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  1. Last year my Dad, who should know better as a former lorry driver, got home from a trip to Wickes in his Disco . To discover his little trailer complete with bags of pea shingle wasn’t there ! He retraced his route and found it in a hedge completely undamaged except for the plug pulled out of the electrics. Luckily it came off on a quiet lane not the busy town or bit of dual carriageway he’d driven down, no idea how it stayed on going toWickes either as he obviously hadn’t put it on properly.
  2. Yes, I rented a car trailer off the Old Boy ( I can’t remember his name) that lives in the bungalow on the opposite side of the road a couple of years ago. The side with the Maestros was his Mothers house and I think his cousin now lives there, they were both out planting things when I went past too , maybe I was following @Bmwdumptruck! The Marinas are still there, just engulfed in other scrap and brambles, you can just about see the back of an Ital saloon from the road in the winter. I chatted to him about the BL stuff and he mentioned his Mum only travelling in the back of Marinas, they bought a Princess once and it made her sick- it was dumped down the yard when it was only a couple of years old apparently. He drives a Transit pickup now but there was a Proton Jumbuck that looked as if it might move in there , well in 2020 it did. I was desperate to explore and take pictures but he seemed very private and I only was allowed on the premises and to rent his trailer because I knew one of his nephews, nice bloke though. Just had look on Google Earth and the yard is massive and full of cars and buildings, I only went in the bit nearest the road which is full of scrap and caravans, it looks like there’s no other access to the rest of it, presumably stuff has been down there for years.
  3. It was a classic Jag specialist in Hinckley, always had half a page ad in T&CC. I think he made the Nazi Staff cars used in Raiders of the Lost Ark out of butchered MK10s too.
  4. I seem to remember Buick having to rename the Lacrosse in Canada because it meat wank in a local dialect.
  5. When you get bored of the Corgi Land Rover I’ll give it home to go with the canopy-less one you previously supplied. Which brings me to todays big arrival, or as my wife pointed out;probably my favourite present I’ll get for my 60th ! Yes, a Cogbox. And as usual I’d forgotten what was in it, the Fiat was a total surprise. The Cortina the only one I’ll be getting for my birthday as MrsN can’t find one ,of any mark, worth buying in 1:1 so far. Well not this side of £8,000 anyway.
  6. If nobody else has requested this , could I have it please. Seeing this reminded me of having one as a kid, also if you’d be so kind as to remind me what you’re holding for me( I can only recall a Corgi Cortina estate) and what I owe you including p&p id better settle up as I’ll be unemployed at the end of the month and asking Mrs N for money for toy cars doesn’t seem a sensible course of action.
  7. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116069748826?itmmeta=01HPRQFVV4SBJ2JQSTQNSJE020&hash=item1b064bd05a:g:ONcAAOSwCFdlzj-b&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4NaaXEBYpy26E30QsX1NzI9FF7iYEXuRRpKlwdNHTXBgTm6JymnS0OH4CLMU6X9mcc9dDHQ4O4U9PaV5a%2Bev2SXAVmc0mWH9sj8uNCumz6xias%2FjM0fYXz9crLx7a%2BYwG1LTrwe2jyPoC7IIiQHyRN60Qf8hm%2BC4BPacKnTKnJWoTlBxlDAryh%2F0dQgA8%2Fhbw9xyW2tRKuOxFkWtEuL5nXTdEAh4lxJFBJXlJKjr4lx%2Bzde1toNIDMKocOccY6pK1Ol93zM%2FZZK028qbMVvEVsCS4PAytPuF1d%2F90%2BZi7PeT|tkp%3ABk9SR9K9v5e2Yw
  8. Or maybe a year later when the D Series was launched.
  9. She was going to try and speak to an actual human this afternoon . Updates to follow.
  10. My youngest changed her SLK for an e92 325i a couple of weeks ago and was pleased that her insurance only went up £15 per month for the remainder of her policy , which expires in July. Yesterday she received this ; Contrary to what it says her new payment had gone up by £15 , now they want another £30 per month, taking it to £80, more than doubling what she was paying. If they’d given her this price originally she might not have bought the BMW. I know it’s been said before, but, bunch of cunts.
  11. That reminds me I once had a rental Crusader estate 1.6 in brown long after the Sierra launch and I was surprised how nice it was, I think I preferred it to Sierras I’d had previously . Probably because early Sierra L s were a bit Spartan and cold inside.
  12. Not anoraky enough , now tell us which colours had body colour grille and which had chrome bumpers 😊
  13. This was on eBay for weeks with a buy it now price of £3250, it actually sounds alright and even at £3750 is at the lower end of what some chancers are trying to get for Mk3s. As I’m a weirdo it would be more appealing to me with its original cloth and steels.
  14. This is particularly pertinent for me at the moment, I’m 60 in a weeks time and MrsN wants to buy me a “ Classic Car” I’d like an early Range Rover or a MK1 Granada, but the available budget is only £5,000 that would get me into a lopsided P38 or a scabby Scorpio, neither of which hold much appeal . Similarly I couldn’t justify to myself £4/5k for an average Sierra or dodgy Mk4 Cortina. She was trying to talk me into an MGB after seeing @SiC’s at the weekend, but I’ve seen how little use my Dad’s TR4 gets due to his Mrs struggling to get in and out of it and I moan about how low our E Class is, now! I’ve found myself looking at the aforesaid 50’s stuff that’s coming down in value but if I was to have a P4, Wolesley14/44 or MO Oxford , I’d want it to be perfect not usable or oily rag and they’re not getting cheap if really nice. Which brings me to late 80’s early 90’s executive stuff, when new if I had the choice of a Sierra for the weekend or a W124 or XJ40 , did I take the Sierra ? Did I bollocks, I’d have been cruising down the M50 at 130 wondering where I was going to allocate the fuel to on Monday morning. So why would I pay more money for less car now ? Also even when they were 10 a penny or even free , I was never a fan of the 80’s hot hatches my peers are willing to throw tens of thousands at to regain lost youth. Whisper it , but a BMW 535 is ten times the car a Cossie is, I know I was there.
  15. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266667137912?hash=item3e16999b78:g:kAwAAOSwwjVlx5gn&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwD4Av1nKFLP7dLX1FPjWR2pat6MeZ%2BW7tpDYkbwK1%2BL5nIn%2Bn%2FRvPSSqzI4%2FW2c%2FuZZLtRKKAm%2FgwScpE%2BmQwtYq6LnVcojn4IifSgOIiH1f6KnJ199CTL4Jv5Rsq0aFJSqt%2B10RSajeAP1tII3Bb7T69r5lZflp9RgN%2Bvt67HIgI3U%2BVeiQxM5Z7NpKcFTpePsQCuVG%2FS%2FEbgHnlxfeLoLL0NhvaDGGtGNHwH7aggIK4FX1Z82T80tAoRbIgaZZsQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4rI_-6zYw seems a bit of T-Cut and some pictures has already doubled the value of the ex-bollox Zephyr since that shit Geordie auction. Don’t tell @jmsguzzi how easy it is or that bargain W124 won’t be a bargain anymore.
  16. For years I didn’t know Zebrano was an actual tree, I just assumed it was Mercedes term for fake wood, like MB-Tex was for fake leather.
  17. Ringers, the numbers were still showing as VW Caravelles on the day of the funeral. Just checked and they still are ! It seems JLR jumped in with an opportunistic product placement for the funeral knowing millions would see them, the Palace just stuck the plates on for the day and the Rangies went back afterwards, any Range Rovers you see being used by Royals since are not that colour.
  18. Whilst the stability is promising, I think it has more to do with the value of Cossies rather than anything else.
  19. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276306106534?hash=item40552098a6:g:B7oAAOSwnVJltROH&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwJo0lWUz%2BgWvOUHfznIWy%2FSOas%2BBcMfxUbYRHRng7XVay9ZtLBqGPCNlAQHGfZDgzZB7nhruAfl1oujm9O7cTjFW5owfjsTdxVI%2FB8q7dXA4bCBhonzVhH2SoWtt08P2V0%2FFApj9Jlv7NSJb3P8TptCB%2FMzV5pOhfRWOYMyMZucrN509L%2FrDZhMNRH%2FoGgIRYcBwueOCT9L5uLxWOT08hGy2yRvbbBGWloCbPtkPQY72nQRLGmF3kW3zHZcAnUI2Cw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7bEn8CpYw No treble
  20. Because I’m cool I used to paint my fog lights yellow, using Stained Glass Paint from Hobby raft. I can’t remember when I stopped, probably when I went almost 100% German about 8 years ago. Heres one of the last I remember 10 years ago.
  21. I seem to remember the Berlin was always the most expensive stereo in the Mercedes price list, this in the days when even an S Class didn’t come with a standard radio. I occasionally drove an X reg 735i SE that had a gooseneck graphic equaliser, it belonged to the retired chairman of the company I worked for, must have been about 1988. Im sure it wasn’t either of these, so there must have been at least 3 different ones.
  22. HMC and his chauffeur outside Tavistock School , today.
  23. Seriously, I thought small arch Shadow 1’s had progressed beyond the Wedding car/ white Dulux, Banger Racer, HMC level to become bona-fide classics.
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