Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Number 27" channel.

  1. These cars were absolute crap. So you can manage the steering wheel with just finger tips? Big deal - I could do the same with an ordinary Ford Falcon, costing a faction of the price. In my State, the local RAC used to publish each year statistics on breakdown callouts. The Jag XJ's topped the list. The RAC got about as many callouts for XJ12's as they did for Holdens - yet there were about 1000 times as many Holdens than XJ12s on the roads. Not only did XJ's fail to proceed, the power windows only lasted a few years too. Great - drive to work, and you can't lock it up. So fresh air is taken in from just above the headlights? Typical English car - getting air from low down on the very front - so you get exhaust fumes from the car in front. Just like my mother's Morris Major, which also got air from low down in the front grille - but at least the Morris Major was fairly reliable.
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  2. this guy is hilarious. He starts of by saying that Triumph had to come up with something to replace the Vanguard, and shows us a picture of the Vanguard 1951 Phase 1 model. What about the later Renown or the ponton Phase II? The Phase 3 and 1960's Ensign? Then he said that the 2 L engine came about by adding 2 cylinders to an 800 cc four. He said the 2.5 PI was "sprightly" with a powerful engine by 1969 standards. Only a Britisher could say that. Most of us in 1969 were driving cars with sixes at least 3 litres and some had V8's up to 5 litres or more. He says the 2.5 PI has a lovely burble to it. That is 100% due to the design of the exhaust system. All straight 6's fundamentally sound the same. If this one burbles, it is because the owner went to an exhaust shop and asked for a burbly exhaust system. 2.5 PI's were made from 1968 to 1977, not just 1969 as the presenter said. However, local assembly in countries such as Australian stopped after 1969 as they were not competitive. For the same price you could in 1969 get an extremely reliable Mercedes with far more refinement. He is right about the poor reliability though, although almost all British cars had poor reliability, electric fuel pumps being a major failure point. That is because they all had crappy Lucus British-made electrics.
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  3. At 3:09 he said dual circuit brakes was an unnecessary complication. In most countries it was a legal requirement for all new cars.
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