There need to be more old british cars on the road

[gsalt57tr3]

Re: There need to be more old british cars on the

Seldom do you see a British sports car in Louisiana. (it may be the acid rain)

I drive my TR3 every weekend and 2 - 3 times a week. Some MG everynow and then. Since gas has been going up there have been alot of small cars that looked like the got them out of the woods.

Don

There are alot more older, 4 cylinder cars on the road these days. Better mileage, no smog requirements, and nicer weather.

Drove to the coast last weekend, about 600 miles after all is said and done. I was pleasantly surprised with the speeds that everyone was maintaining, mostly around 60 to 65. Seemed like the truckers were setting the pace.

What kind of mileage are people getting with their LBCs?

I'm getting around 28 with my '57 TR3 with the Toyota 5 speed.

 

[glemon]

Re: There need to be more old british cars on the

Best thing to do for reliability is drive your car a lot (or I guess not at all, but that is no fun) make some five block trips so if you break down you aren't far from home, then 50 miles, then 50, after a couple fifties without a problem you are ready for 500.

As you go through the process things will break, and you will fix them, if you are like me sometimes more than once, sometimes a lot more than once. But eventually you end up with a pretty reliable car.

These days of cel. phones and overnight shipping have taken some of th sport out of the long distance trip. The other thing is if you break down the brit car community wherever you are will generally pop out of the woodwork, whether you know them or not, and get you back on the road if you need parts or tools at your disposal to do the fix.

I have had the good fortune of going to the vintage races at Road America a number of times, which for me is over a 1200 mile round trip. Have taken or been take in a TR4A, AH 100, TR3, TR7. Always made it there and back, closesest to not was one year when the TR3 had both wheel bearing go, see above about brit car community coming out of the woodwork as to how the car got back on the road.

 

[Guest]

Re: There need to be more old british cars on the

drive it to the radius of your free towing until you are comfortable with it.
or if going farther have a list of lbc shops that it can be towed to en route.

works for me...

 

[TR3driver]

Re: There need to be more old british cars on the

Bah! You guys are pikers. I bought a Stag, the most notoriously unreliable Triumph ever, sight-unseen and drove it home from almost 2000 miles away!

Had lots of adventures along the way; including some 3 hours in a Wally-Mart parking lot alternately buying tools and applying them to the car, but we made it home without benefit of a flatbed.

Most memorable was my co-pilot waking me up just outside of Phoenix, saying "Something's wrong, I can't get up to speed." When I climbed out to check, I could see the glow from the front brake rotors shining on the pavement!

 

[Tinster]

Re: There need to be more old british cars on the

have a list of lbc shops that it can be towed to en route.

works for me...

<span style="color: #990000">Huuummm? I never thought of THAT concept.
The closest LBC shop to me is 1200 miles away in Florida.
A bit a tow, that.

d </span>

 

[angelfj1]

guess they don't like those durn forin cars down there