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Our car industry followed suit in identical ways compounded by the P155 poor attitude of the trade unions . . The Datsun Sunny was an amazing long lived car.
theweldingchippy2.0
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Dead badger clothing hoodie and some vortex crossfires
Not a bad birthday presents from the parents and brother.
Early and all, but not complaining
Farside
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The price doubles when I try to order one. They can get stuffed.
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As long as it wasn't exposed to rain or road salt.
But when it was freezing cold, and all the ford and BL motors had their bonnets up getting jump starts and ether, the Datsun just started and was long gone....
Farside
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And in year four it was down the scrappy.
Yeah, but at least it always started, and everything else wasn't far behind in the rusting stakes.....
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But they would always start, and were much more economical, quieter, smoother, that the British equivalent tat at the time.
My first Mini was only six years old and needed new sills ...... you could see the road through the rear side pockets and a rear subframe. Jags at the time were very rusty too.
I can remember fire watching inside series one XJ6's as they were having the sills and floors welded up when they were less than five years old, those and many other British cars of the time.
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The problem was in those days cars were built for stock, not to order so it may have been sitting outside for 12+ months before he got it, one of our sparkies ordered a new Metro but when he went to pick it up he read the build code and told them it was 10 months old (the code stamps were changed every half shift so you could date the build to within 6 hours) so they had to find him another (newer) one.
I wasn't aware of much trade union wise in the 70s being a bit young. But stuff I've read since just amazes me. Sacking a thief . . . And the union calling a strike is one thing that sticks in my mind.
When I started with my first proper engineering job, I had an Alfa. An Italian bloke had a pretty new Montego. Tops of the does were perforating, arches going.
He went Japanese, Mazdas.
All car makers were pretty much the same. Lancia, stupid lot, were buying back series one Beta saloons when the rear engine mount support rusted - cue Daily Mirror horror story of engine falling out (they physically couldn't), ignoring Minis needing new resrvsubframescat first MOT.
Coincidentally, rummaging through hundreds, if not thousands of photos from my aunt & uncles place of shire horses (he bred, showed and won), long horn catlle, dogs, chickens, I found numerous ones that had a Mini of some sort in the.
First one is a rust free Mini van with an interesting twin pipe rear box, with my 19 yr old Aunt leaning on it in 1963 in my grandparents farmyard. Lots of saloons all the way through to a red F- prefix reg one in the drive of their last house.
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My first car was a second hand MK4 escort....the boot used to fill with water.
When I acquired a 2010 Mondeo this year the first thing I did was check the boot....yup full of water!!!
After the escort I only bought Japanese cars for many years....never had any major issues.
When I acquired a 2010 Mondeo this year the first thing I did was check the boot....yup full of water!!!
After the escort I only bought Japanese cars for many years....never had any major issues.
In 1971 , one of our Felix type guys purchased a brand new early Land Rover Range Rover ..it arrived at our unit on a trailer . The colour was a lovely duck egg blue . internally a fantastic slightly orangy tan leather .
Five weeks later galvanic (?) corrosion had bubbled the paint around the wipers, rhr gutter line and right across the tail gate just below the glass.. The ATO man was not pleased indeed . about this time we started getting crap new Land Rover spares for the military vehicles . Lost count of the number of failed new half shafts we went through literally dozens in a tiny fleet of 16 land Rovers.
