Does anyone here love Triumphs as much as me?

1st car i was ever in a car accident in was a Triumph Herald. & if it hadn't been we probably woulda all got killed - HEAD ON collision but those're solid cars. It was bent into an L-shape, still. so yeah i like em.

fuckin' eh for triumphs eh?

my first accident was in georgina. head on. other car was a write off. georgina came off with a small ding and a broken headlight. she is a TANK!!!

she seems to be a crash magnet though. i assume people look at her and go : "old car, who cares?" one crumpled mitzi later and they know never to fuck with old british card ever again.

i am going to get georgina fixed this week. my dad is something of a DIY whizz and he will sort that bitch out. i can't wait to have her on the road.

look out pedestrians!!!!

which makes me think of a new thread: pedestrians: dud or dud?

yeah, if you can't drive there, don't go there.

yeah! or if you think me blasting AM radio out of my window is daggy, think of how you'll look with my radiator sticking out of your rear!

duane you are a funny cunt

i'm dying for someone british to reply to this.

get out of bed you lazy SOB'S!

i need a cool car. what i drive now = squarest wheels on the road, a town ace van w/ CURTAINS (blue) on the windows. what kind of statement is that making.

remember, one can be dodgy in a mobile with curtains.

like something in a meatloaf song really!

can, have. but it still looks fuckin sq.

at least it would never be mistook for a hippy van.

you mean you've never been tempted to spraypaint a giant marijuana leaf on it?

it already has tell-tale "bust me" signs if you look too close. the way it is now tho the cops don't look too carefully...you'd guess it belonged to a lower-income-bracket but honest struggling young family, probably asian immigrants (good 'cause usually = religious)(i oughta get some jesus stickers, that'd complete the look).

I prefer Magnificent Failures.

OH!! And it's 4-3! And they won't come back from *that*, *surely*...

ehheh...dunno abt triumphs, but my dream brit-heap-barge car is Wolseley 6-110 or Humber Super-Snipe, refitted w/chevy small-block V8 engine. = better fuel consumption + mad thrillz!!! Top tip for ye musos who don't want a van = old-style Saab 900 series.

Upsides = STUPIDLY cheap (my 4-door saloon vers. cost me grand total ov NOTHING!!! Prev owner got offered jag xj6 for 250 quid, & gave Saab away to mechanic, who is a customer of mine) MASSIVE boot/trunk (I fitted 2 5-octave keyboards in lengthways w/out even folding seats down, there was actually room for at least 4 in there...) built like scandinavian tanx0r, reliable, powerful engine etc etc)

Downsides = "space saver" spare wheel (one ov thee stupidest ideas EVER) high insurance (esp if fancy 16 valve version gawd knows how much turbo version would cost to insure) some parts expensive, actually quite hard to drive slowly - one's foot *aches* after a while from resting so lightly on accelerator pedal - also, made to be driven in k-cold climate = heater on all the time - wear light clothing, folks - what is it abt scandinavians - even their cars must be saunas, or s/th??? Errr...there y'go, anyway. Now that I think abt it, I do like the old style "shark- nose" triumph 2000...blah blah...If I had more disp. $$$£££, I'd hunt out a Bristol 410 (circa 8-10k = cheap&nasty new car money) if the Saab drops to bits (unlikely), then I might try to get old Wolseley 1800 "landcrab" & fit the Saab 16-valve engine in that eeehehehehh.......PHE4R, if this ever happens....(skanky & stressful day @ work, in case U hadn't guessed) x0x0

With you on the Saabs, Fay. My dad always used to have them. First car I remember is his cream 99 GLS. Heated seats were wicked at the time. The ignition broke so he had a primitive push button starter fitted. This is about 10 years before it became fashionable with the advent of the Z3. It was quite funny.

He got a couple of 900s and had them converted to LPG in about 93 or so. Top Gear a couple of weeks ago ran a feature on the "exciting new fuel - LPG". Even with a big fuck-off tank of gas in the back you could fit a couple of bikes in.

congrats to Norman Fay and Greg: you guys are officially the petrolheads of ILE.

Respect!

well i got a 2.5pi triumph estate and yeah i like it ime gonna run it on lpg also strangely enough a mate i know has a wolseley 6110 with a chevy in it! ive also got a kingcab truck and a 68 ford escort running mitubishi lancer engine/box and wew usd to have a superminx or could have been a singer vogue both the same really adios

one of my first ever cars was a Trumpy 2.5 TC and i loved it to bits. i had a T bar collision with a ford fiesta coming out of a driveway on a dark and rainy night without looking - the ford smooshed like an overripe banana around the trumpy's mighty steel chassis. and all i had to do was pull the radiator off the fan and away we went back home 4,500km away. freaky coincidence - mine was called george after the man i bought it from.

btw - now i drive a landcrab and love it too... take a look http://www.alphalink.net.au/~sahra/austin.html

sahra

u's people all have late model cars I have a 1964 mk.1 truimph needs motor & box put back in (for sale bloody near give it away to good home in nz) a 1964 Humber super snipe ( My baby,needs a new heart if any-body can help out) 1971 honda 1981 Big horn 1986 falcon wagon 1984 Katana 1100 cc+60 also or sale (recond. motor)

get back to me you gals & guys John