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From: D Walford on 9 Jul 2010 02:15 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
From: Jason James on 9 Jul 2010 02:29 "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message news:oZwZn.447 > 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 9 Jul 2010 06:23 "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
From: Noddy on 9 Jul 2010 07:21 "Milton" <millame23(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4c36f896$0$28639$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > 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 :) -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Noddy on 9 Jul 2010 07:22
"atec77" <atec77(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:i16uhm$5es$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > 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..... -- Regards, Noddy. |