Automobiles : Good,Bad & the Ugly.

[Oldsmobile-88]

Average speed cameras have been installed on the approach & exit on the A38 Saltash Tunnel. There was previously a fixed camera on the carriageways iirc.
The local news(Spotlight) was trumping that it will be a money spinner, rather than report that it will improve safety !

There are quite a few average speed cameras on Trunk Roads in Scotland. The ones on the A9 from Dalwhinnie to Inverness have cut down the fatalities drastically on the single sections of the road. It was a deadly drive until about 15 years ago when they were installed.

 

[Mid Devon Grecian]

Moretonhampstead museum's cars worth £1.5m set for auction

The owner says it is unlikely he will find anyone "mad enough" to take on the museum.

www.bbc.co.uk

I’ll take the Talbot Sunbeam please

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Nice motor, shame it’s beige!

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Moretonhampstead museum's cars worth £1.5m set for auction

The owner says it is unlikely he will find anyone "mad enough" to take on the museum.

www.bbc.co.uk

I’ll take the Talbot Sunbeam please

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Interesting that the Talbot Sunbeam has a C reg prefix(1985/86) The model was only in production from 1977-81.

A friend of mine had a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus. For it’s time very quick on acceleration. 0-60 sub 8 seconds which was quick in the early 1980s.

The model was originally sold under the Chrysler(Europe) brand until the collapse of Chrysler Europe in 1979, when Peugeot took the over the brand with a bit of help from the U.K. government renaming it Talbot.
The cars were made in Scotland at the Linwood factory, which originally built cars for Rootes.

Iirc there was a Rootes franchise garage on Paris St Roundabout(where the Vue is now)
I remember my dad buying a Sunbeam Stiletto there in the late 1960s.

 

[cannockred]

Outside the restaurant we were in last night, a very old us muscle car was revving up, trying to impress the girlfriend, tears off down the road and then a car was coming of the motorway and the muscle car couldn't stop and went straight into the back of it.

The drivers girlfriend wasnt amused, neither was the driver. I thought it was hilarious

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Outside the restaurant we were in last night, a very old us muscle car was revving up, trying to impress the girlfriend, tears off down the road and then a car was coming of the motorway and the muscle car couldn't stop and went straight into the back of it.

The drivers girlfriend wasnt amused, neither was the driver. I thought it was hilarious

On a lot of powerful older cars from the 1960s & early 70s the one thing that’s often neglected is up rating braking systems to all disc for greater braking efficiency.

 

[DB9]

On a lot of powerful older cars from the 1960s & early 70s the one thing that’s often neglected is up rating braking systems to all disc for greater braking efficiency.

Anytime you see these motor restoration programmes, One of the first things they do is up rate the brakes from drums to disc and not just on muscle cars either, Mini's, Escorts etc and its normally accepted by the purists, It makes sense really.

 

[cannockred]

Anytime you see these motor restoration programmes, One of the first things they do is up rate the brakes from drums to disc and not just on muscle cars either, Mini's, Escorts etc and its normally accepted by the purists, It makes sense really.

This one hadnt

 

[Mid Devon Grecian]

Interesting that the Talbot Sunbeam has a C reg prefix(1985/86) The model was only in production from 1977-81.

A friend of mine had a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus. For it’s time very quick on acceleration. 0-60 sub 8 seconds which was quick in the early 1980s.

The model was originally sold under the Chrysler(Europe) brand until the collapse of Chrysler Europe in 1979, when Peugeot took the over the brand with a bit of help from the U.K. government renaming it Talbot.
The cars were made in Scotland at the Linwood factory, which originally built cars for Rootes.

Iirc there was a Rootes franchise garage on Paris St Roundabout(where the Vue is now)
I remember my dad buying a Sunbeam Stiletto there in the late 1960s.

My wife had a Talbot Samba, what an awful car that was. An underpowered baked bean can with vague steering and a gear selection method akin to playing the lottery.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

Interesting that the Talbot Sunbeam has a C reg prefix(1985/86) The model was only in production from 1977-81.

A friend of mine had a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus. For it’s time very quick on acceleration. 0-60 sub 8 seconds which was quick in the early 1980s.

The model was originally sold under the Chrysler(Europe) brand until the collapse of Chrysler Europe in 1979, when Peugeot took the over the brand with a bit of help from the U.K. government renaming it Talbot.
The cars were made in Scotland at the Linwood factory, which originally built cars for Rootes.

Iirc there was a Rootes franchise garage on Paris St Roundabout(where the Vue is now)
I remember my dad buying a Sunbeam Stiletto there in the late 1960s.

Famously had a connection with Jimmy Hill's 'Coventry Talbot' when Jimmy was pushing at the doors of shirt sponsorship rules.

Blue-sky sponsorship thinking from Coventry

Thanks to Andrew Rockall for giving us the idea for this piece Shirt sponsorship was first permitted by the Football League in 1977, and was still an infant concept in the early 80s, as clubs and c…

museumofjerseys.com

 

[ramone]

My wife had a Talbot Samba, what an awful car that was. An underpowered baked bean can with vague steering and a gear selection method akin to playing the lottery.

Sister had a Talbot Sunbeam IIRC and as she was coming down Salters hill in Wonford when it was still 2 way a car was coming up and she kept getting closer to the left hand side until she ultimately flipped the car onto its roof something we've never let her forget lol.