GOOGLE CARS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED & POST IN CORRECT COLOUR & SEQUENCE.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Simca Vadette.

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Correct. And no wonder it looks a bit like a Ford - Simca bought the Vedette factory plus product line from French Ford. It was essentially a Mk II Zephyr only fitted with a flathead V8 instead of a six. When Simca took it on they dropped the bigger V8, and upped the power of the V60 by fitting higher compression alloy heads. This reduced the weight on the front wheels, improving the handling. Brakes were improved by going to 15" wheels with lower profile tyres, allowing the drum brakes to go to 11", which in turn allowed the lower suspension pivot to move further out.

They were assembled in Adelaide by Chrysler in the late fifties, replaced by the Valiant about 1961.

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Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

How did you tow a caravan with an ID19 and not have it overheat ? They sure would have been sedate journeys :)

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I didn't - my brother, who owned it before I did, borrowed my caravan. He thought he had done the clutch where this picture was taken - actually he had one front wheel on the grass! But I towed a heavy welder with it and never had an overheating problem.

I’m only 25 so have a bit to go yet but these are my cars:

1977 Triumph 2500 was my first road going car

https://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...d69a5ca866.jpg

My first Land Rover

https://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...e408c3e4a0.jpg

My current daily driver. 1993 D110
https://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...cde7e23648.jpg

My Kia work van when I was doing outdoor power equipment repairs

https://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...330b9ef014.jpg

And one of the new ones...

1968 P5B

https://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...1fbe81a1b1.jpg

I do have a 76 RR Classic, 91 Disco 1 three door and a 94 Disco 1 three door as well but I haven’t had them on the road.

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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

There is already an old thread along these lines. Mods please amalgamate.

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Do you know what it was called?

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Correct. And no wonder it looks a bit like a Ford - Simca bought the Vedette factory plus product line from French Ford. It was essentially a Mk II Zephyr only fitted with a flathead V8 instead of a six.

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My boss at Moree Satellite Earth Station in 1968 had one. It blew a head gasket so myself (I was still a trainee radio technician) and one of the Plant Officers were assigned the job of fixing it. We unbolted the heads (flathead V8) but they wouldn't come off. In the end, we started it up with the head bolts fitted but loose so that if the heads came free, they'd be restrained. The blasted things still wouldn't come loose. So we had to belt them with a small sledge hammer whilst running the engine.

I think the heads were alloy but I can't be sure.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

Do you know what it was called?

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No

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Originally Posted by p38arover

My boss at Moree Satellite Earth Station in 1968 had one. It blew a head gasket so myself (I was still a trainee radio technician) and one of the Plant Officers were assigned the job of fixing it. We unbolted the heads (flathead V8) but they wouldn't come off. In the end, we started it up with the head bolts fitted but loose so that if the heads came free, they'd be restrained. The blasted things still wouldn't come loose. So we had to belt them with a small sledge hammer whilst running the engine.

I think the heads were alloy but I can't be sure.

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My brother did rings and bearings on my father's one, but I don't recall him having any problems with getting the heads off - possibly becasue it had been dealer maintained from new.

But a school friend of mine inherited his grandfather's '34 Ford with alloy heads - and he claimed (possibly with some exaggeration) that he drove it round for a week with no headbolts installed when he did an engine overhaul.

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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

No

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That should be easy to locate.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

My brother did rings and bearings on my father's one, but I don't recall him having any problems with getting the heads off - possibly becasue it had been dealer maintained from new.

But a school friend of mine inherited his grandfather's '34 Ford with alloy heads - and he claimed (possibly with some exaggeration) that he drove it round for a week with no headbolts installed when he did an engine overhaul.

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There was a special tool for that. In essence a very thin milling cutter that cleaned out the thin layer of corrosion between the alum. head and the stud. I have not seen one for donkey's years.

Brian, you are a fount of wisdom on tools!