Thread 28587707

Post British Cars

its like, a toy chevy corvair.

>>28587726
It kind of is, but by all acounts, the handling is akin (even superior in some senses) to a 911.

A bit of a self-bump, so excuse me for doing such.

Very pretty cars

>>28588337
>sad car

>happy car

>>28588346
Sent the thumbnail instead... :/

Buick/Rover wagon. Mommy.

>>28588360
Maestro 2.0 Turbo was much more than the talky dash.

Picking this up on Friday, supercharged 3.0

Sexo.

>>28588378
Australian? Based.

Reposting, not actually australian

>>28588379
Also sexo.

3rd time lucky

>>28588385
Kiwi? Based.

Sovl

>>28588389
Jag had some of the best looking cars in the 2010s... Shame about the rebrand.

Muh bri'ish engineerin

>>28588386
Still sexo.

I want a Morgan.

>>28588398
>Luv me Rover.
>Luv me Austin.
>Luv me Morris.
>Luv me MG.
>Luv me Jag.
>Luv me Triumph.
>Luv me Reliant.
>Luv me Aston.
>Luv me Bri'ish engineerin'.
Simple as.

>>28588400
Honda bought them time.

>>28588395
Weirdly I'm not 100% sold on the looks, it was the driving experience that sold it
The suspension and steering feel great and I'm a big fan of the supercharged engine, much nicer than the usual turbo sixes in this segment (inb4 B58 circlejerking)

>>28588389
Two of those and a wagon between me and the corner store. Nice.

>>28588410
The 75 was a great car, my mum had a British racing green saloon for ages. It was a modified BMW rather than a Honda platform though, think it was basically an E39 bodged to fit a FWD drivetrain

>>28588422
'75 was the first post Honda one. Lovely to drive.

'47 Fordson 7v. Think the 7v was the first vehicle to bring the Flathead V8 to England, back in '37.

Jaguar Mark X. Can't remember the year.

A couple of very sad looking Rolls Royce Silver Shadows.

'64 Vanden Plas Princess 4 Litre R.

Lloyd 650. Think there's only 4 or 5 left alive, and only 2 are on the road.

'99 TVR Tuscan.

1961 Morris Minor 1000

>>28588560
It was and they were in service with various utility firms and as buses for decades after that. Great trucks

I like this trend of threads where people post cars, like /o/ld times.

Standard Vanguard

'49 and '50 Ford V8 Pilots.

>>28588585
I like this trend too. Have a Bentley Mk. VI.

Unfortunately for me...
>Like British cars
>Born in America

Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII BJ8 Phase 2
>>28588592
Majestic. Also same.

'73 MGB GT V8

>>28588583
>Great trucks
Agreed~

'82 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit

'63 Triumph TR3B
>>28588611
>veeyate
Intradasting. Kinda sounds nice, too.
https://youtu.be/sdYCIjmo2C0?si=She1Jm5ad5qjbVfn

Jaguar XJR

I posted this in another thread... Bond Minicar.

>>28588637
Bond Bug

>>28588620
>Kinda sounds nice, too
It's incredibly meaty, I physically cannot get enough of it.

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1756233070826967.webm

Reliant Scimitar GTE

>>28588620
>Kinda sounds nice, too
It's incredibly meaty, I physically cannot get enough of it.

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1756233070826967.webm

The owner's manual also has a "Tuning Modifications" Section, which is really neat, and they shared the same wheels as >>28588653.

The Scammell Scarab, once ubiquitous, but is now a bit of a rarity, it featured a tight turning radius. They also made dually tow truck versions.

I want an Elan

Another car that I posted in a different thread. The Vanden Plas 1500, which is also called the Austin Allegro Vanden Plas. Sure, it is a polished turd, but it is an interesting car, nevertheless.

Had a Jag V12 with Weber carbs.

>>28588689
All they had to do was lower the grille slightly, and it'd have a pretty nice face.

No personal pictures left, but here, have a Morris Marina. I have an itch for one of these, but I am absolutely floored by how little of these are actually on the road; of the 807,000 Marinas sold in Britain, only have 410 survived to 2025. Bloody hell. The little stunt the Top Gear lads pulled of killing those Marinas never bothered me too much, but knowing how few are actually left, it makes me quite upset...

>>28588752
Don't do it. BL interiors couldn't find a donkey c*ck to suck. There was a period when I fixed a few of those and while the fifties running gear was easy enough to the hated "foreign" cars at least had interiors finished before delivery.

One of these was nearly my first car. £300.

>>28588752
They are not as bad as some people say, but the interior sucks, you can find them for under 10k (and sometimes closer to 5k) when they do come up for sale.

I, for one, am quite interested in a Reliant Regal, but only about 70 are left across all versions.

>>28588773
Meh, having lived with some very unloved commercial vehicles, a poor interior isn't enough to put me off. It's not like I'd keep the thing forever, I just really want to live with one for a few months and see what they're like. Scratch the itch, y'know?

>>28588783
Neat, my father spent £150 for his first car in 1963 (an Anglia which barely lasted six months...). Despite their following, they are horrible.

>>28588781
>>28588785
How many Rialtos are left? I found a partially buried one at work a short while ago, and finished the job for whoever started many moons ago.

>>28588796
A little over 350. Production figures are not stated, but the numbers are likely 5000 or more.

>>28588783
For the longest time I used to knock these, but having finally driven one thanks to my dad buying >>28588582, I can quite honestly say they're great little cars. Shocked at how nice they drive. Steering isn't heavy and is precise, engine has just enough poke, ride is reasonably comfortable, everything is easy to work on... Just good little cars for what they are. I suppose the only bad thing I can really say is that it could do with either a 5th gear or an overdrive unit, as 50 is about all they're realistically good for day to day, but otherwise I now really like them!

>>28588787
I won't hate on someone that goes there. They do look nice.
I learned in a Dolly.

>>28588798
Oof, that's a bit of a shame, then. A part of me wonders if it was worth digging back up to see if anything was salvageable. Probably not, but I bet spares are few and far between, and anything would have been better than nothing.

>>28588800
A series engine so Metro turbo is easy enough an upgrade. Rover V8 is an easy swap if you would like to go a little faster than that. Neat cars from a different time.

>>28588752
>No personal pictures left
Apparently that was a lie, I forgot I have a couple more recent ones on my phone.

>>28588810
Not as bad as a Reliant Fox where only 26 remain.

Also, no more Hillman Avenger Top Hats are on the register. Last evidence of one being registered was in the early 2010s.

>>28588805
Funny you mention the Dolly, I kinda want one of those, too... Oh, and a Herald. There's a couple that has a light blue one near me, and I love the look of it.

>>28588817
Not even sure it needs more power as such, just an extra gear for comfortably cruising at about 65 would be enough, and it would be a near perfect daily driver.

>>28588828
Duly noted, if I dig up a fox, I'll save what I can.

>>28588833
Vitesse, with the six :) An ex had one.

A college friend went pic.

>>28588832
This is dated 2024, so there's a good chance there's at least one left languishing somewhere.

>>28588842
Possibly, but likely not a runner. It would be a great project car, though, as the only things that made a Top Hat special were the paint, interior and roof, they are still, mechanically an Avenger.

>>28588851
There will always be parts to get them going.

>>28588841
Incredibly based~

Spitfire.

Achtung!

>>28589033
>>28589433
Achtung Checkfire!
Also
>Achtung Chinkfire >>28589433

>>28590689
Truuk.

Another Truuk.

>>28590696
another truuk 4 u

>>28590703
Is that Mr Hewes?

>>28590708
I'm not sure, I don't think so. Different from the Scammell I've seen him in.

Rover K series from an Elise, swapped into an MGB

>>28590731
Well, this is just awful. Is it flammable?

Its as Landrover as pic is a Metro.

>>28590710
I foken luv SD1 m8

>>28588560
it's good to see the girls covered up for winter

>>28588681
I saw a convoy of three M100 Elans heading towards a riverside pub last year. FWD though, that must be a downer in a roadster (love me RWD 2002 MX-5).

>>28588752
>The little stunt the Top Gear lads pulled of killing those Marinas never bothered me too much, but knowing how few are actually left, it makes me quite upset...
It's one of those things about Top Gear that they exploited back in the 00s. 70s cars were still seen as unwanted rustbuckets, so they used BBC money to buy them up for mere three figure sums and trashed the shit out of them. You can't really do that now, although I never watched the 2016 version so I've no idea if they did that with 90s/00s cars.
It makes Top Gear a hard rewatch because a lot of those cars deserved much better fates.

>>28588796
can't park there mate

>>28589033
My dad had one, until it was stolen. I think that incident killed his interest in cars because he made a point of going for boring cars nobody would want to steal from then forward (e.g. he opted for the Vectra as a company car in 1998).

>>28590927
That sucks. There are vehicles I would not buy because they would promptly be stolen. No so much by a random kid but by professionals that came to get it.
Wouldn't it be wierd if we were all nice to each other.

>>28588789
I guess that I should post my father's car history all except for the Anglia were bought new.

>1960 Ford Anglia
>1964 Morris Minor
>1967 Rover P5
>1973 Mini
>1975 Hillman Avenger
>1979 Jaguar XJ
He left for America in 1982.
>>28590731
Looks like a reject from Dr. Who.

>>28591036
From a Dredd Movie. There were a couple built on Cab Forward Land Rovers.
Functionally pic.

>>28591050
Well, that makes sense, then. I still prefer your pic, though, but that is some of my old-fashioned sensibilities for you.

>>28590471
Erm, actually...
>Ford engine from US
>QVale chassis from Italy
>Tremec tranny (the weak point here) from Beanerstan
>MG trim in-house
A mish-mash of global components, but this was the last of the pre-Chink MGs.

Surprised to see so few Jags in this thread. Maybe it's because they're somewhat common, but that doesn't make them any less special.

Behold, the ultimate fusion of British and American engineering

>>28591363
Because of the heavy Ford (your pic) then BMW then god knows what else influence?

>>28591363
It's because that new ad they came with firmly cemented jaguar's reputation as Jag=Gay.

>>28588681
I want an Elan, so I can be Steed, and my girlfriend can be Emma Peel.

>>28591363
Well, there are three of them, plus an XKR in my neighborhood, so I guess I do see them as everyday. Either way, this is the better Jag in terms of style.