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Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:13 pm
by balmy
SLOW ITAL wrote:SLOW ITAL is a certain yellow hl which is a body shell at the moment,
Thats why its a bit slow.
Evening Mr Prosser! Nice to see you on here sir.
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:51 pm
by MarinaCoupe
Hello Gil
Is she on the road yet?
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:11 am
by charlie safari
JoshWard wrote:I once met a man who was a chauffeur all his life driving Jags and Bentleys etc and he said in a straight line the best car he ever drove was a Morris Ital 1.3 Automatic!
Of course the XJ6 is a better car, I just don't think it's great for a classic car magazine to be making unfair comparisons and then broadcasting them to the world, as I suspect some people wouldn't be able to see it was just a joke and then start to think 'Itals are crap' etc. They should be trying to change peoples' perceptions of the car not reinforcing negative stereotypes.
Since I own a 74 Jag and a 75 Tc (among others) there's just no comparison, but lets not forget the Marina was less than 1/4 of the price of the Jag and if I had to drive one every day in traffic and town, the Marina is the car I'd jump in.
However if had an unlimited petrol supply and a parking space at work, that may change
P.s both of them fail to proceede at about the same number of times per year, ah BL quality control
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:41 am
by PHUQ
My late XJ40 only ever played up once... of course, that once was the day it was supposed to be used to escort a couple from their wedding reception and off to their honeymoon
Ended up using a friend's 1850HL Dolomite to take them away, before swapping for my girlfriend's Vauxhall Corsa for the run to Gatwick. Not quite the same
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 12:12 pm
by charlie safari
PHUQ wrote:My late XJ40 only ever played up once... of course, that once was the day it was supposed to be used to escort a couple from their wedding reception and off to their honeymoon
Ended up using a friend's 1850HL Dolomite to take them away, before swapping for my girlfriend's Vauxhall Corsa for the run to Gatwick. Not quite the same
Not Quite
Just used mine for a Wedding, had a minor wobbly and threw all its cooling water out, but once refilled managed the rest of the days duties admirably, or should that be unbeliveably?
Looked outstanding tho, all its chrome polished and white is a really good colour on a series 2.
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 3:45 pm
by PHUQ
Now that's a proper wedding car it has to be said
The actual wedding cars for this one were a 1930's Austin for her (and to take them away)- and a Starsky & Hutch liveried Gran Torino for him
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 2:13 am
by charlie safari
Very nice
I'm terrified of using 1930's cars for weddings, they always sound like they are going to brake down to me, but they look sooooo good its almost worth it, almost.
I used a 1972 Holden Sandman Panel Van for my best mates wedding (he's a surfer!), and managed to run it out of petrol on the way to the church, made for a great photo tho
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:33 pm
by locost_bryan
charlie safari wrote:I used a 1972 Holden Sandman Panel Van for my best mates wedding (he's a surfer!), and managed to run it out of petrol on the way to the church, made for a great photo tho
petrol issues!.jpg
That's not a real Sandman
, it's got side windows
(and no graphics
). Not ideal for a surfie's shaggin' wagon, all the world can see what you're up to!
But if it had a 350 that smoked the bags, I no complain.
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:56 pm
by Pont.skins
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:15 pm
by locost_bryan
Bet there would be a lot more "white pointers" at Whitley Bay.
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:50 pm
by Pont.skins
The only "Finns" we see at Whitley Bay tend to be on a ferry en route to North Shields
Re: Rescued Ital in latest Practical Classics mag
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:29 am
by charlie safari
That's not a real Sandman
, it's got side windows
(and no graphics
). Not ideal for a surfie's shaggin' wagon, all the world can see what you're up to!
But if it had a 350 that smoked the bags, I no complain.
Too true about the windows and graphics, but she was a real 350 4 speed sandman, windows added and graphics removed by the previous owner, who also stuck on the awful paintjob
It did indeed smoke the bags and go like hell, used a hell of a lot of petrol tho
Hey have you seen Kilroys Marina for sale????