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I want.....
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:40 pm
by Peetee
I thought I knew what i wanted in my 'dream garage' (mostly Minors obviously
).
Today I have been at the Goodwood Revival Meeting and seen twoo additions:
I had a ride in a US Army Jeep and now want one soooooooo much
Absolutely fab!
Also seen the coolest, chic'est French car ever. A DS, open top with 2.7 Maserati engine
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:08 pm
by rayofleamington
saw a beautiful Topilino on Thursday at a classic car meet (Alcester)
The miniature little 4 pot 4 stroker was so cute - but even without that, the car itself was awesome.
It had been restored from a wreck including a lot of hand made parts - that kind of dedication deserves a lot of credit in my book
Anyway - that's yet another member of my dream garage, which is good as I'm working my way through the list fairly quickly
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:59 am
by Orkney
I'll be happy enough with a door on my dream garage
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:30 pm
by Furrtiv
Ah, a willys Jeep then? I think the true Willis ones (they were made by various manufacturers, but Willis are the most desirable) go for up to ten thousand pounds if in good nick.
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:40 pm
by Furrtiv
Ah, knew I had alink around here somewhere . . .
http://www.milweb.net/index2.html
Some absolutely lovely machinery on there, unfortunately the vast majority of it is outside my budget by a few thousand pounds!
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:42 pm
by Judge
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:52 pm
by Alec
Hello all,
"A DS, open top with 2.7 Maserati engine *
I saw, when on holiday in France, an abandoned Citroen SM, which was their official Maserati engined car. It didn't look too bad either, rather tempted to see if I could buy it but sense prevailed.
Alec
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:54 pm
by Peetee
To be honest it could have been an SM - whatever one of those is. it just looked DS'ish
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:20 pm
by Alec
Hello Peetee,
the SM was a Maserati engined DS I suppose. A strange amalgamation of manufacturers of different countries, but the again so was the Sunbeam Tiger, but at least they were owned by the same company?
Alec
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:54 pm
by dunketh
Any kind of garage would be a blessing!
The Minor just wont fit up the stairs to my first floor flat.
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:29 pm
by Orkney
Well i had to build one from scratch due to getting the trav - couple of winters outside would just do it in.
Very pleased to say got the door finished today - nice slidey job you can open and close with one finger - and its a heavy door.
Been a bit of a saga really as i was out of principle no way going to pay for the henderson roller hangers, so made them myself for the princely sum of less than a fiver and a few welding rods
Just the floor to concrete now and thats that.
Best thing having a door - no dusk invasions by chickens
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:49 pm
by UOGMoggie
Hmmm, I'd be happy with a garage too - Trav out braving the elements with leaky backdoors is not good!
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:23 pm
by JustinMinor1000
Alec wrote:Hello all,
"A DS, open top with 2.7 Maserati engine *
I saw, when on holiday in France, an abandoned Citroen SM, which was their official Maserati engined car. It didn't look too bad either, rather tempted to see if I could buy it but sense prevailed.
Alec
To my knowledge the the SM came as standard as a Coupe .. (with the Maserati Engine) but there were open toped two door DS cars. What I do know is that Citroen put a Maserati engine into a DS coupe so it's very possible they put one into an open one as well.
There were other VERY VERY special SM's including a four door open version.
I have a book somewhere describing a drive down an unopened piece of autoroute in an origional Maserati-DS prototype. The driver was only aware he was doing 240KM/H because he started to get tunnel vision.
Could please note however that we all LOVE Citroens (I have owned 7 2cv's and three CX's) but none of us actually own one
Basically Admitting that my dad was right
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:15 pm
by Peetee
What I do know is that Citroen put a Maserati engine into a DS coupe so it's very possible they put one into an open one as well
From what I can remember from the information card with it, the car started life as a 4 door saloon and was converted to a rag top using " enough metal to build a bridge across the Thames".
And you'd have too I would imagine as it was used to tow a substantial period caravan. It appeared to have a bulkhead behind the front seats with fold out tables, Pimms cabinet and/or some such like.
