Show me a nice old car

CharlesDAMorgan said:
Just good old fashioned electrical glow plugs to get it started.

Somewhere in Morocco is a taxi driver who has a W115 240D that is on about 3 million KMs. Those engines can last for ever, but with their very low speed, the journeys feel the same way.

Very nice picture Dourbalister. I love those things with a passion, but despite my love of black and white, I love the 70s colour options so much one of my little games is guessing the colour and the exact colour code, which you can't do from B&W.
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Thanks, Charles! I found this one parked at the end of my street, but I'm not sure if it's there all the time. Maybe if the stars align and I happen to have color film loaded in one of my cameras, I'll take a color version. For your enjoyment, of course! :p
 
1938 Ford 85 flathead V8 pick up truck

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I've lived in Oregon for more than 16 years now. This year I finally got around to attending the Forest Grove Concours d'Elegance. There were numerous wonderful cars there, many worth a small fortune. But the car that really tickled me was was this lovely 1968 Triumph TR250 that I spied sitting in the shade.

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Guth said:
I've lived in Oregon for more than 16 years now. This year I finally got around to attending the Forest Grove Concours d'Elegance. There were numerous wonderful cars there, many worth a small fortune. But the car that really tickled me was was this lovely 1968 Triumph TR250 that I spied sitting in the shade.
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The dappled light emphasizes the shine and shapes, fine photo of a gorgeous Triumph! I had my 1965 Corvair Corsa Turbo in the concours at Forest Grove many years ago, along with some others of our Seattle-area group, CORSA Northwest (CORvair Society of America).
 
Doug said:
The dappled light emphasizes the shine and shapes, fine photo of a gorgeous Triumph! I had my 1965 Corvair Corsa Turbo in the concours at Forest Grove many years ago, along with some others of our Seattle-area group, CORSA Northwest (CORvair Society of America).
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Thanks! A number of years ago I was seriously looking into buying a 2nd gen Corvair. My parents had owned both a 1st gen and a 2nd gen back when they were new. Unfortunately the 2nd gen was totaled after another driver ran a stop sign and slammed into us as we were headed down a country road just outside of town. They are neat cars with a design that really stood apart from GM’s other offerings.
 
My favouritest pick up truck (it's close enough) of all time starting its return to roadworthiness. The body will be left largely untouched, the interior restored partially (got to have something to sit on) and the engine plan has yet to be decided - the original truck flathead will need a lot of work and probably be a bit slow; but a later, larger 4.2 French flathead with lots of trimmings might be de trop. Some glass without bullet holes would also be useful...

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Pick ups are interesting as a lot of makers did small runs of them; I once saw a Morris Marina pick-up and then there's other variations like the old Jaguar (60's etc) as estate cars and so on.


All good harmless fun until you buy one...


Regards, David
 
My very own 1971 Mercedes W114 250CE in Arab Gray, Brunhilde. Took her out to a meet for the first time in a year (fan belt alignment problem) and she drove flawlessly. Shot on Fuji 400H with my Mamiya RB67, the film giving a fabulous rendering of her colour (which is about 18% grayscale in the shade - doubly useful!).

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CharlesDAMorgan said:
My favouritest pick up truck (it's close enough) of all time starting its return to roadworthiness. The body will be left largely untouched, the interior restored partially (got to have something to sit on) and the engine plan has yet to be decided - the original truck flathead will need a lot of work and probably be a bit slow; but a later, larger 4.2 French flathead with lots of trimmings might be de trop. Some glass without bullet holes would also be useful...

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Just saw this. Having done a couple of ground up restorations in my lifetime, mostly by myself, the thought of tackling this, at least at my age, gives me the willies. I admire your ambition and willingness to truly make the world a better, grander place by restoring a bit of what was lost to the ravages of time and careless ownership. Hope to see pix of the final result in this millennium.
 
Sorry Larry - I should have been clearer that it's a friend's workshop truck, which he's restoring. I've no role at all other than the odd photo. I've restored close to 4 cars now - the Mercedes above in post 1734 was fully restored for me - but the desire (and madness) has been exorcised. No more car restorations from me!
 
Charles, that makes more sense to me now. I had taken a look at the lovely Mercedes in 1734, noted the high quality of the repaint on that one, and thought to myself, there’s no way the person who did this is ever going to be satisfied with leaving the body of that truck “largely untouched”, no matter what promises they make to themselves at the beginning. One thing leads to another once you get started, and it’s a rare person who can quit half way. It’s just two different ways of approaching a restoration.
Thanks for the clarification, would still like to see pix once the truck is done, even if, were it me, suffering with my own set of resto-demons, it would only be semi-done.
 
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