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    eBay tat volume 3.

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    2 hours ago, willswitchengage said:

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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294291263069?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D8dcab0628070495c9a056fe5707ed7cf%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D284381424454%26itm%3D294291263069%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A507ce1a7-ebc8-11eb-bfa4-ca162a658f42|parentrq%3Ad3ec42df17a0acf0983661d5fffd3ac8|iid%3A1

    I had one of these in carburettor flavour and it remains the most fun car I have ever owned. Easy to drive and the very low gearing (4000 rpm at 70 iirc), it really flew around. They're simple and all the controls just feel 'right', and the 3 pot makes a wonderful sound.

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    Just above poverty spec 316 compact. Low miles, clean and FSH for £2500. Is this a reasonable price> Always been after one of these.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304076946060?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D8dcab0628070495c9a056fe5707ed7cf%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D284381424454%26itm%3D304076946060%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A507ce1a7-ebc8-11eb-bfa4-ca162a658f42|parentrq%3Ad3ec42df17a0acf0983661d5fffd3ac8|iid%3A1

    That Justy has given me a semi.

    My old boss had one in the 90s and I thought it was the ultimate small car. Oh man. Where can I hide this from the missus...?

    Chod North East. Spotting through time.

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    On 7/22/2021 at 6:52 PM, tooSavvy said:

    I uaed to stagger round the corner, from the Hofbrau Haus, and get the bus to Winlaton from the bus station *now Centre For Life :(

    That bus station, Malborough Crescent,  was also the home for various coach outfits too, including the infamous Barton Bus.  As a kid I'd be chucked on that on my visits back to the midlands to see family and friends in Nuneaton with nowt more than a few Commando comic books (remember those?) and a couple of cheese butties. It took about seven and a half hours and even now I see places like Worksop and Worsop and it brings memories back of that coach journey.

    When building the Centre for Life they also discovered a load of human remains there too which needed forensic archaeologists to remove and relocate them, allegedly it was a dumping ground from a cholera outbreak. One chap in particular used to come to the Dog frequently for the months and months it took to do, it really pushed the development back. Lovely chap and always very interesting, even to a 20 something barman.  I was also responsible for the coloured lights in the mesh stairway at either end getting rearranged; I got a lift back from Sunderland one day with one of the architects on the project and I commented the sequence meant a few of them merged and looked odd (yellow and red and the green and blue). The next day she said she agreed and had arranged to get them switched to be better contrasts to each other. 😆

    /waffle

     

    Chod North East. Spotting through time.

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    4 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

    Has/had the D&P a 'micro brewery' and you can see it through glass panes in the floor, into cellar?

    Not any more. 

    You're correct about the (heavily scratched) glass panel in the floor near the door to the ladies which allowed a view down into the cellar where the setup was. However that got royally fucked in the 80s when a relief manager whacked the heaters on without any water in the jackets. Burnt out the elements and basically killed off the gimmick as it was. The tanks needed to be cut up to be removed and that was the end of that.  It did mean the cellar was lovely to work in, three rooms and great setup for the stillage too. Best setup I've seen in an 'old' pub.

    Just read the link above which is nicely detailed. I thought it stopped in the 80s, not 1990, but my memory back then is somewhat addled. Partly due to the copious amounts of lager and Castle Eden I consumed in that very boozer.

    Chod North East. Spotting through time.

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    On 5/24/2021 at 10:34 PM, Jim Bell said:

    Neville Street, Newcastle. 

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    Just catching up after being AWOL for a couple of months and had to comment on this.  The Dog and Parrot was a very popular haunt of mine back in the 90s when it was renamed Tut n Shive (part of a chain owned by Whitbread. Remember them?), and I also worked there for about 7-8 years or so. Part time to fit around my other work, bloody loved it.

    Renamed back to the Dog again now of course, has been for quite a few years, but it's lost all of it's charm from the 90s as have many a boozer.

    eBay tat volume 3.

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    9 minutes ago, The Vicar said:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ford-puma/27378903

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    Nothing overly interesting unless you're an anorak like me, but this caught my eye this evening..

    Is that an OEM navigation unit in a Puma? Not something I've ever knowingly seen before

    Good spot, certainly looks that way to me.  

    That lovely '1.5 DIN' stereo format that Ford rolled out. I looked at something like this for the Cougar a couple of years ago (just because) but gave up as I couldn't find a complete and working one that wasn't megabucks. 

    Chod North East. Spotting through time.

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    Fantastic.  Never knew it as a cinema but I only moved up in '86 and was either Gateshead or the West End for me.  Rarely found myself up there aside from the odd trip to the bike shop and if I recall an RS Components that was just up the road. Probably around 1990 onwards

    One (shite) picture per post.

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    15 hours ago, willswitchengage said:

    Bonus points for whoever can correctly guess of what supercar this is the chassis.

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    AWD, engine in  the middle with huge fucking wheels... and look at the back box.

    Estima?

     

    Edited to add; I am not suggested the Estima is any way a supercar. It's THE supercar

    DeLorean doc

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    1 hour ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

    I can also reccommend the album 'Stainless Style' by Neon Neon (Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals & his mate) on which all the songs are about John Z and his adventures

    I'll have to check this out, I've got quite a lot of SFA from back in the day. Only saw them once live, in the Riverside Newcastle if I recall correctly; my memories from back then are somewhat hazy and are one long drown out drunken blur

    eBay tat volume 3.

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    40 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

    Yep - intercooler sits on top of the engine in these and the scoop feeds directly into that.

    I also believe that only the non-turbo models get the low range, so that's another check over a simple bonnet swap.

    The grumpy thread

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    Just now, ETCHY said:

    I don't get all this power folding mirror crap either. I just fold ours in by hand if we're parking somewhere it could get whacked.

    Toys are nice when a car is brand new but a pain in the arse most of the time thereafter as it's just more expense if something happens/breaks.

    My Cougar takes it even further, by not folding in by hand either.  That's really fucking convenient when backing in to a poxy wide council garage.

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