Often thought that a lorry would make a good starting point to make a fun car with a bit of "presense"According to Ettore Bugatti they started out making trucks, so no change really
Alfa Romeo Stelvio
- Thread starter B&B Pig Man
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Best done on bike... as in one with a decent sized motor in it! I found a 1litre V-twin be about perfect
think that was in 1980 ! they have come a long way since then
So has every other brand .
suffolksmallholder
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Someone was making a kit that used a LWB Land Rover as a donor & it was supposed to be 'similar' to a Bentley! I'd fit it with a 3.8 S type jag engine........But these are scarce now!
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MickMoor
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You mean like this?
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I queued behind the driver of 1 to pay for fuel a while back. Made me smile when he bought some lottery scratch cards!
ollandroverman
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Nooo, That would be far to predictable.Best done on bike... as in one with a decent sized motor in it! I found a 1litre V-twin be about perfect
A Land Rover keeping up with sports cars is my kind of fun!
icanshootwell
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Happy days driving my old Alfa sud 1.3, a right pocket rocket, I remember my collage days, racing from Shrewsbury town center back to walford campus, i was driving the sud, 4 up, against a 1.6 ford cortina who was 3 up, the alfa licked it in every department, acceleration and top speed, mine had been rust proofed under neath and was really tidy, it was a real shame i rolled the bloo#dy thing.
suffolksmallholder
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Then there was the bigger brother of the fab sud, an awesome machine, GTV6!Happy days driving my old Alfa sud 1.3, a right pocket rocket, I remember my collage days, racing from Shrewsbury town center back to walford campus, i was driving the sud, 4 up, against a 1.6 ford cortina who was 3 up, the alfa licked it in every department, acceleration and top speed, mine had been rust proofed under neath and was really tidy, it was a real shame i rolled the bloo#dy thing.
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suffolksmallholder
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ollandroverman
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Looks interesting. And very thirsty.
A jag straight 6?
icanshootwell
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Good car that, a mate of mine had one for 8 years, lovely sound to it, they used that car in one of the James bond films (Roger Moore) can,t remember what the film was cold. Octopussy i think.
icanshootwell
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suffolksmallholder
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Oh yes! I had a Frod which we shoehorned a 3.8 S type into. Identical to the one in the picture. The scoop had a chromed air filter attached & there was a cut-out in the bonnet to accomodate it. This is when £5 filled a 20 litre jerry-can. So I used to drive 7 miles to put in £5 worth of fuel, drive home again & it needed £5 worth again to repeat. It had a wonderful growl to it when on song & there's a hill I used to roar up getting close to 80 MPH, taking off on a bump half way up.......Same hill is now the venue of a well known annual vintage car event. So probably around 10 to 12 MPG
I think it was rated at 220 HP.I should have kept just the engine but as ever sold it when it realistically became too costly to run.
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Cowabunga
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Nice hobby, collage. What made you stop?
icanshootwell
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I know its early, but i don,t follow the question? just explain in more detail for us thickies
riverside2
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The difference between Walford and Harper in a nutshell ;-)I know its early, but i don,t follow the question? just explain in more detail for us thickies