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I remember my dad having a few of these as well as the ambassador IIRC he said it was voted best tow car by the Caravan and camping club All I know is the 4 pot callipers fitted onto capri front struts which fitted on MK1 & 2 escorts
18th Feb 2019 3:10 pm
Hairy Dan
Member Since: 19 Jan 2011
Location: Co. Durham
Posts: 12319
I just went and pulled a copy of the brochure that HWN posted out of my filing cabinet and it brings back all sorts of bad memories Like seats like these
Cheers Ian
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Club N.E.R.D.S
Kielder 4x4 Safari
Discoless
2015 Volvo V40
2014 D4 HSE
2006 RRS - C'est mort. Fin... ...It's alive! Oh no, it's not - scrapped.
2019 Suzuki Kingquad 400
2017 RamRod Taskmaster 1150
1977 John Deere 2130
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18th Feb 2019 6:59 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
Beware, once you’ve seen this, there’s no going back. You won’t be able to pretend that you’ve never seen it...
You have been warned...
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And no, it’s not mine and I definitely don’t want it either! 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
^^^^ Come off it. Even for this sub-forum, that's a bit extreme. You have gone too far and should be ashamed of yourself. If ever there was anything needing a 'NSFW' label, that is it. I mean, not even a proper vinyl roof!
2015 Volvo V40
2014 D4 HSE
2006 RRS - C'est mort. Fin... ...It's alive! Oh no, it's not - scrapped.
2019 Suzuki Kingquad 400
2017 RamRod Taskmaster 1150
1977 John Deere 2130
18th Feb 2019 7:16 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
18th Feb 2019 7:19 pm
Dusty
Member Since: 23 Sep 2013
Location: London
Posts: 1022
My father-in-law had several over the years as his company car.
I seem to remember they were pretty comfy with humongous leg room in the back.
Not saying I rushed out to buy one. I was always a Rover SDi man Discovery 4 HSE
SDV6
2015
2015 Volvo V40
2014 D4 HSE
2006 RRS - C'est mort. Fin... ...It's alive! Oh no, it's not - scrapped.
2019 Suzuki Kingquad 400
2017 RamRod Taskmaster 1150
1977 John Deere 2130
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18th Feb 2019 7:32 pm
Lee Trinder
Member Since: 12 Aug 2018
Location: Henley in arden
Posts: 516
NoDo$h wrote:
Blimey. My dad had a 2.0HL in Harvest Gold (beige) with a brown vinyl roof.
It was shit
havent heard harvest gold mentioned for a while, I had a mark one marina estate in that colour, great car, bit wobbly round the bends.
18th Feb 2019 7:52 pm
maxbasscat
Member Since: 03 Jan 2016
Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 1267
I bought a blue wedge had it for about a year bought it for £250 and a trouble free year later sold it for £500. I was happy with it next a yuk green 2300 SD Rover nothing but trouble with the clutches . Some very good cars out of BL but poor construction, what a shameD3 2.7 Zermatt silver (not another one)
D3 4.4 V8 Zambezi silver
D3 4.4 V8 Adriatic Blue
D3 2.7 (gone) Tonga Green
D3 4.4 V8 LHD Tonga Green
FFRR TDV8
Defender 300
18th Feb 2019 7:59 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Location: Bramhall
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Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
Wow, that’s the first time that I’ve ever seen a car advertised on the back of a recovery vehicle Certainly no false advertising there
Mind you, it looks a lot better, at that angle, on the back of the truck; the wedge shape tapers out at the same angle both top and bottom and it makes it look like a paper dart. So now we know, the car was designed to look it’s best on the back of a recovery vehicle. How very far sighted of Harris Mann 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
19th Feb 2019 6:30 am
charlietortoise
Member Since: 29 Oct 2011
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 511
Princess
I learned to drive in my dads 2200 automatic Princess. R reg if I remember, big lumbering thing but exciting as it had a six cylinder engine and kickdown! It was the first car I went 'solo' in, and almost binned it on a rounderbout 1 hour after my test due to understeer. Aaah those were the days, the youf of today really miss out!
It also had a perchant to overheating towing the caravan, especially when faced with any hill despite having an extra engine and transmission oil cooler fitted.
I liked it as a car though and kept my promise to wash it every weekend. (It was the first shiny un rusty car we had in the household)Discovery 4 3.0 HSE 2010 year. I like it a lot. Now with winch 😂
19th Feb 2019 12:37 pm
Madrilleno
Member Since: 13 Oct 2014
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 1787
I seem to remeber that the engines on these were early adopters of taper seat spark plugs. Whoever had the one my Uncle bought had used a 200lb gorilla to tighten them, with the result I learned how to remove cylinder heads and how to drill broken spark plugs.There are two rules for success,
1. Never tell everything you know.
D4 gone!
D5
19th Feb 2019 1:21 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
Talking of the 2200, how ahead of its time was a transverse, OHC, straight 6? I can’t think of another example of that until the Volvo unit (that found its way into the Freeloader 2) several decades later.
In comparison, consider how 1950’s the underbonnet view of an equivalent Granada would have been:
2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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All I know is the 4 pot callipers fitted onto capri front struts which fitted on MK1 & 2 escorts 
Like seats like these 
