billd766 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I came down to Bangkok yesterday from Klong Lan where I live and somewhere around Uthai Thani was a Mk1 Ford Capri and on the side of the Nakhon Sawan to Bangkok main highway was a Mk3 Ford Cortina of the coke bottle style. I can't remember where as I had just woken up (my wife was driving). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micksterbs Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Pattaya Parent, haven't seen any MGs up here. IMO, the MGA was the last desirable car MG made. When I was a kid, our doctor's wife used to drive around in one. I used to like seeing her clamber out, as I recall... Just thinking that I can't remember seeing any Italian stuff apart from an ancient Fiat 124 on the way back from Nong Khai on a visa run. Was a dark brown colour. Actually, hang on; saw a pretty smart 125 outside the Vimanmek Palace. Was in a sort-of mid metallic blue. Seemed to be in pretty good nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkman Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Just thinking that I can't remember seeing any Italian stuff apart from an ancient Fiat 124 on the way back from Nong Khai on a visa run. Was a dark brown colour. Actually, hang on; saw a pretty smart 125 outside the Vimanmek Palace. Was in a sort-of mid metallic blue. Seemed to be in pretty good nick. I saw a Fiat 131 Supermirafiori which rather surprised me. They were never the best of cars when new. Where on earth you would get bits for that I am not sure, unless it had an engine swap There is a Fiat 500 knocking about up here as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Pattaya Parent, haven't seen any MGs up here. IMO, the MGA was the last desirable car MG made. When I was a kid, our doctor's wife used to drive around in one. I used to like seeing her clamber out, as I recall...Just thinking that I can't remember seeing any Italian stuff apart from an ancient Fiat 124 on the way back from Nong Khai on a visa run. Was a dark brown colour. Actually, hang on; saw a pretty smart 125 outside the Vimanmek Palace. Was in a sort-of mid metallic blue. Seemed to be in pretty good nick. I'm much too young to remember the MGA before it became a Classic (honest!) but I did like the chrome MGB GTs in the 60s (when I was a nipper) and of course the chrome E-Types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micksterbs Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 I'm much too young to remember the MGA before it became a Classic (honest!) but I did like the chrome MGB GTs in the 60s (when I was a nipper) and of course the chrome E-Types. Well, I'm only 50. Yeah, there were still plenty of them around through the 60s. I quite liked the very first MGBs, especially the roadster. As for the E-Type, file under auto porn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeaceBlondie Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I think we passed a decent Fiat 600 this week, but you dont look that closely when you fear you're having another stroke. He was cruising about 50 kph in the slow lane, good condition. Did they stop making the 600 in the 1960s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micksterbs Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 I think we passed a decent Fiat 600 this week, but you dont look that closely when you fear you're having another stroke. He was cruising about 50 kph in the slow lane, good condition. Did they stop making the 600 in the 1960s? Hiyah, Peace! You weren't on your MB, were you? I hope you were joking when you mentioned a stroke... Yeah, the 600 was made up to the end of the '60s; '69 or '70, something like that. The climate here just has to be kinder for cars. I mean, all Fiats made before about 1990 would have long returned to their constituent molecules back in the UK or Europe. Fiat used to have a dreadful reputation in the UK. Lancias and Alfa Romeos, too. The joke was that when one bought an Italian car, you had a beautiful engine, gearbox and suspension and everything else was thrown-in for free. Vauxhalls were the British equivalent. But without the beautiful engine etc, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyS1951 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 For the best looking Italians a visit to the Jesada Technik Museum at Nakorn Chaisri is in order. Here's a Fiat 850 Spyder. There's a good looking German up the road from me awaiting restoration, a 356. But back to the Jesada for a Brit, one of two MGAs thay have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micksterbs Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Hey, a Messershmidt! Didn't realise any of those ever made it over here. A mate of mine used to have one back in the early '70s. We used to have a laugh in that thing. For a while, the exhaust was wedged on with a piece of wood. No problem in normal running but once we were flogging the poor thing up a long hill outside Bath and we started to smell smoke. S**t! Bail-out! We were chucking snow at the engine and p*ssing ourselves laughing at the same time when this woman drives up, gets out of her Viva and pours a bottle of pop over the exhaust which put out the fire. By this time we're practically holding each other up. I don't miss much about being 17 but sometimes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiboxer Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Micksterbs...I think you need to change the tires on that truck; they look a bit lopsided! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micksterbs Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Micksterbs...I think you need to change the tires on that truck; they look a bit lopsided! It's age, mate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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