Roy's picture a day - anything other than a Rover

[enigmas]

As it's currently quiet here I thought I'd add a few more photos of the cars on the Churchill Island day run. Note the Morris at the end of the photos was not on the run but posted to the BMC Leyland facebook page. I've included it as a point of comparison to the more traditionally presented Morris in the group.

[David]

Some lovely cars there. Any chance of a report on this event for Take Five?

[David]

May I start this one off....


1980 SAAB 99 Turbo, two door. One of only 200 produced in black. One owner from new.

[johnwp5bcoupe]

Not been on the road for 10 years but looks just the same

[Roy of the Rovers]

Heres one of my other cars, during a period of redundancy from work I bought myself a project. A 1977 Opel Manta, 45k miles, one old lady owner, but then one not so careful owner which resulted in a blown engine, and also a destroyed auto box as it turned out! Whilst the engine and box was out it was stolen from my driveway by the travelling community (in my area at the time). Despite being caught red handed and a reg plate being supplied to Police, my engine and box were gone for good. Its at this point I decided on an upgrade. Conversion to 5 speed manual, upgrade from 1.9 to 2.4 litres and from Carb to Fuel injection! All from the GM vauxhall/opel family of vehicles so basically a bolt on conversion.. Heres some pics.

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Finished!

[ray]

...and you know I had the Cavalier Coupe, same colour but no vinyl roof. A great car.

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David,

Nice motor! Tried them once but the only one with enough headroom had the sun roof open!

Did get to visit their factory before it closed, really amazing; the work-force were quite young but cameras strictly forbidden. The attached shows a bunch of us at their main entrance exhibit - ours was the Escort. The eagle eyed of you will notice the Green MG which was with us on the tour of Italy!

[wozzer]

My moggy

[Warwick]

My first car. 1955 Holden FJ Special.
When I got my driver's licence in 1968, Dad gave me the family car when he replaced it with a 1967 Peugeot 404.
I wish I still had it. Worth a small fortune now, in original condition.
This is the 2nd model GM Holden. Basically the original 1948 model with a face-lift. They were based on a small late 1930s Buick that never went into production.
2.2 litre cast iron straight six (the Holden 'grey' motor), 3-speed column-shift (no synchro on 1st, of course), rear leaf springs, and vacuum driven wipers. They handled ... as you would expect.
Years ago my father-in-law, who worked at the GM-H plant at Fisherman's Bend in Melbourne during the development of the original engines, gave me a set of dynamometer graphs and tests results for engines he had worked on in 1948. An interesting collection of files.

[GlennR]

Jan 20, 2017 15:29:13 GMT johnwp5bcoupe said:

Not been on the road for 10 years but looks just the same

Not many of these around. Superb work as always.

[Porky]

Chalk & Cheese,
MG used as my daily runner & the Rover used at weekends

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[Warwick]

My 2nd car. A 1970 Bolwell Mk.7. I bought it in 1974 as an unfinished kit car from its original owner. He'd given up after 4 years and bought a Lotus Europa. The Mk.7 was fibreglass bodied with a backbone chassis, a la Lotus. They used Holden mechanicals. This one had a modified 1967 Holden HR front-end. HR rear axle, modified to replace the leaf springs with coils and trailing arms, and a highly modified HR 3-litre straight-six; one of the Holden cast iron 'red' motors.
I worked on it extensively for 2 years, improving the suspension and steering, and replacing the Holden engine and gearbox with something lighter and more compact - a Mazda RX4 13B rotary and gearbox.
But in 1976 I went overseas to live and work and the poor old Bolly went into storage in my uncle's garage. I gave up after 33 years and replaced it with a P5B Coupe.

[Roy of the Rovers]

Looks like a fun motor Warwick!

[Warwick]

They are indeed Roy.

My local non-marque car club has a monthly Sunday morning "breakfast meeting" at a large coffee shop across the road from a supermarket car park. It has become widely known and people from clubs in Melbourne often attend and display their cars. I haven't been to one for a couple of years.
I learnt last week when reading the club magazine that there was a Mk.7 from Melbourne at this month's meeting. Then I learnt yesterday that it was a car I once knew. Belongs to an old friend from my Bolwell Car Club days in the 1970s. Wish I'd been there.

sportingregister.org.au/2017/01/08/breakfast-club-warragul-cbd-sunday-8th-january/

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On a group tour of the Cotswolds was this and, yes, the blue container is for a spurt of extra speed!! Excuse the P5B in the background!

[moonchariot]

In response to a post from pjohnandrew, "You are close! It reads "The Fast Lady"; it was immaculate too!"

Sold at Auction in 2010, for 550,000 Pounds!
The Bentley is an original Vanden Plas fabric-bodied short chassis "Red Label" Speed model and was bought in 1959 by Independent Artists to star in The Fast Lady, directed by Ken Annakin of Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines fame.

Read more: roverp5.proboards.com/thread/6642/picture-day-challenge-forum-users?page=35#ixzz4XwgzlAsa



You may have been in the presence of a,
Very famous Bentley!

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Nah! The owner of the Bentley recognised the quality of the Rover!!

Here's one I took on the quayside at Gothenburg, Sweden. It is understood that Owners have to pay a regular fee to display such number plates!

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This one joined the Tour for the ferry crossings to Sweden and then went off for a 'Vauxhall' event! The Jensen stayed on the tour; did you know that the badge in the grille actually flips open with wind pressure to allow more air in to the radiator!

Did feel sorry for the people in the Vauxhall though, it started to rain soon afterwards and all they had were 'golf' umbrellas! Not the same as a tin roof!

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This one was taken at the 'Darling Buds of May' show, on the farm of the TV series - 'perfick'!!
The car dealership is still in operation.

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[Warwick]

My 3rd car. A 1970 Peugeot 404.

[p5bdownunder]

Our other classic is a 1969 VW Beetle 1500. It had one owner for 41 years, the next for 6 years. We have had it 12 months. It is a matching numbers, completely original car. The carpets are worn and seats have a couple of small tears, but that all adds to the character.

[Warwick]

My 4th car. A 1974 Fiat 124 Sport (1800cc). Like the P5B Coupe, another car I had fancied since my early teens. I moved to Singapore in the mid-'70s and sold the 404 to my brother. The Fiat cost S$14,000. Unfortunately, between sending a telegram home to arrange for a telegraphic transfer, and the money arriving in my account in Singapore, Australia devalued its currency. From memory, the AU$1 went from about S$3.1 to S$2.4 overnight, so the Fiat suddenly became more expensive. Excellent timing!



About a year later my old 404 was written off when someone ran a red light. My brother was OK but the car not worth repairing, so he gave it to a friend of mine for spares. The friend had a 404 and a 403. He stripped the body shell and stored the parts with his other 403 and 404 spares in an old disused farmhouse on his farm. Just over 30 years later, this was burned to the ground in the Black Saturday bushfire, with the Peugeot parts still inside.

[David]

And now for something completely different.