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2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Torquay - early Capri in the background. 

No sign of Basil...

The scene of this human drama today:

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And the council still hasn’t got round to replacing the street name sign.

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9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

And the council still hasn’t got round to replacing the street name sign.

Actually they moved it to the end of the street, you can just see it sticking up on two poles (recognised where it was and went down there not long ago).

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1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

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I've a copy of this very "Autocar" magazine, which includes the report of the run. Fascinating to read and a superb example of how "have a go" guys used to tackle what would appear to today's audience to be insuperable obstacles!

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Yes - those Minx's were hardy little cars - unadventurously engineered - they ran a side valve engine - but nicely styled by Loewy - rust got most of them quite early. 

Yup that was the age of the 'endurance run' to advertise cars.

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10 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

I've a copy of this very "Autocar" magazine, which includes the report of the run. Fascinating to read and a superb example of how "have a go" guys used to tackle what would appear to today's audience to be insuperable obstacles!

This is a good read. Had the book since I was a boy.

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