Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[NorthernSky]

[Escort3500]

[Danns]

Round the back of a cafe in the north east cotswolds by any chance? Deliberately vague here

If so, not waiting to die, customers projects in the long queue at the garage awaiting restoration. Owner of the garage (Dom) is a rearly nice chap

[wjs1968]

wjs1968 said:

Will now have to move to the spotted thread!

The Alpine hasn’t moved from that spot for the past year - and for 2 years before that it was up on one of the garage ramps

Edited by wjs1968 on Friday 28th June 13:12

So it turns out it isn't running a small block Chevy (my memory must be playing tricks on me) in fact it's got an Alpina installed - and according to the DVLA the capacity is stated as 5365 so it must be a V12?

[NorthernSky]

Danns said:

Round the back of a cafe in the north east cotswolds by any chance? Deliberately vague here

If so, not waiting to die, customers projects in the long queue at the garage awaiting restoration. Owner of the garage (Dom) is a rearly nice chap

Well done, you sussed it!!

The rolls in that cafe are mega. £5.50 for 3 items

[Missy Charm]

wjs1968 said:

wjs1968 said:

Will now have to move to the spotted thread!

The Alpine hasn’t moved from that spot for the past year - and for 2 years before that it was up on one of the garage ramps

Edited by wjs1968 on Friday 28th June 13:12

So it turns out it isn't running a small block Chevy (my memory must be playing tricks on me) in fact it's got an Alpina installed - and according to the DVLA the capacity is stated as 5365 so it must be a V12?

I'd hazard a guess that the car probably had a small-block Chevy in it at some point, 5,365 cc is equivalent to 327 CID and there is a GM V8 of that size, but has since had a BMW engine fitted in its place. That would explain the Chevrolet part of the story, anyway. Any BMW engine is more likely to be a straight six.

Swapping a 327 V8 for a BMW V12 would be a very strange thing to do, given that American engine is likely to be more reliable, weigh less and produce greater power.

[Danns]

NorthernSky said:

Well done, you sussed it!!

The rolls in that cafe are mega. £5.50 for 3 items

Well, I know what I’m doing next time I’m waiting for the MOT instead of walking back home!