Is this the most unroadworthy car?

[Oldlae]

SU fuel pump......Klick, Klick, Klick.
Tony

 

[baxlin]

Lifted the seat cushion out of my Frogeye Sprite only to find a hole about 8" across in the floor. Cut out the worst of the surrounding metal, then sandwiched it between two alloy baker's trays, with lots of underseal....

An earlier car was a 1953 100e Anglia, which burned about a pint of oil per gallon of petrol. Lots of blue smoke, not only from the exhaust, but also from the crankcase breather, which unfortunately found its way into the cabin. So I pushed a piece of garden hose over the breather pipe, under the car, and fitted 18" or so of exhaust tailpipe, to match the OE exhaust. Twin pipes therefore, both pumping out pretty blue smoke.

The Anglia would have been in 1964, the Sprite in 66, when I was 19!

 

[Oldlae]

My brother in law had an old Ford popular that breathed a lot from the crankcase,
he too fitted a piece of hose to take the problem to the back bumper.
All was well for a couple of days, then the crankcase cracked due to the back pressure!
Tony

 

[Bryan Allman]

My first car - a Morris Minor 1000 (oh the joy), had three 14" wheels and one 13" wheel - but the 13" wheel had a bigger tyre to compensate It also had a three inch nail as one of the terminals on the coil - much better connection

 

[V6Jimbo]

My Mk1 escort back in the day the speedo didn't work but you could see how fast you were going by looking at the road through the hole in the floor ........ wish i still had it.

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[Williamwoo]

The Morris had a very stiff clutch and hoping for a slick change up to top gear I used the steering wheel for leverage on the pedal only to discover that the nut holding the wheel on was missing.
The bloody thing came off in my hands, I had to realign the wheel with the splines while on the move.

I had a similar experience in my old Triumph Vitesse, although in this case I knew it didn't have the nut, as I'd taken it off a while previously in order to replace the original steering wheel with a smaller one (de rigueur for teenage drivers in the late seventies!). However, I couldn't get the old wheel to budge but never bothered to replace the nut. A few weeks of driving gradually loosened it however and it came off as I was going up St Michael's Hill in Bristol.
The car also had no reverse gear for much of the time I owned it, so I always tried to park on a hill (not too difficult in Bristol), facing uphill, using gravity to do the reversing for me. The fact that the car had the same unbelievably tight turning circle as the Herald was a big help too!

 

[Mattns]

The electric fuel pump packed in one night in my Austin Cambridge.
I rigged up the manual screen wash pump and got the missus to lie in the boot pumping up fuel all the way home. Lucky it was only 10 miles but the lass did well.

I did something similar on a Wolsley 1500 except I syphoned petrol out of the tank and used the washer bottle under the bonnet along with the screen wash pump, I think I must have had to fill it 3 or 4 times to drive the 30 miles home

 

[Mattns]

Pretty sure most BLMC cars of this vintage had SU (Skinners Union) electric fuel pumps.

Yes and when it stops ticking hit it with the wheel brace