Pics of the 3.3 Turbo and old car updates
Discussion
Pics of the new turbo are at the normal place,
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubgallery.asp?id_=791495.
A few cluch cable problems but 300 miles so far in less than a week, but just loving it.
The Merak is due back from having a new cluch at the week end and also had the cam chains and a few other small jobs done. The Royce has only done 300 miles this year its mot time monday ready for the NEC classic car show, so must get the sheep skin coat to the cleaners....The mk1 midget is nearly completed the rebuild at great cost (£8k so far...) and is starting to look good. The MGb roadster is stil going fab after last years rebuild and 2000 miles this year and it now time to put on the hard top as I will be useing it through the winter. The CSL has recoverd from its thrashing at Silverstone and will be having the new 280hp engine fitted over the winter months and it long awaighted respray, so have retired the flaired trousers and driving gloves till warmer weather. My wife thinks I look like royaly when I`m dressed up in the CSL, I think thats what she meant as she said I look a right daft Count....
any of you guys going to the NEC ?
regards
marc
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubgallery.asp?id_=791495.
A few cluch cable problems but 300 miles so far in less than a week, but just loving it.
The Merak is due back from having a new cluch at the week end and also had the cam chains and a few other small jobs done. The Royce has only done 300 miles this year its mot time monday ready for the NEC classic car show, so must get the sheep skin coat to the cleaners....The mk1 midget is nearly completed the rebuild at great cost (£8k so far...) and is starting to look good. The MGb roadster is stil going fab after last years rebuild and 2000 miles this year and it now time to put on the hard top as I will be useing it through the winter. The CSL has recoverd from its thrashing at Silverstone and will be having the new 280hp engine fitted over the winter months and it long awaighted respray, so have retired the flaired trousers and driving gloves till warmer weather. My wife thinks I look like royaly when I`m dressed up in the CSL, I think thats what she meant as she said I look a right daft Count....
any of you guys going to the NEC ?
regards
marc
An interesting selection of chariots you have there if I may say so!
I am going to do the NEC again this year although as yet undecided on whether to sneak a day away from the foundry and go on the Friday or to do the Sunday; right at the moment the thought of leaving the mobile in its lead carrying case and ducking in next Friday for a good wander around the NEC has a robust appeal to it.
I did last years and had a great day with my old chap on the Sunday and it was probably this which resolved me to go and hunt down a De Tomaso having ogled the DTDC endlessly. Alas this year I don’t think they are doing it, the world is a worse place for this sad news!
Looking at your own collection of wagons, who looks after the Merak? I she entrusted to Bill McGrath? They strike me as something of a bargain even today and like so many other Italian’s they go unnoticed by the herd, that of course is to the advantage of the more cavalier minded of us!
As for the 930, a fantastic car and in a greater fairer world is one for the old hit list. Particularly for me are the Martini cars which of course as rare as proverbial rocking horse poo. This was the car which really started the Porsche bug for me when I visited Lancaster’s in Colchester with my old chap back in 1977 and got to sit in one.
This beauty had the red white and blue Dr. Furman seats and of course the red white and blue stripes. The thing burnt one hell of an imagine on the 7 year old brain and when locally out for a cruise in the 993 I came across a garage with not one but two of the buggers, bloody hell it was like entering the twilight zone.
I wandered in and there they sat in their Carcoons gently appreciating as the charming owner of both garage and Cars Howard Watts came for a chat. I see Howard is now become something of a specialist, oh how I wish he would flog the red white and blue Martini. You may have seen the cars as one is in fact black and has been featured in Porsche Post if you’re a PCGB man?
To me they ooze character and menace in equal measure, something the most recent cars seem to be missing however accomplished they are. Issues of lag and unpredictable handling are to my mind the very essence of what Porsche was all about through the 70’s and 80’s and are much like buying a period property. Your buy into all the things you don’t get with a new one and to some tastes are much better for it and yes I have driven a 3.3 turbo and survived. Once again the old chap ran one and yes I sure as hell unstuck the thing and to this day he is none the wiser. They simply seemed faster than the current cars, due largely I think to the sledgehammer effect of the boost coming on song. Great stuff
Rolls and Sheepskin, like Morecombe and Wise. As it should be.
I am going to do the NEC again this year although as yet undecided on whether to sneak a day away from the foundry and go on the Friday or to do the Sunday; right at the moment the thought of leaving the mobile in its lead carrying case and ducking in next Friday for a good wander around the NEC has a robust appeal to it.
I did last years and had a great day with my old chap on the Sunday and it was probably this which resolved me to go and hunt down a De Tomaso having ogled the DTDC endlessly. Alas this year I don’t think they are doing it, the world is a worse place for this sad news!
Looking at your own collection of wagons, who looks after the Merak? I she entrusted to Bill McGrath? They strike me as something of a bargain even today and like so many other Italian’s they go unnoticed by the herd, that of course is to the advantage of the more cavalier minded of us!
As for the 930, a fantastic car and in a greater fairer world is one for the old hit list. Particularly for me are the Martini cars which of course as rare as proverbial rocking horse poo. This was the car which really started the Porsche bug for me when I visited Lancaster’s in Colchester with my old chap back in 1977 and got to sit in one.
This beauty had the red white and blue Dr. Furman seats and of course the red white and blue stripes. The thing burnt one hell of an imagine on the 7 year old brain and when locally out for a cruise in the 993 I came across a garage with not one but two of the buggers, bloody hell it was like entering the twilight zone.
I wandered in and there they sat in their Carcoons gently appreciating as the charming owner of both garage and Cars Howard Watts came for a chat. I see Howard is now become something of a specialist, oh how I wish he would flog the red white and blue Martini. You may have seen the cars as one is in fact black and has been featured in Porsche Post if you’re a PCGB man?
To me they ooze character and menace in equal measure, something the most recent cars seem to be missing however accomplished they are. Issues of lag and unpredictable handling are to my mind the very essence of what Porsche was all about through the 70’s and 80’s and are much like buying a period property. Your buy into all the things you don’t get with a new one and to some tastes are much better for it and yes I have driven a 3.3 turbo and survived. Once again the old chap ran one and yes I sure as hell unstuck the thing and to this day he is none the wiser. They simply seemed faster than the current cars, due largely I think to the sledgehammer effect of the boost coming on song. Great stuff
Rolls and Sheepskin, like Morecombe and Wise. As it should be.
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