lesapandre
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3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:
Austin/Rover and their USA Thanksgiving Turkeys.
Add the Atlantic, P6, Sterling, Marina et al.
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And it's got pinstripes.
Maybe reunite plane and car sometime. Or just settle for the kit:
https://jbarhobbies.com/products/cessna-402-b-1-72-resin-kit-by-gremlin
People clearly had quite a 'lifestyle' right at the top of the cotton and clothes manufacturering trades. Mostly gone in the 80's when it all went abroad.
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13 hours ago, bezzabsa said:
RE Rolls Royce pins stripes, My YTS was in Dudley next door to the then RR dealer, saw a RR pull in one day with an old geezer in the back - got out holding a small wooden 'case' , found out later off the mechanics he was THE RR pin striper was 88 and they wouldn't let him retire...watched him do the stripe on 1 side in 1 stroke.. this was 1982 and he was on £100 Per Stripe...NOT car but stripe, so Easy £200 and fully chauffeured everywhere too
And here is the current pinstriper in the pinstriper tradition:
https://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/autos/rolls-royce-stripe-painter/
- rainagain, Vantman, yes oui si and 1 other
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37 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:
Your fun* fact of the day is that Aston Martin Virage is an anagram of 'Vast Rotarian minge'. Talking of which...
Not been serviced for 13 years apparently...
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2 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:
From the documentary 'Rufford Ford - The Early Years'.
- DSdriver, Remspoor and MiniMinorMk3
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Doctors often wilfully neglect their cars as they are so busy with the sick.
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On 19/02/2024 at 22:49, eddyramrod said:
Some spottings "in the wild..."
Those XK120 Jags are so beautiful. Why did it all go wrong Jaguar recently?
The Sunbeam-Talbot 90 is another beautiful car.
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3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
L.P. Hartley : 'The Go-Between'.
INDEED
- DSdriver, Richard_FM and MiniMinorMk3
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8 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:
What is it with the number obsfercation on banger cars?
Is it one of those new life skills people have like texting while driving or being funny on Snapchat?*
*I've never used Snapchat or indeed put my whole life story on Facebook (my phone is now prompting me with the word 'marketplace') begone I say...
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On 21/02/2024 at 17:26, egg said:
£1500 RS2000, hey hey you can get shells for these now right? Ring Ring!
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/218362734635811/
Well it looks like an RS. These are upwards of £40,000+ restored. Would need to be done very carefully to retain as many original parts as possible.
Seems incredible*
* Oxford English Dictionary: Incredible
"Such as it is difficult to believe in the possibility of, or to realize; said esp. of a quantity, quality, number, etc., of a degree beyond what one would a priori have conceived as possible; inconceivable."
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33 minutes ago, egg said:
A bench seat on a1972 saloon car. Is that the last UK use? (there will be vans and lots of US cars continuing with that arrangement)
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9 minutes ago, SEATMad said:
Description written by AI or at least a human AI but I'd guess the former...
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On 21/02/2024 at 09:04, D.E said:
A hot rod - that is frankly crazy. Seems very cheap and should be enjoyed for what it is. Probably great fun to drive.
Cars like this should be preserved.
- Blunderguts and richardmorris
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16 hours ago, egg said:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/755103402948035/
I keep hoping someone here will buy one of these miseries.
Dawlish - by Sean O'Betjeman
Bird-watching drivers along the old sea wall,
Down here at Dawlish where the slow Citroens crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more:
Red cliffs rising where the wet sands run,
Gulls reflecting in the sharp spring sun;
Pink-washed plaster by the garage door,
Ilex shadows upon the folding roof:
What interiors those names suggest!
Except you can't get in because the doors are ****ed.
Tell me about: Triumph Mayflower
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Looks super. They were deemed a failure by Triumph at the time but still sold 35,000 in four years which ain't bad.
I really like their big car in miniature looks. I saw one in use in South London recently.
Unibody construction and all hydraulic brakes - so not as fusty as it looks. Austin A30/5 suffered with hydo-mechanical to 1959!
Bravo!