we had an old pale blue special too i think, one fully fitted out with vacuum brakes for towing, it would`nt pull the skin off a rice pudding, it had no compression, you`d be sitting there at the traffic lights watching all your compression(blowby) wafting out from the engine breather under car drifting over the other cars
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i used to call it the battleship because it handled like one, not a bad old thing though, if you like it by all means, more toys is good
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