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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Road test on the hatch seems to indicate the carbs are OK now, so I gave it a quick wax ready for the weekend. Then I tried to put my new cover on it, which is quite difficult when it's just been waxed. |
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Vulgalour
Joined: 08 May 2018
Posts: 474
Location: Kent
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I'm familiar with the Torcars conversions and the car in Holland. Unfortunately it's a difficult car to sell, were my pockets deeper I rather suspect I would have bought it. If ever I find a good donor Ambassador and the relevent exterior sheet metal and interior parts of a Princess I will put into practice my theory for melding the two together to create a proper Princess hatchback. It's entirely possible to make a factory looking car with all the benefits of the hidden engineering that went into the Ambassador shell. My friends joke that if I had the funds and space I'd hoarde Princesses and Ambassadors and I'm fairly certain I would given half a chance. Being an enthusiast is such a terrible burden.  |
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014
Posts: 6304
Location: Derby
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Vulgalour wrote: | | I'm familiar with the Torcars conversions and the car in Holland. Unfortunately it's a difficult car to sell, were my pockets deeper I rather suspect I would have bought it. If ever I find a good donor Ambassador and the relevent exterior sheet metal and interior parts of a Princess I will put into practice my theory for melding the two together to create a proper Princess hatchback. It's entirely possible to make a factory looking car with all the benefits of the hidden engineering that went into the Ambassador shell. My friends joke that if I had the funds and space I'd hoarde Princesses and Ambassadors and I'm fairly certain I would given half a chance. Being an enthusiast is such a terrible burden. |
I had a Wolseley 2200 wedge with all the trimmings but a tailgate would have made a good car a great one. They missed a trick there. Shame. |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Ray White wrote: | | I had a Wolseley 2200 wedge with all the trimmings but a tailgate would have made a good car a great one. They missed a trick there. Shame. |
They're not the only ones - there was a bit of a fashion for cars that looked like hatchbacks, but had boots. I have an Audi coupe from the mid-80s, looked as if it should have a hatch, but doesn't. A mate had an Alfasud, and my Dad has a Morris 1300. At least with the 1300 I've seen photos of one of the export variants (or maybe a prototype) that had a hatch, but I don't think it was sold here. |
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
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Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Mike,
Yes you are so right. I hadn’t given it much thought but the ‘75 VW Passat TS I had was a ‘hatchback look’ but it had a boot lid (that used to dump the water on it into the luggage compartment when opened).
Maybe the Morris 1300 you saw was an Innocenti version
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47Jag
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Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Mike,
Yes you are so right. I hadn’t given it much thought but the ‘75 VW Passat TS I had was a ‘hatchback look’ but it had a boot lid (that used to dump the water on it into the luggage compartment when opened).
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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Just took delivery of another car saved. Its a very rusty 1938 Vauxhall Ten, I can see past the rust and look forward to the work.
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011
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Location: South Cheshire
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| 47Jag wrote: | Maybe the Morris 1300 you saw was an Innocenti version
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I believe it was the Morris Nomad mentioned briefly on this page: https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/bmc-cars/1100-1300/ado16-development-story/
I remember there used to be a book in the local library that covered a lot of history of BL and I borrowed it more than once. I think the photo I saw was in that book. |
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Rick
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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It is an interesting project, its very rusty so will require a lot of welding.
I think I might change the signature to 'various' like yours Rick.
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Da Tow'd
Joined: 16 Jun 2010
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Location: Bella Coma British Columbia Canada
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| Rootes75 wrote: | | Just took delivery of another car saved. Its a very rusty 1938 Vauxhall Ten, I can see past the rust and look forward to the work. |
How about a picture?
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Rootes75
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I took a few photos so I will upload them through my Flickr account.
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Swapped the front wing on my modern car today. That needed the front bumper to come off, which was a fiddle but not a major issue. Had to drill out three fasteners, and another bolt sheared off. But it's all back together again now, and looks a little less scabby than it did. Next plan is to try to strip the original wing and repair it if I can. |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016
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Location: East Yorkshire
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| Etched some marks onto the Dellows fuel tank dipstick [length of hardwood ....ramin?] used a cordless soldering pen from Lidl, worked a treat...couldn't measure beyond 3 gallons as I hadn't enough petrol! |
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Ellis
Joined: 07 Mar 2011
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Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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Some of you may have noticed a change in my signature of vehicles and I can confirm that I have sold my 1954 Land Rover series One 86".
It needed restoration but my priority is to return the 1964 Jaguar Mark 2 to as pristine a condition as I achieved in 1996. I have written of this before but to summarise, every part of the car was restored, rebuilt or reconditioned. I have owned it since June 1991.
However the paintwork micro blistered all over by 1998 and I rather lost interest in the car, disillusionment I think you can say. All that work for something I was not prepared to show anybody.
I started dismantling the car some years ago but work pressures stopped that but I have now restarted.
It will need a new headlining in place of the new one installed in 1996 - mice!
If I disliked mice before my aversion to little b*****s has increased.
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