Art or design, which is it?

A neighbour, many moons ago, had the C, with the straight six lump. That
always struck me as a nice compromise between the weedy four-cylinder
lump and the V8 which *has* to be too much for the chassis.

 

The Older Gentleman says...

They don't go that much better than the 1800 though, and weight
distribution is all fucked up because of the really heavy cast iron 6
cylinder engine. The alloy V8 engine weighed about the same as the cast
iron 1800, so the already doubtful handling wasn't affected too much. BL
really fucked up with their version of the V8 because they unnecessarily
oversrung and overdamped all the suspension to allow for the V8.
Costello was far more subtle in his approach.

 

(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

Fuckawful thing, the MGC. The B motor was a heavy old lump, the V8
was huge but at least most of it was alloy - the C had a dinosaur iron
six that weighed shitloads and was hardly quicker than the 1800 four.
Way too much weight over and in front of the front axle,
neccassarily rock-hard front suspension = recipe for disaster. They
were infamous for going straight on round corners, or straight over
roundabouts - literally, I mean.

I can think of five Cs that met their end in hedges and walls after
failing to negotiate bends - two of them took mates with them to the
great scrapyard. Awful cars.
It took BL to take a shite car and make it twice as bad.

 

Old. Shiny, but old.

 

Christofire says...

I don't like modern art.

 

Lozzo wrote

There was **** all wrong with the handling on my B. Set against its
contemporaries it was really rather good.

 

Pip wrote

Piss easy to work on, all you need is small hands. I have got small
enough hands to be able to change the starter motor without lifting the
engine. So there.

 

"You have a woman's hands, my lord...."

 

Aah, a connysewer.

I did, vay interesting. I like the V12 Kawasaki Z 1300, or is that a Z2600?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Small commercial lump, afair. Abysmal performance for the size of it.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

2281cc, so KZ2300, I reckon.

http://motorcyclistonline.com/features/kawv12/

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

He does, indeed, have it badged as a Z2300.

Not a KZ, 'cos he's not a Septic.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Of course. The one in the garage with my 400 Four.[0]

I haven't driven a V8.

They are just cute little cars to tool about it.


[0] Lozzo, see, I was paying attention.

 

They're cute, and the spares are plentiful, and they're cheap, and the
hark back to a simpler time, a time when...

(cont'd p94)

 

It's not mine. Yet.

I am into classic cars, though.

heh

 

Ben Blaney says...

It's the very British shape and the sound of one throttling off with a
standard exhaust that does it for me. In reality I know they're a pretty
crap car to drive, but that doesn't put me off wanting one. It's a bit
like owning classic bikes. They don't do anything anywhere near as well
as modern bikes, but you just love riding them.

Good man. Go easy now, or you'll pick up a 'sad' tag, like mine.

 

Exactly. There are all sorts of classic vehicles I'd like to own.
The good news is that they're all so cheap - relatively speaking. One
of the things I'd like is a Morris Oxford/Austin Cambridge. Don't
know why.

 

Ben Blaney says...

All ended up on banger tracks, which makes them a bit hard to find now.
Back in 1981/2 our old bike club had a Cambridge as a support vehicle,
we nicknamed it the Battlebus. When it met its demise we scrounged a
very rusty and ratty MK1 Lotus Cortina to replace it. We hand painted
that hammerite black and abused it until it blew to bits, before
throwing a 1600 Kent engine in.

 

Art

Because as a design it's heavy, vulnerable and inefficient.

 

Oh, neg.

Near the top of my list is a series I XJ6 - with the deep grille.
There are a few floating around in good condition, and for sensible
money, too. There's a concours-winning Daimler on autotrader with
34,000 miles for 10K.

heh