Olderisbetter
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Found this today in the boot of the A30, anyone seen one before?
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Radiator Muff for an A30/35
Laced onto the radiator grill in winter to block air flow and speed up warming. Drop down centre portion for when/if the car reaches operating temperature.
Went with 'Town and Country' tyres and lacquering chrome work in my youth.
Old blankets over the engine and paraffin heater under the sump too.
Laced onto the radiator grill in winter to block air flow and speed up warming. Drop down centre portion for when/if the car reaches operating temperature.
Went with 'Town and Country' tyres and lacquering chrome work in my youth.
Old blankets over the engine and paraffin heater under the sump too.
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I've got a Halford's one for a Mini somewhere.
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Thanks, the eadiator muff makes sense..
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I still use a radiator muff on my Series 2 Land Rover in the depths of the winter.
(Radiator Muff that has been repurposed from its previous life as a fertiliser bag)
My dad's improvised radiator muff.
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@Robostar5 That should be in the interesting vehicle thread i started, although that said i lost it lol
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This place never fails to amaze!
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That's a proper muff job.
Cor. Rad muffs. Something I saw often as a small kid on older cars, but had completely forgotten about.
(There was still quite a few cars on the road with those Semaphore indicators that swung out of the pillar, and you regularly saw those funny wishy-washy blue 3-wheel Invalid Carriage things... stuff long consigned to history).
(There was still quite a few cars on the road with those Semaphore indicators that swung out of the pillar, and you regularly saw those funny wishy-washy blue 3-wheel Invalid Carriage things... stuff long consigned to history).
The old man had an All-aggro. Hard to sell good points on one lol. He passed it on to my Aunt - she drove it harder than him (not hard) & it cooked itself
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He sold the Landy in the late 70's and I saw it for sale again in the local paper (remember those?) in the mid 80's, I did think about buying it for sentimental reasons as my dad had died by then, but had nowhere to keep it.
Friend built a (not road-legal) trike.I transplanted an allegro engine into a mini it had no top end but would spin it's wheels in second gear
- Mini subframe for the back with the steering welded-up.
- Z650 frame (plus assorted Angle-Iron & bits of tube) - with a battery box where the engine should be, mini Radiator & Milking Machine pipe to extend the cooling pipes back to the engine.
- Engine. Mini bottom-end. Allegro or Marina 1300 block, Cooper head with twin carbs. Short old-style long gearlever mini gearbox, but with a modified newer type gearstick in it, hooked up to a Renault 4 dashboard gearlever so you could change gears with left hand (but shift pattern reversed by the Renault back-to-front shifter).
- Hand twistgrip throttle, foot clutch, hand front (Honda CB250) & foot rear (Mini) brakes.
- Exhaust: two Triumph 2000 silencers stacked above & below at the back.
Very weird to ride (drive?) But went really well for a bitsa. He used to drift the thing around on Forestry Fire Roads (it didn't steer well unless you were committed & on the throttle), & I got about 100mph out of it on 12" Imp wheels on Pendine beach (when it blew the milking machine lower hose off & dumped scalding water all over my right foot
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All this could account for the 'Codgers Corner' thread.
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I had a tailor made radiator muff for my Morris Minor years ago, it was a shaped & fitted bit of hardboard 
It increased the heater temperature from half a degree above ambient to 1 degree.above. Always carried a car rug, needed it when parked……
It increased the heater temperature from half a degree above ambient to 1 degree.above. Always carried a car rug, needed it when parked…… 