Interior Out!

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Sun 4 Feb 2007 14:02
Interior Out! - mss1tw
Well, the Toledo is now 'bare' - no seats or carpet. I'm glad I did it, there were pools of water underneath the carpet. The smell isn't too pleasant either...

Will post some pics up later if anyone is interested!
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Sun 4 Feb 2007 16:03
Interior Out! - Clanger
Ramble warning!

Mrs H's first car was a white Toledo, HCX 131L. She played a blinder by shelling out £600 and then failing her test the following week. We honeymooned across France in it; she refused to drive my eminently more suitable car, a Renault 16TX, because it had column shift and an umbrella handbrake. The Toledo's starter bendix jammed just after we'd filled up and were about to board the ferry; a kind French couple gave us a push. Those were the days (1978) when you could go into the car deck and fettle things. I stripped the starter in the semi-darkness, cleaned and oiled it and put it back to the creaks and groans of trucks and trailers swaying around as the ferry pitched and rolled in the Channel.

I remember the Toledo as a quiet, comfy well-appointed car but absolutely gutless. We ran the car on ex-scrapyard Michelin Xs.
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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Sun 4 Feb 2007 16:38
Interior Out! - mss1tw
I didn't realise the name had been going so long!
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Sun 4 Feb 2007 16:41
Interior Out! - Simon
>>I didn't realise the name had been going so long!

Ah but you are talking Seat, he's talking Triumph.
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Sun 4 Feb 2007 17:18
Interior Out! - mss1tw
Ah but you are talking Seat


Hey at least it's motoring related! :^D

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Sun 4 Feb 2007 17:22
Interior Out! - mal
Ahhh, I remember fondly my time with a Triumph 1300 TC (twin carb not twin cam) back in 1968.............I loved that car!!!!
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Sun 4 Feb 2007 17:35
Interior Out! - Avant
Triumphs did engender great affection, didn't they. We had a single-carb 1300 (FWD predecessor of the Toledo) as a second car in the 1970s - bought at eight years old for £500 and managed to fetch £200 after three more years. It used a pint of oil every 100 miles and the starter motor made a noise like Hollywood sound effects for the fall of Babylon, but it never failed to start and never let us down on the road, despite the normal second-car short-run mileage that it did. SWMBO still thinks it's the most comfortable car she's ever had.

Happy days! The men in suits who decided to ditch the Triumph name made a big mistake. People who drove 2000s and Vitesses now drive BMWs. And I think I read somewhere that BMW inherited the badge along with Rover, and hold it still.

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Sun 4 Feb 2007 17:36
Interior Out! - Avant
I can't type. It cost only £400.
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