I had a beat-up 997 and it did about the same mpg as the Hymer does now, only did 70mph or 75 downhill.105e Anglia same colour as Harry Potter, sold for £100 and bought a Mk3 Cortina GT for £60
Mine was a Talbot Sunbeam. It died a death when the engine went on fire outside B and Q on a bank holiday Monday.
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f you mean the 1947 Sunbeam Talbot then even now I still regret letting that lovely car slip through my fingers as my first car. It was gorgeous, with leather seats, a sun roof and a push button wireless. I dithered, and it was sold.
If you mean the later 1980ish Chrysler Talbot Sunbeam........then sorry, wrong car. ☹
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f you mean the 1947 Sunbeam Talbot then even now I still regret letting that lovely car slip through my fingers as my first car. It was gorgeous, with leather seats, a sun roof and a push button wireless. I dithered, and it was sold.
If you mean the later 1980ish Chrysler Talbot Sunbeam........then sorry, wrong car. ☹
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Jeez, you lot ARE old lol
Then again may partly be I never bothered with a car til 78/79, was always bikes before that. Oh yes, first car for me was a 1200 Honda Civic
Must say that’s a new one on me, that’s a lot nicer than many comparisonsIdon't know if you have ever had this observation made about you "nabism", but I have always thought that your avatar had more than a passing resemblance to the late and vert great motoring writer L. J. K. Setright who also had held an absolute passionate love for all Honda automotive products and here is you writing about a 1200 Honda Civic!
I had a mini fitted with a cross flow head and 4 Amal carbs out front, Alexander engineering if I’m right. About 1970 ishSorry Jim, but how on the eart did you ever fit 2 twin choke webbers onto a 5 port head? For that reason the works cars were sometimes fitted with a single 45 dcoe webber and the highest ever power that anyone ever achieved out of an 'A' series engine was at best 150 bhp.
I do of course realise that some of the works cars were later fitted with 8 port heads, but very few of these were ever put onto the open road because they cost a fortune as indeed they do these days if you buy one from the likes of MED Engineering, but the head alone before you even start thinking of the exhaust or carbs costs an eye watering £2,500. So by the time you have tuned an 'A' series engine with one of these when fitted to a Mini, then along with a Jack Knight gearbox, the exhaust the con rods, the crank and everything else the engine and transmission build alone would come to well north of £7k.
Before going to four wheels I had two KR200s not the same time but... I rolled the first on a wet roundabout at the 'monument' in Dover just sitting upside down and still putting away, a bloke turned us back up and went off, on the way uptown was passed by two fire engine a police car and an ambulance going to the car wreck on the seafront. It would go flatout BACKWARDS but didn't steer at all well, doing that.I loved those, so charismatic, I once knew someone who had a highly tuned Messerschmitt Tiger 500 which he used to compete on hill climbs and he even did the Land End Trial in it on a few occasions..... now look at the prices of any of them in good condition being asked these days!!
Here are some Bonhams images of the Tiger 500 https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22792/lot/106/
You and me both. Don't know about you, but my driving licence looked like a comic book 50 years ago...............................................
It is a wonder I got to my age looking back. ................................
Just a thought with all us older drivers, does anyone still have their old red book style driving licence?
Do you remember the KH 2 strokes? In an attempt to get back on a bike after an accident brother in law gave me his KH400 he had stripped to clean and couldn’t get back togetherBefore going to four wheels I had two KR200s not the same time but... I rolled the first on a wet roundabout at the 'monument' in Dover just sitting upside down and still putting away, a bloke turned us back up and went off, on the way uptown was passed by two fire engine a police car and an ambulance going to the car wreck on the seafront. It would go flatout BACKWARDS but didn't steer at all well, doing that.
It is a wonder I got to my age looking back. The second one I put my feet through the floor. I wish I could get it back now, worth a bomb, and I COULD repair it all now.
The triples back then were the KH models, renowned for the way they took off and also for having super bendy frames lol. The KH500 H1 became known as the widow makerI had a kwaka triple for a short while ( used to change bikes regularly back then) green and went like a snot off a stick. Think that was a 400? Got no photos of that one though.
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