Thread 28605254

Non William Towns cars are encouraged.

>>28605254 (OP)
MY EYES!

'61 TR3a

Random TVR

>>28605254 (OP)
How did this man ever achieve his prominence in the car industry? I have much greater respect for Harris Mann than Towns.

>>28605261
Saw a Spitfire today.

>>28605265
I do like the wooden six wheeler. It has a space in my Secret Volcano Base.

>>28605270
Ian Callum was a godsend to both Jaguar and Aston Martin.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/opinion/forgettable-nearly-every-angle-p1-designer-frank-stephenson-jaguar-type-00

lol

>>28605279
I can't remember which part of pic is a Ford Sierra but I know some of it is.

>>28605269
Pretty cool, there's a british car club in my southeast US town I see meeting up now and then, wish I knew when and where their meets were so I could take pics. Some guy ~15 min away parks an MGB on the street.
I've always been a Triumph fan, TR5 is one of my favorite car designs ever.

>>28605292
It would seem both you, and some of your neighbours, have good taste. :)

>>28605287
I believe, during the time Ford had a stake in Mazda, Callum also did some training with them.

I wish Lotus had put pic into production.

>>28605327
Carry on cabbie is worth a watch.
Not sure if the clip is
https://youtu.be/TZ34jjSnYEk

>>28605340
sex

Also, they seem to be mostly driving Austins.

The Landcrab...

One of the most underappreciated cars of its era. The second car ever to win 'European Car of the Year', in 1965.

So this is the ugliest cars to ever exist thread?

>>28605378
You need to make an Edsel thread for that.

>>28605378
Not exactly...

If you do have an interesting British car to post, please do. :)

>>28605388
Retropower sounds fun.
Morris thingy, not a 1000.

The Jaguar XJS was the very last car to have design input from Sir William Lyons himself.

>>28605398
Can't say I agree with the spirit of the conversion personally. Lol.

>>28605408
I first got into a Morris 1000 from a Fiat 128. The owner was quite upset that I "hoofed it".
Rev it until it won't go faster then shift isn't the done thing apparently.
I think it still exists.

>>28605415
Never seen or heard of that before, pretty cool.

>>28605419
Lol. I've always thought building up the revs, then shifting before the engine reaches its limit, is normal. Were you not used to a manual? :)

>>28605423
No, the guy was a shift just above idle person rather than a shift just before peak power one.
All good fun.

>>28605422
Jowett was an interesting company, and with very interesting ideas; but didn't have the same scale in production as its competitors in order to effectively compete.

Of course, after WW2, any car company that didn't export was expected by the goverment to merge or die. American soldiers had seen British sports cars when they were stationed in Blighty, and many desired to own one. Therefore, every British car company needed to export its own sports car. This is what gave rise to Austin-Healey for example.

Jowett ultimately couldn't compete and sadly had to fold as a company.

>>28605428
eeeughh! Not bad for eco-driving, but terrible for almost everything else.

>>28605418
Limiting the V8 to the coupe was such a dumb decision.

>>28605308
it's some black guy as I found out when I saw him sitting in his gaudymobile.

>>28605254 (OP)
I get that it's made of wood, but why did it need two extra wheels?

>>28605552
They came with four too.
Aesthetics probably.

>>28605550
Probably not enough sales to justify a Roadster, they only made 2,500 of them probably due to it being released during the oil crisis, and the rubber bumper era. The dumbest decision was to not just use the Rover V8 from the get go, especially considering that the 'B was already designed to accommodate a V engine. I reckon if they didn't faff about re-engineering the 'B for the C-Series, they would have had WAY stronger sales with the V8 and would have also offered a roadster version, as they did with the 'C.

>>28605550
Probably not enough sales to justify a Roadster; they only made 2,500 V8's, most likely due to it being released during the oil crisis and the start of the rubber bumper era. The dumbest decision was engineering the MGC, and not just using the Rover V8 from the get go, *especially* considering that the 'B was already designed to accommodate a V engine. I reckon if they didn't faff about re-engineering the 'B for the C-Series, they would have had WAY stronger sales with the V8 and would have also offered a roadster version, as they did with the 'C.

TBF, they did come up with pic...

...and pic...

>>28605260
Your eyes, you say? Some dude thought this was an improvement on the original V12 E-Type design.

>>28605642
It's almost endearing how fucked-up that thing looks.

>>28605642
...why? :( ....

>>28605634
RV8 Bonnets are interchangeable with MGB's, and I'm kinda torn on whether or not I want one...

>>28605550
There's always at least one converted V8 convertible in the classifieds at any time.

>>28605646
https://www.bmh-ltd.com/vehicle-parts/mgb-and-mgb-gt-parts/

British Motor Heritage was a spin-off of British Leyland, and today possesses much of the original tooling for a lot of BMC vehicles. If it's just the body panels you want to swap out, then I'd suggest you at least speak with them. See what they can do.

>>28605642
>couldn't even be arsed to swap the utterly unfitting windscreen too

>>28605658
Oh, you can still find RV8 bonnets for (somewhat) reasonable prices, I've been looking for a long while. Their availability is part of what's attractive to me, but my biggest gripe is that it feels a little "Max Power", for some reason. Meh, a problem for future me.

>>28605747
Hehh! Don't mock...

>>28605747
Fugg, too excited at not needing to captcha

>>28605747
If you don't like Caterham or Donkervoort, then perhaps look at Westfield.

Interesting that no-one in these threads ever posts a Vauxhall...

>>28605762
I almost bought a Westfield, but decided to get my bike licence instead.

>>28605378
there's no need for a thread for that, just look outside and you'll see them

>>28605775
Just how far do you have to go to post Vauxhall that isn't GM/Opel?

>>28607087
I think it was in the 1970s when Vauxhalls started increasingly to be based on Opels, although initially the Vauxhalls would still have redesigned when compared to the equivalent Opel.

>>28605384
Edsels are endearing, though.

I'm not British nor of the 60s so I've got little idea here, figure anons here might help. Writing a story set in the early 60s in London and with a main character who used to be a racer, no longer races, still wants the fastest best car around, is like upper middle class. What'd he be likely to get? Would it be British? Foreign? Etc

>>28609534
100% a Lotus.

>>28609534
Like >>28609562 said.
Pic rel is from 1967 TV serial "The Prisoner" where the protagonist - a spy - owned a Lotus 7. He kept it parked on the street too.

>>28609534
Fastest and best...? If you mean something that does it all, including comfort, then probably a Jaguar E-Type is probably the default choice. If you want something that's more raw and sport focused, then I'd say a Lotus Elite or Elan... maybe a Europa if you're feeling spicy? Even spicier still, and quite a "if you know you know" type car, consider the TVR Griffith 200. It was supposedly violently fast and extremely twitchy, but was near untouchable in the right hands. Very eccentric choice, thoug, but I could imagine an ex-racer wanting one of those, just to be different.

>>28605333
Looks like it wants to sell me a pork bun

>>28605435
I find it funny that first lincoln and then american pimps decided to put rr grills on cars to make them more luxurious independent of brits who had it as industry standard practice for years at that point

>>28609720
To be fair, Vanden Plas used to be a literal coachbuilder known for fine quality and luxury, which could trace its roots all the way back to 1870. When they transitioned to working on cars, they became a favoured coachbuilder for Bentley, Alvis and for Austin's limousines. But then when they were bought out by Austin and merged into BMC, management realised quickly that they could sell some of their regular cars with a really high mark-up just by sending them down to Vanden Plas' Kingsbury works for a bit of extra trim and polish. Eventually, after Kingsbury was closed down, the Vanden Plas name became little more than a trim level.

>>28609534
I could conceive of a Jaguar E-Type being a very good choice, given your description of the character. But like others have said, a Lotus makes quite a bit of sense. At the time, they were racing (and winning both races and championships) in Formula 1; whilst also producing cars such as the 7, Elan, Elite and Europa.

>>28609713
At one point they planned to make their entire range of cars like that.

Personally, I like it. :)

It reminds me of what Lamborghini would also try to do.

>>28609534
I should also say that the Jaguar E-Type does have quite a bit of racing pedigree, with many being converted or specialised to racing. Additionally, it was the natural evolution of the C-Type and D-Type, which together won the highly prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1957; facing of against much stiff competition.

Also supposedly described by Enzo Ferrari himself as 'the most beautiful car ever made'.

>>28609534
Another small point.

Many countries have traditional racing colours. Italy is red. Germany is silver. France is blue. The US is blue and white, whilst Japan is white and red.

And the UK's traditional racing colour is green.

Given the period with which your speaking, it may be your character may prefer a green car, given his racing career.

>>28609534
See what I mean?

>>28609534
Also, just throwing this out there, but you may perhaps consider the AC Shelby Cobra? As I understand, the car came about from Carol Shelby wanting to stick a Ford V8 into an AC Ace.

In that sense, the car is Anglo-American.

>>28609534
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kihky2dewCs

I wonder if you're familiar with Goodwood?

>>28610337
The very first production Land Rover.

>>28610415
I rewatched Micro Men this evening, its fully subtitled on the toobs. Still great.

>>28610519
Always preferred Acorn to Sinclair, personally. :)

happy with all the replies, thank you anons. for the purposes of the story it'll be a fictional car, but I wanted to know comparison points so it makes sense and isn't just some nonsense- plenty of replies of what'd be actual cars used under those circumstances will help. All of them lovely, too- aesthetically I certainly tend to prefer a lot of cars from this era

>>28605907
OI DO YOU HAVE A LOISENCE FOR THAT BIKE?

>>28610978
Lol. I can't help myself. Pic is a tuned and improved version by Lotus of the Ford Cortina.

>>28610978
In case you want a sporty / racey car that isn't a coupe.

Good luck with your writing! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLlVUc0sEU

A tractor started with a shotgun shell.

>>28611283
these days people end their subaru with a shotgun shell