Project Ford Sidevalve!

[Guest TerryBarry]

( June 6th 1967 , how can you forget dates like that )

 

I passed on 4th July - can't remember which year though

[Guest john]

Er Bob........you failed and had to have professional tuition, right ?

 

I was too mean,, ( still am ) to pay. and there was a long waiting list, and lots of other excuses

 

[Guest chris brown]

I passed on 4th July - can't remember which year though

Did you have turkey followed by pumpkin pie to celebrate?

BTW can’t remember when I took my test but it was in a 1934 Y type Ford 8 somewhere around 1959-60 ish

[Guest erichetherington]

Chris'

Was the handbrake still on the outside then?

[Guest chris brown]

very funny

[Guest salty_monk]

1 day shy of two months for me.... 18th July, must have been 95 I guess

 

It was in a Nissan of some description, Sunny I think.. .

 

[Bob Tucker]

Er Bob........you failed and had to have professional tuition, right

 

I guess my old man felt a little guilty......he stumped up for the lessons!!!

[Guest erichetherington]

Just to blow my own trumpet(or similar)passed in April 1970,less than 4 weeks having turned 17. First!s . time-obviously

[Guest wizas]

Andy,

 

My first vehicle was a Ford 100e Van in very faded red. The only way to make the paintwork shine was to cover it in a very thin film of oil. I paid £5 for it from my father's butcher's shop. Next was a black 100e saloon which also cost £5. A lorry had pushed it into the kerb and bent the front supension. A quick visit to the local breakers yard sorted the required parts. I drove that car from Hampshire to Glasgow, around west Scotland and then back. The brakes were sh*te as were the windscreen wipers.

 

On one occasion we put a Weber carb onto it. It certainly went a great deal faster, but we had petrol leaking everywhere!

 

Good luck and ................ thanks for the memories!!

 

Martin

[Andy Spencer]

The engine is an E93A is it a 10hp or a 8hp if its a10 you need to source an 8 hp head for more umph

Aquaplane used to a lot of go faster bits back in the 60`s must still be some around, Dave

Its got an aquaplane head on it, also some sort of hotter cam. Got twin SU's as well to go on but I think we'll just get it on the road first, then fettle a bit after.

 

Wipers are a mechanical conversion, very weedy looking mechanism. Lots of head scratching over the weekend about just where do we start.......so we sorted some of the wiring and got some fluid round the front brakes and got the reconned slave cylinders on.

 

Its never going to be a car to take far but hopefully we'll get it to Donington later in the year!

 

Andy

[Guest erichetherington]

Andy,

Don't be so pessimistic, get those maps out and start planning that tour of the alps you've always promised yourself

[Andy Spencer]

Andy,

Don't be so pessimistic, get those maps out and start planning that tour of the alps you've always promised yourself

I think I'll do that one in the 2B!!!!!!