01-10-2021, 09:08 PM
Now there is another story.
Did the Edinburgh one year in Nippy special ATR 860 with its 948 BMC A. Bit of hassle to start with...:-
Broken piston ring on one piston day before - phone round to try locate new rings - Spares supplier in Plymouth located - yes got - asked if he could send to north Devon on bus (they used to do things like that in those days) - certainly sir - few hours later met bus at Milton Damerel NW Devon and collected parcel off bus - with help from neighbour fitted rings and engine back into car and departed for journey to our start point - on one hill saw there was a quite wide deep hole on the section that was unavoidable....moderns just cruised across it with 3 wheels touching ground.....I said "no way, don't want to wreck car......passenger said give it a try we have come this far.....I said ok but will drive very slowly and gently across and ok we are likely to fail........Nippy cleared the section......they seem to go anywhere!
Dennis
Did the Edinburgh one year in Nippy special ATR 860 with its 948 BMC A. Bit of hassle to start with...:-
Broken piston ring on one piston day before - phone round to try locate new rings - Spares supplier in Plymouth located - yes got - asked if he could send to north Devon on bus (they used to do things like that in those days) - certainly sir - few hours later met bus at Milton Damerel NW Devon and collected parcel off bus - with help from neighbour fitted rings and engine back into car and departed for journey to our start point - on one hill saw there was a quite wide deep hole on the section that was unavoidable....moderns just cruised across it with 3 wheels touching ground.....I said "no way, don't want to wreck car......passenger said give it a try we have come this far.....I said ok but will drive very slowly and gently across and ok we are likely to fail........Nippy cleared the section......they seem to go anywhere!
Dennis