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2026. 9. 23. 작업

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Let's start with a confession... Sharing this is not just about enlightening those few who might be interested in an obscure French car that most people have never heard of; I'm hoping it might also be therapeutic for me...a kind of virtual psychiatrist's couch!For many of my friends I am defined by my efforts to return a Facel Vega HK500 to the road. Conversations with them will barely last a couple of minutes before they pop the inevitable question...'How's the Facel coming along?' At that point I usually delve deep into the book of excuses or try to change the subject! It hasn't been an eas

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Well I never! I didn't expect the level of interest you guys have shown so far.Thanks for all the comments and encouragement. As I am now realising, it is quite difficult to start a Reader's Cars thread 22 years in! I'll try and run through events in a chronological order as far as I can remember them...I'll get on to the next installment this evening, but first a few answers...fftm, chunkychucky and Cambs_Stuart; thank you for the encouragement!Jhonno and B'stardChild; maybe going public will force more progress. The real issue though is that whilst I understand fairly well how cars work, attach me to the end of a spanner and I'm hopeless. That being the case, progress has been driven by three things; finding someone capable of coping with the bizarre and sometimes formidable complexity of these hand built cars, the availability of money to pay them and access to their time. It is the last of these three that has determined the pace of progress over the last seven years and that is really frustrating.When I read a thread like gary71's My 911T I'm just in awe. He welds his car, he fixes the mechanical bits, he writes well and to top it all, he takes amazing photos. That thread is the benchmark and actually was the catalyst for me to embark on this.RC1807; the engine in this manual car is a 361cu in Chrysler motor with 'wedge' combustion chambers, specifically used in the De Soto Adventurer. De Soto rated it at 345hp (SAE gross). That wasn't quite enough for Facel which immediately claimed 360hp. It is very doubtful that anything was done to justify the higher figure. For reference, the manual cars had dual four barrel Carter carbs, the autos had a single carb and were rated at 305hp (De Soto) but 330hp by Facel. Sometime during 1959 Chrysler started supplying the updated 383cu in engine. It seems that Facel didn't notice for a while and so the exact change over point is lost in the mists of time!With regard to the Morris Oxford, I was very careful with my wording! I