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When I was growing up in the fifties and on into the early sixties many of us in the U.K. considered America was the centre of the universe. This...
I would guess it's based on an English Morris 10 or 12 from the late thirties
Teenage Heaven by Eddie Cochran. I want my own Coupe de Ville, make my dad pay the bill, that's heaven to me.
Git It by Gene Vincent. She said to me. "Where can it be? Where's your Cadillac car?"
I believe pasties are popular in some of the northern states, because a great many miners from Cornwall settled there and they brought the recipe...
Maybe next week
All those old buses were taken off the roads of Malta last year. I think they have been replaced with modern Chinese stuff. I bet they won't last...
I don't think it's a Jag. A little bit off the subject in the late 50's early 60's a buddy of mine was an apprentice at the machine tool company...
The Moskvich 400 might be O.K. they were really pre war Opel Kadets the Russians bought the tooling The later Moskvich was rubbish they sold a...
It was pretty good where I live two bombs during the whole war, and even I am not old enough to remember them. Some food rationing lasted until...
Not just deep south. When I was growing up in the 50's here in the English Midlands my Mum used to serve chiterlins, pigs feet, brawn (thats...
The engine is a V4 9 litre capacity. The gear box is under the engine, the same as the original Mini. In WWII Christie worked with Issigonis (the...
American Auto Club U.K.
Hudsons and Terraplanes were also very popular in the U.K. They had an assembly plant in London where the cars were assembled from kits. The plant...
That was a brilliant series. They remade it last year it was absolute rubbish. The original was filmed in the village of Port Merion in Wales....
It's not very good here in the U.K. All the shows have been down this summer. The price of gas has alot to do with that. Must be nearly $9 a...
A friend of mine has just bought a very expensive 67 Mustang, from a Mustang "specialist". The vin number is wrong, it's off an early 66 model....
I saw Gene Vincent on his first U.K. tour back in 1960. He toured with Eddie Cochran who was killed in a car crash just a couple of weeks after I...
From experience it depends on the design. When the Ford V4 engines were popular here. If the the thermostat was left out of a Transit van it would...
The French made NATO flatheads released a few years ago were based on the pre war 221 inch flathead, and they will go more or less straight in a...
The Ford Flatheads used in Simcas were derived from the V8 60. The V8 60 was used pre war in Matfords this combination between Mathis and Ford....
The Pilot body was developed from the Model 62, but I think the front suspension was closer to the 1940 American Ford, it has an anti roll bar....
I was in my Coupe de Ville at a show last weekend when a guy said "Miles per gallon don't matter when by the look on your face you get so many...
The V8 60 engine was designed in the U.K. it first appeared in 1935 in the Model 48 which they called the Model 60 when it had the smaller...
Before introducing the 8 hour working day, Ford had study made which showed workers efficiency started to decline after about 9 hours. The survey...
Didn't Brough Superiors have V twin engines? Aerial perhaps. They used to have magneto drives similar to the one in the picture except they were...
The Morris van is an 8 series E. Made from 1939 to 48ish. It was superseded by the Morris Minor. The series E cars had the headlights set in the...
Not wanting to take anything away from Duntov or Chrysler but hemi heads were around a long time before they came up with their designs. I think...
I have just built a Chevy 350 racing engine all the parts came from well known American companies, but most of them were made in China or Mexico....
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