Dick Longbridge

Our cars are insured on a multicar policy with LV. Last year's price was just over £370 and this year's price is just over £600. I've spent some time on the Admiral multicar quote page but it's crashed a couple of times and then said I need to call them as I changed a parameter. Then I tried Aviva multicar and that came in at just over £840. I'm knocking on the door of 50 years old and we both have years of protected NCD. I'm starting to think the LV automatic quote wasn't so bad! I think I'll call them after work tomorrow and see if they can wriggle on the price. Still mucking fental though. I'm used to paying similar ££ each year, being a decent driver and not having to take massive price hikes on the chin. Clearly things have changed... Edit: Just used Compare the market and they have given me a quote with a Hastings Direct multicar policy for a smidge over £560. Hastings also had a cheaper product for around £540 although it looked too stripped back to be useful. Hopefully this will be a useful bargaining tool for when I try and negotiate with LV tomorrow.

WTAF is this shite? The individual seems to think it appropriate to wear this getup to a children's charity event. So, so wrong. Fantastic* example of one the perverted knighthood crew, too.

Have you bought it yet?!

Bew!

This photo was taken in July 2023 so it's changed in the last 12 months. It looked quite tidy in its original guise.

It seems to be standard fayre for many historic, listed properties - let it rot then flatten when too far gone. 😕

It's bloody lovely though and I guess it's a case of find another, let alone in that condition...

Similar. Back in the early 90s my first car - a 1977 mk1 Golf - had become pretty crispy on the inner wings and I was visiting a mate to get a price on having them repaired. My mate pointed to the field below where his younger brother's Mk2 Escort Linnet was parked. It could have been mine for £250 if I remember correctly. Apparently it needed a 'tiny bit of welding' but that would have been included in the price. It drove well but I passed on it as the Golf seemed more modern at the time. Ironic that I eventually chopped my Golf in for a 1969 Morris Minor!

Love that. Survivor stories are the best, by a country mile. I wonder what the other DHC looks like? It's come a fair way... Looks like Sheldon has done a thorough report on it too. Fascinating.

Cheap parts car, that.

I thought that must be a survivor of the mass Astra cull in Banbury, but it turns out to be a different address.

'53 Panhard Uber Eats delivery vee-hicle

That's a shame. It looked pretty clean when one of the previous owners shared his progress on it on here in 2020/1.

'77 Ford Pinto Caravan

'57 Plymouth Belvedere 'Belipopter' apparently.

'79 Pontiac Firebird rubbish lorry

Agreed. That's a bloody lovely outcome.

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Somewhere in Detroit

'69 'Stang pickup

This thing does have a large derriere. Typical Chrysler, I guess.

Looking at that again, I reckon it almost needs a donor shell on hand to graft in the missing bit, whilst retaining the patina of the surviving bits of metal. Gen-u-in rat look.

Just like the real thing.