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Like I keep saying it's fuckall to do with saving the environment it's the cash cow motorist can pay for stuff as their getting less from the drinker & smoker nowadays.

& Until the I'm all right jack of the PCP generation  wake up it'll just keep happening.

Bloody pikeys 

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Waiting for that Marina which is pulling onto the hard shoulder?

More likely it's already broken down & she's alighted for shame I mean safety.

20 minutes ago, grogee said:

PHWOAR! 

Is that bit of timber on the dash standard fit? 

No should have radio/speaker  & I think a small cubby hole there.

They all seem to spell entitled prick to me.

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Why can they not just produce all those models as stock road cars? The Supra would have been great but I find this version just sterile. 

Because there originally for American kids.

10 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

That survived the crash well*. Probably didn’t matter because the occupants were jettisoned on impact.

As laurel & hardy were jettisoned on impact.

1 hour ago, Supernaut said:

Do a Vice Grip Garage, then.

Go there, fix it in situ then drive the 400 miles home...

Can you talk enough bollocks to make the job take 3 times as long though?

Back then it would've been.

The futures brown 

Bout ten years ago mate had a trooper in with one side of tow bar hanging off complete with chassis rail attached was towing a horse box few days before, 

Another a P100 ex garage parts hack etc tow bar was attached with M8 bolts.

Probably right you couldn't to original KA.

Yep sounds like the later matchbox one.

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

^^^ I wonder what the turning circle on that is!

Similar to a super tanker.

Presume no drowned occupants? Unfortunately.

3 hours ago, martc said:

Isn't that spa franchamps early 70's

13 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

When I was little I had road mat for my toy cars.

It wasn’t one of those new fandangled ones though made out of carpet or whatever, it was like a thick polythene sheet with the roads and buildings all printed onto it. 
Obviously it disintegrated many years ago but I’ve never seen one since, or even a picture of one. No idea who even made it.

Anyone else seen or remember them?

Matchbox did some in the late 70's like that ( village  sort of layout & I think an airport or docks),earlier ones were card with popup buildings ( farm, motorway & building site).

I hate doing bodywork, if it wasn't so expensive/hard to find it would be easy to fit you pas.

The steering is very heavy on crayford dunno why even original owner said it's why he sold it after a year &  bought another one.

Hopefully Inc is a pic of a pic of it as poor thing is buried in garage with bakkie &  the  1.6L saloon my father bought new.

3 hours ago, egg said:

The massive problem with Sans Permis is nobody wants them! I sold a completely broken Invacar on here, but a Ligier would be beyond the pale 😆

All the quote me insurers want is Joe average  ,never been with any of them as the stuff I own /drive will fry their crib screen.

My crayford needed 2 full length floor pans a full boot floor, full rear wing, bulkhead ends, full scuttle  & an engine, it's the only 1.6 auto that was done (9 of 28).

Spent a long time on the east coast ( 5 years with roof in tatters) in a carpark on a caravan site. Then 2 in a garden sunk to axles.

My bakkie needed full floor ,full chassis rail the front leaf spring mount had ripped out of chassis rail, both front subframe extension's, a full scuttle , full load box made from scratch ( when I bought it in the early 90's it was the only one known of in the UK, the original owner imported it when 3 years old when he returned to the UK it spent its life in Cornwall mostly in the sea I think).

I'm doing the mo saloon to pick up conversion on here somewhere for my mate.

Floor/sills had fallen out,no cab back obviously, repair/make B posts & a load bed (stepside style).

I get a kick from saving basket case oddballs especially when experts say not worth it,waste of time etc.

Done all sorts over the years.

Wether standard or modified,

What's wrong with yours pm some pics,

All the gear & no idea,  nother one who probably thinks it'll be worth a fortune when done.

Love how they all watch wanker dealers & YouTube & think it's gunna be a doddle & take a few weeks.

Presume this is the one that was on eBay that looked like it had been stored on the titanic.

Even I wouldn't bother with this one & I've saved ( doing one at mo) so real basket cases.

3 hours ago, Wibble said:

Not a Mk3 Cortina! Keep seeing this advertised as one.

Been trying to sell it since last year, these idiots think  they're gunna make a killing coz escorts sell for mega money even LHD ( but these are very hard to convert to rhd) lack of home work.

Where's the car?

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

However shit the world might be at the moment, it has been made slightly better by the fact that there exists such a thing as an inflatable Vulcan bomber.

Remember these & I think spitfire.

12 hours ago, MikeR said:

caravan insurance , last year it was 400 notes , F&*^ me not paying that much again , so this year had a look around and google did the rest and filled my feed with

information , and as a result found a place that would do me for 180 notes ...........  less than 50% of last years price .

got the expected renewal last week which I expected to have gone up to some 400 plus ...

350 ?????

given this day of inflation , car insurance going up etc , how did that happen ?  , do they just have a dart board with prices on it ...

not being reamed out by that insurance company again ..

Yes how did you guess their sophisticated modern equipment.