The cars and bikes thread!

[happyscrappyheropup]

That's not bad for parts and labor.

[Raza]

New clutch yay... Attachment 131623

£1250 well spent

Did you have them remove the CDV or do M cars not have those?

[Samanator]

I learnt to drive and passed my test in one of these -


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A Fiat 128. I think it was that colour too. My driving instructor was Peter Speed (Sqn Ldr Rtd), and he always used the Squadron Leader bit. He had an ill-fitting toupee and a facial twitch. Occasionally, we went to a pub in the middle of the lesson. Once, standing at the bar, he took a couple of tablets, washed down with beer. I memorised the name of the tablet on the box and looked it up later. It was Haloperidol, a major tranquiliser used in the treatment of schizophrenia and the manic phase of manic-depression. His twitch was one of the side-effects.

Those driving lessons could be quite memorable.

We rebuilt two of these when I was in high school. One was this very same yellow and the other I don’t recall what the color was.. We also rebuilt a Lancia beta that was silver with a red leather interior. It had the overhead cam mentioned and was quite fun to drive even though being front wheel drive. most of the Japanese cars from that time were rear wheel drive, except for the Honda and Mazda.


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[Samanator]

Definitely could see myself in a V6 manual F-Type roadster at some point. Hard to find, but certainly a future classic.

If you drove one with the stick, you would never buy one with the stick. It was so horribly done that there’s nothing fun about the way it shifts or the way the clutch works.

Nearly all the reviews of the new lotus Elise with the manual say similar things about the transmission set up and clutch. Since it would be nearly impossible to find one I doubt whether I can actually confirm that is true. I guess we can hear from our owners here.


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[wschofield3]

I like the idea that @shameless started with posting the vehicle we tested for our licenses with.

Not my picture, however, this is the very same vehicle and color of the 1966 Dodge Dart I got mine with.

[shameless]

I like the idea that @shameless started with posting the vehicle we tested for our licenses with.

Not my picture, however, this is the very same vehicle and color of the 1966 Dodge Dart I got mine with.

that is a supercool sleek car!!
the nearest car to that i had was the 80's Benz 230 pillarless coupe -very similar in many ways

[wschofield3]

that is a supercool sleek car!!
the nearest car to that i had was the 80's Benz 230 pillarless coupe -very similar in many ways

My 15 year old self tried very hard, but could not kill that car. It had the famously bullet proof slant 6 - 225 straight six motor.

I know the MB to which you refer, that was a beautiful vehicle, much more so than this Dodge.

[Samanator]

1971 Olds Delta 88 is what I took my drivers test in with 18” of snow on the ground. It was my mom’s car. I still had 6 months work on my 442 W30 until it was ready from rebuilding.


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[Samanator]

New clutch yay... Attachment 131623

£1250 well spent

Hopefully they changed the throughout and pilot bearing? I don’t see them in the picture.


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[tribe125]

New clutch yay... Attachment 131623

£1250 well spent

The clutch is at the back?