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From: Toby on 10 Jul 2010 00:06 On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 20:23:14 +1000, Milton wrote: > "D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message > news:4c367866$0$11118$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > > > >> We had a 67 Mk1 for a while, reliability was comparable with anything else >> of that vintage, not without problems but a good car in its day and a much >> better drive than any same year Falcodore. > > What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a great car > of the day. The Commodores weren't even invented til way way later in '79 (I > think it was). > > Cheers > > Milton Huh? And here's me thinking that Falcon begat Mustang for all those years:-) -- Toby. Caveat Lector
From: Toby on 10 Jul 2010 00:10 On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:42:57 +1000, D Walford wrote: > On 9/07/2010 8:23 PM, Milton wrote: >> >> "D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message >> news:4c367866$0$11118$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >> >> >> >>> We had a 67 Mk1 for a while, reliability was comparable with anything >>> else of that vintage, not without problems but a good car in its day >>> and a much better drive than any same year Falcodore. >> >> What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a great >> car of the day. The Commodores weren't even invented til way way later >> in '79 (I think it was). > > For a start the 1800 had disc brakes and rack and pinion steering unlike > the Ford which had dodgy drums and very vague steering, they also had > the best ride and most comfortable interior. > Like I said they weren't without their problems but they did have lots > of good points. > > > Daryl And Even_If BMC had put a half decent engine in the bastards and so made a very good car indeed, their fucked upper-class-twit accountants would still have buggered it up for them. -- Toby. Caveat Lector
From: D Walford on 10 Jul 2010 00:36 On 10/07/2010 2:10 PM, Toby wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:42:57 +1000, D Walford wrote: > >> On 9/07/2010 8:23 PM, Milton wrote: >>> >>> "D Walford"<dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message >>> news:4c367866$0$11118$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >>> >>> >>> >>>> We had a 67 Mk1 for a while, reliability was comparable with anything >>>> else of that vintage, not without problems but a good car in its day >>>> and a much better drive than any same year Falcodore. >>> >>> What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a great >>> car of the day. The Commodores weren't even invented til way way later >>> in '79 (I think it was). >> >> For a start the 1800 had disc brakes and rack and pinion steering unlike >> the Ford which had dodgy drums and very vague steering, they also had >> the best ride and most comfortable interior. >> Like I said they weren't without their problems but they did have lots >> of good points. >> >> >> Daryl > > And Even_If BMC had put a half decent engine in the bastards and so made a > very good car indeed, their fucked upper-class-twit accountants would still > have buggered it up for them. The B series engines didn't make a lot of power and leaked oil as per every other English engine but IMO they weren't bad engines in their day. It was easy to get them to make a lot more power, MGB pistons, cam, carbies and a bit of head work would gain lots and it was easy to do and not expensive. Daryl
From: atec77 on 10 Jul 2010 19:35 On 9/07/2010 4:15 PM, D Walford wrote: > On 9/07/2010 2:04 PM, Jason James wrote: >> "D Walford"<dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message >> news:4c367866$0$11118$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >>> On 9/07/2010 10:45 AM, Jason James wrote: >>>> I guess you probably have to own the car in question to assess its >>>> reliability. In our family, we had 7 English cars over 20 odd years> >>> >>> I've had 3, English design but AFAIK all made in Australia. >>> 65 Austin Healey Sprite, 65 Mk1 Cortina GT and a 67 Mk1 Austin 1800. >>> Of those I wish I'd have enough foresight to keep the Cortina, its now >>> worth a hell of a lot more than it owed me. >> >> Yeah,..aint it always the way. Love the Healeys, especially the 3 litre. >> >> >>>> Say no more, great little car,..altho A series noisy bigends a prob. >>>> >>>> In the early '60s, you could pick an A series powered car with a few >>>> miles >>>> on it, by the bigend rattle. >>> >>> Only owned car powered by one of those and never had a big end >>> problem and >>> neither did anyone else I know who owned numerous Mini's, MG Midgets and >>> Sprites so its not a problem I've heard of. >> >> I was referring to older high mileage Austin A30s for example. As a >> kid my >> uncle was telling me this as we sat out the front of my house. It >> seemed the >> bigend bearings were less than capable of unlimited miles like today :-) > > Most people would expect a lot more reliability out of modern vehicles, > I'd be very annoyed if I didn't get 350-400,000klms out of a car engine > without needing any major work but in the 60's most engines needed major > work long before 200,000klms. > > > > Daryl several on my austins got quarterly motor rebuilds :) still if you thrash the snot out of such a tiny motor -- X-No-Archive: Yes
From: Clocky on 10 Jul 2010 20:35
Athol wrote: > Clocky <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote: >> Milton wrote: > >>> What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a >>> great car of the day. The Commodores weren't even invented til way >>> way later in '79 (I think it was). > > So it would have been a Falcwood back then. :-p > >> September 1978 and introduced a month later, well that is the >> Australian Commodore but it's based on the Opel Rekord E from 1977. > > Which had a large chunk of copying (suspension in particular) from > the 2-series Volvo, which came out in 1974. The Commodore didn't share any mechanicals (suspension, steering and driveline) with the Rekord. The Rekord didn't even have rack and pinion steering. |