jonny69 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Spotted these pics from the 1987 gayle on Facebook by someone using the internet handle "Gavin Bushby". Someone here might recognise that name from their old CB days. I don't recognise any of the places or people, even the one-legged ledge in the sheepskin. (Edit: it's South Bucks) danthecapriman, laser wheels, greengartside and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Had this been in America, the cars would be only slightly dented and the houses reduced to splinters. danthecapriman, laser wheels, mercrocker and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetleysmooth Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 This was a mate of mine, Geoff Barnett, on the Orwell Bridge. He escaped unhurt. We had to question his sanity, trying to get from Felixstowe to Thurrock on a morning like that.Empty container too.Geoff is sadly no longer with us. Magnificent Rustbucket, trigger, Shep Shepherd and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael1703 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Excellent pics, I remember the neighbour across the roads garage door started flapping and eventually the garage wall went and the roof crushed his mk1 Tina 2 door Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vin Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Great pics. 8) Gavin Bushby - If it's the same one, I've met him once or twice. His Adriatic blue Fiat 127 was at the recent 'Festival of the Unexceptional'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 That Volvo didn't fare too well eh. Remember watching an 8' fence panel fly past me like it was a crisp packet. One of those tower cranes was spinning round like a top. Scary stuff but kind of fun. Sadly folk died. Not very fun at all part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappy Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I was a year old and despite being right in the damage path in Kent I slept through it. It might be my mind playing tricks on me, but from seeing the damage pics in the past I seem to recall a mildly biffed Fiesta and then someone finding out that it's still on the road somewhere. Don't think it was any of the 1s here though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiggy Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Seems like yesterday, and it`s nearly 30 years ago. I was living in Manchester at the time. and the damage there was nowhere near as bad as it was in the South. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfetta Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I was living near Grantham at the time, don't recall much win there either.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themildbunch Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I took my first driving test in Goucester on the afternoon of the 15th October '87 as it was just starting to get breezy! I failed... michael t 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 The Renault 5 pic in particular makes me sad. oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I remember footage on the news showing a renualt driving into a tree - and the revving of the engine as the tree stopped it. michael t and Shep Shepherd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doobietoo Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I was living on the isle of wight and we had waves in the loo from the wind !!!! My lasting memory was of looking down the back of a row of terraces not something you could normally do unless every back garden fence had gone.... and seeing IOW ferry staff carrying bin bag after bin bag of broken cups and plates off the ferry that was caught in the storm..... purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 How tough is that Bluebird? Dick Longbridge and brickwall 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Very little happened in North Wales either. It's always blowy there anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 How tough is that Bluebird? Very, it would appear. According to VLA of D, it remained on the road until January 1990.Edit: Even the RenOH Trafic sat on its side lived until '93. They don't build them like they used to etc. mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise2cv Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Nice to see Griff Rhys Jones isn't too upset about his Manta. Also blue 304 break, Y U in all teh pics? (well, 2 of them). chaseracer, brickwall and martc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I slept through it all too but i was only 7 at the time. I can remember trees being uprooted outside the house and our ridge tiles laying on the path outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey spud Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I had just started work at pug dealer in rochester the week previous and went to work the morning after to find a glass roof panel had blown off the workshop roof and shattered on the open bonnet of a 504 pick up I was changing a waterpump on.Owner of the 504 was given the parts departments 504 to use while his was repainted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inconsistant Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I passed my test about 3-4 days after it in the town formally known as Sevenoaks. When I had to do the reversing around a corner there was so much debris in the road I couldn't see the kerb, I remember the examiner said "Er, just do the best you can". michael t, Magnificent Rustbucket and Shep Shepherd 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 In 1987 I had a Vitesse in a bodyshop just outside Aylesbury, I had a call from the owner to come and move my car as the gable end of the building was rocking. I got there in a howling gale and moved the car out of the workshop. While I was still in the car park the end of the building fell in missing my car the other cars including the 1950s Mercedes 190 convertible that had been in there and all people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf892 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I remember it well! I worked for a small haulage company as the only fitter - the workshop was a steel frame with a canvas tilt over it. No rates payable on that....boss was a bit tight! On this day I was sent out to the M1 to do a puncture on the hard shoulder (too tight to pay for tyre firm). My vehicle for this mission was a 7.5 D series box. On the way to the M1 I was blown about and one side rear wheels left the ground a few times....... On arrival I found it was o/s front puncture so I would be working with my arse in lane 1. I started to undo the wheel nuts with the driver as a look out. Then I looked down the motorway and saw the number of trucks going between lane 1 and the hard shoulder and realised it was madness so I promptly hopped in my truck and retired to Newport Pagnell services and rang the boss to tell him there was no way I was changing his bloody tyre. scruff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 That just looks like they've chopped some wood and stacked it on some poor blokes car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 The Opel Manta with flying-jacket man survived until 1990. The squashed Cortina underneath was in Ipswich IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 A few of those shots are Brighton, where we got some of the worst of it. The Pug 304/Sierra and iirc the yellow Beetle too, maybe some others My upstairs neighbour locked herself in a wardrobe with a bottle of gin for the duration anonymous user, DSdriver, Shep Shepherd and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scruff Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I remember being woken up by the brick wall in the garden falling over. Worthing got it fairly hard, beach huts were turned into matchsticks etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scruff Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Nice to see Griff Rhys Jones isn't too upset about his Manta. Also blue 304 break, Y U in all teh pics? (well, 2 of them). Same road, looks like he's moved to let Mr Gamble's (RIP) crane in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Fucking dubbers with their fucking trees on their roofracks. Tayne, needforspeed, AlabamaShrimp and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Check out the STANCE Y0! mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I can remember this, we got a day off school. Our family car (Rover SD1 2600) remained unscathed despite there being a few trees down our road. Great pics jonny....... That E-reg gold Montego must of been practically brand new in the 9th pic down!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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