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22 hours ago, 500tops said:

Light 15 Roadster on the A38 near Rattery, this morning. Not short on power - it was absolutely flying! 

 

I know this car. It dates from 1937. If you want to see it in the metal, along with about 25 other Traction Avant / Light 15s etc, the Traction Owners Club will be at the Lyn Valley Classic in Lynmouth, Devon on June 11th https://www.lynvalleyclassic.co.uk . Here it is at last year's rally in the Lake District.

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Been in CZ five minutes and saw this one. 

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Then I caught a trolleybus in Brno, just because, which dumped me ten minutes from a suburban station. On the walk down to said station, first I saw this. 

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Bugger me, a mk1 with colour coded bumpers, roof rails and a very rare option, headlamp washers. They're a bit clumsy looking but we never got them here. 

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Fuck me, an Atlantic Green mk1 with colour coded bumpers, slightly Barried. I doubt the Czechs call it Barried, I wonder if they have an equivalent. 

Seen five Felicias so far, so not exactly common but a lot more common than back home. 

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2 hours ago, Yoss said:

Been in CZ five minutes and saw this one. 

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Then I caught a trolleybus in Brno, just because, which dumped me ten minutes from a suburban station. On the walk down to said station, first I saw this. 

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Bugger me, a mk1 with colour coded bumpers, roof rails and a very rare option, headlamp washers. They're a bit clumsy looking but we never got them here. 

And then! IMG_20230312_173734.thumb.jpg.d0bdd597c8e93aab2a2db4f0138a01fb.jpg

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Fuck me, an Atlantic Green mk1 with colour coded bumpers, slightly Barried. I doubt the Czechs call it Barried, I wonder if they have an equivalent. 

Seen five Felicias so far, so not exactly common but a lot more common than back home. 

Calm down, dear! :)

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Cracking Mk1 Fiesta parked up by a local Tesco Express, yesterday.

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Really did look showroom.

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GL spec means some restrained chrome trim around the windows, a reversing light plus rubber overriders, but not quite the full GHIA.

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Plenty of giffer trinkets on offer, including padded seat covers, aerofoil wipers, and the all-important tartan blanket over the back seat. Repro tax disc for bonus has-a-timewarp-opened-up? head-scratchery. 

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Great colour too.

It could be 1985 all over again...

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10 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Cracking Mk1 Fiesta parked up by a local Tesco Express, yesterday.

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Really did look showroom.

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GL spec means some restrained chrome trim around the windows, a reversing light plus rubber overriders, but not quite the full GHIA.

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Plenty of giffer trinkets on offer, including padded seat covers, aerofoil wipers, and the all-important tartan blanket over the back seat. Repro tax disc for bonus has-a-timewarp-opened-up? head-scratchery. 

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Great colour too.

It could be 1985 all over again...

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Topical, see “cars that would have worked” thread.

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When I eventually got to the tip today somewhat to my surprise we wound up with two 1988 cars next to each other.

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Best photo I could get.  They have a *very* strictly enforced no photography policy there (no, I've no idea why either) in there and they were already thoroughly pissed with me because I was three minutes late.  Well I wasn't - I was sitting in the queue caused by their stupid ANPR cameras for over ten minutes waiting to get in.

Lovely diesel W124 with a lovely maroon cloth interior being used as "an car" as they are so good at.

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A few more from CZ. 

I'll get the Felicias out of the way first. After a slow start, once I started getting out into the suburbs of Brno they were everywhere. This is just a few. 

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It's those headlamp washers again. 

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Booted Clio. 

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I was too slow with the camera both times, but it was flying. 

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I used the premise of taking a photo of this attractive church to capture three mk1 Octavias, a 406, a Mk3 Golf and a Peugeot 301.

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Is this a private plate? I don't know if they have them there. Perhaps a coincidence. 

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This one reminds me work. 

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Caught from the window of a fast moving trolleybus, hence blurred, but I also saw another  one on the way back. 

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But then we hit the jackpot. 

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I wonder what sort of dealer network they had out here. 

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But this one deserves its own post (in my mind anyway). 

In Púchov in Slovakia. 

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I'm not sure what it all says but the words just married in English can just be made out on the rear window so I assume thats the date of the wedding on the bonnet. Which was nearly two years ago. It doesn't look like it's been sitting unused for two years so I assume they are driving it around like this. 

Despite the graffiti it was very straight and tidy. Also of interest, admittedly only to me, was a seat fabric I'd never seen before and early Felicia wheels. Oh and a quality bonnet scoop for force inducted heater. 

 

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