Mopar Muscle Association UK

I had a Ford Anglia 100E, you know the 200bhp flat head model...or did I mean 2 bhp? Anyway, like Robbo's it was as rotten as a pear and I was running it on about a pound a week during the first petrol crisis (I've still got my petrol coupons, if it happens again).

Anyway, it failed the NOT on rust, the jacking points were rotten, so we cut those off and filled the holes with bits of Castrol GTX can and covered it with underseal...took it to another MOT garage and I was sorted, economical daily transport...that was until, ends knocking (which they always did) the dynamo bracket fell off on the way to work.

With no tools I jammed the dynamo back on with a piece of rotten oak tree branch, which on arrival at my office in Beaconsfield, the branch slipped forward and started to be sawn up by the fan as I sailed up the high street with sawdust flying out from all directions.

Marvellous.

Hmm, there's the 'Grenader'- one of Ford's finest which never even made it home before chucking a rod thru the block.

Another Ford- Anglia this time with a quick 1600 X-flow and bizarre steering geometry the wrenched the wheel out of your hands if you turned while reversing??? Wasn't too clever forwards either!


My 1st Yank was a 383 AMC Javelin bought from Tony Froome when i was 19 and very naive. It came with 12 months MOT, cheap remoulds all round & steering that creaked alarmingly.
This was due to the kingpin bearings having rusted solid some YEARS earlier! Since which time the bearings had blown apart and had worn 1/3rd through the kingpins. This allowed the hubs to sit at such a jaunty angle that the coil springs bowed inwards until the only thing stopping them from poppin out were the inner wings which were also slowly wearing through!
In short- utter deathtrap. O course being 19, 1st thing you do is load it up with yer mates an see how fast it'll go! - 120, 5-up

Cos i didn't dare sell this thing, i had to take it back to Froome. He agreed to p/ex for another of his 'quality' autos. This time a Chevy Monza which lasted nearly 300 miles before throwing a rod and catching fire on the M6.

2 CV...hired to go to Cornwall, to repair and return with my Fairlane that had broken down 2 days earlier.
Leaving it there for my aunt to drive back.....

It was so bad, unstable, power lacking, flimsy and just plain nasty to drive.
I wrote it off on a bend 5 miles from my destination in Hayle...truck driver had fallen asleep at the wheel, 11.30 at night, coming round a bend on my side of the road...wallop.
Was lucky to get out alive, thing folded up like a coke can
Never again

"Quote" Cos i didn't dare sell this thing, i had to take it back to Froome. He agreed to p/ex for another of his 'quality' autos. This time a Chevy Monza which lasted nearly 300 miles before throwing a rod and catching fire on the M6.[/quote]
300 miles ?????????????You did well there for one of his!!!!!!!!!!
That guys Yank motors were legendary round the Midlands in the 80`s. I should know,I looked at enough

Tony is still about.......we had some great times back then

Budgie wrote:Tony is still about.......we had some great times back then

Great shame his son isnt..

1983 MG Metro..... Only 4 years old and needed both sides welding right through fot m.o.t