Modern Commer Replacement

[amazing 1]

Any progress on the Commer this past weekend?

[Steve Pyro]

Any progress on the Commer this past weekend?

What do you think?   

[Andy Zarse]

Any progress on the Commer this past weekend?

What do you think?   

Well, I've been busy in the garden, those potatos won't plant themselves. And it's gone mental at work. It's always like this in the run up to LM, drives me mad.

Still I've simply to prime the clutch master cylinder, grease the trunnions and king pins, a quick clean and polish and then take it to the MOT station where it will sail through the test with flying colours. It always does. Nothing can possibly go wrong. Can it?

PS I'll be posting the resulton page one hundred and THIRTEEN!!! 

[nopanic - neil]

Any progress on the Commer this past weekend?

What do you think?   

Well, I've been busy in the garden, those potatos won't plant themselves. And it's gone mental at work. It's always like this in the run up to LM, drives me mad.

Still I've simply to prime the clutch master cylinder, grease the trunnions and king pins, a quick clean and polish and then take it to the MOT station where it will sail through the test with flying colours. It always does. Nothing can possibly go wrong. Can it?

PS I'll be posting the resulton page one hundred and THIRTEEN!!! 

Oh no, not chips again!

[Andy Zarse]

Yep, chips again!

[amazing 1]

f**k*r,I'm eating lunch.

Yes,Steve I figured he had it done and purring like a kitten and passed the MOT[Mother of Torture].

[Rhino]

Of course you could always mot it after Le Mans as well, saving you the yearly panic. Oh hold on don't we say that each year as well

[Lord Pig-Pen]

I've found another Commer on my travels in Portsmouth, Its a late one on a V plate.
Would have taken pics but the blokes working on it did not look very nice.
It's Spearmint green and White.... Just Like Pacers used to be. (Chewy sweets not the AMC Version)

[Steve Pyro]

Arhh, the AMC Pacer, the one with different sized doors!


(Couldn't find a green and white one  )

[nopanic - neil]

is that Steve Brown in the car

What was the song  playing?

you mean the one below

[Andy Zarse]

Bohemian Rhapsody.

Wasn't the AMC Pacer a total death trap for some reason? I always liked it's funky looks though. Bit like the Commer, a potential death trap with funky looks.

Oh and Ian, we don't do MOT's after Le Mans. It's not the done thing old chap.

[nickliv]

You'd be thinking of the pinto Andy. A sharp tap in the rump would puncture the fuel tank, while simultaneously jamming the doors shut. Also known as the barbecue that seats 4.

[nopanic - neil]

You'd be thinking of the pinto Andy. A sharp tap in the rump would puncture the fuel tank, while simultaneously jamming the doors shut. Also known as the barbecue that seats 4.

Ford was aware of the design fault, but worked out it would be cheaper to pay for lawsuits than repair the cars - cost-benefit analysis -  a good memo from the time (info drawn from the origonal 1968 memo),

http://www.calbaptist.edu/dskubik/pinto.htm

more info go to good old Wiki.

[Andy Zarse]

The Pinto scandal also brought that wretched man Ralph Nader to prominence. Apart from being a big-headed c*cks**ker, he also stood for President, splitting the vote and letting GWBush into the Whitehouse. The law of unintended consequence in action...

[Steve Pyro]

Nader didn't only have a downer on the Ford Pinto.  His other hated car was the Chevrolet Corvair.

He wrote a book about poor US car design called 'Unsafe at any Speed'  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed