Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:17 pm
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Not a Porsche but a lovely project
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Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:54 pm
I want to like it but that’s one ugly motor vehicle.
Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 4:17 am
We're cut from different cloth, you and I.Jonny Hart wrote:I want to like it but that’s one ugly motor vehicle.
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Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:09 am
He’s right … ugly as sin
Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:40 am
I my stock of spare parts I think I have rear brake shoes for that!
Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:57 am
I hope it stops faster than it accelerates - 0-60mph in 14 seconds, despite the V8.Berny wrote:I my stock of spare parts I think I have rear brake shoes for that!
Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:14 pm
I think some had a Cadillac OHV motor that might have been faster. Otherwise they were Ford V8 Pilot underpinnings with Sidney Allard mods including IFS.
Not surprisingly the XK120 caused quite a stir when it appeared.
Not surprisingly the XK120 caused quite a stir when it appeared.
Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 4:32 pm
Josh Sadler made a good job of racing Allards in recent years, but not a saloon.
Very '50's' so a bit Marmite.
IMHO the Pilot was a nicer car!
Very '50's' so a bit Marmite.
IMHO the Pilot was a nicer car!
Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 6:55 pm
I’m glad we don’t all like the same thing.
Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:41 pm
Caroll Shelby made a good job of racing Allards, in fact an Allard inspired the Cobra.911hillclimber wrote:Josh Sadler made a good job of racing Allards in recent years, but not a saloon.
Very '50's' so a bit Marmite.
IMHO the Pilot was a nicer car!
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Re: Not a Porsche but a lovely project
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:41 am
I agree on the Pilot, they were wonderful old cars and I’d have loved on. I was living in Hitchin in the sixties where there was an absolutely as new Pilot for sale for about £20 for ages. 12mpg was the problem. There are still some absolute beauties around now, they literally were built like tanks with almost the same suspension as a model T.