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Originally Posted by AJ  My dad did this for 20 years, getting difficult now with all the emissions standards that make getting them through a MOT impossible, back in the day you could sometimes get 18 months from 200 quid car. |
I got 3 cars for a debt of £28 in about 1973/74. A pikey car dealer owed me some money and had no cash, and had these 3 that he couldn't sell, so I took them instead.
I got an Austin A40, which went straight to the scrapyard. A Rover 90, which was broken up as the body work was aluminium, and all that went to the scrapyard.
The third one was a MK2 Jaguar, he said the engine was fcuked. I towed it to my mates garage and asked him to have a look, but not spend too much time on it.
The following day he bought it to my house, engine purring
It cost me £2 for the repair. In the six cylinder engine, a core plug under the bulkhead had blown where the pikey hadn't seen it. One core plug and a tube of red hermetite later, she was up and running.
Probably the best car I ever owned to be honest. 3.8 engine, manual change. spotlights on the roof, pillar box red, spoke wheels (which I sold three times)
and one night in Yalding in Kent I left at 8-30 exactly, and was outside East Ham Town Hall just before the clock struck 9.
It's impossible to do that today without getting nicked as cameras are everywhere and the limit on the Blackwall Tunnel road is 50 or 60.
It was a flying machine for its day, a guaranteed bird puller, and Gazzas predecessors Panda cars couldn't get near it
