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08-11-2020, 11:49 AM
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They are fine looking tourers - I wouldn't mind driving one of those over the Pyrenees with the family!
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Yes - just like that please Bruce!
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08-11-2020, 04:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-11-2020, 04:20 PM by Dave Mann.)
You beat me Tony, 6500 miles a year equates to 180 mile every day which leaves little time for other activities. Whilst I've achieved 50 MPG in an RN saloon but not on Malcolm Parker's runs.
I have one car which has had various heads fitted all using the old joint (a modern non asbestos one) it just requires both faces to be flat.
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John Fitch drove his Pearl in excess of 60’000 miles one year back in the late 1960s - so I understand...
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08-11-2020, 11:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-11-2020, 11:47 PM by Bob Culver.)
Re the Kempton, a few years ago the local VAR mag covered a similarly stylish unrestored car which had passed from "enthusiast" to "enthusiast" locally. Dont know where the very un Austin bodies came from but apparently common to Adler or somesuch?
With our RP my father used to meticulously check mpg. i can remember him occasionally running the car out to a stop (not unsafe in the late 1940s) We visited grandparents 200 miles away twice a year with two adults not of modern proportions and two children, and gear, at 40-45 mph where the winding roads of the time allowed. He claimed a regular 50 mpg.
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