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« Reply #720 on: June 17, 2004, 07:47:48 am »

Some people clearly do not have the same patience as Andy with their cars...

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« Reply #721 on: June 17, 2004, 09:43:25 am »

Was that the commer I saw bording the 09:00 Caen Portsmouth Ferry?
Looks to me like it will want to go back next year. Wink
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« Reply #722 on: June 17, 2004, 10:02:20 am »

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Some people clearly do not have the same patience as Andy with their cars...

Smokie,

            Clearly not, although one can perhaps understand why, when the link leads you to a sh**ged out Skoda Favorit.   However, I notice that the item title contains the key words of "Disintegrating", "Rustheap" and "Catfood".   This does, of course, lead naturally to the obvious supplementary question of what on earth you were looking for when you found this item?  

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« Reply #723 on: June 17, 2004, 10:37:34 am »

I cheated, I found the link somewhere else... Smiley
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« Reply #724 on: June 17, 2004, 03:11:13 pm »

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Aaaww....there was me thinking you might have been looking for some really off the wall stuff.....
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« Reply #725 on: June 17, 2004, 04:30:08 pm »

Gib, are you going to go "Vroom vrooooom" on the carpet?  Wink


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« Reply #726 on: June 21, 2004, 01:37:18 pm »

Now that the Commer has made it to and from Le Mans in 2004, and Mr Zarse committed to plans to re-MOT is in plenty of thime for 2005, will there be a need for a replacement or will it soldier on for another year?   To ensure its continued well-being, then setting its sheer quality against the following contemporary candidates should be enough motivation to ensure that the legend of the Commer lives on and leads next year's Audis down the Mulsanne......

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« Reply #727 on: June 21, 2004, 02:52:35 pm »

Leyland ambulance looks interesting - stood for 15 years though  Shocked
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« Reply #728 on: June 21, 2004, 04:54:25 pm »

Now that the Commer has made it to and from Le Mans in 2004, and Mr Zarse committed to plans to re-MOT is in plenty of thime for 2005, will there be a need for a replacement or will it soldier on for another year?   To ensure its continued well-being, then setting its sheer quality against the following contemporary candidates should be enough motivation to ensure that the legend of the Commer lives on and leads next year's Audis down the Mulsanne......


Mark,

Trust your A did the biz for you at LM.

The Commer will be there next year, so no need for a replacement just yet. My best estimate based on the half life degradation of it's nuclear powerplant is that it should be in need of replacement in about the year 2305, so she should see us all out. This, I would imagine, is about the same as a well pampered MGA, unless it has the twin cam engine, in which case will last till about next week.
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« Reply #729 on: June 21, 2004, 05:34:16 pm »

Our convoy 'trundled' past Mark and his MGA on the M20 on the way down to LM.
Hope we weren't too noisy Mark  Wink

I also had the pleasure of passing the Commer on the LM / Alencon toll road (some speed differential though  Shocked )
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« Reply #730 on: June 23, 2004, 01:11:23 am »

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Trust your A did the biz for you at LM.

The Commer will be there next year, so no need for a replacement just yet. My best estimate based on the half life degradation of it's nuclear powerplant is that it should be in need of replacement in about the year 2305, so she should see us all out. This, I would imagine, is about the same as a well pampered MGA, unless it has the twin cam engine, in which case will last till about next week.

Andy - thanks - well-pampered but well used - still got all the dirt and dust on it.   Indeed the A did the biz very nicely, tooling along at 70 plus, 2 up with luggage  Grin , no overheating, but suffering a couple of times with fuel vaporisation because the underbonnet temperatures rocket on hot days, with no forward motion, particularly when stopped at the umpteenth set of traffic lights in Rouen Angry  The scuttle vents work beautifully above about 30 mph, but do nothing when stopped or in slow traffic.   No solution to that really, as I don't want to cut louvres in the bonnet - just have to live with dancing on the pedals to keep the revs up at about 1500-2000 while braking and changing down.  Mines a pushrod 1622, so like the Commer, I expect Lord Nuffield's best will continue to serve faithfully for a long time to come yet!  Twin cams make a lovely noise but are soooo finicky on timing and fuel - mines just nicely blueprinted and flowed with a tubular manifold, so a few more horses are there above the standard - now a really nice step up would be the Derrington crossflow head and webers, but that's a grands worth of kit for which I can't stretch the finances - yet!   Let me know when you need new fuel rods - I 'm sure the Navy will have some to spare somewhere!

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Steve - and a grand sight and sound it was too, with those delightful V8s drowning out not only the sound of Mr Nuffield's best four pot, but also - thankfully, if momentarily - the sounds of garage/trance/house whatever the heck it was booming out of the ICE system installed in son's Ford escort following us to Le Mans.......

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« Reply #731 on: June 27, 2004, 11:40:52 am »

Came across this little beauty the other day...


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« Reply #732 on: June 27, 2004, 11:41:33 am »

And from the rear...................


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« Reply #733 on: June 28, 2004, 07:57:33 pm »

Just thought I'd bring this topic back up ...

one for next year



BTW spotted a Commer Camper at the breakers "Bridges" on the M/A23
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« Reply #734 on: June 28, 2004, 08:28:17 pm »

I also spotted a Commer camper just off the M25 heading south on the M3 (not heading south too quickly as it was on the hard shoulder!!!)

Hadn't seen one in years until the Zarse mobile at LM and have now seen a couple in the last few weeks.
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