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Added 2023-04-02 17:01:01 +0000 UTCHello again. Quite a car-y episode this week. Sorry about that. So, in pictures we have the new Lamborghini Revlon or whatever it’s called, a Matchbox Superfast Ferrari, the excellent Triumph 2000 mk2, an Esso tiger T-shirt, the SEAT Toledo V5, and the Pembleton T24. Now, some links…
This is what they now sell in Wagamama. Punchy.
Engineering Explained on the VW V5 engine
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more want for the Triumph 2000 mk2 - totally forgot there was even a mk1. Nice one for £7k. but auto https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1580481
Rob Stannard
2023-05-11 16:08:33 +0000 UTC*Site, not Shit. Perhaps a Freudian slip
Ryan Ford
2023-04-26 22:14:06 +0000 UTCHi Richard and Jonny, I’m a worker at a swanky retail village (think bicester but basically in Nottingham but actually Cannock) Wagamama’s is the frequented choice for ‘bedding in’ as it were as most other locations on the shit have awful alcohol. All the best- your friendly pizza waiter.
Ryan Ford
2023-04-26 22:12:53 +0000 UTCThere is a mid engine Triumph Spitfire out there... completely bonkers... not my cup of juice but it can be done!
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-08 09:59:10 +0000 UTCIn 1968, parts supplier GKN extended a Lotus Europa 47 and stuffed a 3.5L Rover V8 in the middle, tuned for 185 hp at 7000 rpm with 2xSUs (a quad-Weber tune was planned). How's that for a mini Lamborghini alternative from sign-painted-with-autojumble-hair-dunked-in-10w30 country?
Brendan McAleer
2023-04-06 19:44:43 +0000 UTCI r geek: BAM: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/10503/lot/35/ and bam: https://www.canleyclassics.com/?archive=prototype-3000-v8-estate
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-06 14:24:05 +0000 UTCRe Boring car trivia 4: I heard a rumour once that Princess Anne had a Reliant Scimitar? Probably false but maybe check it out?
Simon Whittaker
2023-04-06 08:38:25 +0000 UTCAt one point I had a V5 Golf and a 2.5l 5cyl T4 Transporter - both absolute crackers and I think it’s a fairly safe bet that I’ll never have 10 pistons equally spilt across two vehicles ever again. Sad times.
Andy Brown
2023-04-05 17:54:24 +0000 UTCIt is the noise that does it for me with a 5 cylinder - I bought a Fiat 20V Turbo Coupe on the strength of that alone. Loved that car (AKA The Rusty Bullet). £700 for a genuine 155mph car. I'm with you on the dullness of the high end cars. That sort of discussion is what kills the oppo on the Collecting cars postcast - That and 45 minutes of bland chat about E this and E that dull bloody 90's BMWs and Mercs.
Matthew Aves
2023-04-05 10:57:47 +0000 UTCOh, and thanks for reminding me of wasabe peas. Bought a kilo off of Amazon for work snacking.
Patrick Rennison
2023-04-05 08:01:19 +0000 UTCI had a 2.3 Audi Coupe in the late 90's. Souded great but it was a bit of a tank and the broked drivers door windw regulator cost a fortune to replace. I did get stopped by an unmarked police car and given "words of advice" about my speed, which was admittedly well north of the speed limit, Oddly enough, I was stopped on the same piece of road where Jason Plato had recently passed me in his 996 Turbo P1 ATO like I waqs standing still.
Patrick Rennison
2023-04-05 08:00:10 +0000 UTCI had a d5 Volvo v70, great car apart from its awful steering (due to the 5 cylinder engine) and heavy front end meant under steer was an everyday occurrence. Btw I’ve visited the s and s www, otsot, as expected reliably dismal.
Robert Clay-parker
2023-04-04 18:51:02 +0000 UTCLovely lovely Triumph 2000. My dad had one as a company car back in the late 70s - ORV 752S if I remember rightly. It broke down about 20 miles after he collected it as the battery was faulty! I remember it felt like a rocketship at the time. I still have one abiding memory of him hitting over a tonne on the way home after a Saturday afternoon of being dragged round the shops, just so we could get home in time to watch Knight Rider at 5:35! Probably explains why I drive too fast... EDIT - Yes that was the reg - it shows up on the DVLA MoT checker as a blue Triumph. Apparently the tax expired in 1986 though :-)
Ben Backhouse
2023-04-04 15:06:52 +0000 UTCNot particularly no. I've been to the FOS once and never been to the revival. Still if you have to be a show off, at least stick to a private track and not the public roads.
John Hammond
2023-04-04 12:58:37 +0000 UTCThat Picanto sounds interesting. It’s 55kg heavier than the Panda and .04s slower to 60 but then it looks like it has ten times the kit and safety gubbins.
Saq
2023-04-04 12:53:37 +0000 UTCBut then I bet you absolutely love stuff like Goodwood revival and festival of greed… It’s exactly the same thing but different eras and settings.
Saq
2023-04-04 12:52:06 +0000 UTCPembleton. Just crying out to have wider profile tyres and a hayabusa grafted in place of the v2.
Chris Rayner
2023-04-04 12:14:54 +0000 UTCProper tromboning. https://youtu.be/mP0Vqpz6F9k
Chris Rayner
2023-04-04 12:12:54 +0000 UTCMy Dad and I spent 6 months rebuilding a '76 Firebird. '76 was the last year of the two-headlight models. We tweaked and tuned it and reckon we were getting over 300 HP out of the 6 liter "motor". Number of girls who dated me because of it: 3 I proceeded to spectacularly roll it in mid-air by mistaking speed for talent and misnavigating a sharp, banked 25MPH left curve at roughly 50 MPH. The banking launched me several feet in the air and the car landed on the roof only inches from some very pointy rocks that pierced the sunroof. It was slightly challenging to cover that one up. My Dad did not talk to me for months... So then I went and bought a Triumph Spitfire! Tweaked it to almost 100 HP...Number of girls who dated me because of it: 2 Luckily one with the modified swing spring to avoid jack up...
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-04 11:30:14 +0000 UTCHa! I didn't think anyone would notice! Having that (and the German insults) read meant I was officially "cool" for my teenage children for all of 4 minutes! Things have gone a bit south with that part of the family given I have relatives in Ukraine. They are (currently) all OK. Still shocking to see university professors and software developers in full military gear. All very sad.
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-04 11:23:23 +0000 UTCI'm a bit starstruck to have you reply to my comment Andy, I still enjoy re-listening to your stories from Russia (with love). Being a Brit I'm careful using other languages and have to apologise constantly for any attempt.
Matt Tester
2023-04-04 10:19:43 +0000 UTCMy dad worked in a senior capacity for Joseph Lucas. He had a Triumph 2000 as a company car. Since leaving the army in the 1950s he drove an Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk3, several Fowwadsss, including a Corsair 2000E (for executive). I managed to adjust the contours of the front of the Corsair on a couple of occasions. Its V4 was rather more powerful than the brakes and running gear could cope with. On one occasion I was being egged on by my young contemporary passengers and put it into a stone wall following an episode of oversteer. My mate knew a body shop wizard in Pontefract, so we drove from Ambergate in Derbyshire where the crash occurred to Pontefract. The wizard pulled it back into shape and sprayed the damage with almost the right metallic silver. My dad was not particularly pleased.
Chris Rayner
2023-04-04 09:28:12 +0000 UTCI’ll see your pedantry and raise you a Nietzsche. He originated the term Übermensch in Also Sprach Zarathustra. In 1883, 6 years before Hitler was born. He also killed God at the same time, but he’s dead now.
Chris Rayner
2023-04-04 09:17:36 +0000 UTCI am huge Triumph fan. Growing up in the US I didn't know they made coupé/sedan/saloon cars and and have since discovered them and find them absolutely beautiful. It is very hard to find halfway decent ones in left-hand drive. The Herald alone is roughly responsible for up to 6 different models (depending on how you count them): Herald, Vitesse, Spitfire, GT6 and a range of Bond cars like the Équipe. I won't go so far as to wear a "I'd rather push a Triumph than drive an MG" T-shirt but I am close! :-D
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-04 07:44:48 +0000 UTCLiving in a country whose native language is not English (Germany) I always cringe when they start to appropriate English words and phrases incorrectly. They say "sorry" way too often and in ways no native speaker would ever use. They use it as a 1 to 1 replacement for "Entschuldigung" which literally means "may the guilt be taken from me" which is different than sorry which means "it sorrows me that XYZ has happened/I have done something wrong" etc. etc. So when "Über" came out I was equally annoyed as in Germany it goes back to Hitler's "Übermensch" (Superhuman) and seemed inappropriate. Ah... the problems of a pedantic polyglot... (yes my teenagers point out I am very uncool person...)
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-04 07:42:04 +0000 UTCFeeling the same apathy to the Lambo, normally it's an event, but this is a bit meh (i know it's still a nutty car, but)
Bruce Driffill
2023-04-04 07:07:55 +0000 UTCWould you rather people said 'super' or would you rather people went back to saying everything was 'über'? Before it was ruined by that company with the same name.
Matt Tester
2023-04-03 17:11:01 +0000 UTCEnters the 5 cylinder chat.........currently on my second blue Toledo V5, 150bhp version, lovely cars, massively well specced, super comfy and eat miles. Mine both averaged between 19 and 21 mpg. My first clocked 148bhp on the dyno after 140k on the clock, had a blow out on the M25 at high speed (70 obviously........+70) and also enveloped the M25 in steam once when the head gasket went sadly. Second was picked up a few years back for not a lot of money and is stashed away in a garage currently, 144k on the clock. Also used to have a Volvo T5 auto estate picked up for peanuts with 18" Lenso wheels, lowered and updated lights. That was returning 15mpg at times! Currently run a Mondeo 2.5t Estate (Focus ST 5 cylinder) becasue clearly i'm a glutton for punishment and high fuel bills!! :)
Tim Lewis
2023-04-03 16:25:50 +0000 UTCI actually had a V5 VW Golf. The main reason to get one was that it sounded great. It was the 20 valve version which was more powerful than the MK4 GTI (1.8 turbo, not the fake 2 litre) and wasn't a great deal more. On a good day I could get 30mpg but once caught the instant MPG readout showing 0.4mpg. Actually kept it for four years and traded it for a mark 3 MX5 which, apart from the engine, was better in almost every way.
Gordon Segar
2023-04-03 15:33:43 +0000 UTCI drove a Toledo like that for a year on expired trade plates as my demo when I worked at a small local dealership. Oh the memories!
Dave Law
2023-04-03 12:28:55 +0000 UTCThat Pemberton think looks great... But what made this episode for me was Graphite coloured candy floss hair and dog mess / seaweed teeth. Inspired......
Nick Davies
2023-04-03 11:43:25 +0000 UTCperhaps the saviour of Lamborghini could be JT, maybe selling a limited edition Lamborghini Trevoulta could make it more likeable, all the radio plays is Saturday night fever on repeat and there is a suspicious seafood scent to the interior
Jack Rallings
2023-04-03 10:09:47 +0000 UTCI'm with Jonny on the Lambo, as I find more silver hairs and nudge closer to my mid 40's I find the flash money brigade to be a circle of folk I don't want to mix in. Peacocking by revving the nuts out of it and and driving to/from car & coffee meets like utter flutes to impress 10 year old boys.
John Hammond
2023-04-03 09:16:53 +0000 UTC
