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the coppersmith
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« on: March 14, 2018, 02:15:23 PM »

How it used to be done Shocked
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2018, 10:53:10 PM »

Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2018, 06:00:54 PM »

I remember fetching home an mg1100 engine and box in the boot of my old clubman, lifting it out myself (without winch) and fitting it. All before 1200 on a Sunday morning.
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2018, 08:31:08 AM »

You wouldn't believe the stuff I've carried in the back of London taxis ? Roll Eyes
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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2018, 04:16:26 PM »

One year, being particularly short of transport, 3 of us with a Herald Coupe and two bike trailer, plus two Montesa's on the trailer and one Alta, minus wheels! on the boot lid, drove from S.Wales to the I.o.M ferry in Liverpool, left the car and trailer dockside, put the wheels back on the Alta, which I still have! and spent the next two weeks at the TT! transport, no bother.... Grin
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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2018, 04:53:02 PM »

Tell that to the kids today & they won't believe you! Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2018, 02:38:59 PM »

Another "how it used to be done".

Take a Jag, saw, unwanted Morris Traveller, and hey presto - bike carrier
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2018, 02:41:24 PM »

Eamon Hurley used to transport his drag bike in/on a modified RO80
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Nitro doesn't add power, it multiplies it! Bob Loux, running 10.07 secs @138mph on a 650 normally aspirated Triumph drag bike in 1965!

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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2018, 02:53:30 PM »

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I'm not sure which is the most sacrilegious -sawing up the Moggy or defacing the Jag Smiley
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2018, 02:57:56 PM »

The jag. You can buy all the parts for a traveller brand new but the jags are getting really rare.
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2018, 11:30:31 PM »

O..M..G
I'm not sure which is the most sacrilegious -sawing up the Moggy or defacing the Jag Smiley
They didn't,t saw up the moggy  it was  carpenter built
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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2018, 08:43:55 AM »

I'm watching a box set of Endeavour DVDs at the moment, (the early years of Inspector Morse). Set in the mid 60s. There's some gorgeous old Jags in that.
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« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2018, 08:50:55 PM »

My dad had a Mk1 and then a Mk2, lovely cars both of them!
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« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2018, 10:04:53 PM »

I used to do some casual work on the afternoons after my Postal round for a neighbour who restored Jags. There were some beautiful cars that passed through his workshop.
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« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2018, 10:27:27 PM »

I,v raced a few Buford cutting them up
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