quicksilver
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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.
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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.
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That reads like it was written by the eBay AI bot. All those superlatives and flowery language but no specifics are typical of its output.
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Must admit I instinctively thought that disc looked like a clutch plate when I first saw the photo. It looks quite high at the front so it might not have a complete properly-installed engine, just a block and clutch dropped in the wrong way round, possibly for no other reason than to increase its weigh-in value.
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Okay, I think Dez is taking this a bit too seriously but there is a genuine underlying issue here. Out of the blue he's been sent a new V5 that he didn't ask for, wasn't expecting and has no apparent changes. That's not normal so for it to happen without any explanation should surely arouse some suspicion. If you had a new and apparently identical V5 for one of your cars suddenly plop through your door and you hadn't the faintest idea why, wouldn't you question it? Dez is fortunate in that his knowledge of the DVLA has allowed him to deduce why it happened, but most people would see it as a complete mystery and think something nefarious might be happening.
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Look up FF04 GKU and KW04 YVH. They're ex military coaches from 1995 whose first civvy registrations were private plates in 2004. When they were sold and the operator kept the plates, the DVLA issued new ones based on the date of registration instead of the date of manufacture. FF04 GKU is also wrongly licensed as a Dennis Eagle, which was the dustcart division and separate from Dennis the bus manufacturer.
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Berkeleys were normally registered in Bedfordshire and Fairthorpes in Buckinghamshire so I doubt it's either of those. No idea what it is though, except to point out that the roof really doesn't fit stylistically with the body so could it be a roadster with a roof grafted on later?
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That was a memorable moment when you arrived behind that TR7. Everyone thought the V8 burble was coming from that, then it drove away and they could still hear it. Cue much confusion.
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I see you mentioned it back in October so they've had it a while. Last V5 in 1992 so they obviously haven't obtained a logbook yet and may be in need of your services to identify it.
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The Great British Car Journey have acquired this Smiths milkfloat on an 05-plate that looks all kinds of wrong. The chap from the museum is confused by the reg. I assume it's a rebuild with enough new parts to qualify as a new vehicle and must have been one of the last electric floats registered.
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Bringing things back to Invacar chat, Steph idriveaclassic's latest video contains something of interest. The Great British Car Journey have just acquired this Model 70 that isn't yet on display. No plates unfortunately but it's a handlebar-control Invacar. Any ideas which one it might be?
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I'd be surprised if you could get any Rover colours from Halfords now. I last went there around 2021 and they were vastly reducing their paint range then.
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That's looking very much like Rover Amaranth, which is a great colour. Here's my Amaranth ERF for comparison.
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A royal theme to Oxford Diecast's latest castings in 1/76, Lady Diana's Metro and one of the Queen's P5s. Not sure what Oxford were thinking with the headlights on the Metro but they look crap. A couple of minutes with a silver pen soon has them looking far better. I've also changed the reg to represent the one my mum had that was almost identical to Diana's. It was so good we owned it twice: sold to a friend and then bought back when they finished with it, and also got crashed into by the only roadworthy Allegro convertible.
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
quicksilver replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
We all know the Morris Marina pickup exists... ...but this isn't one of them. It's an Austin 10cwt Deluxe. I knew about the Austin/Morris Minors and A60s but was under the impression their Marina-based replacements were only Morrises from the start. Turns out that prior to the Ryder Report the Austin dealers had their own versions of the Marina commercials before common sense prevailed and the two franchises were combined. -
And if we're going down that route, how about the Austin A35 van (launched 1954) being replaced in 1968 by a rebadged Morris Minor van (launched 1953)?
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£5500 for a Montego... ...sounds like madness until you see this one for £13k!
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Not as fun as going to the tyre shop and asking for six of them. They were quite bemused by why anyone would want six tyres for a Mini.
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Interestingly the Firenza and Crayford Cortina are two of the few Oxford cars only available in 1/43 and not also in 1/76. The majority of the 1/43s have also been produced in 1/76 but for some reason not these two. I made my own 1/76 Crayford Cortina by chopping a saloon.
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Looking at Lada Rivas (as you do) and Google suggests I might like to buy this 'luxury and performance' example. https://www.sccleeds.co.uk/vehicle/lada-riva-12-l-saloon-4dr-petrol-manual-60-bhp-in-yeadon-leeds-cf1efd53-5ffa-4757-9d1a-4d4321018ae7 TWELVE. THOUSAND. POUNDS. For a Lada. That'll be a no from me.
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A couple more 1/76 Oxfords have been floppytopped. I've never really liked the look of the Ford Consul Classic/Capri until I found a photo of the Crayford version and thought it looked so much nicer with the roof gone. And while I was at it, a Mk1 Cortina got the same treatment.
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Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
quicksilver replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
Did anyone at Toyota ever look at this? I see definite Gen 1 Celica vibes in that front end. -
Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.
quicksilver replied to philibusmo's topic in AutoShite
My old boss had one of these. That spoiler is actually a pair of roof bars - it splits into two and slides forwards. Pretty neat. -
We seem to have come down with a collective case of Ergomania. The Marathon (so named because it ran for 26 miles between breakdowns) has been done in 1/76 by Road Transport Images. As has the mark 3 Ergo with the lights in the bumper. EFE of course did the original Ergo, on whose chassis these two are based, and the RTI mk3 cab appears to have been cast from a modified EFE cab as the EFE interior and glazing fit in it. The Lone Star Gas Turbine is 1/76 too. I saw the real one running at Gaydon 2022 and it makes the most unearthly sound.
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Not a Van Hool but something much rarer, a Volvo C10M. This was Volvo's flagship of the early 80s, bodied in Switzerland from stainless steel by Ramseier & Jenzer and mega expensive, so only ten were sold in the UK. One of them saw out its days as a school bus for my secondary school, quite a comedown for a luxury touring coach. The model I suspect is a smaller-scale copy of the 1/50 Joal version. The New Ray Saab is nice. I have one in that funny metallic greeny-yellow Saab offered at the time.
