used to drive this
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    but was a bit impractical when it overheated

    Now I have one of these
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  20. bofors

    bofors Senior Member

    HI all

    Probably the car I enjoyed the most was a Holden Camira.
    Lots of people bagged them, but after a few hiccups in the first year it was a really reliable car. Only other problem was a bit of rust around the front and back screens, but once that was fixed, no more rust.
    Had it for 12 years, from new, and did 175000km in it and I have still seen it driving around!

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    regards

    Robert
     

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