Right, sorted

Ah yes, I forgot about that.

Mucho gracias.

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I had a 3.5 SD1 Vitesse, and yes, the novelty wore off quite quickly.

 

Of course, I did mean the 3.5. I remembered the 2.8 because I knew I
didn't want the 2.3.

I saw one on eBay a while ago, a ghastly canary yellow one, but £350 was
a bit of a no no. I'm very surprised to see that they're fetching
thousands on eBay at the moment! I really don't think they cost that
much when new.

How come the novelty wore off anyway?

 

Heh, I got my one for free. It was a gift, apparently...

Repair bills. Repeated repair bills.

 

Whinging Courier says...

I think you mean the 6 cylinder 2600. They never made a 2.8 SD1.

 

Whinging Courier says...

I had a 2 year old Marina van back in 1982/3, it cost me 800 quid. It
went, steered and stopped and carried a lot of crap in the back. That's
all I wanted it to do.

 

That's the one. Liked to snap their cam shafts didn't they?

 

Whatever

My mate (yes, another one) had the (must've been the 2.6) but it was the
3.5 I wanted because it had the biggest engine and it was a 3.5. Dave
the lorry driver at Interlink had a maroon 3.0l Capri that I used to
drool over as well, that and another mate, Darren who had a ratted matt
black one.

 

The 2600 was the sportier car by a fair margin - better balanced than
the 3.5 - I do think that the V8 sounded better though.

 

Results 1 - 10 of about 943 for talbot sunbeam owners club. (0.22 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 454 for +"talbot sunbeam" +"owners club". (0.34 seconds)

So not *that* bad, but still bad.

http://www.sunbeamlotus.com/
http://www.arcc.demon.co.uk/asoc.htm

 

Mine sounded really good, when the end of the exhaust fell off.

 

That's all any van should do, innit. I mean I use mine for personal
transport and hardly ever carries stuff in the back but I didn't buy it
because it was pretty either.

Vans rock.

My old Maestro van had seats in the back, too.

 

Our old milkman used to have a Lotus Sunbeam. A black and silver one.

Lovely it was.

 

I've never had a van. I had a pickup once, it was a Honda Acti.

 

Whinging Courier says...

I think they were all black and silver, ICBW though.

 

Muck says...

Santa Pod Raceway had a Honda Acty pick up, with a blown big block Chevy
engine mounted in the pick up bed driving the back wheels.

 

I bet that went a little better than my one. I had a custom car book
with a V6 engined Acti. The V6 drove the wheels through some sort of
belt drive off a Jag I think[1].

[1]It was a long time ago, and I mainly used to look at the pictures.

 

Didn't the bottles fall off the back when he accelerated?

 

Talking of 3.5lr V8s earlier, that was the done thing to put in the back
of a tranny when I was at the modifying cars stage. A twin wheeled one.

That and [dream phase] putting a Porsche engine in the back of a Vee
Dub.

 

Oh, well tbh, I think that's the only one I've ever seen.

He was a great big hairy bloke with a long black beard and tattoos