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James, it looks like it'll peel spuds too, charge it to the housekeeping budget, Result!👍

Venetian Gold, would that be a run out model that Ford tarted up as it was sold parallel to the first Mk1 Escort to clear the stock. An old lady near to us bought one, she kept it beautiful, when she stopped driving it was left in a damp asbestos garage and she wouldn't sell. sadly when she died it had rust holes on every panel and got scrapped.

Love the long roof! My first car was an Anglia 1200 Super, it had so much filler in it, if i had hit someone the'd have died of asbestosis. It had a partial wooden floor too, but at 16 getting ready for my 17th birthday I didn't care.

Yup!

Those damn glue lactating bovines, start of many on a slippery slope........... Maybe that's why Maggie Thatcher stopped free school milk in schools.🤔

Definitely for dry climates as no hood fitments, and not a looker either.

😂 James, your sense of taste might be functioning, but I'd question your sense of smell, rancid milk stinks!

No problems here in Shropshire, Ray.

Who moderates the moderators James?🤣 It's still offensive, even in Modena Green, rolling it in glitter won't improve it.

My Saturday job was working for a farmer who supplied guest houses in Blackpool with eggs, and also poultry at Christmas, I was his ghillie, rowing his fishing boat on Windermere, beater when on pre-Christmas feral cat hunts, helped doing deliveries, and did general odds and sods on his caravan site. He was a mate of my dad and my main aim was to get out alive! I got a fiver a day.

That is offensive, MODERATORS!!!! It looks like an Escort that has been defiled by a Simca 1300 and 10kg of filler. I think it's AI, well I hope it is.

Is it on a Land Rover chassis? Lowered and on sensible sized wheels I think I would like it, buuuuut, It would be not too different to a normal shell unless it was hatchbacked, and that would be heresy! The more I look at it, the more I dislike it. Close but no cigar.

The characters are now missing from motorsport now.

I was brought up on foot and a half lengths of railway sleeper stacked under the chassis rails, I have a variety of axle stands but always feel safer using big lumps of timber supporting the car when the stands are at their height limit, and you can use them on gravel. If there's a lot of pulling and pushing going on, and I'm stuck for space, I'll use stands but put some timber elsewhere under the car so I can't get trapped it the stands rock away. Car crush is not a pleasant way to expire, but it makes it easier to be delivered to the mortuary as you can be slipped under the door..............

I'm scared to know how you discovered that tech tip!😱

Renault 4's were brilliant little machines, if you could weld faster than they could rust. Would go almost anywhere like a mountain goat, mad gearshift and wheelbase longer on one side than the other, typical old school French. I'd have one again but getting expensive now.

Ah, the joys of taking a pair of Strombergs plus manifold off an HC Viva in the rain. Top car in a stack of 3 that was bobbing up and down like a hooker when the fleets in town. The security wandering up and down beneath me, occasionally stopping to lick its nuts and growl. 18 and didn't care. Happy Days!

No idea, it was bought from my Bro-in-Laws boss's mother who'd allegedly bought it a base spec car. It was built in the first week of January, maybe they just chucked anything on it due to back to work dilligaf blues?🤭

I would keep it as is, but maybe uprate the front brakes to discs, my car was a January 1974 base 1100, it came from stock with disc brakes. Although it's a bit of a weird spec, as it was delivered as 1100 base 2dr, it came with discs, rear anti roll bar, carpets, opening rear windows, heated rear screen, 2 speed wipers, hazard lights, reversing lights, and in Modena Green. It's also built with metric suspension. Its been in the family over 40yrs and known to us from new. It's now as original as Triggers Broom.

Wait until your next birthday is 70! I got in a conversation a vicar, which I ended by asking him, "If God is great, why did he design me with sealed for life joints instead of fitting my spine, knees, and elbows with grease nipples?" 🤣 The look on his face was priceless.

It's easy to mistake an American tourist for a wildebeest, similar size, the crocs just think they've taken their fur coat off to go swimming🤭

Aren't they like wildebeests? Those thick buggers that always cross a river at crocodile infested spot in the wild life films? I don't think think I want crocodiles attracted to the river in front of my house, Nah , sheep'll do, they only attract Welshmen.🤣🤣 (I'll run and hide now as I'm only a handful of miles from the border🤭)

Sod Off James! You're not helping at all!🤣 Its October and after a fortnight on holiday my grass has grown long enough to cut it for silage, but it's so wet it would clog my mower. I need to buy some ovine beasts like you Antipodeans have, are they amphibious?

That's the one I have but with a 4 port heater pipe, I have it mounted on a shelf and power it from a 12v transformer plugged into the mains.

I have a cheap Chinese diesel heater too, toasty, but bloody noisy on full, I'm about to run the exhaust through a domestic panel radiator as a silencer before it exits the wall, if it works I'll get recycled heat as well. @Rally Pack 2000 James will be along soon to tell us how to run cheap air conditioning during winter!😁