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tggzzz:
My second car cost me £600. I used it for 10 years, left it off the road for 18 months - and then sold it for £600 to someone that carted it away on a low-loader.

It was a proper frankencar. Quite a few bits were from Minis, when the passenger windscreen wiper caused it to fail the MoT I simply removed it ("if wipers are fitted they must work"), and the fuel gauge was calibrated in roentgens/hour. Yup atomic powered.

Oh yes, it had a completely different engine in it too, a 4.2l Perkins diesel. It would do up 54mph on any gradient whatsoever :)

(Hint: it had 16 forward gears and 4 reverse gears)

mnementh:

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--- Quote from: bd139 on June 15, 2018, 06:32:37 pm ---That was a proper Cortina. Mine was a mk4. Best feature it had was the bird shit mural on the roof.

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The Mk4 was a better riding car than the Mk1, that was bloody bone shaker.

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hmmmmm.   don't remember those hippie looking breaklights.  ours was more of a box (a shit box).

can't ask the old man because he does not have a computer, is 92, and lives in Delaware.  (if you call that living.)

maybe the export version was not the same?

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Maybe it was of these ones

Mk2    Mk3    Mk4    Or a Mk5, which I also had. 

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The Cortina lived on over here until around 1980 or so as Ford's "World car" the Fiesta; at least the 1600 engine and transmission, only now re-envisioned as a transverse FWD, but still the same gearbox.

My first legal car on the road was a blue one like this; I had a love/hate relationship with it. I loved the freedom it represented, it hated to see me with more than gas money in my pocket and broke down constantly, even though it only had 55k on it when I bought it for $1200. Eventually I got a red one and a yellow one for a couple hundred apiece and kept them out back of the barn just to keep the blue one running.


 


In other news; I stayed up til 2AM hackmodding my son's new lightsaber because he didn't like the red color and no sound. Gutted it, built a 18650 battery module with protection/USB charge PC, then added a CC/CV LED driver and sound board from a toy lightsaber. Finished it all up with a 4 \$\Omega\$ laptop speaker and a little drill press abuse on the pommel fitting so the sound could get out.

When he came home from visiting his grandmomma, he plotzed more than when I first gave it to him.  :-DD


mnem
This is what Father's Day is all about.

tautech:
Pretty keen on your bench mat mnementh.  :)

Got a job for one just like that today to check a rifle......got a bambi hunt booked for tomorrow.

tautech:
tggzzz
JCB ?

Specmaster:
Good work on the light saber but what the hell do you yanks do to our British cars? Fords are very reliable over here, Hmm could it be that your grease monkeys don't know how to service small engines that extract a lot of HP from very few CC's?

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