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How fab must this have been in 1966?  Wow.  And the burbly Chrysler 6.3 V8 twin-pipe soundtrack.
I remember seeing and hearing one on Union Street, Aberdeen mid 70s when I was about 8 and it was a WTF moment. 
Many of my school drawings and watercolours in the late 70s had an Interceptor in there, even in drawings of flowers or included in drawings from  a 2-week school trip to Iona (a tiny island on which I think the only vehicle apart from tractors appeared to be a Mk1 Escort van) and ancient Iona Abbey, (much to the annoyance of my teachers). 
I was quite good at drawing Interceptors.  They weren't very difficult to do.

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Got the new house in some semblance of order, and now watching Eurovision with a few drinks and a late late buffet dinner.

Feeling alright for the first time in months.

Open your door onto her car as hard as you can. Keeps it fair.

Open your door onto her car as hard as you can. Keeps it fair.

Open your door onto her car as hard as you can. Keeps it fair.

Open your door onto her car as hard as you can. Keeps it fair.

Open your door onto her car as hard as you can. Keeps it fair.

Spot On MG PB. I had a number of Spot Ons. Including a milk float, Sunbeam Alpine, Ford Zephyr and bubble car.  I recall a I had an old shop which could have also been Spot made. All of these have disappeared. The range were my favourites. The detail and eh weight of each model was better than those offered by the other two manufactures of the day. They were more expensive so I was not gifted so  many.



They will let anyone one into the club.😁

Give Mattel their due, the Capri is a really good casting, accurate and almost free of defects. Interior is damn good too

Carb linkage on the cortina is missing some bits but I managed to bodge it enough to get it working.
A quick run up the cairn o mount showed that the exhaust is knackered, my new seal on the tailgate is only reducing the intake of fumes slightly and the engine is running a bit rich. And there's something amiss in the steering.
I was grinning like the proverbial cat at the end of it.

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Some pictures from my archives. My archives are totally random so it's a case of pulling some albums out and seeing what's in them, so these are in no particular order. 
My first Landcrab. I'd walked past it many times in a council car park in Shirley. I walked past one day and it had a notice of removal from the council stuck on the windscreen so I left my own note on it expressing an interest. Got a phone call the same day. Went back and agreed a price of £80. I drove it home there and then to park it up in a different council car park. Needed lots of welding but I got a couple of years out of it before the tin worm won. This picture was outside a friends house in Hastings. He had it on loan for a while when fleet numbers were getting out of hand. 

 
And this is the car park it ended up in. These were all mine. I didn't always park them like this, I generally spread them out across the estate so as not to draw too much attention to them but it was the middle of the day so most people were at work so I brought them together for a photograph, no other reason. 

And this wasn't the entire fleet, there are no Triumph 1300s here and I haven't been without at least one 1300 since 1991. 
 
Here's the Austin out and about. No idea where it is but it obviously looked photogenic. 

The 3-Litre belonged to a friend of mine.

 
And this is in a quarry somewhere on Portland. The P5 belonged to the same friend who had the Austin 3-Litre. 

I would say he had more expensive taste than me but none of these cars were more than a few hundred pounds. I think the Austin was £800 but he had that one a quite a long time. The Rover developed gearbox problems and was moved on quite quickly but was nice while it lasted. 

You know when you go on a bit of a wild one and then wake up the next morning and you've got married to an alpaca?  No?  Just me then, well it's not legally binding anyway I'm sure.  Well, the other day I went on a bit of a wild one and bought another Vauxhall Cavalier.  And this morning I was awoken to the sound of it being dropped off a trailer outside my house.  

92J 2.0 CDi saloon on its original Camden plates.  Luton registration.
Platinum Silver (I think).
ABS light on (so much for that being cleared then).
OSR door moulding missing in action (think I've sourced one).
Dead SC303 radio/cassette.
Needs a very good clean.
Broken clocks. 
It has a year's ticket. 

It's EXACTLY what I've been looking for since I sold my other mk3 a whole week ago.
That didn't take long then. 

Save me! 

Well at that price there is no worries about pre 68 then.

I made this Scalextric one a few years ago, thought it was brilliant but nobody else agreed 

1963 Ford Corsair for sale for £12,995 in Whitchurch, Hampshire (autotrader.co.uk)
30K miles

Finally got one in Tesco.
 

And finally, the money shots. How bloody good do they look?!? Exactly the picture I had in my head before I even bought the car. Slightly wider at 13x5.5 but I've stuck with the same sized tyre (165/70) so I've just got a bit more graduation from contact patch to sidewall I guess.

Just found this post - is he any relation to the F1 Stock Car driver of the same name who raced in the early 1980s, or was said driver racing under the same name as a pseudonym or something?

While looking into this I found out something else - according to the OldStox website, the engine from Bonar's (as in the actor) crashed XK140 ended up in this Jaguar-engined F1 Stock Car raced by Jock Lloyd in the early 1960s, and won the 1961 World Final at West Ham!  Maybe there is more to the connection than I thought.



(edit) Found another pic - it looks like the bodyshell is XK140 too, could this also be from Colleano's crashed car?

Watching the Weslake Cup at the Goodwood MM the other day has really revitalised my desire for a 1960s sports thingy based on A-series oily bits. Apparently though Midgets and Sprites are now worth proper money, to the extent I could probably buy something actually good (like an Olympic or similar) for what it might cost to build upa sporty Spridget. I'm still half-keeping an eye out though, and this horrid little heap looks like it would fit the bill perfectly


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Somebody has already but a disgusting bonnet on it, so it'll be a guilt-free decision to bin it and fit something better looking. It's 1970, but one could easily put early rear lamps/ interior bits on without too much hassle.
This lot has appeared on ebay and I'm half tempted to buy it on spec and store it until I can actually afford the car, as it seems quite reasonable

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144509718300
+ a bit of paint =

All fantasy of course, but it's what's keeping me up at night at the moment

started to go through some old stuff in my dad's loft which has been in there 25 years or so.  started to uncover a few of my old model cars , not found my box of pre enjoyed matchbox cars but found some sadly badly stored Bburago and the like, and also found my Micro Machines!
I wonder if that unbuilt Orange Blossom model kit is worth anything?

Just in case a Metro wasn't quite grim enough, here's a diesel one.



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If I had the room, absolutely would.