From: D Walford on
On 9/07/2010 2:04 PM, Jason James wrote:
> "D Walford"<dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message
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>> 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
From: Jason James on

"PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message
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> Bought a 1975 Range Rover in 1979 and I've still got it. Other than oil
> leaks it's difficult to pin down any real faults that haven't been
> exaggerated by my mistreatment, particularly around the Alice region many
> years ago. Anyway, it's still got the original clutch, uni joints, wheel
> bearings and many other parts. Some items were upgraded for my usage but
> in general it's been a pleasure. Some niggling issues were fairly easily
> attended to. I wouldn't maintain that it's an example of the make, just
> that model/year. The only reason it's sitting on axle stands lately is a
> rear main seal and needing a going through to get some compression back in
> to one cylinder. I just know that if I start doing that then the gear box
> and transfer case will be worth looking into as well. Lack of time for a
> while means that it's a future project.

Id say you kept the maintenance up to her as well :-)

> Only had exposure to a few other pommie vehicles. One was the Humber Super
> Snipe Dad had in the 60's where I learnt to drive

Was that the 4 odd litre SV 6 ?I nearly bought one of those. They look
really classical.

and an interstate trip in
> a Hillman Hunter GT that impressed with its durability. It did most of a
> long trip with no oil in diff or gearbox and did no more than some low
> speed vibration and a bit of whining (typical pommie I suppose).

The 1725cc slant 4 in GT trim had twin jugs if IRC

A brother had a
> mini for some time but was so heavily modified that there was little
> resemblance to the original. The is a Moke in a part of the family but I
> wouldn't consider that a pleasure as I've never felt so exposed to
> potential injury as when I drove that in southern traffic.

The Moke grows on you. A mate used to thrash his mercilessly. It took it
all.

Jason


From: Milton on

"D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message
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> 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

From: Noddy on

"Milton" <millame23(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a great
> car of the day.

They were a fair car, if you considered a car that had no brakes and
cornered like a drunk snail to be fair. Calling the XR "Mustang bred" was an
insult to one's intelligence though. The Mustang was actually based on the
*Falcon*. Not the other way around :)

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Regards,
Noddy.


From: Noddy on

"atec77" <atec77(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I recently stripped the wheezer from my '60's fairlane and it had the
> classic split skirts , twas a major rebuild on the replacement roller
> motor as frankly the old block had the skirts off 5 pistons scattered
> through the oil feeds and I was not confident about getting it all out
> It might have been a possible save if I gave a shite about restoration
> but the big lump of alloy in the corner of the shed with wide ribbed belt
> and pulley on the front say otherwise

I guess that load of tripe means something to someone, but I'm fucked if I
know what it is.....

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Regards,
Noddy.


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