S2,restoration

[4129R]

I can remember the Dagenham Girl Pipers, but I don't think there was 90 of them in Asda car park in Dagenham (the Detroit of Essex).

The TVR Tuscan or Grantura was from that era, as was the Clan Crusader, the Ginetta, the Mini Marcos, the Marcos which had I think either a 1600 or V6 3 litre, the Mrcos Mantis, the Davrian, the Darrian

Where have all the fun cars gone now? Legislation or just not economic to make hem any more. The demise of TVR was very sad as they made a good product until Russian intervention made hem go out of business.

[Serge]

That piper looks great! Hadn't heard of them before.

I found a clip of the 1970 sports car show, showing a Piper GTT and a Europa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pT9NkCQQXY

Serge

[Piper an]

Yes went to donnington good turn out of pipers liked vid will see if this works pipers on rd ex chief club man car now in Japan Derek
Can't seem to load it any wayutube pipers on rd

[Piper an]

Hi Brian the piper is leaving this weekend leading me a merry dance I think it's trying to tell me something ,didn't realise been off rd 4 years due to illness clutch stuck engine wouldn't fire despite electronic ign got it all running lovely master switch fails all together now we been together for 40 years and it don't seem a day to much ! Derek

[EuropaTC]

 

Now that's a '60s car interior, yards of black leathercloth, more switches and dials than a 747 and barely enough room to move once you're inside.....   who needs airbags, you're not going anywhere once you've made it into the seat !

4yrs is a long time for webers to stand idle, these days the petrol in mine seems to evapourate and gum up much quicker than it ever used to do.  40yrs is a long time to stick with something though, that's going to leave a big hole in the toy box.

Brian

[Piper an]

hi serge good find on video clip re piper/ Europa ,when I bought piper all those years ago didn't know to buy that or Renault alpine 110 worth huge money now Derek

[Piper an]

did a little on s2

[Chuck Nukem]

The surgery went well doctor!

[Piper an]

yes DR Waterfall of coarse !

[Piper an]

taking dash out  to sort cracked vanish every thing. rusted. nearly there will post pics Derek

[Piper an]

a few pics rusty rev counter

[EuropaTC]

 

It may be rusty, but it's still got the "smiths guarantee" sticker on it, which will probably be worth a fortune on Ebay !  It looks like a classic case of finding a broken one on Ebay for pennies and transplanting the dial, needle & innards...   or maybe converting with one of those spiyda kits just in case you fancy changing to a non-standard ignition ?

( https://www.spiyda.com/magento/index.php/smiths-rvi-rvc-conversion-board.html )

[Piper an]

i will clean rev counter up insides look ok Derek

[Piper an]

Hi all went to piper club AGM heritage centre Gaydon 2016 50 years anniversary piper cams & piper car im still associate member good day and a look around museam few pics off the pipers del

[BDA]

Pretty cars and apparently very rare! Looks like a nice intimate event!