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Anyone else humming Born Free!?

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

Lady Penelope out for a drive!

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.

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

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.

My brother had one of those jigsaw roads, that was ruined when he set it up one our patio one summer's day, only for a sudden rain shower to soak it! One of my cousins had one of those play mats with the road network on.

He doesn't look much like Heidi Klum's husband, are you sure we hired the right Seal!?

You deserve a damn good threshing!

Note the registration is the same series of BL press cars, especially the ones used in the New Avengers.

Barbie's suburban pile!?

Also the similar sized Renault 20 actually had a hatchback.

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!

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.

Cary Grant was another!

Another sculpture using cars, which sharp eyed viewers might have noticed in Wayne's World.

The oval screen VW Beetle is doing well, being at least 15 years old when this was taken. It looks like it has rear lights from a later Beetle.

Stockport registration.

I've found another picture of it.

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!

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!

A long winded explanation as to why so many Reliants had 6 figure registrations: https://3-wheelers.com/registration.html

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

A day or two later he crashed the Maxi in Scotland.

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!