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  1. 22 hours ago, MantaGTE85 said:

    Any mk2 Fiesta Popular/Pop Plus (and pre-'87 L-models) without trip recorders had to be driven faster than 10 mph before you could read the Fiesta's entire 5-figure mileage. The stubby white speedometer needle would completely mask out the first digit on the mileage recorder when the car was at rest, or moving slower than 10 mph. 

    My Dad had one car that had a speedometer needle which would cover the trip counter when driving at 70 mph.

  2. 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.

  3. 1 hour ago, adw1977 said:

    It's interesting to see how much variation there was, not just between manufacturers but also different models from the same manufacturer. 

    Although the 1985 Granada had 6 digits, the Sierra had 5 all the way through, being outclassed by the other new large hatchback for 1982, the Austin Ambassador which did have six!

    And the Escort kept 5 digits until at least 1997.

    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. 

  4. 2 hours ago, mat777 said:

    This lives near me, the matching house and car always makes me wonder just how good/bad the decor is inside!

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    Barbie's suburban pile!?

  5. 5 hours ago, martc said:

     

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    Jaguar Mark IV production from 1945 at the Foleshill factory looks a little more civilised.

    Supposedly a executive from Ford considered Brown's Lane one of the most primitive car factories he had looked round, certainly for the sort of cars it was making!

    Cowley was supposed to be a grim place to work, with metal dust in the air & holes in the ceiling!

  6. 2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

    Packard Clipper 1957/58 - a 'Country Sedan' station wagon. By that point Packard cars were warmed-over Studebakers with just some minor body and trim differences. 

    After '58 Packard production stopped completely because of poor sales. An ignominious end to one of the greatest US marques.

    Sometimes they were known as Pakardbakers!

    Over time almost all the American manufacturers apart from the Big 3 struggled with the economy of scale with component supplies.

  7. 21 minutes ago, Mr Pastry said:

    Automobile

    Une homme en vespa regarde une voiture garée dont les côtés sont recouverts d'une résine la protégeant des rayures, à Munich, Allemagne en avril 1935. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
     
    Maybe Munich, but certainly isn't 1935!

    Looks early 1950s going by the pre-1956 German number plates.  The hubcabs look suspiciously like VW Beetle ones, so maybe someone fitted a custom body onto a Beetle Chassis, there were quite a few one-offs even that early!

  8. 5 hours ago, Garythesnail said:

    Off topic but.....

    Being a child of the seventies I remember, after a cracking day out on the beach in Pembrey being sat in the family wagon, (a burgundy Morris Marina) little brother alongside in the back, Mum in the driver's seat when she asked "where did you two get this fluffy dice from .......... oh fuckin'ell get out of the back, we're in the wrong car!"

    Out we went, Mum locked the car with her car key and off we went to find our own burgundy Marina🤣.

    I did a similar thing with a Gold Triumph Acclaim someone parked outside my Gran's house unlocked, which was more or less identical to my Gran's, which was usually in the garage.

    BL keys seemed to be made in a limited number of combinations, my Mum once locked her keys in her Metro & asked to borrow someone else's keys & one of them worked!

    The older Ford ones were similar, & the tibbe ones had a quirk where a key could lock any lock!  The company car pool at the company where my Uncle worked fell foul of this a few times!

  9. 6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

    Other oddments I brought home include a Corgi trailer (didn't notice the broken hitch)

     

    Matchbox Case Tractor

     

    Lucky Toys caravan - the hitch is rattling around inside despite my best efforts to fish it out!

     

    One for Datsuncub

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    I had one of these Corgi Cubs police cars when I was young, along with 2 of the ambulances.

  10. 4 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

    I always quite liked driving the Mk4 and 5 Cortina estates back in the 90s. They felt surprisingly solid and surefooted for what they were. Decent gearchange too.

    I take responsibility for stuffing a load of filler on top of shonky welding (not mine) on several of them which went on to become forecourt sales cars where I worked. That mk4 looks bloody lovely and the Ghia alloys really make it. 

    I can remember some friends of the family had an X reg one, which lasted them well into the 1990s, even outliving a B reg Yugo!

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