D Spares & Tyres Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Well its in its new parking spot with some good company The door shuts are what I assume to be champagne beige. Not its original colour, it started life in red then some hero painted it beige then someone ( possibly a child ) painted in this fine hue.Here is a close up of her stretch marksPoor sad face, don't worry princess your future is assured vulgalour, Skizzer, eddyramrod and 23 others 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Excellent. By the way, I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French. somewhatfoolish, trigger, D Spares & Tyres and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 ....I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French.They say "PLAH", you say "PLASS",Let's call the whole thing off. Junkman, Pillock, egg and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 LHD wipers, just like my 1100! D Spares & Tyres 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 The VdP arrived the same year as my fave David Essex track, gonna make you a plah. Parky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Spares & Tyres Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 I imagine Plah owners get all excited about the tables....I've always said plass... The tables don't operate smoothly and there is some trim missing off the cupholders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Excellent. By the way, I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French.You're quite right, it's 'plass' and anyone who tells you different is RONG Shep Shepherd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Excellent. By the way, I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French.If it's cloggy then wouldn't it be Van Den Plash? Sigmund Fraud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 We have this discussion about Dutch etymology every time someone buys one of these. HMC, tooSavvy, Eddie Honda and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 also it's plah Junkman, Pillock, Sudsprint and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 It’s not it’s Plas, forget who told me now, or if I saw it on TV but some “experts” were discussing and reconed it was pronounced “Plas”. Might’ve been the antiquies road show, actually. Tbh I’ve always pronounced it “Plah” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 You're quite right, it's 'plah' and anyone who tells you different is RONG EFA Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 We have this discussion about Dutch etymology every time someone buys one of these.But it's standard Allegro chat. A bit like me pronouncing Equipe "wrong" at the NEC Classic Car show last year to my father-in-law. Out of nowhere a chap sprung up, tapped on my shoulder, told me I said it wrong and how to say it. Then buggered off. Only on the Allegro stand could that happen... Dick Longbridge, eddyramrod, drum and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 .... as in "Eh? - Keep". As far as I know... TS Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Spares & Tyres Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 I have never put that much thought into the pronunciation of it. Always called them Plass. Although I think I shall make a badge for the back that says Vanden Plarse Squire_Dawson, Skizzer and Tadhg Tiogar 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 It doesn't matter how Vanden Plas is pronounced correctly. What matters is that it has plah instead of map pockets. They_all_do_that_sir, Dick Longbridge, tooSavvy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saabnut Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 I have an original sales brochure for the VDP 1500 dated Sept '75. Yours for a couple of quid to cover the cardboard envelope and postage. MarvinsMom and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 It doesn't matter how Vanden Plas is pronounced correctly. What matters is that it has plah instead of map pockets.Which year did Plah become NLA? Not many people know that the three kings actually brought FOUR gifts to the baby Jesus: gold, frankincense, myrrh and plah. They saved the most precious until the end. Junkman, MarvinsMom and egg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 LHD wipers, just like my 1100! negative they were always that way round- bizzarely the left one reaches almost all the way over to the screen bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Great that this is getting some love. And it’s Flemish, not Dutch. You can add Guillaume Vanden Plas to your list of famous Belgians next time there’s a pub quiz. Junkman, Eddie Honda, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 negative they were always that way round- bizzarely the left one reaches almost all the way over to the screen bottom Sign of the times. Many 1970s cars put the blades at the bottom of the screen in front of the driver. See Hillman Hunter, BMC 1300 and Allegro - and Mini until the change in wiper design with the Clubman. They swapped them over for LHD. Australia was having none of this nonsense, which is why Volkswagen Type 2s had 'RHD' arms, and the down-under Triumph 2000 had Stag wipers. Yet, the Citroen Dyane had RHD whichever side the driver sat, though the GS/GSA had LHD wipers whichever side the driver sat. Most odd. This has baffled me since I was about two. I've had a lot of time to think about it. Skizzer, tooSavvy, Dirk Diggler and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Honda Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 You can add Guillaume Vanden Plas to your list of famous Belgians next time there’s a pub quiz. Alongside the Tin Tin bloke and Eddy Merckx? Shep Shepherd and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Excellent purchase! Which year did Plah become NLA? 1980 according to AROnline. I have the March 1976 brochure for this model in my Flickr photostream:https://www.flickr.com/photos/61090099@N04/albums/72157662758181068 Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Mmmm... see, you're making me wonder what's happening with this heap, last spotted in a relative's barn a number of years back... bet it's still there. Must check if it's map pockets or PLAH... D Spares & Tyres, Dick Longbridge, Shep Shepherd and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeEP Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Mmmm... see, you're making me wonder what's happening with this heap, last spotted in a relative's barn a number of years back... bet it's still there. Must check if it's map pockets or PLAH... Black plastic sill covers = series 2 = PLAH Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Alongside the Tin Tin bloke and Eddy Merckx? And Plastic Bertrand Tadhg Tiogar and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Alongside the Tin Tin bloke and Eddy Merckx? And Marc Dutroux. Shep Shepherd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Lest we forget Telex, the deliciously surreal Belgian synthpop band Sigmund Fraud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Poirot. Shep Shepherd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Spares & Tyres Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 Jean Claude Van den? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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