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I remember having a LWB auto minibus through the workshop at the same time as a turbo banana Transit Custom we were getting fitted out for a long-range courier: one was glacially slow, the other went like snaw aff a dyke...no prizes for guessing which was which. 

Yesterday's spots - the Brizzle was just out for a tootle and a bag of chips. Winning at life I think.

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Well Furlough is over so for one week only I have been filling in for one of the parts drivers (back to the desk job next week). The great thing about driving to various garages and industrial estates is the opportunity for some spots...

 

Army truck thing would make a superb campervan! 

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Rather snazzy Ford F something pickup

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No not the Skoda look t the trucks! The orange one is a Foden if anyone can ID them please do.

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Coudn't be bothered to get out the van, no prizes for guessing the car! 

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Funky Renault 4 Van, want muchly!

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When I lived in Bath I used to see this lovely old girl parked on the Royal Crescent.  It's a 760GLE.  It very seldom moved, I remember seeing it being pushed by a hareem of who I can only assume were volvo lickers to get it out of the way of the 2012 olympics parade when streets were cleared of cars.  It covered less than 100 miles between 2006 and 2018 according to the MOT history.  Now appears to be lost into the ether alas. 

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19 minutes ago, Jack D said:

When I lived in Bath I used to see this lovely old girl parked on the Royal Crescent.  It's a 760GLE.  It very seldom moved, I remember seeing it being pushed by a hareem of who I can only assume were volvo lickers to get it out of the way of the 2012 olympics parade when streets were cleared of cars.  It covered less than 100 miles between 2006 and 2018 according to the MOT history.  Now appears to be lost into the ether alas. 

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You see all them things in the background, I expect most of them them have knocky things on the doors, probably not allowed doorbells being a conservation/preservation area. There's bound to be a few curtain twitchers that could tell you the life history of everything that's happened up there. Get knocking ???????

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18 hours ago, Marina door handles said:

Well Furlough is over so for one week only I have been filling in for one of the parts drivers (back to the desk job next week). The great thing about driving to various garages and industrial estates is the opportunity for some spots...

 

Army truck thing would make a superb campervan! 

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Rather snazzy Ford F something pickup

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No not the Skoda look t the trucks! The orange one is a Foden if anyone can ID them please do.

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Coudn't be bothered to get out the van, no prizes for guessing the car! 

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Funky Renault 4 Van, want muchly!

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On 7/11/2020 at 1:23 PM, Jack D said:

A sad Triumph.  This TR4 was immaculate excepting the damage.  It brought into a bodyshop where I was having a car painted.  Owner of the business said he wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. 

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To be honest, I’ve seen worse repaired. But it all depends on how deep the owners pockets are. As that’s the only hinderance. When I worked for a classic race car company the guy in the body shop was repairing an Austin Healey 3000 race car that had come off the track and wrecked in a spectacular fashion. I remember helping him putting the gearbox in after lengthy chassis repairs and having to tell him “I need an inch rearward on the box mate, or is the chassis too long?”

I laughed. The boss didn’t. The body guy nearly got sacked ?

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1 hour ago, CreepingJesus said:

Totally. To my mind it beats the fins era hands down: those were designed in a spirit of optimism and adventure, whereas the 70s land yachts were a case of 'fuck it'. They're a totally excessive denial of the reality they were made in. 

Very true!

Check out the family resemblance between the Lincoln and my Mercury, same age.

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Why on earth youd design a car to be this big, and thirsty at a time when everything should’ve been telling you not to I don’t know, but I’m glad they did. These big 70’s monsters are highly overlooked but offer an enormous amount imho. They’re light years ahead of anything we had at the time, just a shame it all quickly started to go wrong! I suppose that’s what happens when you refuse to move on with the times!

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11 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

That is fucking lovely! I love the shape and style of this era of Continental coupe.

That Continental was massive. The only curved things on it were the wheels and those slightly pointless opera windows in the C-pillars. Everything else was an abundance of straight edges and right-angles.

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9 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That Continental was massive. The only curved things on it were the wheels and those slightly pointless opera windows in the C-pillars. Everything else was an abundance of straight edges and right-angles.

They are big cars. My Mercury is basically a 4 door sedan version of the same car with slightly different trim and a few body styling differences. They’re surprisingly easy to drive though, despite the immense size! Big engines make them fairly quick (in a straight line!) too.
One of those coupes is definitely on my want list.

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