Normal, except that the belt tension is adjusted with a rose joint. No shitty flat strip with a big slot in it for these guys.....

Little-known geek fact: The tailgate screen was taken from a Citroen Ami 8

IIRC the Scorpio restyle pretty much killed the whole big ford line dead in Europe at least. Nobody bought the second gen Scorpio and Ford only kept them going until they were ready to stick a Jaguar badge on the Mondeo for their big cars. They made really goofy looking hearses out of them. I don't think the…

Thanks to Canada's 15-year import rule, some lucky guy in Halifax, Nova Scotia can already say 'JDM, Yo'.....

In their pre-V8, pre-1971 incarnation, these things were made entirely out of plastic, Volvo 1800 four bangers and, erm, plywood. Frank Costin (the 'cos' of Marcos) had worked on DeHavilland Mosquitos during the war.

Cool? Errr... Not really. This was the most boring car ever created when it came out.

But does it go up to 11?

No clocks, no windows.......

You need a 'built it yourself' category in the manufacturers section. It should instantly give you a score of at least 100% Jalop.

I think someone was refused admission to the Corps of Engineers because they were too well qualified.........

I think the $175 per hour probably soothes that particular pain

602cc twins were good for 32-36 HP, depending on which carburettor they used. I got my 1979 Dyane 6 up to 80 mph, which needed 6800 rpm and a decent following wind. Happy days.

By 1990, just about all of the production was 'special editions' for the UK market. The very last were registered in 1991. The French had long thought that they were crude jokes, not even good enough for farmers any more.

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It was a red DB4 - and it was in the even more terrible "Hammer house of mystery and suspense" series

Hard to believe now, but an awful lot of Classic cars were pretty much worthless by the early 1970s. A real DB4 or 5 was also trashed during the filming of an absolutely terrible low budget 'Hammer House of Horror' episode. It was also thrown off a cliff, but was actually recovered and rebuilt 20 years later.

Actually, when I say she is Coventry's patron saint, I really mean 'she is the only interesting thing that has happened there in the last 1000 years.' If you had ever been, you would probably understand.

Ha ha, no I don't imagine Lady Godiva was much use with a wrench... I was going to say that it looked like the owner had stuck the Godiva badge on, but it looks like Coventry Climax put it on a lot of their engines. I think it was C-C's logo. Lady Godiva is sort-of Coventry's patron saint.

according to legend, Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry in protest at her husband's punitive taxation of the citizens...

Early '60's Lotuses had this covered. This one even has a picture of a naked woman on a horse, for those...... Specialty interests.