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benfordboy

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Blimey

 

All that work for a 'Spitty' engine.

 

Bet its back in the garage now having the sills / floor done !!

 

Had several friends who embarked on Spitfire love affairs , to be fair the engine was probably the only part that didnt need lavish attention ever !

 

A lot of effort went into that vid tho !

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Nine of Hearts

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Great video, I sadly recognised the engine before it was swapped into the car at the end. I need a GT6 in my life ( I know its a Spit in the video)

 

You think that's sad, I have only just looked at this thread but I instantly thought, "I know that rocker cover...". Mine was in a Herald and I spent many a happy hour tinkering with it.

 

Ahhh 'A series ' engines - Them were the days

 

Quoi? It's a Coventry lump is it not? The A series were different engines (and came in different sizes, I think), weren't they?

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The coming of the motorways caused the car manufactures to pull their socks up,and engineer engine components ect with more precision, as hitherto cars just ambled about on A and B roads with not much chance of maintaining high continuous speeds over long distances, slow moving lorries saw to that. But the advent of motorways especially before the 70mph speed limit came into force, all vehicles were more or less forced to go more or less flat out, as it was more dangerous not to for there were vehicles like the E-type Jaguar,Aston Martins ect ect which were belting along at well over 100mph, Also some of the major coach companies before they were nationalized, like for example Midland Red, Ribble and Grey Green which had hugely powerful engines fitted and were capable of well over 100mph and did so regularly, they were always in the fast lane.

So it was quite dangerous for cars to amble along at 40-50mph and so were mostly driven flat out to try and keep up with this high speed flow,''it was safer''. And consequently their engines and transmissions suffered, adjacent motorway garages had an absolute field day towing in cars continually day and night with blown up engines,burst gearboxes ect, in fact they just couldn't get new or re-conned engines and transmissions fast enough to cope with the demand.

And of course brake problems were rare.

But accidents were very frequent with some massive ones mainly caused by such a large differential in the traffics speeds coupled with poor brakes and drivers concentration wandering because they were not used to it.

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