A Lite Ace was a bit more substantial but they all needed a bit of weight in the back for traction. Front wheel drive might have been a better idea.@tyred
I had a Bedford Rascal (Suzuki Supercarry) for a couple of years, in the early - mid 90s
Scary as hell on a motorway, & even worse on a wet roundabout......... and on spilt diesel
It did make a reasonable bike-carrier, & changing room though, as I had it when I was doing a lot of MTB racing & CX)
The dents on the front, are from trying to push me out, when it got stuck (which was very easy to do!)
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Theres still a few around, my daughter had one maybe 8 years ago, 2.0 petrol, really quite zippy and fun but negatives were an incredibly hard ride with lots of banging from the suspension (although that may have been her car needing work) and terrible to sit in the rear seats with the top down...if your head was above the roofline.Although not classic.... but fun on a budget...I bought this last year for 350 quid and a valid MOT although the roof didn't work but it took very little to fix the roof. It actually cost less than a pound to fix it.
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They are well known for back axle bearings to fail. It's common and an MOT fail if they are shot.Theres still a few around, my daughter had one maybe 8 years ago, 2.0 petrol, really quite zippy and fun but negatives were an incredibly hard ride with lots of banging from the suspension (although that may have been her car needing work) and terrible to sit in the rear seats with the top down...if your head was above the roofline.
This was my car from 93-01.
I bought it for 1475 and sold for 2 grand.
Last year...it sold for 23 grand and I feel a right plonker .
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That is a 1.6 harrier.Is it a Mk 2 Mexico?
That is a 1.6 harrier.
It was the very last of the mark 2 on a v plate.
It was like a parts bin special, rs rims,rs seats,rs boot spoiler and the gas stripes up the sides.
Worth a lot of cash these days as only 1400 were made and probably about 2-300 maybe exist now
I'd mine heavily enhanced lol
Bilstein suspension, dellorto carbs, big valve head etc.
Very fast through the gears but brutal on fuel... MPG about 20 on a good day
12,100RPM @ 06:50
It sounds like an air-raid siren as it runs down
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PuFRto323w&t=417s
0 -10,000RPM, in less than a second
The money old fords make currently is just stupid.I really don't get the Fast Ford nostalgia - but I never got them bitd either!
I sorry but that's completely incomprehensible What's required is some flavour of classic Alfa, shirley?The money old fords make currently is just stupid.
They really are nothing special.
A mid range modern car will beat them hands down every department.
If I could have one classic car,it would be the mark 1 toyota celica liftback model
AKA the baby mustang