I’ve got heaps, because I have/had various old Valiants, and they all came with 14" wheels - unfortunately that’s because I am in Australia, where they all had 14" wheels and 225 cu in slants (the 170 cu in version wasn’t used here).
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What about 80s retro? Wouldn’t mind a modernised version of my GPZ750-A1, or even better, of the Turbo version.
I wanted a Holden LJ Torana 2 door - the XU-1 version would have been nice, but even back then (around 1990) was way too expensive, so any 2 door that I could later add the rear spoiler to would have been OK, and a more base version would have been achievable on my tiny budget.
I’m assuming this is still front wheel drive?
And you can buy adjustable crowsfoot wrenches, where the torque you apply helps tighten the wrench on the nut. You just have to remember to use it in the correct orientation, and flip it round when you want to retighten the thing you just loosened.
Nissan used the SSS designation on a whole string of ‘sporty’ versions of regular models - usually if there was a 2 door hardtop/coupe version of a regular 4 door sedan it automatically became a SSS.
In Australia they were badged as Mitsubishi Scorpions.
Having owned a Fiat 850 (Series II Sport Coupe rather than Spider) and suffered repeated overheating issues on a long country trip due to a blown head gasket, I can testify that it is probably a cloud of steaming coolant!
There were plans with the Suzuki Cappucino kei car to make a version with a quad cam 1.6 litre V8 that would redline past 10,000rpm - even if it was slow, driving something like that and redlining every gear would sound FANTASTIC!
He also ran all of the ultramarathon rallies in the 60s and 70s, in either a Porsche 911 or an Escort Twin Cam, and managed a 4th place, and 8th place, a 13th place and one retirement in 1974 (when only 19 0f the 52 entrants finished, and only 5 completed the whole course!)
Love the idea, and the end result!
ooh! I didn’t know Playmobil did a Porsche 917, the only Playmobil I have bought since i was a kid was the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup set. From a bit of Googling I found the 917 was discontinued in 1986, but just maybe there is a secondhand one for sale somewhere.....
RHD Australian built cars normally have a right hand side indicator stalk, Japanese RHD cars sold here are usually right side indicator, but lots of European stuff sold here have left side indicator stalks.
As well as his autobiography (called ‘All Arms and Elbows’) he wrote ‘Marathon in the Dust’, about teaming with Michael Taylor and Andrew Hedges to compete in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon in a Mercedes 280SE.
That’s also a thing in Australia. Even to the extent that the petty fascist we have as Defence Minister (and who almost connived his way into the job of Prime Minister) had a history of this sort of thing when he was a Queensland policeman.
The lesson I learned when a similar thing happened to the oil sender on my 1962 Valiant was not to simply leave it plugged, but to replace the faulty sender ASAP.
...like this?
YES!!!
‘Biggest boot in the market’ - the Leyland P76, where the fact you could fit a 44 gallon drum in the boot became a marketing point, despite the fact NOBODY would ever want to carry one in the boot, since there would be no value in carrying an empty one, and there was no way you could lift a full one into the boot. It…