Want! (Badly) 1933 Napier Railton

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Yup. 1953 mine was. Not that I ever got to drive it very much. Bought it
for 25 quid in need of TLC and just hadn't the skill. knowledge or
facilities to save it. In my impecunious youth I lusted after and nearly
acquired a few cars which perhaps fortunately I did not actually buy.I
particularly remember an XK120 for 100 quid and a Saab Sport complete
with Halda Speed Pilot clocks for reasonable money (I settled for a
standard '62 96 instead). This sort of behaviour lead eventually to the
purchase of the Alfa 75 2.5 V6 Cloverleaf, but that as they say is
another story.
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Pete Fisher says...

I've told the story before of the mint Jaguar E-type I was offered for
£350 back in 1979. I bought a 1964 1071 Mini-Cooper S instead.

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If we had known then what we know now eh? You probably had just as much
fun in the Mini though (albeit rather cramped).

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Pete Fisher says...

I scrapped it when it failed the MOT on something trivial and bought
something similar IIRC. I didn't buy the E-Type because the insurance
was 120 quid a year and the Cooper S was only £50ish.

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Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
GSF600SW (broked)
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord" does not refer to
blasphemy during ejaculation - Tori 2006

 

He's pretty good value at most VSCC events really, but particularly so
from a standing start like at Prescott. Earlier in the year when dicing
with the Pacey Hassan Bentley at Silverstone he was spinning up so much
he eventually blew a rear tyre. And bearing in mind it was only a 10
lap race, that was pretty good going.

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Pete Fisher

I've also mentioned mine (or was nearly mine). 400quid, that's all, 400
stinking quid for a ver, ver nice red one - 1974 or thereabouts, just
after the first oil crisis.

And the Interceptor.... <sob> 1977 or 78 that was. Solid as a rock, too.
Only needed a slushbox rebuild, which I could have done easily enough.
Parts were cheap, being GM.

Nobody wanted them; big old thirsty barges.

 

Twenty seven litres, ffs. Hardly hi-tech, even in its day.