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1. They should go to jail for this <shakes fist at screen>. Off with their heads.
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2. They may be spared jail time, but why TF would you do this?
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3. Don't mind it.
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4. (Quoting someone else)If the technology were available to them at the time, this would’ve been electric. Torque and smooth, silent running have always been Rolls ideals
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5. I literally couldn't care less (OUS edition). aka "meh".
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6. I literally could care less (US edition)
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7. Don't you own a Phantom mik? Yes - a Devialet one.
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8. Wow this is really quite long option with rather a lot of words (whilst managing to avoid sesquipedalianism), which might initially build your hopes that it could be your perfect option - but ultimately doesn't say anything.
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9. Whereas this one is shorter, but still doesn't say anything.
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10. Bob
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E-Phantom

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Possibly also FTAO @JonathanE

New powerplant designed to look "period".
Conversion apparently fully reversible.

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Meh.
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Jobbo wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:52 amMeh.
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None of the options is sufficiently meh.
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I am put in mind of Adam and Joe's excellent jingle for Text The Nation:
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Jobbo wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:09 pm None of the options is sufficiently meh.
I think you'll find that's blatantly untrue sir.
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On the whole, cars before the 60s or so don't really interest me - so go for it, slap a jet engine on it if you want.
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Rich B wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 2:58 pm On the whole, cars before the 60s or so don't really interest me - so go for it, slap a jet engine on it if you want.
Now you're talking.
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I don’t hate it, but I don’t really want it either.

Even given lots of money and lots of space I doubt I’d have anything prewar unless it was a hotrod or could find my grandads old sunbeam I played in as a child.
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I think it’s a good idea, the engines were nothing special back then, they are a twat to start and in the modern world are dangerously slow.
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It’s massively more interesting than any Tesla
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Zonda_ wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:14 pm the engines are a twat to start and in the modern world are dangerously slow.
Actually - replacing a 120bhp IC engine with a 200bhp motor in a car with vintage brakes could be quite interesting.
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mik wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 9:49 pm
Zonda_ wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:14 pm the engines are a twat to start and in the modern world are dangerously slow.
Actually - replacing a 120bhp IC engine with a 200bhp motor in a car with vintage brakes could be quite interesting.
Regenerative braking added, I presume, old chap?
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IanF wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 10:26 pm
mik wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 9:49 pm
Zonda_ wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:14 pm the engines are a twat to start and in the modern world are dangerously slow.
Actually - replacing a 120bhp IC engine with a 200bhp motor in a car with vintage brakes could be quite interesting.
Regenerative braking added, I presume, old chap?
Yes that’s a fair point MrF.
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A few cars are defined by their engine.

But most aren't, EV conversions all good to get them on the road rather than locked away.

Can't help but feel sad that my mum's 1960 Pug 203 that rotted away in the shed with a seized piston would have been an ace EV.
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That will be a squeaky rattle noisy car now that the engine thrum and noise is gone. I just don’t get it at all.

They were incredibly reliable and beautifully made in their day.

Dave!
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