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M1BYT > CARS 18.06.08 23:24l 69 Lines 3590 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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VK6BE Opined with considerable skill:-
> A Vanguard followed with a wet sleeve motor, four
> huge cylinders and the necessity to decoke and rotate the sleeves every
> few thousand miles.
My father was looking at buying one of those (if it was the same as the UK
version?). I quite liked the modern shape of it, but there was something about
it which put him off that and he bought a Morris Oxford instead - the one
which had the similar shape to the Morris Minor. That was about 1957, just
after he had passed his test, his first car.
One year the dashboard lighting went up in smoke whilst on annual holiday,
then the next the Fabrol(?) timing gear stripped again whilst on holiday. I
remember us having to sleep in the car, out in the middle of nowhere apart
from a lone garage which had towed us in. In the years prior to that, our
motorbike and sidecar Royal Enfield had seized it's engine whilst on holiday.
We spent three days of that holiday stuck out in the country side (near
Cambridge), in an horrible gas lit place running wick with mice - while he
took the engine to RE's factory for an exchange unit.
The shaft drive unit on the Sunbeam outfit seized up the year before that and
he had to swap it for the RE. I had nearly wrecked the Sunbeam and kill myself
when sat playing on it. It was parked on a slope in a field at a farm we were
staying on in Wales and I knocked it out of gear. It took off down the field
with me (about 7) clinging to it, towards a ravine with a river at the bottom.
Whether by luck or what ever - it managed to find one of the few trees just at
the top before the fall to stop it.
He never did have very much luck with things mechanical :-)
I bought my own first car from him, a Lotus Cortina MkI - when the inner wings
were starting to part company from the outer wings. White with the pale green
Lotus strips. I repaired that up and ran it for a couple of years - I had no
problems with it apart from having to retune it every week and having it
attempt to ingest a nut which was for ever coming loose holding the air filter
on. One time on the outskirts of London one of the nuts came off, was sucked
through the carburetta and managed to jab itself between intake valve and it's
seat. I had that stripped down, the head off and back on in under an hour.
G.O.K's how I managed to afford the insurance at that age.
Thinking back, I learned to be quite a good mechanic - I always drove around
with a boot full of tools and odd bits to repair them. I was never stuck for
more than an hour or two and always managed to fix 'em at the side of the
road. I don't think I could do it now, I'm too old and they are too complex,
but I have never been so well equiped for tools - I'll stick to the odd bit of
car fettleing in the comfort of my garage.
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