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[BazaJT]

1995 XJ6
1990 Senator 3.0 12v
1989 Senator 3.0 12v
All three were great cars and very reliable,regret selling all three!

[Nick W]

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Cambelt snapped but no harm done to the engine. Just lucky, I suppose.

Not lucky at all ...... the Pinto engine  was a 'safe engine'   

2.0l Pintos are safe. 1.6 Pintos are sometimes. The valve lengths are different if I remember correctly.
Pinto cambelts are doable at the side of the road in about 20minutes if you have the splined tool for the belt tensioner.

[Kevin Wood]

Has to be Mrs. Kw's Mk2 MX5.

Moved it on 6 months ago and I still haven't quite come to terms with it. You could jump into it and use every ounce of its' (admittedly modest) performance out of the box, it just handled so nicely, and with 170k on the clock by the end too. It also looked great and had a nice comfy ride.

Newer one is, on paper the better car. More power, more grip, newer, less miles, but ride quality and feedback is poor in comparison. A more comfortable motorway cruiser, which is probably what most people buy a roadster for these days.

I have other favourite cars, but they aren't "has been"s.

[STEMO]

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Cambelt snapped but no harm done to the engine. Just lucky, I suppose.

Not lucky at all ...... the Pinto engine  was a 'safe engine'   

'Non interference'.

[Ever Ready]

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Cambelt snapped but no harm done to the engine. Just lucky, I suppose.

Not lucky at all ...... the Pinto engine  was a 'safe engine'   

'Non interference'.

Bump clearances if I remember correctly

Did a coupe of Pinto cam-belts road side, still have the spline tools in my box of miracles

[tigers_gonads]

RE 2000 (mk2 golf with a big engine) 

[anV6]

My list of both favourites and regret selling are all made up by Alfa Romeos.

[Andy B]

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Cambelt snapped but no harm done to the engine. Just lucky, I suppose.

Not lucky at all ...... the Pinto engine  was a 'safe engine'   

2.0l Pintos are safe. 1.6 Pintos are sometimes. The valve lengths are different if I remember correctly.
Pinto cambelts are doable at the side of the road in about 20minutes if you have the splined tool for the belt tensioner.

I had a 1600 & a 1600 GT engine/head (the valves were bigger than a standard 1600 ... IIRC) &  remember winding both head's cams over on the bench .... both were safe

[Andy B]

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Cambelt snapped but no harm done to the engine. Just lucky, I suppose.

Not lucky at all ...... the Pinto engine  was a 'safe engine'   

'Non interference'.

That too 

[X30XE]

Depends how many times you've had the block/head decked I guess 

[Andy B]

Depends how many times you've had the block/head decked I guess 

Bearing in mind my GT head came from a scrap yard I didn't really have the money for decking of blocks Tec 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

My mk1 had a kent pushrod engine, if m memory serves.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Zephyr 6 MK. III
Victor FB  VX 4/90
Viscount 3.3
Corsair 2000E
FIAT 124 Special T

Showing your age there Rob. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

A 1980 Ford Cortina estate that I bought in Sydney for £400.  I drove 'Yolanda' all the way round Australia, and all I did to her was flush the rad, fitted a set of headlight bulbs and put fuel in her! 

When my visa ran out and I had to leave Oz, I sold her for £600! 

[aaronjb]

My old MR2 Roadster for the same reasons KW loved hisMrs KWs MX5 - it was great out of the box, and by the time I sold it, much much better (turbocharged, more chassis bracing than you could shake a stick at, etc).  Although I did regret my choice of clutch (floating plate, sounded like shaking a cutlery drawer when you disengaged the clutch )