Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

Laverda SF said:
250 Hours - How money in gas does that equate to with that beast ;o)
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At 25mph, this was on a lake so not kts, it gave surprisingly good mileage, I had a five blades cupped prop that hooked up well too. It only would top out at the low 60’s on still water. The boat was built with two extra 27.5 gallon tanks so it had nearly 100 gallons onboard.

best photo on bouy.jpegAnd on Lake Powell you needed it! On a 6 day, 7 night trip we would empty the scout boat and have to fill up in mid week. We had a 50’ houseboat shared with four others and we had to feed its twin 50hp motors too. But we towed the scout on our travel days to where we beached for the week. Then used the fast boat to explore. We would routinely run 50/60 miles a day up the arms of the Lake.IMG_0834.jpegIMG_1695.jpegIMG_0805.jpegApologies for hijacking the thread….
 
Paul,

I'd rather walk than have to get into an Opel again!
Biggest pieces of s... that I had to put up with at work.
E series Record, Commodore, Omega etc.
Constantly in the shop because something broke, weird interior placement of buttons and levers , gas guzzlers and slugs on the Autobahn.

Opel nein Danke!
 
Gerald said:
Paul,

I'd rather walk than have to get into an Opel again!
Biggest pieces of s... that I had to put up with at work.
E series Record, Commodore, Omega etc.
Constantly in the shop because something broke, weird interior placement of buttons and levers , gas guzzlers and slugs on the Autobahn.

Opel nein Danke!
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You should try a Vauxhall.
Paul
 
I think European GM vehicles were based on a modular system until Opel was absorbed by Peugeot/PSA.
Never been inside a Vauxhall, but remember a low budget Chevette ,made in the UK, sold in Germany.
 
Gerald said:
I think European GM vehicles were based on a modular system until Opel was absorbed by Peugeot/PSA.
Never been inside a Vauxhall, but remember a low budget Chevette ,made in the UK, sold in Germany.
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There was a lot of cooperation between Vauxhall and Opel with chassis and power train components being shared, classic badge-engineering in some cases. Quite a bit of over lap, technical and styling, between Opel, Vauxhall and Holden, all GM subsidiaries at the time. A few Euro models made it to the US, mainly under the Buick(?) banner, but, not surprisingly, never really gained a foothold.

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Gerald said:
I think European GM vehicles were based on a modular system until Opel was absorbed by Peugeot/PSA.
Never been inside a Vauxhall, but remember a low budget Chevette ,made in the UK, sold in Germany.
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For a short time in the eighties I worked in the offices at the Vauxhall plant in Luton. Interestingly most of the ‘pool vehicles’ I was given to drive were Opels, which I preferred to the Vauxhalls at that time. I briefly did toy with the idea of buying a Opel Manta GT/E but ended up with Vauxhall Cavalier instead.
 
Gerald said:
Paul,

I'd rather walk than have to get into an Opel again!
Biggest pieces of s... that I had to put up with at work.
E series Record, Commodore, Omega etc.
Constantly in the shop because something broke, weird interior placement of buttons and levers , gas guzzlers and slugs on the Autobahn.

Opel nein Danke!
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Even the CD?
 
My favorite car of all time was the 1974 Volvo 142 Grand Luxe Coupe with the B20 Bosch Pill Mechanical Fuel Injection. You did not need a battery to start it - Just push it - 7000rpm+ with outstanding mid range torque - Very Rare and believe they only came in Brown - BMW eat your heart out = Although I ached for an Alpina 333i ;o)
In 75 Volvo went with the 240 slant 4 SOHC and McPherson Struts - Loved my 84 GLE ;p)
About the only car that could compete with it back then was the Toyota Crown, a Fantastic car .

This was my 1st Volvo, a 68 142S, and put over 500,000 miles on her - a Monster in the Winters of the Canadian North - I needed a ride like that to get to work on time covering hundreds of miles in Blizzards as an Operator for the Canadian National Railway:

Had a friend, also an Operator for the CNR, whom owned a 67 123GT and a 71 P1800E Coupe and was pull over by helicopter on HWY 400 north of Toronto for doing 130mph. Don was a charismatic Back East Neufee and talked himself out of the charge - Loved that Guy - R.I.P ;o(
 
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Laverda SF said:
My favorite car of all time was the 1974 Volvo 142 Grand Luxe Coupe with the B20 Bosch Pill Mechanical Fuel Injection. You did not need a battery to start it - Just push it - 7000rpm+ with outstanding mid range torque - Very Rare and believe they only came in Brown - BMW eat your heart out ;o)
In 75 Volvo went with the slant 4 SOHC and McPherson Struts.
About the only car that could compete with it back then was the Toyota Crown, a Fantastic car .

This was my 1st Volvo, a 68 142S, and put over 500,000 miles on her - a Monster in the Winters of the Canadian North - I needed a ride like that to get to work on time covering hundreds of miles in Blizzards as an Operator for the Canadian National Railway:

Had a friend whom owned a 67 123GT and a 71 P1800E Coupe and was pull over by helicopter on HWY 400 north of Toronto for doing 130mph Don was so a charismatic Neufe and talked himself out of the charge - Loved that Guy - R.I.P !
Don was so crismatic he
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I had a 142S in green, four speed and SUs. I cannot recall the year. It was the first engine I ever rebuilt myself. Haynes manual and a block and tackle slung from a tree to pull it out. The local NAPA store and machine shop measured and cleaned up everything and ordered bearings and rings to suit. My girlfriend got it when we split up a year or so later and it was still running strong.

The rebuild gave me confidence to pursue a career as an aviation mechanic and I was enrolled in school when she left, with the car…. I’d love to find one now.
 
Alsero - I raced a BMW 2002 ,beautiful little roadster, with my 68 142S from Toronto to Sudbury Ontario, a distance of 400 miles one night, (Only 2 of us the road) and he could NOT loose me - I did have a secret - I installed a Marine Cam ;o)

One thing about the Volvo B20 - DO NOT lug the engine on cold start when it's 20 below, warm her up, or you will break a piston - Not saying it will not run on 3 cylinders until spring when you can rebuild her ;o)

When it went below 0c and did not have a block heater you needed to pour a liter of hot water over the SU's to start her. My Austin Mini was the same - No big deal when the battery on my Breganzie was dead you have a Bar Maid to push you in morning so you can get to work on time ;o)
 
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I've logged more miles on Volvo 140 and 240 engines then the GM 327 SBC - Gotta love that 327 (Nothing could beat her Cubic Inch/HP) - The thing was you had to rebuild her after 100,000 miles; where as, the Volvo engine could go well over 400.000 miles ;o)

Never owned a Volvo after the 240 series. It appears starting with the 740 Series and the Renault Alu-V6 engines - They Puked !
 
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Had friend who had one these:
A little on the rusty side but solid - Replaced the head gasket - Cleaned the heads - polished the valves and re-seated - slight hone on the bores with pistons in - cleaned and rebuilt the SU's- changed all fluids - rebuilt the brakes. We took it for a ride and it died - Replaced the Coil fixed it = The year was like 1967 we were teenagers in bell bottoms in a rented old wooden one bay gravel floor garage in a back alley - girls in halter tops polished her up to a Gem - Can't say the number of MG's, Austins and one specific Triumph GT6 2+2 which we only had the front end of one a the back end of another that we had to weld together ;o) - The Girls brought food and the swimming hole was a 100 yards away - Everybody in town stopped by including the Mayor - After the Triumph GT6 2+2 incident our Party Garage was shut down by the town ;o( - Them were the days ;o)
 
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