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On 02/04/2024 at 08:29, busmansholiday said:

It's a Minx actually (Hunters generally had square headlights). 

 

Interestingly the Minx made it until 1983, the 'tina isn't listed so probably didn't make it to the computerisation of the system in 1975.

Round headlights on Hunters too for the first three years.

19 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Looks like a 2dr ford pubic hair next to the rover P6. Pretty rare even back then &is that a Jensen on the end under the lamp post.

With the rear of a princess 4litreR behind it one of two by the looks of it.

Jensen CV8, but that's a 3 litre mark two Princess. The one facing the camera is a 4 litre R.

10 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Rover France had some commemorative models made in Pewter and you see them listed on eBay.fr now and again.  They were of the 216 GTi, 216 GSi and 416 GTi.  They're about 2.5-3 inches long, so near 1:43.  Mounted on oval wooden plinths.

The Rover 216 GSi 16v in past listing eBay photos:

Rover 216 GTI 16v :

 

That must be what I saw in a Blackpool junk shop in 2018. Went again in 2020 and it hadn't moved,might be there still.

23 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Also notice the white rear wheel arches have a single raised rib.

I'm not going to sleep tonight now.

And I bet it looked and sounded the absolute business. Had an auto 420G until recently, always wondered what it'd be like with a manual box. Pretty fucking amazing car as it was tbf. Not as good as a decent S.1 XJ but then neither was anything else for twenty years or so. Personally I'd paint it all to match but whatever.Just hope it stays away from the oval,I've seen too many thus wasted.

On 12/3/2022 at 9:34 PM, morrisoxide said:

 

That yard is full of old chod. Is that a Landcrab hearse parked on the right? 

Edit:

Austin 3 liter Landcrab ambulance. The wonders of tinternet.

Can't be more than three or four left,very probably not that many. If that's the one I think it is, it's been circling the drain for a few years since its last owner (and short-term saviour) passed away. Pity about these things,they're actually an amazingly good steer but 9/10s of people are retards who have never even sat in one but believe it's terrible because they read it somewhere once.Most of the remaining ten per cent wear riggers and are proficient with a hiab.

4 hours ago, Cord Fourteener said:

      740 steps in again. 

 

And again.

And again.

There's your answer.

Fuck that other scrap off.

13 hours ago, stendec said:

The Burges, looking towards Cross Cheaping, Coventry . Picture taken from the Bishop St/Hales St/Corporation St junction.

'ello, 'ello, 'ello!
 

Very late (J or possibly K registered) Morris Oxford VI in El Paso beige 

20 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

 

 

 

 

I picked up a totally trashed example of the taxi way back in the early 1990s, with a view to restoring it - obviously that never happened...

It still hasn't.

36 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Apart from a Volvo Amazon (?) not a foreign car in sight.

Four VWs in that picture. Can't see an Amazon.

37 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Photo is 1966 

Not when there's a mark 1 Escort parked there it isn't.

6 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

 

Ah, wonderful, I love seeing people use the finest of panel beating tools to exist.....

A £3 pin hammer from Wilko, of course!

I'm sure* it was the little old lady that tried to repair* it as well....

About twenty years ago,some borderline crackheads a few doors down from me had a 205 1.9 GTI sitting on their driveway with fairly bad osr quarter damage. A mate of mine bought it against all available advice. When he turned up to pick it up,they were trying to knock the worst of the dent out from inside.

With a fucking brick. Seriously. I lost contact with him shortly afterwards but it didn't surprise me to see it in a scrapyard in Exhall about two years later looking even worse.

18 hours ago, angle said:

Significant amounts of want for this. 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/776230383738324/

I just hope that ends up restored and not ratmonged.

Sen this about a few times but not had the opportunity to get a picture until now. S and T reg examples were getting very scarce in England when we moved up here a couple of years ago,this is the oldest I've seen in Scotland by a country mile. Still looks pretty good for its age too.

On 5/30/2022 at 2:05 PM, J R Hartley said:

That was there on Tuesday too,since I was mildly annoyed I couldn't stop to snap it I'm pleased you did!

Which is also a 245 not a 242. Nice though.

On 5/15/2022 at 9:49 PM, maxxo said:

they have quite a following for what they are, certainly a lot more than their competition

i can see them being classics, certainly the early ones are almost there

as i always say, quite simply, they are very good

I'll happily second your last sentence. In need of a roomy machine after the deeply disappointing Transit Connect shat the bed again  we picked ours up from  a local garage last winter (elderly owner had passed away,widow didn't want to see it sitting on the driveway apparently) and it's been a great investment.  Spacious, comfortable,decent economy for a petrol auto and quite a bit more thoughtful design than I'd have expected. I freely admit I expected to dislike it but it's certainly grown on me and been an impressively useful tool,well worth the £250 asked for it. Still plenty of them knocking about locally too,which says something.

25 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Is Zippy okay 😆

Won't be riding his bike or sitting on a bar stool for a while.

As a result of mistranslation,the Skoda Fabia was nearly foisted on the public as the Labia. In spite of the last-minute correction and consequent rebadging,to this day they can usually be found in the vicinity of a cunt.

10 hours ago, sierraman said:

I hide diecast in my wardrobe as well... the wife goes mad. Fuck ‘em, every man has to have a hobby. 

Most of mine is in the loft,some in the attic over the barn,some more in the back bedroom (still not unpacked 15 months after we moved here..) and there's some dotted about in the garage too. I wouldn't be able to get away with a wardrobe stash,but this is the second house where I've been able to have a  diecast shelf in the kitchen. For anyone else who feels like trying this,it seems to help if you're at least a foot to eighteen inches taller than your partner..

30 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I'll echo the above about collecting diecast that is contemporary with my childhood.

Whilst I do love a Superfast or Corgi Juniors, they were actually fairly robust and of the many I had, a lot of them have survived to the present day.

Majorettes, while still robust, were not as widely available where I lived, Guisvals were only obtainable on holiday in Spain and Bburago or Polistil 1/24s were for birthdays and Christmases only. They also fell to bits if the wind changed.

So it's the latter toys that I love to collect, mainly those that I couldn't attain or just weren't available. 

The new Hot Wheels and Matchbox are great but it's the thrill of the chase I'm in it for. I just find them a little sterile.

Certainly agree with that, Buragos were a rare treat for me too ,which is why I still have most of my childhood examples. I had a few Majorettes and a few 1:43 Solidos as souvenirs when we began to take holidays abroad from about 1987 onwards, I don't recall them being readily available around Colchester in the eighties.

The thrill of the chase though,that just sums it up for me. Like most of us here I suspect,I've got a mental list of things my collection needs and it's a strange but pleasant feeling if/when I come across one of them. Probably never will tick them all off but I hope never to stop looking.

You may already know this,but there's a lovely period film on YouTube from about 1958/9 called In the Rover Tradition. It's largely concerned with the new 3-litre P5 but it gives an interesting insight into the no compromise quality and construction of Rover as it was,rather than the second-rate gasket-blowing fwd landfill which was later to bear the name. Well worth a watch, I'm afraid I'm not technically proficient enough to post a link.

I'm not sure I can answer the question of why I still like collecting older diecast, certainly until about eighteen months ago I hadn't bought any new Matchbox since about 1990 or so but as mentioned upthread some of them are too good to ignore for the price. Also,I wouldn't buy anything else out of Tesco because their food is mostly garbage I wouldn't inflict on my dog.

My little selection of sixties Corgi, Dinky and (very few) Spot-on is slightly easier to justify though,at least to myself. My Dad used to let me play with his own collection when I was very young (certainly while my mother was alive,so before I was four) and I've never forgotten just how fascinating I found them and the anticipation I used to feel when he'd go up into the loft and bring them down. The colourful boxes with the illustrations on and the cars themselves,at a time (early '80's) when the real things were rarely seen and usually downtrodden old bangers on their last MOT. Many years later my stepmother decided she'd relieve him of them so that set me off assembling a selection of my own, albeit in mostly worse condition than his were on  account of the ££ asked for mint and boxed stuff nowadays. They'll never be quite as good as the originals in my memory,but it's the best I can do.