Seen on the road
 

A38 Saturday. Was overtaken by a tasty mid blue RS4.
A38 Today. Overtook and was overtaken (several times), by a lovely black D3 W12, with ACC on a 54 plate

I'm liking the A38 :love:

You'll have to stop driving those old Austins!!! :p

I once bought my wife an Austin Ambassador
She was significantly unimpressed...

I sold it four months later for about double what I paid. Yay!

Funny how she only ever remembers the bad stuff. Is this normal?

On another subject
Anyone know of a decent 08-09 Allroad for sale?
Or an 08-09 Merc ML?

I once got my wife one of those, it was an ex-company car.
(not mine, though I did have to take it off the regular user and drive it for a few days to be eligible for the end-of-contract special sell-off deal)
It was ideal with 3 kids and all their rubbish as it was CAVERNOUS. 1.7L with power-steering (try driving one without!). She quite liked it as it was NEVER full.

Someone drove straight into the back of it at 60mph while she was stationary at some lights (M40 Handy Cross junction at High Wycombe) and literally EVERY panel was bent. Luckily she was alone as the other car (an escort van I think) ended up mostly in the back seat. She just had a bit of whiplash and was otherwise OK, so was the other driver!

This was after she'd had it for 2 years and we got back more from the insurers than we'd paid for it. +++

hmm yes quality British engineering at its best, just glad the good lady was OK , did it have a similar "luxury" interior to this?



http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...0&d=1334095923

Could we start a fan club?
Naaa I bet there's one already, and I'm betting them to be a pretty defensive lot :ROFL:

Your wife was lucky. I guess they had big crumple zones, without the inconvenience of a safety cell.

The one I got was an HL and was amazingly loaded. As per many of that marque you could park it on the handbrake, pointing up a hill, then with use of the clutch amuse the kids with the quite extreme see saw effect, back and forth :D

I was particularly impressed by the "sparkling performance figures" in that ad, and ohh yes an Econometer as well:ROFL:

Inevitably there is one already: http://www.princessandambassador.btinternet.co.uk/

It did a job for us, I'm almost ashamed to say what followed it (so I won't).
A blue Dolomite 1850HL preceded it though. +++

Me too Brian, I had to say that I laughed out loud when I saw that (and the Dappled velour - tasty!):ROFL:

I think I could RUN faster than that.....

I was just about to post the link when i saw that HP sauce had beaten me to it. I do like the note under the header on the site:

Thanks to member Stephen Bundy from Portsmouth who took this photograph of his Ambassador 1.7 HL in the Isle of Skye some years ago. Stephen than went on to visit John O'Groat before returning home via Inverness, Dundee, and North East England. He still has the car although it is now a different colour. This is, presumably, rust.:p