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Sidelock
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[Those Triumphs were beauties though. There was a Triumph & BSA dealer a couple of miles up the road from where I lived as a teenager (late 60s), and going into the showroom was like entering a magic kingdom. Oh yeah! Shiney and shapely with chrome and two tone paint. Wish I had some pictures.
I am glad to be here.
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Sidelock
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A very good old friend of mine (in fact he's been living in my family home the past 3 years or so) has about a dozen Triumphs in various stages of disarray. Tridents, Bonnevilles, yep. I used to love English bikes too. Wolf's Cycle, up the road from the aforementioned house, exclusive dealer for BSA for miles around. Man those 650's looked sooooo perfect! Spitfires! Lightnings! But the one that captured my heart and I regret never having gotten one? The 441 Victor.
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Posts: 640 Likes: 92
Sidelock
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Joined: Jan 2002
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My first and only Landrover, a Series II in Kenya, made me a mechanic and a lifelong convert to Landcruisers. They never stop and I forgot all the mechanicking I had learned.
Want to drive 200 miles into the bush? Buy a Landrover. Want to get home again? Buy a Landcruiser.
But I did have a used MGB right in college, and it was remarkably reliable, even the electrics. First my girlfriend crashed it, then my sister.
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Sidelock
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My best friend went to college at the same school I did for a few years. One day he comes over and asks me to look at a 650cc BSA with him that had been in a wreck. Upon my recomendation he bought it and then I helped him put it on the road again by finding a used front wheel for it and straightening out the front fork tubes in a hydraulic press. So how does he thank me, the first time we go out riding together he blows past my 750 Norton Atlas like I'm standing still. A good deed never goes unpunished!
Steve
Last edited by Rockdoc; 10/04/11 09:51 PM.
Approach life like you do a yellow light - RUN IT! (Gail T.)
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I have been told Lucas was the pioneer of the "closed smoke electrical system." When something went wrong there was a leak and the offending component "let the smoke out."
CHAZ
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No thanks to the English unreliability. I'll stick with my tried and true "mobile doublegun transporter". '87 Jeep Wrangler lifted a wee bit and with a transplanted Chevy 350 crate motor, Edelbrock (Carter) 4 bbl., TH350 Chevy automatic trans., final drive ratio 4.56/1. Perfect for what I use it for, hunting forays within an hours drive of home. Can't stand it on long trips as the engine is running 3000 rpms at 60 mph (think 12 mpg at 55 mph).  SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Here's a look at a 1967 Land Rover up for auction on the TV show "What's My Car Worth". Only 77 hp, but still looks like a classic way to transport your sidelock out to the field. The bootleg video quality is cheesy, as someone obviously recorded the show on his TV and you can even hear the kids in the back. Still, an interesting look at the ulimate shooting machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAOaheJoxBA
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Sidelock
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Here's a look at a 1967 Land Rover up for auction on the TV show "What's My Car Worth". Only 77 hp, but still looks like a classic way to transport your sidelock out to the field. The bootleg video quality is cheesy, as someone obviously recorded the show on his TV and you can even hear the kids in the back. Still, an interesting look at the ulimate shooting machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAOaheJoxBA That would never work it does not have ballistic windshield and gun port.
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Drove an MGB/GT as my daily driver for 15 years or so. I did a reasonable amount of tinkering with it, but I have to admit, for all its idiosyncrasies, it always started, got me where I needed to go and home again, and when the twin SU's were synched it was a hell of a lot of fun. I did have an old Ford pickup as a backup though!
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein
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Had a few of those troublemakers: '59 MGA Twin Cam, '62 Healey 3000, several MGBs, a TR-4, '48 MG-TC, and a purely cantankerous 67 MKII Land Rover 88" wheelbase. Had a '50 Land Rover (one of three in this country I was told), but never managed to find all the parts it was missing so I swapped it for a '53 MG-ZA Magnette. (Yep, I was a lunatic British car nut.) I would cheerfully love to have any of them back. My BIL christened the LR "Thunderboltgreaseslapper" due to its 50MPH top speed and unquenchable thirst for oil. The bugger took me everywhere though, and got me home.
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