The cost of motoring… (classic car content)

You can keep your hybrids and such like, here’s a lesson in sustainability…

Built in Oxford in 1967
Tax exempt
Fully comp insurance is £105 including road side cover & 3rd party on any other car, unltd milage (cheers footman james)
about 40mpg on unleaded
physically & mechanically sound

yes anything over 50mpg is not a land I inhabit any more but for the majority of the driving I do this is good enough and people always let me out of turnings, smile and even wave. Hell folk even come up to you and chat happy about their cars, one fella today opened the conversation telling me his old cars number plate! he’d never forget his, told me he would love one, strangely merc drivers seem most taken by it.

If I need to cover any distance I’ve got access to other vehicles but 90% of the population could do better by following this lead when all they do is drive around locally.

Thule tow bar rack for the bike is the next plan, I love it, any other classic drivers here?

You can keep your hybrids and such like, here’s a lesson in sustainability…

you can keep you El Dorados and your foreign cars absurd…

P1800S for sale here.

eh? its a Morris Minor 1000 (1100cc)

1932 Morris Major Six. It actually as a fold out rear rack that could easily be adapted to carry a bike.

Wow, that Morris is older than me…

Mg midget (mk4) owner here.

No rust, no mechanical problems (once I’ve put the new brake cylinder in)

Although I said that at the start of the year, and since then;

New brake hoses, pads, disk, shoes, rear cylinders.

New clutch (inc the ball ache of gettign the engine out to do it)

Lucas prince of darkenss has paid regular visits.

Ohhh, and the handling is ‘entertaining’ rather than fast.

Very nice, Mr Nutt. Does the speedo do the wobbly thing between 30 and 50 in towns?

I like very much.

This is not a spoon, is that the GAN 5 round arch, chrome bumper version? Its been a while since i messed with Midgets

any other classic drivers here?

Yes!

the speedo is nonsence, 30 is about 20, 45 is about 30 and 50 is about 40, I don’t care though its great to drive and the foot operated dip switch is great, why don’t modern cars have it?

Ex 69 911T Sportomatic and 75 Alfa GT Junior owner here.

Sustainability? You’re having a laugh, aren’t you?

oh Zed thats a fxxking beauty!!!

vinny its all I do 😉

CharlieMungus – I got it!

ononeorange – Member

Very nice, Mr Nutt. Does the speedo do the wobbly thing between 30 and 50 in towns?

I like very much.

I got stopped for speeding in mine when I was 17! (25 years ago!)

The PC asked me if I new how fast I was going at the time & I pointed to the speedo and said “between here & here”

Great car, wish I still had mine 😉

Looks good in Red MrNutt, do you keep a hammer handy for the fuel pump?

😉

Show us the P1800!!

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php/carno/110356

Austin-Healey 3000, classics are the cheapest way to get silly cars out of your system.

Morris Minor, probably one of the worst, most horrible cars I’ve ever driven (mother inlaw used to have an ex police panda car), and that’s from someone who currently drives a Smart CDi

Thanks Mr Nutt.

Morris Minors are one of the best cars in the world ever. Fact.

One day I will also have one. I’m loving the red paintwork and red interior too.

cheers Zed, the fuel pump etc isn’t a problem, having a pater who’s a mech for 34 years is a blessing, he’s got it running as it would have straight off the line 🙂

nope, mk4’s were the last of the line, square wheel arches (like the Mk2’s) but with ‘rubber bumpers’ which are actualy more like RSJ’s!

Your thinking mk3’s which were a mk1 style body with a bigger (1275cc) engine.

he’s got it running as it would have straight off the line

Damned with faint praise.

Had this for about 3 years, but had to sell due to finances 🙁

I’ve been thinking about getting a tax free classic as an everyday car, I started a post about it over on pistonheads. I would at least be able to tackle 99% of the jobs myself, rather than standing scratching my head like I do with my current heap

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php/carno/110356

That is just frigging lovely

any other classic drivers here?

Yep, if a mint condition 1982 Mercedes W123 saloon counts as a classic…! No pics to put online, sadly.

Thanks Charlie

Mercedes W123 ? How is that a classic?

This is how;

Lovely old barge! (That one’s not mine, by the way!)

Nope, still not sold on the idea as a classic, they stopped being all that once the lights went horizontal

90% of the population could do better by following this lead when all they do is drive around locally.

Or this:

Plenty of modern small crappy unsafe motors around 🙂

1982 (One of the first) Porsche 944’s in the uk (owned by Phil Liggett for 12 years!)
1986 VW T25 Caravelle
1978 VW Beetle 1200
(and toying with the idea of) 1985 Merc W123 230E – nice one Mr Flash.

addy6402, some of the front seats collapse, but overall the W123s are seriously overbuilt! Closing the door sounds like closing the lid on a coffin.

Engines are simple things, and run smoothly with little maintenance.

If you do get a W123, I can recommend a couple of specialists who look after them very well.

Wait until winter, right, when it breaks down on some remote B-road in Wales, you’ve got no mobile signal and there’s no-one around for miles, then see how much you love it then.

Actually, don’t even need to be as dramatic as that; you’ll be pootling around Swindon, dressed in every item of clothing you own, freezing your bollocks off. Or needing to wear full waterproofs when it’s raining, ‘cos the thing leaks so much.

Why are you such an idiot, Nutt? You think you’re clever, but you’re not. You’re a racist, you smell and you can’t even ride your shit bike propply anyway.

S’like VW camper vayn owners; rave on about them, even though they know within themselves, that buying a modern vayn would be a far less unpleasant and considerably cheaper experience….

Captain Flashheart; are you a mini cab driver?

Don’t take the piss try charging £30 when it’s a £10 journey think I’m some kind of a mug. ‘Cos if you come out with that crap, you’ll get nothing at all.

Fred, the W123 is only a taxi in West Africa, and as I’m not there, I’m not a taxi driver!

😉

Yarbles; get loads of them round my way. Well actually not any more, ‘cos the cabbies have upgraded to newer Mercs.

That is a singularly unimpressive and somewhat insipid car, I’m sorry to say.

I bet it stinks of cigarette smoke too. From all those prostitutes you ferry about in it.

No smoking in the barge, Fred!

I rather like the fact that it’s a somewhat bland car, as it has massive personal value. It’s a very normal car which has been loved, not a super-bling-expenso-wagon. That makes it special in my opinion, as well as the provenance of the thing!

You might impress a Bradfordian children’s’ clothing wholesaler, you’re not impressing me.

S’like something out of Dempsey and Makepeace.