Top Gear guys found something useful to do with Marina's. Catching pianos :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bigcarle
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-shNHaJigM]Top Gear drops piano on Morris Marina! (HQ) - YouTube[/ame]
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Top Gear guys found something useful to do with Marina's. Catching pianos :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bigcarle
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-shNHaJigM]Top Gear drops piano on Morris Marina! (HQ) - YouTube[/ame]
Had a HK 327 GST Bathurst Monaro. If only I had it now [bawl][bawl][bawl][bawl]Quote:
Originally Posted by circlework
Still have Holden Overlander
See a lot of Lada Niva's here too. GO the Lada Niva 4x4 :):). Still got mine , just a bit rusty
Gary
Hmm some very interesting vehicles.
My list is short and I wouldn't have thought particularly strange but as no-one else has waved the Toyo-Kogyo Rotary flag.
RX3 sedan (Painful restoration, miss it like a limb) RX4 sedan (a cheap project that never eventuated) an S1 RX7. All 12a which I was happy with, prob wouldn't be here if I owned a 13B Turbo!
I do miss the sweet handling of the 7..
First car was a JB Camira :eek:
Best 4WDing I've done was in that thing!!
Cheers, DAve.
A 2wd :D
Jap truck engine, English tractor gearbox, American designed diff converted to metric, Aussie bellhousing and a few other bits, saloon suspension...sounds like something made on a scrapyard challenge TV show.
My County would be the least homogenous car I have owned but I suppose nowadays my IIa is a bit less usual.
Mine was the Morris Marina T.C. "Golden Jubilee" special edition with lots of go-faster stripes and a vinyl roof. Great in a straight line but did not like corners.......[bigsmile]Quote:
Originally Posted by bigcarle
This had the MG 1.8 ltr engine which went quite well when it was tuned, particularly when the air-box was removed which did the engine no favours whatsoever:twisted: (well, I was 18 !!!)
Interestingly, I once heard that the 1.5 engine was in fact just as quick. To differentiate the two models the engineering department put a restrictor plate in the intake manifold to reduce the performance...............
Nice story if it is true........
105E Prefect. Had the OHV engine and four speed box, unlike the sidevalve and 3 speed in the 100E. Was a classic nannas car!
Got me to work and back for a couple of years, eventually dropped a big end and I moved on to an EJ Holden! Glutton for punishment...
I used to know Wayne Bell, one of the fastest rally drivers this country has produced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barefoot Dave
At one stage (late eighties) Belly reckoned the quickest he'd ever done the Putty Road between Singleton and Windsor was in...
A JB Camira :eek:
Just glad I wasn't beside him at the time :D
bigdog it is trueQuote:
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Originally Posted by bigcarle https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/08/768.jpg
Morris Marina T.C :o
Mine was the Morris Marina T.C. "Golden Jubilee" special edition with lots of go-faster stripes and a vinyl roof. Great in a straight line but did not like corners.......[bigsmile]
This had the MG 1.8 ltr engine which went quite well when it was tuned, particularly when the air-box was removed which did the engine no favours whatsoever:twisted: (well, I was 18 !!!)
Interestingly, I once heard that the 1.5 engine was in fact just as quick. To differentiate the two models the engineering department put a restrictor plate in the intake manifold to reduce the performance...............
Nice story if it is true........
1500 OHC 'E' series engine was in the Nomad and the Marina,
in the Nomad (got one of these as well) with an 1 3/4in S.U. carb it made 73HP
the 1750 OHC 'E' series Marina engine only made 78HP with 1 3/4 in carb
(T.C. made 90HP;)) so to make a bigger difference in power output in the Marina the 1500 had a 1 1/2 carb PLUS a restricter plate that only had an 1in hole in it :o and it made 62HP. Leyland Australia dropped the T.C model later and put the 2620 OHC 'E' series (110HP) in the front of them to compete with the Torana, Cortina and Centura
i would like to do that to one of Clarksons cars..... maybe the Benz if he still has it but not the RangyQuote:
Top Gear guys found something useful to do with Marina's. Catching pianos
Ahh, the chunderee. Now there's a classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by akelly
More than once I saw blackberry nip all over the floor in the rear... and Stone's green ginger wine [tonguewink]