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  2. Not fit for purpose

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    28 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said:

    who remembers the the panic of reaching 40   then 50  the 60   then 70    and the next one is only 4 years away   

    should we worry or CELEBRATE   ( Not celebate )  or hibernate  I put  mintex dust in the coffee to avoid any fade 

    pete

     

     

    Hello youngster !  Can we have free Duxford Picnic admission when we reach 80 !

    Nick

  5. Felicity Ace and burning lithium ion battery

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    "A salvage team from SMIT is en route to the retreive the abandoned M/V Felicity Ace, which continues to burn near the Azores. 

    BERLIN/LISBON, Feb 18 (Reuters) – A ship carrying around 4,000 vehicles, including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, that caught fire near the coast of the Azores will be towed to another European country or the Bahamas, the captain of the nearest port told Reuters on Friday.

    Lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars on board the vehicle carrier Felicity Ace have caught fire and the blaze requires specialist equipment to extinguish, captain Joao Mendes Cabecas of the port of Hortas said.

    It was not clear whether the batteries first sparked the fire."

  8. SU Carburettor Refurbishment

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    11 hours ago, Paul H said:

    Personally can’t recommend AT . The refurbed Strombergs I bought were very shiny but needed rebuilding . Maybe it was a one off 

    Paul 

    No personal experience but I have read very mixed reviews on AT so I got my Strombergs refurbed at Leighton Buzzard Carburetter Exchange instead.   They were cheaper too. 

  11. Quirky Cars.

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    My old Morgan +8 certainly had a quirky front suspension.  It still used the "Sliding Pillar" IFS designed by Morgan in 1910.  This was lubricated on a total loss basis by oil from the engine sump.

    Every 200 miles or so the driver had to depress a foot switch/valve which allowed a shot of oil into the sliding pillars.  Most of this oil ended up rust proofing the underside of the front wings. 

     

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  12. Quirky Cars.

    in My NON-Triumph cars

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    3 hours ago, Wagger said:

    Really glad that I started this thread. Shows what a 'Small World' it is. I'll post the sectional on BFG's thread now as well as on here about Tatra cars. Really advanced for their era. Ferdinand Porsche copied som of their ideas, so I am told.

    https://eu.capecodtimes.com/story/special/2019/10/21/cars-we-remember-czechoslovakia-cars/2483013007/

     

    There is a Tatra that appears at many of our local shows.  Seen here at a classic car show at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden:

     

     

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  15. Quirky Cars.

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    11 minutes ago, Wagger said:

    I had the priviledge of working with Ed Nankivell in 2001. He wrote a very good manual for these and had two of them back then. Lovely man. We still exchange Xmas cards with banter. John Surtees had one. Super car as was the javelin. Another good old friend had a Bradford van. Ran it way into the 1960's.

    I believe that Ed Nankivell was the Jupiter Registrar.  I had his book but lent it to a colleague and never got it back.  My Jupiter was mentioned in Ed's book and recorded as the last one registered long after the Jowett factory closed.

  17. Other Manufacturers copying Triumph cars

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    I worked for Ford Motor Company throughout the 1960's. 

    I believe that it was common practice for manufacturers to strip down and fully analyse and cost the competitors vehicles.  Not with any intention of copying the entire vehicle itself.

    Within Ford at that time we believed that the Mini was losing BMC £12 on each car sold. 

  18. Triumphs on New Year's Day

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    53 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said:

    Nick  looks good i bailed out as it was raining in sunny luton and the idea of soggy grass i called off   sorry 

    Pete

    Thanks for passing on the invite,  Pete.  It was great to get out and see some interesting and unusual cars.  Luckily the Green was dry and mud free and the weather was warm and dry with just a little

    sporadic light showers on the way home.

    Nick

  23. Returning to the road DVLA

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    I finally got a refund of just £210 of the £280 VED I had paid under protest.  I believe that the problem was caused by the DVLA recording my car as built in 1981 as well as first registered in 1981.  I had to get them to change the build date to 1980 and then apply my request for change to Historic Vehicle tax status.  Despite the error being theirs they did not backdate the refund payment.

  24. Returning to the road DVLA

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    On 03/09/2021 at 18:04, NonMember said:

    You either have to obtain evidence of the build date and take that to a DVLA office, or wait until April. The exemption begins on 1st April of the year following the vehicle's 40th birthday, and since yours was registered in 1981 that would be next April.

    After the second attempt at corresponding with DVLA Swansea with a Heritage Certificate to prove a 1980 build date, I have finally received a new V5  which now confirms the tax class as "Historic".  Next problem is how to retrieve the £280 that I had to pay for VED when it should have been free.

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