hillman minx - Page 2

iandouglas · 08-03-2009, 23:24

years later when myself and a mate ran a garage we used to rent out cars by the day one of which was a hillman super minx .
we rented it to some fishermen to go up to whitby , it got them there ok but snapped a conrod on the way back , they drove it back the rest of the way 70 miles on 3 cylinders, i stripped it down and found the rod had snapped just above the big end and the piston had been thrown up to top of cylinder and there it stayed I put the bonnet down and sent it off to the scrap yard.

08-03-2009, 23:24	#16
iandouglas Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Vehicle: LANDROVER Disco 300TDI Posts: 1,802	hillman minx years later when myself and a mate ran a garage we used to rent out cars by the day one of which was a hillman super minx . we rented it to some fishermen to go up to whitby , it got them there ok but snapped a conrod on the way back , they drove it back the rest of the way 70 miles on 3 cylinders, i stripped it down and found the rod had snapped just above the big end and the piston had been thrown up to top of cylinder and there it stayed I put the bonnet down and sent it off to the scrap yard.