The All New Photography Thread

[Darwins Selection]

but this one comes with its own lens cleaner

I seem to have a vague memory of a rugby club monologue about the "Winkie-Wankie bird".

Is this what you have captured?

Splendid pictures Degsy. You should seriously consider giving up your day job.


Unless you are a photographer of course

[degsy]

but this one comes with its own lens cleaner

I seem to have a vague memory of a rugby club monologue about the "Winkie-Wankie bird".

Is this what you have captured?

Splendid pictures Degsy. You should seriously consider giving up your day job.


Unless you are a photographer of course

 thank you

wish i could give it up to be honest (and no i'm not a photographer lol.)


derek

[Miss Demeanour]

Recently Holiday to Turkey - tan is still very much in evidence 


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[Pastis]

Ahh, so you went to the "Creature from the Swamp" theme beach barbecue, I see. I suppose the couple in the middle didn't realise it was fancy dress 

[Miss Demeanour]

Ahh, so you went to the "Creature from the Swamp" theme beach barbecue, I see. I suppose the couple in the middle didn't realise it was fancy dress 

Think they didn't want to get down and dirty like the rest of us 

[degsy]

Here's a couple of photos I took when there was a good sunset last week

[Misunderstood]

Can you go inside them or even get close to them or is it private land?

Last time I was there, The Good Year dirigible was in residence and it was a heavily restricted area. Half of it is a Government advanced driver training establishment. 

Still, they're not too far from the road

[GROWLER]

A bit unsure if this should be in here or in the Petrol Head Zone tbh.

Took young Growler and meself down to the Coventry Motor Museum yesterday, and a truly splendid time was had by both of us.
Free entry, and only 50p to park all day!
Very highly recommended. 9/10.



Italian Job display.


Anyone else remember this 'cut in arf' Triumph Herald that was on display at the Earls Court Motor Show way back in 1959?

I do.




Triumph TR2. Minter.



Plod Triumph 2500 PI A regular sight on the M6 IIRC?

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

A bit unsure if this should be in here or in the Petrol Head Zone tbh.



Plod Triumph 2500 PI A regular sight on the M6 IIRC?

I had one of them! Not in that livery mind, but a dark green 2.5PI with overdrive. Belting car. Smooth as a baby's bum it was, though to be fair, it could usefully have used power steering - it was as good as a bullworker for building up the biceps!

And they were not as thirsty as they were reputed to be - if you understood the PI bit. It was a bit old fashioned and the fuel was metered based on manifold vacuum (who remembers the vacuum gauges sold by Halfords that everyone fitted back then?). Because of this, if the engine was off tune, this caused the manifold vacuum to drop which, in turn, caused a richer mixture, which, caused the manifold vacuum to drop which . . .    You get the picture?

So, anything off in the tuning department - dodgy ignition timing, bad valve clearances, or any other tuning issue would result in massive increases in fuel consumption.

Add to this the fact that the springs in the metering unit got 'tired' and you ended up with 15 m.p.g.

However, if you were on top of tuning, and intelligently 'tweaked' the injection unit everything was good - I used to regularly get 29 or 30 out of mine. And I didn't pussy foot about in it neither!

Also had a couple of Heralds and a belting Vitesse convertible - a later one with proper suspension at the back. Soft top it was - great for pissing off MGB drivers 

[Barman]

A bit unsure if this should be in here or in the Petrol Head Zone tbh.



Plod Triumph 2500 PI A regular sight on the M6 IIRC?

I had one of them! Not in that livery mind, but a dark green 2.5PI with overdrive. Belting car. Smooth as a baby's bum it was, though to be fair, it could usefully have used power steering - it was as good as a bullworker for building up the biceps!

And they were not as thirsty as they were reputed to be - if you understood the PI bit. It was a bit old fashioned and the fuel was metered based on manifold vacuum (who remembers the vacuum gauges sold by Halfords that everyone fitted back then?). Because of this, if the engine was off tune, this caused the manifold vacuum to drop which, in turn, caused a richer mixture, which, caused the manifold vacuum to drop which . . .    You get the picture?

So, anything off in the tuning department - dodgy ignition timing, bad valve clearances, or any other tuning issue would result in massive increases in fuel consumption.

Add to this the fact that the springs in the metering unit got 'tired' and you ended up with 15 m.p.g.

However, if you were on top of tuning, and intelligently 'tweaked' the injection unit everything was good - I used to regularly get 29 or 30 out of mine. And I didn't pussy foot about in it neither!

Also had a couple of Heralds and a belting Vitesse convertible - a later one with proper suspension at the back. Soft top it was - great for pissing off MGB drivers 

Was it the TR6 engine?

A;so, a guy up the road from here has a Triumph Herald 13/60 soft top...

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

A bit unsure if this should be in here or in the Petrol Head Zone tbh.



Plod Triumph 2500 PI A regular sight on the M6 IIRC?

I had one of them! Not in that livery mind, but a dark green 2.5PI with overdrive. Belting car. Smooth as a baby's bum it was, though to be fair, it could usefully have used power steering - it was as good as a bullworker for building up the biceps!

And they were not as thirsty as they were reputed to be - if you understood the PI bit. It was a bit old fashioned and the fuel was metered based on manifold vacuum (who remembers the vacuum gauges sold by Halfords that everyone fitted back then?). Because of this, if the engine was off tune, this caused the manifold vacuum to drop which, in turn, caused a richer mixture, which, caused the manifold vacuum to drop which . . .    You get the picture?

So, anything off in the tuning department - dodgy ignition timing, bad valve clearances, or any other tuning issue would result in massive increases in fuel consumption.

Add to this the fact that the springs in the metering unit got 'tired' and you ended up with 15 m.p.g.

However, if you were on top of tuning, and intelligently 'tweaked' the injection unit everything was good - I used to regularly get 29 or 30 out of mine. And I didn't pussy foot about in it neither!

Also had a couple of Heralds and a belting Vitesse convertible - a later one with proper suspension at the back. Soft top it was - great for pissing off MGB drivers 

Was it the TR6 engine?

A;so, a guy up the road from here has a Triumph Herald 13/60 soft top...

The TR6 did indeed use the PI engine - another belting car! And one of my Heralds was a 13/60 - the other prior one was a 12/50.

Makes interesting comparisons with modern cars - the 13/60 was a 1296 (1300) cc engine developing 60 bhp. My current car, a Clio (don't snigger at the back!) has a 1400cc engine and produces just shy of 100 bhp - so, 100 more cc and 40 more bhp. And it does well over 40 to the gallon (remember those?) on a run while the Herald struggled to produce better than 30 to the gallon.

As and aside, the Herald was the last mass produced car to have a chassis which leads to an interesting anecdote:

A friend liked mine so much, he went out and bought one. He moaned constantly about poor performance and bad consumption. Turned out that, because the chassis used to rust and comprised box girders, to get it through an MOT once, a previous owner had filled the two outrigger beams with concrete! The Herald was a weighty car at the best of times, but with all that extra concrete it really dented the performance. He was not a happy bunny when he found out - it cost him a fortune to have the outriggers replaced!

[Barman]

Me in my '6 

[GROWLER]

Me in my '6 

Lost a bit of hair since then ey Barman?

Nice lookin' motor by the way.

Still got it, and which rally is that you were on? Can't quite make out the rally plate.

Is that Mrs B beside you?

[GROWLER]

Anyone ever have one of these then? Triunmph Vitesse 2 litre



I came so close to buying one when i was 19, but the insurance quote was too steep.
50 quid i think it was!

[GROWLER]

60's style petrol pump. 4/6d a gallon.