Currently there's only one showing on auctionview, a 99V car with 110k miles. It is being offered for sale at BCA Birmingham on 9 February.

These cars don't come up very often at auction and finding a sraight one is difficult.

I do know of one for sale though which is very original, (not mine, my brother's) and I'll point him in the direction of this thread.

Just to add that the pins that locate the drop links onto the shock and anti-roll bar have an allen key hole in them to stop them rotating as you undo the nuts. With a small drill clean the holes out and use a good quality allen key or better still socket hammered into the hole otherwise you will end up cutting the nuts off as the hole rounds out.
Andrew


Simplicate and add lightness!!

Dad's first car after the war was a 1936 Morris 12 - the car even had a wireless ( valve type - it was well into the 60's before transistors arrived )and we could just about hear the light programme fading in and out - wireless was called by father 'that box of whistles' cos that was all you could usually hear.

The Ford branded (Texaco, as others have said) oil is so cheap, it's not worth shopping around. £20 or a whisker less for 5 litres. My dad's old Mondeo 2.0 breezed 200k running on a new sumpful of this stuff with a Motorcraft filter once a year, and still sounded sweet as new when he moved it on.

Also funny with kids in the car is when other drivers can't be bothered hunting for the few spaces that are left, so they lurk like vultures when they see you return to the car ("this one's mine!"), and wait for you to leave your parking space. That can take time with kids...

This happened in the Trafford Centre on Saturday: as we return to the car, an A3 pulls up 5 yards away from our car and waits; all other cars behind wait patiently for a few moments, then realise it's staying put, and have to squeeze past on its left.

We calmly extract 18-month-old and 3-year-old from push-chairs, strap kids into car-seats, tighten straps, fold up push-chairs and put them in the boot, along with accumulated shopping.

A3 still waits with engine running. More cars squeeze past it.

3-year-old announces she wants a wee, so SWMBO gets potty from boot, un-buckles 3-year-old, and lets her do her thing.

A3 still waiting.

SWMBO walks off to the far end of the car park to empty the potty, and returns a minute or two later. (She's enjoying this.)

A3 still waiting.

We get back in the car, distribute sweets to the kids, settle arguments, and start the engine.

A3 creeps closer, so there's not enough room for us to reverse out.

We reverse out anyway, stopping a couple of inches from A3's bumper. A3 driver gets the hint and moves back. Fortunately for him, the driver behind has left him room to do that.

After waiting for five or six minutes, the vulture in the A3 finally gets in *his* chosen parking space. By now the other drivers who had been behind him have all parked up and are probably half-way round the shops.

Smart.