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15 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Silly Moo

Are there any udder jokes?

16 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

A rabbit opened a breakfast cafe near us.

I went a few times but every time I ordered hot food, he got the order wrong, it happened to other people too and eventually it closed down.

Sad to think his business was finished off by mixing my toasties.

Business Peter'd out?

2 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

No idea - have the driver Woolarding

Old main entrance at Pinewood Studios. Home of the James Bond set.

5 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Custer chair

one of the few (if not only?) Powered invalid carriages to come out of the US  

Any survive do you think @LightBulbFun?  

Some info on the inventor here:

https://blogs.libraries.wright.edu/news/outofthebox/2012/12/21/levitt-luzern-custer-inventions/

8 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I remember there was a very good drama made about Donald Campbell in the late 1980s with Anthony Hopkins in the lead role.

He drove an E-Type with the registration DC7 in it.

GLM 37C and DC7 were the same car. [Thought the film car probably had a made-up plate put on for the filming]

Explained here:

https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?t=1397

The personal plate DC7 still in use on another car.

7 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Donald Campbell's house I presume. The E-Type was his. 

The vehicle on the right is a prototype land speed car, Bluebird Mach 1.1 (CMN-8) he was developing at the time of his death in the Bluebird watercraft.

Really the bravest of the brave. The new Bluebird had a designed top speed of 800mph+.

I've seen the middle land speed car close-to. Amazing thing.

It's the photographer Maurice Rowe I think:

https://www.goodwood.com/grr/columnists/doug-nye/doug-nye-remembering-motorsport-photographer-legend-maurice-rowe/

The signed picture has some value as he was well respected. Well worth £48 IMHO.

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/25454/lot/89/the-maurice-rowe-photographic-archive-offered-for-sale-with-full-copyright-qty/

On 13/04/2024 at 15:54, egg said:

Here was my 1.3 GL, sold for £300-400 in 2004 with a whiny diff. My Mondeo is older now (31) than the Escrote was then (28)

Looks like the people behind had just found a dead body in the camper?

14 hours ago, Austat said:

Warwick, 1972.

Was also a popular spot with Standard/Triumph - they used it for various car adverts...

18 minutes ago, D.E said:

That's not AI - that's true. They were driving over to pick up Elvis who was living in a red double-deck bus on their way out of the studio to get a burger.

On 11/04/2024 at 21:28, flat4alfa said:

That's the film where Gollum doesn't bother about the ring he lost but goes to open a bar in Goa instead.

On 06/04/2024 at 19:42, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Q - I think your ejector-seat needs more work . 

On 11/04/2024 at 15:22, Stinkwheel said:

Some crackers there.

 

Dave Clark Five Jaaaaag

That's the title track to their film.

"Catch Us If You Can" - a piece of 60's existential culture - directed by John Boorman. Not the kind of thing you expect a pop band of the era to make. Stars Yootha Joyce too.

Up there with Michelanglo Antonioni's "Blow Up" as great 60's films.

Worth a view.

I'm going to go over £1500...what's Labour now.. £150ph?

Yup - British Leyland are going to get £350M a week too.

I saw it on the side of a (Leyland National) bus.

18 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Matra P17

Which went on to be the Espace for Renault which were made by Matra for them.

9 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Something about that strikes me as odd, I've seen it countless times before posted under the guise of different police forces/traffic squads etc

Yes. The driver would not be 'reported'. First off the whole shebang would be impounded and my hunch being so serious the driver arrested for a short time and changed with dangerous driving.

Looks a bit photoshopped/posed as the tow bar fixing to the truck looks odd, the back bumper appears coming off the Toyota etc.

Chevrol-hair anyone?

On 06/04/2024 at 16:53, LightBulbFun said:

Awesome to see the pair out and about once more! I hope @dollywobbler was able to get a better/closer look at Brian this time, I still really want to see him do a hubnut review of a Villiers machine

I just hope I can be a part of it somehow to make sure all the facts and figures are nice n true  

 

interesting that be a pretty early Acedes, note the lack of front indicators  speaking of I recently came across this curious period advert for them in an old news paper

very curious from a couple points, because this is the first advert I have seen for an AC machine, I had heard they did put adverts out but I had never seen one until this one

 

and the other couple things is the wording of the advert "the Acedes as supplied to the Ministry of Health is now Available for private sale" and this advert is dated to 1961, which also coincides with the earliest Private Acedes that are known to have existed or survive 

and it most curiously indicates that at first the ministry had an exclusive supply of the machines, that AC was explicitly not selling them privately for the first couple years (its thought the Acedes was introduced in 1957)

 

the other very interesting thing is the fact, the machine shown in the advert is two tone! which is very curious for an Acedes I have never seen a two tone acedes pictured, but curiously one of the earliest private machines I know about as having existed, is registered as two tone with the DVLA

193VPK is registered as mauve and white, I always thought that was an outlier but seeing as the one in the advert is also two tone, perhaps it was something AC offered for private customers?

Yes possibly duo-colour to differentiate them from the Ministry ones?

I expect the Ministry took all the production capacity in the first couple of years?