65 Mustang for me. Been sitting in the covered side yard for 10 years. Haven't yet found the time...
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05-16-2005 12:55 AM #11Senior Member
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
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I have a '69 4.2 E-type sitting alongside the garage where it's been since around 1994. I did a lot of frame/body work but the last time I touched it was probably 5 years ago. I used to say that I'd finish it eventually. Now I think it's more likely that I won't.
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
For me it is a 1963 Mercedes 230 SL. It is serial number 24, and the first 23 were kept in Europe. Thus it was the first one shipped to N.A. I bought it three years ago and it spent the first year getting restored. Nice car to drive.
Over the years there has been a 1967 mustang convert, a 1970 cutlass convert, 1974 Camaro (my first car), a really fun Porsche 924 (cheap but great), an older capri, a 2000 CLK 320 convert, and many other cars and trucks - but those were the ones that were most fun. Also had several bikes and currently have a Yamaha V-Star (you may laugh, but I chose it to save $20K over the Harley I really wanted and I have not regretted it for a moment).
My current daily driver is a 2003 Navigator. Two years old and 24 visits to the dealership. I wrote Lincoln yesterday asking them to buy it back or give me a new one. I've had previous Explorers, Expeditions and Navigators - none were great, but this one takes the cake. Unfortunately, Canada does not have any lemon laws. I expect them to tell me to go away.
MurrayLast edited by first230sl; 05-16-2005 at 06:21 PM.
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Murray G.
Vancouver, Canada
1971 58 YF
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
Well....right now I have a 2004 Triumph Bonneville, plus two vintage bikes, a 1975 Norton and a 1982 Triumph. Cars: a 69 280SL, a "1972" classic Mini-Cooper which somehow ended up with a 2000-spec engine, interior and emission control system, plus airbag, a 71 6.3 Mercedes, a '90 Ferrari Mondial...but the big project is a GT40 which will be the newest original Mark 1 car when it's done. It's been four years in gestation and not done yet. And this doesn't count old Fender amps, B3 Hammonds and related bits, etc. And now you know why I'm single...who'd put up with all this? I have to say, after the GT40 I'm done with it all....but there's an E-type that I've been eying that's for sale....
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
Fender TUBE amps, I hope! Transisters are to sound what sand is to engine bearings.
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
Triumph Spitfires 1962,1976,1977,1978
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05-17-2005 08:36 AM #17Senior Member
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
Nice E Type Pascal...looks good in Silver, I thought you had a later one? that looks like a 67-71?..been a while though
I thought I was a the biggest mechanical masocist with my 58 and my 65 Lincoln Continental Key West (4dr convert) but I see I have been far outclassed!!...
Jim has one of my favorites..a 6.3.....what a great machine, and nobody has a clue what it is..that air suspension locks that car to the road...used to eat lots of tires though!
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
Originally Posted by admiralty58Pascal
Miami, FL
1970 53 MY #325 Cummins 6CTAs
2014 26' gaff rigged sloop
2007 Sandbarhopper 13
12' Westphal Cat boat
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Re: Detroit Diesel/Norton Motorcycles - Kindred spirits...
It does eat tires, but it eats fuel even more. For an old car, it goes fast.
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Jim,
My bike was a 1951 Triumph 650 hardtail (spring hub). The old Triumphs really rip.
Doug Shuman