Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[baconsdozen]

It's maybe a bit on the modern side,but it looks old and I like it .I bought this ex London taxi to restore and so far have been able to do most of the work whilst keeping it running.

Full of eccentricities,heavy,slow and a bit the worse for wear,but so is the taxi so we're well suited.I wonder if like pets cars start to look like their owners (or is that the other way round?).
Work on the taxi still carries on,http://www.baconsdozen.co.uk/londontaxi.html

[Rick]

interesting to see it, did later examples differ much from the earlier FX4s??

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[baconsdozen]

Although the running gear is very different,brakes are disc,new front suspension and a nissan diesel engine and box,the body is very similar.From the front a fairway is recognisable by the bulges at the bottom of the front wings, the side views and rear are virtually the same.
Huge numbers of fairways are now being crushed,some have escaped into private hands and some are still used for hire mainly outside london.
Lots of fun to drive and peculiar in thet,like say the Austin 7's and minis and others,they are universally recognisable but now rare.

[Scotty]

[baconsdozen]

For a long while and over 150,000 miles I had a 307D merc and thought that was the best diesel I'd come across.The body fell to bits on a regular basis but the engine was still clattering away on its original bearings at 200,000.
Looking at some of the fairways with their nissan lumps it seems 350,000 is considered as nothing out of the ordinary. One ex fairway owner I spoke to was furious at having to get rid of his,he reckoned at 380 odd thousand it was just about run in.