NeilMH

Looks good

Incidentally two other things. One, surprisingly, I felt pangs of sadness when I thought it was going to the salvage yard in the sky - we bought it from new - and yes, it's not the most exiting car on earth - but it has been flawlessly reliable and has done a lot of hard work in those 23 years. It was serviced properly, washed and polished but not pampered in any other respect. I am big fan of things that work properly irrespective of how "flash" they are. Second, pretty much everything still works. Both offside doors are somewhat concave (!) yet the central locking (by key) still works. The mirror has been smashed to smithereens but the remains still operate via the little joystick on the inside. The drivers door is somewhat closer to the dashboard than it was The only thing is the window will only go down about one inch (tut,tut).

Cheers Dip. I'm only guilty if you were coming home at 7.50 in the morning in the "wrong" direction I have spent many unhappy hours on the Purley Way over the years.

I was told Liberty Insurance.

Thanks Ewen and everyone else for your comments. Prior to the scrappage scheme there were like loads of them. Now I only see a decent one come for sale about once a month. They were made to an incredibly high standard (e.g. SS exhaust from new). Having said that they were expensive at the time. We bought it in 1992 for £11,586 for a 1.3 basic liftback auto. Seems like good value over time though.

This is what you almost expect to happen (ie. Corporately to deny everything). It also seems that the Eddie Stobart driver had been totally truthful about what had happened (he seemed like a really decent guy). It would seem that their brand means something to them.

Going down the main A23 today past Croydon at the notorious 5 Ways traffic lights in my 23 year old Toyota Corolla. Two lane traffic. Me on the inside, Eddie Stobart lorry about 3/4 car length behind me on the outside, me going straight ahead. I don't really know what happened next but the next minute the back of my car is being pushed towards the kerb, then I am spun round, then the lorry is pushing me sideways along the A23, with the lorry tight against my driver's door (and most of the offside). I end up being turned right round the wrong way. The driver was totally professional, calm and organised. He was mainly concerned about my welfare and made lots of calls from his cab. Photos and details were taken. We both behaved like grown ups, mainly relieved that we were both ok. I speak to my insurers and explain the circumstances. They say "let us make some phone calls and see if we can get you some good news". 3 hours later a phone call from Eddie Stobart Head Office. "We are so sorry for what happened to you this morning. We totally accept responsibility and we will arrange to take you car away and put it back how it was and we will confirm all this in writing. Also I am offered a hire car at their expense. Getting the parts could be a challenge for them (!) but it looks like mainly doors and wings and a bumper. So now my insurance company will just be "noting for information". Oh and by the way, I was able to drive the car home, albeit gingerly (thank you Mr Toyota). There were no signs of pulling to one side or other, even marginally. I guess it helped it was a big flat lorry almost exactly at right angles to me. We'll see what happens next but have been very impressed so far by their reaction.

Would never pay for one myself unless something exotic.

I got £7k P/Ex on a 2005 DE just over a year ago, albeit the car I was buying was probably overpriced a bit. They obviously don't want it for some reason. I don't quite understand why traders don't just say they are not interested in a particular type of car or they are overstocked or time of year or whatever rather than offer such an annoyingly low price. I guess they are just hoping they get lucky and someone naively says yes.

Rob

and god luck with your search.

If it was me I would start a new thread with a heading like "Anyone in the Peterborough area who could help me" otherwise you are depending on only those who want to read more about J17.

Jackie Stewart seemed quite agitated about where his man Ken Tyrell had got to

I hadn't seen this before. Team Managers such as Jack Brabham, Frank Williams, Colin Chapman, Max Moseley etc racing Escorts at Brands with some amusing asides from Graham Hill in the commentary Box https://grrc.goodwoo...qHRQXtl3l8WR.97

Very sorry to hear this news. Martin also helped me....... on another forum before I came on here.

Having borrowed and driven an automatic Mini on the London to Brighton Mini run it would be fair to say that the auto box was not the most sophisticated piece of engineering Having said that I love all the old Minis irrespective.

£25 for a 1958 Standard 10 plus £10 for a non-running source of parts.

You're spot on there. It doesn't really show in the photo but as you walk nearer the top it's actually pretty difficult to remain on your feet.

Just came across this today (form many years ago). Me and my son on the Brooklands Banking. For what it's worth we are in the middle. Naturally I stood on the high side so I could appear nearly as tall as him Anyway the thing that always strikes me about Brooklands is how steep the banking is and the madness of driving round in the early part of the last century at speeds of over 100mph with no seat belts, no guard rails and a cockpit full of lethal bits and tyres as skinny as a hungry stick insect. Let alone how rough the surface would have been.

Well done

Standard 10