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I imagine it was done when they were cheap as chips & before the Swedes started buying up old American cars.
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Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread
Richard_FM replied to Dick Longbridge's topic in AutoShite
Oddly I was looking at the same photos a few days ago! -
Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
Richard_FM replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
It wouldn't be out out of place in one of Gerry Anderson's shows! -
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.
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
Richard_FM replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
The southern hemisphere is a hotbed for odd badge engineered cars! -
I'm not sure if that was the car she asked for in Santa Baby!
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I remember this picture being used in one of the Have I Got News For You books.
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Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread
Richard_FM replied to Dick Longbridge's topic in AutoShite
Indeed: https://blog.goo.ne.jp/koyapop/c/922fc2339f638092aad1ee794eabfe7e -
The Volvo one is a bit close to the bone, & it looks like an MG 1100/1300 on the left hand stack with The Osmonds!
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
Richard_FM replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
My Dad remembers that cars that ran on 5 star had to be retuned to used 4 star when it was no longer available. -
I think Leeds is the largest British city that doesn't use black cabs for standard taxis, but I'm happy to be corrected.
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More than a minor problem (Sorry!)
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1987 Ford Sierra Sapphire 1.8L - Earning its keep - see page 28
Richard_FM replied to Peter C's topic in AutoShite
From what I remember the early Granada GL Mk3s didn't have a rev counter, though the Sierras did! -
I remember I used to often pass a house with the bodyshell from one of these on the driveway for years half under a tarp.
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It's ironic because he seems to be the "worst of both worlds", making an unholy alliance of left & right wing policies with the expected Putin simping both sides just love to do!
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Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread
Richard_FM replied to Dick Longbridge's topic in AutoShite
Going by pictures I've seen online many makes of car were imported into Japan unto the early 1970s. -
Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread
Richard_FM replied to Dick Longbridge's topic in AutoShite
The Loxley Lozenge, I've heard they used an Austin Sheerline Chassis. -
The Wedgister - Princess and Ambassador Records
Richard_FM replied to vulgalour's topic in AutoShite
Yes LHD examples must be rare even in this state! -
The Wedgister - Princess and Ambassador Records
Richard_FM replied to vulgalour's topic in AutoShite
In a Dutch scrapyard. https://flic.kr/p/2pGFTDE -
Anyone else humming Born Free!?
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My Dad had one car that had a speedometer needle which would cover the trip counter when driving at 70 mph.
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Lady Penelope out for a drive!
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Thanks for the feedback, I did find a few on You Tube, including some I had forgotten about. I've got the feeling the first series was repeated in the big gap between series, I can remember my Dad recording the one on the Routemaster & watching it a few times.
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Does anyone remember this programme which featured some oldie-but goodies from the Transport world? The were shown on BBC2 & not repeated, the ones I remember were: Morris Minor Ford Transit Carbodies FX4 AEC Routemaster Avro Shackleton
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Transits had 5 digits well into the 1990s, I remember seeing something on TV about car auctions where someone was quick to point out one with 25,000 on the clock had probably done 125,000.