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Emer Kenny and a Tatra 603. An excellent combination.

That looks like a particularly bad case of UV degradation. Some clear plastics seem prone to it and the cloudiness goes right through the plastic so I don't think it can be polished out. I haven't seen any suggestions that it's repairable unfortunately.

Count yourself lucky that your charity shops have enough toy cars to fill a bag. Don't know why but the ones round here never seem to have more than half a dozen scattered around on the random toy shelf. But yes, the bags are annoying because of their utter randomness: it's like they throw them all in a box, then just scoop up a handful to fill a bag. They wouldn't be so lazy with clothes, books or anything else really.

And next to it is the even more bizarrely named Detroit Fish. There was a third called the Piece of Cloud.

My Corsa was an 'Expression', mostly an expression of disappointment at its poverty spec and coarse 3-cylinder engine. The family Zafira is a 'Comfort', which implies the existence of an uncomfortable version.

CMAC continue to add to their range of 1/76 3D prints, including some unusual subjects that I don't think have ever been modelled in any scale before like the Austin 3-litre, Wolseley/Morris wedges and R8 coupe and tourer. Spitfire is tiny and has very delicate pillars. Cortina reprensents the 1600E my dad had back in the day. The Silver Fox metallic paint kept falling off.

Didn't they try to insist it was pronounced 'Echo-Sport' at one point? I'm sure I've heard TV/radio ads calling it that.

Or the Kia Pride. Owning one of those was nothing to be proud of. Kia Shame more like.

Another entry in the UK's long and noble tradition of disappointing themed events. If you see something described as a wonderland it's guaranteed to be shit.

Some of these contraptions are a clear demonstration of why the MOT is necessary. I'm guessing they're in states that have no roadworthiness tests whatsoever.

The Renault is one of these: From the Atlas Editions World of Stobart series. I removed the body and took the Stobart wrap off the cab.

Cheers Tim, that's well worth 3 quid. Here's what I did with my last one; And this was my first one, bought from the League of Friends shop at Milton Keynes hospital when I broke my arm aged 9. It was always one of my favourite toys and ended up getting resprayed when the plastic body went yellow. A much-modified Matchbox Dodge Commando has been substituted for the pickup as a more suitable towing vehicle. These were both originally first releases (1992-94) of white caravans with hideous pink awnings/interiors and equally bright pickups pulling them, one lime green and one pink. The Coca-Cola version is from 1998 according to the Majorette wiki, which claims the pickup is a Ford Ranger although it doesn't look like one to me.

Correct, MAN SX45 8x8 or "Support Vehicle - Recovery (Improved Medium Mobility)" in military parlance. The standard MoD wrecker that replaced the 6x6 Fodens, with 288 delivered but some now demobbed. Big impressive beasts to see on the road and I'd love to see one in civvy colours like Crouch's bright orange or Egertons' yellow.

There's a batch of 10, built in 2003 for a taxi company in Bermuda. The buyer had gone bust by the time they arrived there and after sitting at the docks for a few years they eventually found their way back to the UK and were registered on RK08 plates. Discussion here: https://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=200966

It occurred to me how much Anne's Consul has in common with Ford Timelord. Both were LHD Fords registered in the UK from new, had GU plates, had eccentric owners, lived in London and deteriorated into a bad state, and are recorded by the DVLA as still existing despite disappearing decades ago.

Looks like classic zinc pest symptoms to me. Some early 2000s Corgis are known to suffer from it as there was a bad batch of metal going around the Chinese factories then.

As our old friend Junkman would have said, it's fucked. It's a miracle the council got it on the transporter in one piece as it looks like it could break in half the moment they tried to move it from the spot it had been rooted to for 30-odd years. It would surely have been taken straight to the nearest scrapyard and fed into the baler, simply to prevent any chance of Anne getting it back, and I can't see the council wanting the hassle of storing and attempting to sell such a disgusting old heap that was no doubt a health hazard. It was probably dead within an hour of being scooped up and before Anne even knew it was gone.

That's another good question. She had the car before the historic MOT exemption existed, so how was she managing to either tax it without an MOT or get an MOT on a car that never moved and obviously wasn't capable of passing? One of the articles said the residents would club together to pay her tax before it became exempt, but it would need to pass an MOT for that. Did she have a friendly tester who'd 'test' it and give it a pass without even seeing it? That makes me think there was some kind of special situation going on and the normal rules didn't apply, and whatever was done is still in effect and keeping it alive on the system. It doesn't explain the keeper change in 2005 though - a new V5 could have been automatic but an actual keeper change would have had to be instigated by a person.

Spotted this H-prefix Jensen Interceptor in the latest Pete and his Bus video. Jensen went of business in 1976 so it appeared to be some crazy mega late registration madness. Turns out Jensen Parts & Service built 14 more Interceptors as the S4 between 1983 and 1990 and this is the penultimate one. Its story reminds me of the Middlebridge Scimitar.

An 07 one lived near me and I used to see it quite often but it appears to have died about 6 months ago. It wasn't the only one though; it was licensed as a Tata TL2 SWB and HML says there were 20 of them registered in 2007. I wish I'd taken a photo of it as I didn't realise how rare it was.

I can imagine something like that appearing in The Simpsons. Springfield Police decide to buy one but Chief Wiggum gets his ample girth stuck inside it and has to be rescued by Lou and Eddie.

So after 4 pages of not knowing WTF was going on, it turns out some guinea pigs sent young Mr Fowler all the way to Somerset to buy them a Golf and disguise it as a Volvo B10M. Those are some very demanding rodents.

Same here, it would be an incredible restoration considering the appalling state it was in when it was removed over 20 years ago. Could someone maybe have put it on some sort of auto-renewing tax to prevent it being taken away given its unusual status of being an immobile home on a public road and in the free tax class anyway, and the computer just keeps on updating the expiry date every year because nobody has ever asked the DVLA to stop it?

Please tell me I'm not the only one who on seeing an old photo instinctively looks for cars to date it. Even better if there's a numberplate visible as that can give you an earliest possible date, which is often later than other people who aren't into cars thnk.

Exactly, a place like a transport museum is likely to have thousands of photos in its archive, most of which are not digitised and only exist on paper. The blue car won't be included in the catalogue description of that photo because a) it's incidental to the main subject and b) nobody knows what it is. That means the only way to identify it is to get the physical copies of all photos described as "street scene featuring RTL buses" and sit there looking at them all until you find it. That's a lot of hard work by hard-pressed volunteers for little reward.