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Mopar Ford. Will the single-digit gas mileage of the police car result in a drained fuel tank before the British Leyland build quality of the Spitfire sends it coughing to a halt on the shoulder in a cloud of wire-insulation smoke? We'll never know, because it turns out the Triumph wasn't running from the cops after all. Whew!
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Massachusetts Tries, Fails To Fully Oxidize All Its Old Vehicles
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Today we're going to look at a foursome of old machines that Dr. Danger has photographed for us in his native Massachusetts. We've got a Continental, a Nova, a Spitfire, and a Ford pickup. Make the jump to read Dr. Danger's descriptions and check out the entire gallery.
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Marital Infidelity Prompts All-Triumph Car Chase
When you're caught in flagrante delicto by your special lady's husband and have to flee on foot while dressed in a towel, you might breathe a sigh of relief when you discover he plans to chase you in a Triumph Stag; after all, the timing chains probably won't hold out as long as your legs. But then, in one of those cruel twists of fate that seemed all too common in Malaise Britain, you find yourself in the waking nightmare of being forced to choose another Triumph in which to make your getaway! -
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PCH, Great Rusty North Edition: Triumph GT6 or Porsche 914?
It looks like Italy has been knocked off the PCH Superpower throne by the UK, according to the results of yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll. That means that PCH SuperGigaPower France awaits the chance to take on its historical PCH rival from across the Channel. But first, let's see how Britain fares against a rival that, though falling somewhat short of true PCH Superpower status due to the stubborn reliability of so many of its vehicles, still puts forward some strong Hell Project competition. And, just to make things interesting, let's get our contestants from Canada, where an iron atom never found an oxygen atom it didn't want to establish a caring, lifelong relationship with. We can thank HoserDave for these tips, and of course a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt will soon be thrown into a dogsled and mushed all the way up to his igloo.
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Malaise Spitfire Attempts To Hide Embarrassing Bumpers In Junkyard, Fails
We don't hold with those who hate all Triumph Spitfires across the board, although their unreliability was legendary even by British Leyland standards. No, the only ones that really deserve the "Shitfire" label are the ones hauling around 900 pounds of Malaise crash bumpers with an engine rated at... well, it's too depressing to get into. I found this fairly complete example located a few rows down from the '76 Peugeot 504, and the sight of those horrible bumpers- even more horrible than those on the 1975 BMW 2002- made me feel like Jimmy Carter still negotiating to get the hostages out of Iran even as Reagan took the oath.
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Cars From The House Of The Rising Sun
We all loved the New Orleans Impala, so A Strolling Player took it upon himself to photograph six Down On The New Orleans Street cars for us (I couldn't help but use a HOTRS reference in the post title, having just read an interesting book about the history of the song; otherwise you'd probably be getting a bunch of Algrenesque Big Stingaree jokes). Make the jump to see the entire collection and read Strolling's descriptions.
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Triumph Spitfire: Champ? Hey, Champ!
We're puzzled as to the message that Triumph's American advertisers are trying to deliver here. Spitfires win races as long as they have a huge crew of Whitworth-equipped mechanics on hand, but you'll be lucky to groan along at 40 in the slow lane? The version of the Spitfire sold in the US (not-so-affectionately dubbed the Shitfire by many owners) suffered mightily from US vehicle regulations of the 70s; emissions laws strangled engine output, headlight-height laws forced the front suspension to gain height, and crash bumpers added weight and ugliness.
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