Steve Firth wrote:

SteveH wrote:


Nothing to do with me but

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-AUSTIN-AM..._W0QQitemZ2002
00687437QQihZ010QQcategoryZ29753QQssPageNameZWD VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Nice......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszJ7fFFHr0


This one seemed to replay an incident I actually had, when driving a
Triumph Toledo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ufc8bnD8DE


Haven't watched that, but that reminds me that I spun my second Princess
on the Snake Pass. Ended up on the wrong side facing the other way but
did little but dent the front nearside wing around the wheel arch, luckily.

Michael

Steve Firth wrote:
Michael Kilpatrick wrote:

Steve Firth wrote:

Sod that, when there's this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1975-TRIUMPH-T...GENUINE-MILES_
W0QQitemZ270214173800

Wow! Only 5000 miles?

Are they any fun to drive, those things?

Hmm, only in a sort of "my god glaciers move faster than this" sort of
way. Rear wheel drive with all the fun taken out. I'd like to own that
one, but it would be a sin to use it much and I'd have to do something
about the swallows that have decided to move into my barn/garage.

I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine
is fairly fragile.

which would be the perfect excuse to drop a Rover V8 into it.



--
Pete M - OMF#9
Range Rover V8 Turbo
Scorpio Ultima 24v
"Professional Petrolhead"

In article , Michael
Kilpatrick says...
Conor wrote:

In article , Michael Kilpatrick
says...

I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or
Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife.
Take those rose tinted glasses off and look at them for what they were.
I doubt she'd appreciate something that butt ugly.


If she thought they were ugly she wouldn't be considering driving one!
Why assume I'd buy her a car she'd never seen at all?

It's not unknown.


--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

In article , Michael Kilpatrick
says...
Steve Firth wrote:


Sod that, when there's this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1975-TRIUMPH-T...GENUINE-MILES_
W0QQitemZ270214173800


Wow! Only 5000 miles?

Are they any fun to drive, those things?

Michael

No, they're ****e. THey also look cut off at the back. Get a
Dolomite..virtually the same looking, RWD and the arse end is longer so
it all looks in proportion.
--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

Conor (Conor ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

No, they're ****e. THey also look cut off at the back. Get a
Dolomite..virtually the same looking, RWD and the arse end is longer so
it all looks in proportion.

Odd, isn't it? The short tail was the original FWD 1300 style - the
longer tail (and nose) of the Dolly didn't come until the later FWD 1500.

Conor wrote:

In article , Michael
Kilpatrick says...

Conor wrote:


In article , Michael Kilpatrick
says...


I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or
Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife.

Take those rose tinted glasses off and look at them for what they were.
I doubt she'd appreciate something that butt ugly.


If she thought they were ugly she wouldn't be considering driving one!
Why assume I'd buy her a car she'd never seen at all?


It's not unknown.

Well, probably less harmful than someone buying an unwanted dog as a
Christmas present, or that sort of thing.

Michael

On 24 Feb, 13:41, (Steve Firth) wrote:

I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine
is fairly fragile.

Is it the large crank (GK) Herald engine?

Ian

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
Phaeton wrote:

Michael Kilpatrick wrote:
Conor wrote:

In article , Michael Kilpatrick
says...

I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin
(or Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife.
Take those rose tinted glasses off and look at them for what they
were. I doubt she'd appreciate something that butt ugly.


If she thought they were ugly she wouldn't be considering driving
one! Why assume I'd buy her a car she'd never seen at all?

Michael

Or

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-AUSTIN-AM...QQcmdZViewItem


Sod that, when there's this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1975-TRIUMPH-TOLEDO-STUNNING-4-900-GENUINE-MILES_W0QQitemZ270214173800

They're hardly in the same class. The Princess is vast inside and a good
motorway cruiser. The Toledo is small and, err, slow.

--
*Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
Michael Kilpatrick wrote:
Haven't watched that, but that reminds me that I spun my second Princess
on the Snake Pass. Ended up on the wrong side facing the other way but
did little but dent the front nearside wing around the wheel arch,
luckily.


I had an 1800 (Land Crab) for many years and it was probably one of the
safest handling cars I've ever owned - before stability control etc came
in. It simply went from slight to massive understeer depending on how you
drove it. Never once lost the back.

--
*Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Ian wrote:

On 24 Feb, 13:41, (Steve Firth) wrote:

I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine
is fairly fragile.

Is it the large crank (GK) Herald engine?

I think so but enlarged to 1300cc. Like the Herald engine it had a habit
of throwing a con. rod through the side of the engine.