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I kind of hope your right, as I dread Starmer and co having a big majority when they win.

I think they are a spent force. They will lose a lot of seats to Labour come the election.

As long as they keep pedalling the anti - English tripe , people will keep voting for them

Does the Ecoboom last long enough to actually require a new belt?

Any mileage in retrofitting a 1.0 pinto in it's place

Or just avoiding the ecoboom in the first place.

That's the one


What the hell is a 1.0l Pinto? And don't forget, the normal 1.6 or 2.0l Pintos are long, tall and heavy when compared to similar capacity 4 cylinder engines. Not to mention expensive now that the cars they came in are well over thirty years old.

Wasn't that the original 1.0/1.1/1.3 Fester lump

The question has to be - Why !!!

Because it provides some minute, theoretical advantages for the designers that anyone paying for the bloody thing will never notice. I suspect that the originator of the idea was German, and we all know that German engineers are incapable of resisting any complication that can proved, no matter how tenuously, to be 'better'.

Does the Ecoboom last long enough to actually require a new belt?

Any mileage in retrofitting a 1.0 pinto in it's place

Or just avoiding the ecoboom in the first place.

That's the one


What the hell is a 1.0l Pinto? And don't forget, the normal 1.6 or 2.0l Pintos are long, tall and heavy when compared to similar capacity 4 cylinder engines. Not to mention expensive now that the cars they came in are well over thirty years old.

The question has to be - Why !!!

I think they are a spent force. They will lose a lot of seats to Labour come the election.

Does the Ecoboom last long enough to actually require a new belt?

Any mileage in retrofitting a 1.0 pinto in it's place

I've done two in the last couple of months due to age,quite a job !!

It's French chic with a big  lump  of Detroit V8 shoved up front.

Brian Rix owned one.

Apparently the dashboard is made of metal and  painted with a feather so none are exactly alike.

Went for £75,000