On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:07:53 -0000
"MuddyMike" wrote:


"Davey" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:08:25 +0000
Rick wrote:

On 23/02/2012 9:15 PM, gremlin_95 wrote:


Reliability and fuel efficiency are the most important things for
me. Not worried about 'street cred' as such. I know insurance is
going to be quite expensive though



My Triumph Herald was a good choice.

So was mine. Great fun when driven at speed around corners, thereby
frightening anyone who had heard about rear-wheel tuck-under. I put
a Spitfire engine and O/D gearbox in mine, and ran it for years.
And it towed a car trailer.

I used to remove the roof from mine in the summer:-)

Mike



I often wondered about that, but never did. But the chassis/body panel
construction should have made it safe.
My favourite memory is of buying an exhaust system, which came in one
piece, about nine feet long. I had freed the rear seat back (this was
before accommodation for skis was common), and a puzzled old couple
watched from the other side of the road as I inserted the whole exhaust
system into what looked, to them, like the boot of the car.
--
Davey.