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  1. This generation of Suzuki Alto must be in with a shout. Never noticed until I met a colleague who has one but now I see them everywhere and mostly still in good shape. Not bad for a little Indian budget car.
  2. There's a 2018 Ssangyong Tivoli parked opposite my window at the moment. No idea what it was so I had to look it up and I didn't even realise Ssangyong are still selling cars here.
  3. A few more CMAC 3D prints that had been hanging around for a while waiting for the finishing touches. The Wolseley 6/90 comes in two versions: the police car has a bell and a plate on the grille but the civvy saloon has two foglamps and no plate - that's the beauty of 3D printing as it's so easy to make tweaks like this. Marina estate. The grille appears to be wrong as all estates seemed to have the grille style of the 1.8 saloon regardless of engine, so this one must have had a transplant. Another Mini, representing one my parents had. The colour and fake wood trim are wrong for S-reg but it was apparently a 1973 car registered in 1977 for some reason.
  4. I had one similar to this from the Early Learning Centre. Not exactly the same as it was printed in grey and some of the pieces were different shapes, but the tab and slot assembly system looks very similar. Spent many hours building different layouts with it on a large piece of cardboard on the living room floor.
  5. The charity shop I was briefly in on Wednesday had a grand total of two toy cars in the entire shop, both generic Chinese shit. I can't understand why there are so few now when I'm sure in my youth charity shops were full of them. Are kids these days not playing with cars anymore?
  6. Vauxhall Zafiras are actually okay and perfectly good as an car.
  7. It's just one of a selection of photos on the Guildford page showing registrations issued by that authority. No particular significance and no caption detailing when and where it was taken. I guess it's just a car he stumbled across on his travels and decided to take a photo of. This volume starts from the October 74 changes and the preface goes into great detail about what happened then - it really is some impressive number plate geekery and that's just his hobby as he's a music scholar by profession. I got my copies directly from the author - he approached me at Rustival as he rightly thought I looked like the sort of enthusiast who would be interested in such a work. Volume 1 seems to be mostly sold out online and volume 2 has only just been published and isn't available retail yet. I'll PM you his contact details.
  8. Definitely, but you'll want the companion volume covering 1963-74 as well. They're incredibly detailed and thoroughly researched works covering the exact sequence of issues in every area and all the odd exceptions to the usual rules. Not a lot of photos, just a selection illustrating plates issued in each area, but some interesting ones that don't appear to have been published elsewhere. They give the impression of being a lifetime's work but were really just a side project as Jonathan Del Mar is much better known for his equally detailed study of Beethoven's music.
  9. I can't see any mention of GPL308N here so I guess you haven't seen this photo. It's from 'Motor Vehicle Registration Numbers of Great Britain 1974-2001' by Jonathan Del Mar, presumably from Mr Del Mar's own collection.
  10. GNB671V was the only wedge seen at Rustival in all its brown glory.
  11. I thought that reg rang a bell. Turns out I spotted it in happier times in May last year. It came off the road about a month later when it still had an MOT so something must have gone wrong. With over 300k on the clock it had a good innings though.
  12. Some '93 Mondeo ephemera I was given by a nice chap at Rustival. Look at that fancy Ghia with its bodykit and big alloys! Ironically the Rustival venue doesn't exist on this map as it was published two months before the museum opened and shows nothing of interest in Gaydon.
  13. Wow, the Blazer and the GMC wrecker are still going! I remember having them in a police set when I was a kid. That Blazer casting is coming up for 40 years old so Matchbox have certainly had their money's worth out of it; it's strange how some seem to stick around forever but others come and go within a few years.
  14. I should mention the price of admission here too - £11 is very reasonable compared with the likes of Bicester Heritage and FOTU who I think are getting greedy, especially as it included full access to the museum as well as the 800 visiting vehicles. If anything there was too much to do in one day as a lot of the Mayfair cars had gone by the time I eventually made it there in the afternoon and I ran out of time to set foot in the buildings except to use the loo. There's hours and hours of footage on Youtube already so it must be one of the most videoed events ever. The vloggers all seem to have been discreet though as I didn't notice many when I was worried about it being full of annoying influencers taking selfies. Well done to everyone involved for putting on such a great event - the only problem is it was the first of the season and already the best so nothing else is going to live up to it!
  15. Agreed on this. While the event itself was brilliant, the pre-event procedures were a bit confusing, especially as we booked very early before some things had been clarified. Having to fill in two separate forms on separate websites and then print out two tickets was cumbersome and not particularly well explained, but to be fair I assume this was a necessary workaround for limitations imposed by the museum and its booking system that couldn't collect exhibitor details on the museum site and pass them to the Rustival team. The difference between the £11 and £16 tickets wasn't clear either; had we realised we'd have gone for the £16 ones and got season passes. That aside, the day itself went very smoothly. I feared massive queues but even arriving at one of the busiest times got in and parked in under 10 minutes, so all credit to the marshals for getting over 800 cars organised so efficiently. Of course there are going to be teething troubles with the first event but they were minor and Rustival has got off to a very strong start. The informality and mix of cars reminded me of the early Festivals of the Unexceptional at Whittlebury and Stowe before that got too commercial.
  16. D'oh! I even took a photo of it yet don't remember seeing it. I must have been getting so overwhelmed by so much amazing stuff that it didn't stick in my mind among the dozens of Rovers there.
  17. There was a V-reg 800 at Rustival. Do any W-reg exist? The last one off the line was a T-reg (T750 JVP, sadly deceased in 2011).
  18. The fact it points out the car has an accelerator like that's some sort of special feature speaks volumes about the sort of audience that article is intended for. It's good to know Invacars do in fact have accelerators as they'd be a bit difficult to drive without.
  19. Behold the NJT amphibious camper. I think it's based on a Citroen C25 but looks like a cross between a Land Rover and a canal barge.
  20. Here's a picture to make you feel better I don't think it was deliberately ignored, just overlooked as there was so much stuff there it became overwhelming and a hidden gem like this that looks so ordinary yet is so rare just didn't stand out enough. I've already seen a load of great cars in the videos that I missed.
  21. I don't know about that, judging by this footage making it into both Furious Driving and Idriveaclassic's videos. The marshals don't look particularly impressed though. It was one of only three Aussie cars there by my reckoning - this, Betty and a Monaro.
  22. Quite a few cars I didn't know existed turned up at Rustival, not least this, which doesn't look like any Ford Escort I'd ever seen. It's an American Escort ZX2, which was their replacement for the Probe, and seems to have nothing in common with the European Escort, mainly Mazda 323 running gear with a 2-litre Zetec.
  23. Holy thread resurrection! I've unexpectedly stumbled across a Lonsdale that doesn't appear to be mentioned here. Jonathan Del Mar's newly-published book "Motor Vehicle Registration Numbers of Great Britain 1974-2001" contains a photo of A702 GFH, a blue 2.0 saloon last taxed in December 1996.
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