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Winchester67

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When I was growing up I was hooked on English cars....
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Belt Fed said:
I looked at a red triumph car one time, thought it looked nice. then i sat in it. said to myself, my girlfriend ain't gonna like these small seats. wasn't no room in it. i passed on the sale. so i drove my chevy off the lot.
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back in my wrenching days, if anyone came into my shop, and a few did, with ANY sort of British car, i told them i will only work on the for $50 per hour, and that was back in the days when the labor rates were $10 per hour.....

even the British, German, Swedish car shops were only getting like $25 per hour back then.....

so i made damned sure i got NO foreign cars in my shop

strangely no one wanted me to work on thier foreign cars
 
My brother's

The day he bought it our sister and her soon to be SIL bought the same car, but 1 was brown and 1 in yellow iirc. On the way home his odometer went kaput at 55 miles (iirc) from Amarillo to home (about 110 miles).
 

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TEXASforLIFE said:
My brother's

The day he bought it our sister and her soon to be SIL bought the same car, but 1 was brown and 1 in yellow iirc. On the way home his odometer went kaput at 55 miles (iirc) from Amarillo to home (about 110 miles).
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'78 model he only got to drive for about 2 months before he died. i've been wanting to get it repaired (carb issue), but mother said "no". now i need to wait until she dies or her memory fails before doing so!
 
Winchester67 said:
When I was growing up I was hooked on English cars....View attachment 82212
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I’m sad to say I’ve never owned any of the great British cars despite several attempts at a TR6, Austin Healy 3000GT and a John Player Special branded Lotus Europa, which for one reason or another never came together. I did have a Gen 3 Ford Cortina in baby Poop brown with a coat hanger for an aerial and a red racing stripe down the side where I lost an argument with a London bus! As a kid, my Dad drove a Ford Anglia sky blue with a white roof, exactly like the flying one in Harry Potter.
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However, I did drive the quintessential modern English car for 13 years and every single day regret selling it. It has 165,000 miles on it had been on track, up and down the Dragon for days on end, up Pikes Peak and off the side of a mountain in Arkansas.

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I do currently drive a British Racing Green Mini Cooper S, but I feel like deep down it is German. I also have a Porsche Cayman S. Prolly going back to a Miata in the not too distant future. The Porsche is staying.
 
Would love to have an older Alfa Romeo Spider. Closest I came to owning a foreign car was a 1974 Mercury Capri with the V6. Loved that little sports car. Bought it from the second owner. First owner had done some modifications to it. Isky Cam, Offenhauser Manifold, Holley 4 barrel. Screaming little car. Sold it to buy a newer car. Still regret doing that.
 
I had a 1972 Toyota J40 Landcruiser when I was in high school. I ordered an engine conversion kit from JC Whitney and dropped a small block 400 into it. What the JC Whitney catalogue didn't tell you was it lacked a bunch of necessary materials. A buddy and I spent a month at the wrecking yard gathering what I needed. Fortunately he was also a competent fabricator for the little trinkets to pull it all together. It took nearly a year (mainly due to lack of funds) to get all of the bugs worked out. It was pretty badass once it was done. I still to this day kick myself for selling it.
 
SimonRL said:
I’m sad to say I’ve never owned any of the great British cars despite several attempts at a TR6, Austin Healy 3000GT and a John Player Special branded Lotus Europa, which for one reason or another never came together. I did have a Gen 3 Ford Cortina in baby Poop brown with a coat hanger for an aerial and a red racing stripe down the side where I lost an argument with a London bus! As a kid, my Dad drove a Ford Anglia sky blue with a white roof, exactly like the flying one in Harry Potter.
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However, I did drive the quintessential modern English car for 13 years and every single day regret selling it. It has 165,000 miles on it had been on track, up and down the Dragon for days on end, up Pikes Peak and off the side of a mountain in Arkansas.

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I do currently drive a British Racing Green Mini Cooper S, but I feel like deep down it is German. I also have a Porsche Cayman S. Prolly going back to a Miata in the not too distant future. The Porsche is staying.
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TR-7 here. Best handling vehicle I ever owner. That includes a couple of early Vettes and a Porsche 356 C.
 
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