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12-09-2011, 18:22
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Re: Old Motor
The first Land Rover was introduced in 1948 and the body panels were aliuminium because steel was hard to find just after the war. Land Rover Defender and Range Rover are still made from aluminium.
The LR factory in Solihull is the original factory.
A few years ago LR were advertising that 72% of all land rovers were still on the road. Trading Standards stopped them from using this advert because many land rovers had been rebuilt.
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14-09-2011, 16:28
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This rust bucket seems to be in regular use, it was parked at Winfields last week.
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Interesting photo Gremlin.
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24-09-2011, 22:29
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28-10-2011, 16:40
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Re: Old Motor
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Yep austin cambridge saw it tonight on Asda car park.
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Spotted this old girl again today, coming back towards preston from blackpool way on the old road just by the fork in the road where it splits to go to lytham.
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05-11-2011, 23:11
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05-11-2011, 23:20
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06-11-2011, 15:07
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Re: Old Motor
Found a pic of my old car other day , why did i ever sell it !
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06-11-2011, 16:00
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Because they did nt handle very well, were not very quick unless you had the 2.8. Rusted like billy ho,
In a time when the hot hatches took over the capri and manta were dinosaurs....
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06-11-2011, 16:48
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Oh how you get used to power steering
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06-11-2011, 18:25
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Re: Old Motor
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They were a great car Ian, my mate had a few of them, he used to tinker about and soup them up, they could catch pigeons
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06-11-2011, 19:10
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Because they did nt handle very well, were not very quick unless you had the 2.8. Rusted like billy ho,
In a time when the hot hatches took over the capri and manta were dinosaurs....
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I agree,
I have had two and they handled terrible with the cart springs at the back. The headlights rusted away in no time.
The two litre auto was a bit quicker than the 1600 I had and better on fuel.
They looked OK in their day.
I spotted this one at Leyland recently.
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06-11-2011, 19:56
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They looked the business in the day, but as others have said crap to handle.
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06-11-2011, 21:56
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They looked the business in the day, but as others have said crap to handle.
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Yeah, but you gotta admit there is more to cars and bikes than handling. My Hardly Dangerous is not a very forgiving bike . I've ridden my buddy's Honda Goldwing ... like driving down the road in a comfortable armchair ... boring. You buy a Harley 'cause, well, it's a Harley ... the sound , especially with the ground pounder pipes I have
Want safety and reliability? Ride Jap scrap. Want syle? Ride a Harley. And if you want a beautiful machine, and you have the bucks, ride Italian.
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07-11-2011, 09:18
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Yeah, but you gotta admit there is more to cars and bikes than handling. My Hardly Dangerous is not a very forgiving bike . I've ridden my buddy's Honda Goldwing ... like driving down the road in a comfortable armchair ... boring. You buy a Harley 'cause, well, it's a Harley ... the sound , especially with the ground pounder pipes I have
Want safety and reliability? Ride Jap scrap. Want syle? Ride a Harley. And if you want a beautiful machine, and you have the bucks, ride Italian.
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I agree Eric and if you want nostalgia ride a:
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07-11-2011, 09:36
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I agree Eric and if you want nostalgia ride a:
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That looks a mean machine Gremlin
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