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For any diehard Gene Scott fans, you can buy his '67 Rolls Royce
Corniche Coupe on ebay.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWA%3AIT


It's apparent one of the things he didn't do with money from folks who
got on the telephones is take care of his car.

Not sure if the radio is a shortwave one, but it's obviously a more
modern replacement.


LOL, one of the ugliest engine compartments I've seen in a long time.

I wonder if his Jack Russells rode in the back seat of the Rolls. Hyper
little *******s...

It doesn't smoke? The ones from the mid 70's sure did. Brand new, most
of the time. I was soooo happy to flunk all the Rollses, Benzes, and
Beemers when they came in for emissions testing, just to see the look on
the owner's faces. The Beemers and Benzes just put out too much CO, but
the Rolls motors were total crap. They failed often, tossing rods and
spinning bearings. They made jet engines too.....scary!

One guy had just bought a Rolls in Beverly hills and it had about 1200
miles on it when he took it home to Vegas and had to register it in
Nevada as a used car. It smoked like hell and he went ballistic when I
told him he needed to take it to the local Rolls place.

The Rolls place passed it, and got nailed by DMV for it. That thing had
the piston rings of a 150,000 mile Ford Pinto..

BDK

Ever since Jaguar merged with Ford,the build quality of Jaguar cars went
wayyyyyy up.There is another brand name of brit cars that is very good
on build quality (it isn't Rolls Royce or Bentley or Aston Martin) but I
can't think of the brand name just now.Some of y'all limeys out
there,display a list of brit cars to help me jog my memoryrectomy
cuhulin

BDK,you worked on Rolls Royce (and Bently) cars? Tell the World just how
lousey them cars is.Hey,it's old news to me.
cuhulin

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BDK,you worked on Rolls Royce (and Bently) cars? Tell the World just how
lousey them cars is.Hey,it's old news to me.
cuhulin




I did smog tests on ALL kinds of cars, from Pintos to Ferrari's, they
all had to have a smog test when they were sold or registered as used in
Nevada.

I didn't say they were lousy now, I said they were lousy 25 years ago.
The engine build quality was so bad that some of the engines had to be
rebuilt almost as soon as they were delivered. Others ran ok, but sucked
oil like a wannabe Diesel.

The Ferrari's, Lams, Benzes, Beeemers, and most others would flunk
because they failed the tailpipe test, even horrible Fiats. It was a
rare Rolls that made it that far! One of the first things you checked
was blowby at the oil filler. If it was puffing out of it like a steam
loco, it flunked, if it smoked out the exhaust when revved to 2000 RPM,
it flunked.

They had nice interiors though..LOL.

BDK

I have read that many years ago too,BDK,,, in auto magazines,,, about
some new Rolls Royce engines had to be rebuilt as soon as them Rolls
Royce cars got to U.S.A.The truth is,,, them Stupid brits just can not
build decent quality cars.Look,(QQ) they are World famous for leaking
oil and coolant all over the place and the wireing harenesses are no
good and the mice over over there just love to eat up the upholstery.
cuhulin

My old American made wrecks dont smoke at all and they all have hundreds
of thousands of miles on each and every one of them.Give me American
Iron every time!
cuhulin

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says...
My old American made wrecks dont smoke at all and they all have hundreds
of thousands of miles on each and every one of them.Give me American
Iron every time!
cuhulin



Let's not get carried away there, most american cars were plenty crappy,
and didn't run very well. Some of them had engine problems too, like the
infamous GM aluminum 2300 Vega engine. My friend had one that actually
was ok until it hit 50K, and then the oil burning began, and off it
went..

BDK

My old buddy used to own one of them new Chevrolet Vega's.He drove it
for a bunch of years to work and back.It finally got to where it was
running too hot all the time.He offered to sell it to me for fifty
dollars.Turned out Chevrolet put radiators in them that was too small.
cuhulin