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#CarsAndCoffee Seaside #WeirdCarMastodon a custom ‘65 bug and a 1940 Mercury based hot rod for sale. Call Cherie at the number shown…
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Anyway, the only way a project as large as the P5 can be at all manageable for me mentally is for me to break it into lots of tiny projects. I still think systematically, but everything is its own project.
So, although I still have things to do adjacent to it, I can call that little "put a radiator in the wrong end of a Rover P5" subproject done.
:)
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I'M SO FANCY
Funny thing is nobody's going to see any of this because the radiator is mounted at 45 degrees with this face angled down and I've spent way too much making this just so I can say "carbon fibre".
I was going to move on to a new subject today but entirely coincidentally my brother, who is currently visiting Slovakia, yesterday sent me a supply of extra photos of lovely old Skodas. This is the 422 Tudor from 1930. Note that this car is right-hand drive. In those days Czechoslovakia drove on the left. These are from a small but exquisite Skoda museum my brother chanced upon in Trenčín.
Fun spots on the road today:
- Black VW Golf Mk5 R32
- Yellow VW Golf Mk5 Pirelli edition
- burgundy eighties Toyota Cressida
- red Toyota Corolla Conquest liftback, early nineties
- red and white seventies Ford Bronco
- white late nineties Honda Accord with popup headlights
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They really are lovely and Matt said he prefers it to a four-cylinder Cayman, and considers it "a better Lotus [Emira]" #weirdcarmastodon
Matt Farah won #GVBC today with a client's #Alpine A110 
and I came home to a box of euro goodies, including an A110 
(very much a toy, not a model), but it was the SAAB 
convertible that prompted the whole #diecast purchase; couldn't resist an 
on a flatbed 
MB for good measure 
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Why Not Zoidberg? 
Gotta love the Darracq 200HP. Some say it was the world's first supercar, which isn't really true, it was a land speed record machine.
But what it is is a car with 200HP from 1905. Nineteenohfive.
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At this point, as far as I can tell, I have three escalating options. One, send the valve body out to be professionally rebuilt and tested (~$700). Two, replace all the solenoids, though as far as I can tell they are not a commonly known failure point (~$1200). Three, just replace the entire transmission (
). I'm already way over budget on this project, and frankly, I'm getting pretty burned out on it. Might be time to walk away for a moment. #WeirdCarMastodon
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Okay, I should never have touched the transmission.
After rebuilding the valve body, I sort of have reverse, but only sort of. I have to rev the engine up quite a bit before it starts to move, and it's very difficult to modulate and keep it moving.
I did get the car off my driveway the other day, but didn't get far. As soon as the transmission tried to go into fourth, it went into failsafe mode instead. I'm fairly certain low fluid isn't the issue. (Cont'd) #WeirdCarMastodon
Our next-door neighbors got a new-to-them Ioniq 5 and are, I'm guessing, donating their old Volt, and it's sharing a tow truck with some prime vintage van #WeirdCarMastodon #ItsVanTime
Another picture of pretty British cars from Wednesday’s MG club meeting, an MGA in front with a Jaguar E-Type and my MGB behind.
Everybody loves an E-Type, but an MGA is every bit as beautiful.
June 11, 2025. Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Is This Some Weird Guy’s Car Collection or an Insurance Fraud Dumping Ground?
There must be a good reason why a Lotus Esprit, Alfa 75, and other weird cars are rotting away at this abandoned American mansion
The Drive · Is This Some Weird Guy's Car Collection or an Insurance Fraud Dumping Ground?There must be a good reason why a Lotus Esprit, Alfa 75, and other weird cars are rotting away at this abandoned American mansion.
After I featured the Skoda Favorit the other day, @thomas_klopf asked me if I have a favourite Favorit. Being a sad car nerd, I do indeed have a favourite Favorit - and it's this, the prototype of the saloon/sedan version that never made it into production. Seen here at Techno Classica Essen in 2017.
What the heck were you up to,bud?
#ScrapYard #RX8 #WeirdCarMastodon
A fun picture of my little black rubber-bumper MGB next to a V12 1974 Jaguar E-Type at last night’s MG club meeting. It would have been easy to give up on my little B as I struggled through a bunch of repairs over the last couple of years. But now it’s running better than ever.
In our throwaway world it’s deeply satisfying to keep a little car running and driving.
June 11, 2025. Farmington Hills, Michigan.
BMW Supposedly Built 2 of These Little Pickups 60 Years Ago. One Is for Sale
BMW reportedly converted two 1800 TI sedans into pickups for a French dealer back in the '60s, and they're pretty darn neat
The Drive · BMW Supposedly Built 2 of These Little Pickups 60 Years Ago. One Is for SaleBMW reportedly converted two 1800 TI sedans into pickups for a French dealer back in the '60s, and they're pretty darn neat.