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Just in front of Stockport Plaza.

Stockport viaduct in the background.

Chas & Dave before they perfected their Rockney look.

Mercury Monarch

I find your lack of clutch control disturbing!

My Dad's Cavalier CD had the same tape drawers, which ended up being used for my & my sister's taking book tapes.

I heard it was a Krups coffee grinder was used.

The Mazda 121 was badged engineered into the Ford Festivia to replace the Fiesta in the USA. The 626 was turned into the Telstar for the Antipodean markets rather than set up a Sierra assembly line in Australia.

In spite of the "World Car" pretensions Australia, New Zealand and a few other markets got a badge engineered Mazda 323 with blue ovals!

It was probably working on the distributor, I remember it was mentioned on the comments on a Flickr picture of one. When Citroen took over Panhard most the their design team were assigned to design a car to plug the vast hole in the range between the Ami & ID, and the result was the GS.

I heard the GS needed a cylinder head removed to perform a simple piece of maintenance.

Only an anti-roll back as far as I know, when I was discussing driving techniques with the salesman he didn't mention anything about not using the handbrake.

Ironically there was an Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire jet engine, but not designed by Sir Frank Whittle. It was originally a Metropolitan Vickers engine before their jet engine programme was bought up.

Before I was born my parents had a Belgian one which was converted to RHD & had no fuel gauge. My Dad managed to write it off when a Fiat 500 or 600 drove in front of him from a side road on Kingsway.

My driving instructor used to say to always put it on when stationary while in traffic in case someone runs into the back! This will stop you shunting the car in front! Since buying a Yaris Hybrid I've had to learn to remember to put the handbrake on tight to stop it creeping, it's that or putting it in neutral at every red light.

Especailly when it's hard to operate the bonnet release, the one on my Micra took ages to learn to release properly.

My wife has trouble with artificial sweeteners, as they confuse her type 2 diabetes.

Underbank in Stockport, I'm wondering if the American car was owned by someone connected with Strawberry studios.

Mercedes had all sorts of problems using water based paints in the 1990s, with the bacteria levels in the pipes affecting the rust resistance until it was kept under control.

Supposedly the payments for selling Fiat designs in Eastern Europe were in scrap metal, which were used for making new cars! Supposedly it was common for early Fiat Stradas to have rust showing after just a year of use, & would need welding to get through the first MOT. A lot of 1970s cars seemed to have problems with premature rust, even some Volvo 240s were made from poor quality steel. A mechanic told me that Mk3 Fiestas can either rust quickly, or else be still solid after years on the road.

A bit more than 10cc!

She probably can't take it past Nutbush City Limits.

Looks like Dinting viaduct.

There's some interesting chod there!

I've known about them for years, but their UK sales didn't last for long, & it was the late 1970s before they tried again.