Where did the British car industry go wrong?

[Bodd]

On our walk tonight see a 1500 Tolido..... Sounds Somthing like it

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

On our walk tonight see a 1500 Tolido..... Sounds Somthing like it

Dolomite was the upmarket sporty version of the Toledo. I had a chocolate brown one for a while, nice comfortable car.

 

[EddieM]

Saw a Triumph rocket t'other day, mahoosive.

 

[Brigadier]

£20 quid? Big deal. Wot does k.p.a. mean

Means £20,000 per annum I presume.

Which is why I wrote

...... £20k p.a. to insure in the eighties

 

[transam]

Saw a Triumph rocket t'other day, mahoosive.

A what ???????


Triumph Rocket t ? t I assume = three

the 2.3 motorcycle ?

 

[transam]

Strange as I knew people in the 70's that got a lot more miles out of them then. The only related make I drove was an MGB GT. Ex my brother. I'd built a Spartan from scratch fitted with a rather tuned up 2L Ford engine and got fed up with the engine mountings snapping so we swapped. It went lot higher mileage than you have mentioned but was showing signs of the engine needing work but I do drive rather hard. 80 odd thousand from memory and probably not well serviced for part of it's life.(Brother at least)

There was a period, don't ask me for a date when oil got well ahead of engines in as much as they lasted way longer than they did but I would say that was more like the 90's. Fiat were the first to take advantage of that. High performance sports car with a smallish engine. It had to run on ordinary oil for a number of miles first to run it in. Now they all take advantage of it. You may need a new Ford gear box at 60k these days. Probably higher if all motorway driving.

Spartan , blimey there's blast from the past

i built a cobra that to had a ford engine as well , 302 that came out of a fox bodied mustang , which had a sort of Escort on steroids styling

 

[noseall]

Kinell. My humour is lost on G.D. I wonder if Fry and Laurie are still looking for a third..?

 

[EddieM]

A what ???????


Triumph Rocket t ? t I assume = three

the 2.3 motorcycle ?

uh huh.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I remember that engine, SAAB put in in with the front of the engine at the bulkhead. But it wasn't half of a V8, it was its own design, a slant 4. OHC engines were tall and put in at 45° otherwise you wouldn't be able to see over the bonnet.

I believe it was the 1850 engine from the Dolomite that Saab used

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I believe it was the 1850 engine from the Dolomite that Saab used

Much modified for reliability was what I understood when I had a SAAB.

 

[ajohn]

Much modified for reliability was what I understood when I had a SAAB.

Myth. To reassure saab buyers

 

[Stivino]

I believe it was the 1850 engine from the Dolomite that Saab used

SAAB used the engine years before Triumph used it.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Myth.

Well it did over 100K with no effort. I got rid of it with a slight timing chain rattle at tick-over and rusting rear mudguard lips.

 

[Stivino]

My memories of that engine remind me of kettles.

 

[transam]

Kinell. My humour is lost on G.D. I wonder if Fry and Laurie are still looking for a third..?

Doubt it noseall

Your probably suffering from a lack of going on the piste syndrome

Try having a smoke