Strange, BMC A Series engined cars were about the easiest to start. The only time I ever got stranded was when I ran out of petrol in my Morris Minor when I was a skint teenager.
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Yeah, thinking back, it was probably just a knackered battery which he was too tight to replace. I wouldn't know, I had zero interest in cars. All my money went on records and beer.
Customer of mine has one that looks like this. Never fails to start when he goes out for a run on sunny days or to enthusiasts' meets. Might be different if it had to get him to work every day.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.b0b2d09a...pid=ImgRaw&r=0
horror story cleaning spoked wheels:eek:
You know, it would be easy for me to get quite jealous. Another customer has an Audi A8 (his daily commuter), in addition to a five-car garage which houses two vintage Bentleys (old enough to have running boards), a Rover P5, an "Inspector Morse" Jag, and my favourite, one of these:
https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-l...=0%2C1%2C0%2C1
dads last car was a jag xj6... had 2 fuel tanks plus an emergency... gas gobbler it was.
looked like this and same colour
https://collectingcars.imgix.net/009...s&cs=srgb&q=85
My father used to drive Jaguars and Daimlers. They all had large engines and all had automatic transmission, so not very fuel economic. Fortunately he was able to write off the running costs as expenses.
His last car was a Daimler 'Double Six' with 5.3 litre V12 engine. There was a display device which indicated fuel consumption in real time. Most of the time, on level ground, it read about 10 - 15mpg; downhill maybe 20mpg, but uphill it was down to single figures!