True, it was a pair of stockings, I seem to recall the cost of a pair of replacement stockings was about the same price as a new fan belt.
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Drivers that really grind your gears
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True, it was a pair of stockings, I seem to recall the cost of a pair of replacement stockings was about the same price as a new fan belt.
Repairs were much easier to access then. I fitted a new main and a/c belt at home a few years ago, at home with access to a full toolkit. It took me all of five hours and a lot of ingenuity. Some of my early cars, I could sit on the wing, legs dangling down the side of the engine. Now, it's a struggle to even get a hand down between the bits of engine.
Triumph Herald and Spitfire allowed you to sit on the front wheel while working on the engine.
Maybe you saw the recreated version? Would be great if the original still survives, but looking doubtful.
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I used to drive an Escort that did that. I was always leaping out and cracking the starter with a lump hammer to get it going!
Oddly (and pointlessly), I can still remember the reg...B429 RVM....
1964/65?
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Is that what St Google told you?
Nope, if that was the case, the B would be last.
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Probably memory, I had a D reg Hunter that was 66, F reg Cortina, 68, H reg Moggy 70
Is that what St Google told you?
Nope!
OK.. I thought the single letters were only used after the 3N + 3L ran out in 62/63.
I had a 63 Cortina, which would have been an A, but the local authority hadn't yet run out of the 3N + 3L ones.
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