@pip-bip
It's always the beige one that brings the rest down...

@pip-bip
Truly late nights...

Perth is Adelaide with more money and even less class. Kings Park is the sole redeeming feature

@pip-bip Night mate.

@pip-bip
...the tax you can't escape.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly
With a light up car badge up front.
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Doing it before it became fashionable.
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@pip-bip
When marketing ruled the World and we were all stupid and....

...oh no.

@Just-Jeepin Very few cars could outrun or even get close to most sports bikes. Plus, I'm an early bird and everyone working from home meant basically no traffic in my rural area.

@pip-bip
And the financial success is...the white box on the left?!

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly
Not an Aston Martin Mini, not even the David Brown from Aston Martin, but another David Brown from David Brown Automotive, who 'remastered' the Mini.
83bhp 1,275cc. 1,000man hours. £70,000.
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@pip-bip
Soooo....about two, eh?

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi said in hour rule:

@pip-bip Mrs Distraxi’s first car was one of those. It was the most horrendous POS I’ve ever had the displeasure of trying to keep running.

I still want one...

@pip-bip Night

@pip-bip

"Give me another minute. I think your dog is stuck in the suspension."

@pip-bip
Good night mate.

@siennaman I'm 6ft and with a crash helmet on it touches the the bit of roof that isn't the webasto sunroof, so not a huge amount of space in the coupe

@pip-bip "buy British because we have a robust parts network for when it inevitably breaks down"

@pip-bip Murder? I 'ardly know 'er!

@Violet G-BBME, BAC 1-11.

Delivered new to American Airlines in 1966, sold to Orientair in the UK in 1972, passed to British Airways in 1974, then to Birmingham European/Brymon European Airways in 1990, Maersk Air UK in 1993, then to Nationwide Airlines in South Africa in 1997, laid up 2003, scrapped 2005

@pip-bip

Saw this yesterday:

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@Highlander were

@pip-bip g'nite mate

@pip-bip Ooh, an MGC GT with the inline six! Nice one.

@vdubyajohn I have that, same shape and all.

It's due for rehab

@Old Busted Hotness

It's a well-publicised factoid that the Miura's engine/gearbox position was inspired on the Mini's. So much so that for a long time in their production run the engine oil was shared with the gearbox... just as in a Mini.

@Milky You're welcome!

@Highlander The Marina is just a Minor in a new suit, never got the hate, the engineering was dated but conventional and not much different from the Cortina of the era, RWD, solid axle, leaf springs, everybody loves the Morris Minor, but stick new sheet metal on the exact same underpinnings and somehow it instantly becomes the worst abomination ever on 4 wheels (that sold 1.3 million+ units and carried on in one form or another through 1999).

@drVanTraveler said in night oppo:

@pip-bip "Maybe one of those boats will give us a lift, the car won't start"

We all know that the "sun, wind, action" is what happens after it breaks down someplace inconvenient..

@Svend And the Ital ended up being built in China (in pretty limited quantities) through 1999

@Svend
Hi Svend: your are right: indeed, it is a Wood & Pickett "Goodwood" conversion, as seen here:

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/skys-limit-range-rover-goodwood-tailor-made-wood-pickett

@Krusty Walnut

The website above states they are Vogue version wheels, but I think the first time I saw them they were on the Range Rover LSE (besides, I think the alloys fitted to the Vogue were three-spoke, but I may be wrong).

Regarding the lack of a roll over bar/cage, a rather successful rally driver (national champ etc) once told me that a stock Range Rover Classic may decapitate you if you happen to make it land on its roof. Dunno if true or not, but he claimed that for that reason he always exercised due care (i.e., restraint) when driving his parents' Rangie around the family farm when he was a kid.

He was a lot less careful with their Renault 11, however. Front wheel alignment was needed rather often.

@pip-bip

The windows are blocked out, so it likely has nothing inside the shell. There are clear separation lines front to back where the center section was inserted. The oval openings in the grill are likely where you access the clamping mechanism that holds the sections together. It's not likely anybody had room to store the thing long-term.

@pip-bip I wanna see it with the top up.

@Highlander said in night oppo:

@trivet considering the model is 95 years old and the car only 60 I’ll take the car too.

Caddyshack quote, " I'll bet you were really something before electricity! "

@pip-bip Easy to service because oh boy will you spend a lot of time servicing them.

@pip-bip That got me thinking about Belgian automakers. Surprised to see that there were some.

@pip-bip
Milhouse! Run!

@ranwhenparked said in morning oppo:

@pip-bip Was this the point where Princess was a stand-alone single model marque?

I believe so. That is the same colour as the one I used to own. Actually a decent car.

@pip-bip
Ah yes ...the triumph of Civic duty...

@pip-bip
If they were anything like my godfather and his magnificent maroon Triumph saloon....parking was never an issue for him. Mostly because the impact was typically on the things that he parked on, against, behind or beside...

@pip-bip Night

@pip-bip Yes, please.

I love the idea that some Australian BMC engineers decided to have shot at fitting the Rover V8 into one of its brethren and succeeded. Of course, it was all too complicated so we ended up with the P76 instead!!

@WBizarre
no the Rover 600 was the Honda Accord (fifth gen)
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The early 400 was based on the Honda Concerto and the later based on the Honda Civic

@Vondon302 I believe what there was of the flat Earth movement largely died out in the 19th century, then got revived in the middle of the 20th

@john-norris not yet

@ranwhenparked The hooker storage isn't the reason I like big '50s/'60s sedans... OK, maybe it's a reason.

@fintail Too true...
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@pip-bip GIB ALL. PLS. THX.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly prob not for long.

@pip-bip -- "Dad?"
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Always thought it interesting that tidy little British saloons would reach back for a transitional design motif from some of the biggest arks American had to offer, and stick with it longer...

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Chrysler lost the angles after just a couple of years but the eyebrows hung around like the Cheshire Cat's grin:
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Triumph had gone for the angled look a few years before the Herald, with the Vitesse, but I think the Herald, with its single headlights, wore it better.
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@pip-bip
A long way down...

@pip-bip I can't put into words how much I love rear window louvers on cars.

@pip-bip I've always thought the GT6 was a very good looking car, especially the earlier ones from the rear. Those rear haunches....VERY cool!

@pip-bip
The only other thing it won't escape is the fact that it's the last of the Austin Rover Mini's so it's already pretty much rooted in that image...

@pip-bip Night

12 gallons real fast! Now for that 600mile bladder breaker.