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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

Hi all,

On the face of it, a £5k start bid with no reserve would appear to offer a great buy for someone - usual caveats etc etc. The head looks like it might want a repair, or has had one in the past, not the end of the world though.

http://ebay.to/2jvj5rR

RJ
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badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: Netherlands

Did they really use bright yellow paint back then? Makes it look cheap in my eyes.
Lovely truck by the way.
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1950 Location: East Yorkshire

I like it....

Regarding the paint?

This all really smacks of what I , personally, call, ''Minilite'' syndrome.

Referring to the tendency for old-car owners across the spectrum, of fitting 'fake Minilite wheels'...to every conceivable type of car, sporting or not.

Back, ''in-the-day''...Minilites were incredibly expensive, relatively-speaking.

Even the ally versions were quite pricey.

So it was rare to find them fitted to every other MGB or Austin Cambridge! Never mind Riley 1.5s...!

Yet today, they are abundant!

Which, for me, rather spoils the whole effect?

Purely personal view, this....I don't expect it to fall in line with general opinions in any way, shape, or form.

Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1750 Location: Derbyshire

Alastair, your posts often make me smile but this one more than most as I suffer from acute 'Minilite Syndrome' - not only do I have 'fake' Minilites on my car (did you know thye're made by the same company that makes the real thing?) but the car they're on is a Riley 1.5.

On top of that, the Riley they're on has been re-painted in a non-standard bright blue but I'll be kind and spare you a photo.

I know there's no cure but as long as it's my car, I'll do to it what I enjoy and if others don't appreciate it... well, Rhett Butler says it rather well to Scarlett O'Hara when she asks him "Where shall I go? What shall I do?"

As for the yellow paint used in the Morris lorry; I think it looks great.
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1950 Location: East Yorkshire

I just 'happened' to pick the Riley, and didn't have any particular vehicle in mind.

What irks me is, remembering the era when these sorts of cars were in common use, I'd prefer to see the fitment [if modifying] what would have been commonplace [and affordable?] of the time.

Way back in the '60's and early '70's, I would have given my back teeth [I still had some!]....for a set of minilites...even lookalikes.

I did have a set of centre-lock Pierce Magnas......but they required a bit of wheelarch easing to work properly, so I sold them on.

Above is a fairly recent acquisition of mine, so I cannot really 'talk'!!

Still, they were what it came on, so to speak.

Don't ask me 'why?' I have no idea why I bought this Mustang...it's certainly not 'me'...[I am, at best, scruffy!]

Certainly it is absolutely nothing like a Ford ModelY!

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Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 381 Location: Padiham

Personally, I like the overall look of the thing. Jolly. What I don't like is the modern plumbing stop in the fuel line. How much would it have cost to have found and fitted a period-style fitment?

P45.
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