Amishtat Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 sheffcortinacentre, JeeExEll, hennabm and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Amishtat, adw1977, hennabm and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddlethumper Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 ^^ SA is an Aberdeen/shire reg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 4 hours ago, Amishtat said: Isn't this a mild form of heresy, one of the general's lumps of iron in a Ford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 'Watch out Mrs, there's a fucking bus coming, didn't you see it, have you the mind of a chicken?'. This safety bulletin brought to you by the Cholmondley Warner Pathe Road Safety Council For Things About Road Safety. martc, RayMK, Amishtat and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 somewhatfoolish, RayMK, adw1977 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Parked Austin. adw1977, somewhatfoolish, RayMK and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Where I'd like to live. sheffcortinacentre, Shite Ron, hennabm and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Actually looks very solid. '£9995 m8'. sheffcortinacentre, Bamboocarman, hennabm and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Early Mk1 2-door porn. Must be worth sixty farzand pahnds as the base for a Twin Cam replica, hennabm, Amishtat, Shite Ron and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Check out that van with the windows. adw1977, Amishtat, RayMK and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Guess what the estate is. I had to look up DVLA. A mate had a W-reg Ascona 2000SR like that one. His first auto, a 3-speed. On the first night he had it he was fucking about with the selector and managed to put it in 'park' at about 35mph with busy traffic following behind. Slithered to a stop sideways right across the road facing the kerb. Austat and adw1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, JeeExEll said: Guess what the estate is..... Never mind that. I'm trying to guess where the location is......errm...errm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Do you really want to know? Really really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Just now, JeeExEll said: Do you really want to know? Really really? It sort of looks mildly Devon-ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 hennabm, RayMK, Amishtat and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 23 minutes ago, JeeExEll said: 'Oooh, that's a really good answer but it's not the right one. Fucking miles off'. (In Roy Walker voice). It's a rail crossing at Broughty Ferry, near Dundee. Good try though. What's the estate car? I didn't know. Mazda 323? I'm probably wrong JeeExEll, Remspoor and sheffcortinacentre 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Possibly same 100E from above. sheffcortinacentre, RayMK, hennabm and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 hennabm and Amishtat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 hennabm, RayMK, Amishtat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 somewhatfoolish, MorrisItalSLX and JeeExEll 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 RayMK, sheffcortinacentre, hennabm and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 RayMK, DSdriver, Skut and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Amishtat, Skut and hennabm 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 1 hour ago, JeeExEll said: Nice mix of cars there. Incredible that the BMC Farina's lasted so long, that looks so old fashioned compared to the Mk2 Cortina but was on sale at the same time ! DSdriver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 9 minutes ago, ETCHY said: ...Incredible that the BMC Farina's lasted so long, that looks so old fashioned compared to the Mk2 Cortina but was on sale at the same time ! Probably a sign of some parts of the British motor industry failing to keep up with trends. DSdriver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 8 hours ago, Austat said: Get down Shep! Austat, Remspoor and somewhatfoolish 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 The same manufacturer was churning out ADO16s and Minis, they just had blithering idiots for managers, intransigent unions and too many factories to keep busy in a saturated market where Ford and GM were eating their lunch, the easy option was to leave a factory building Farinas rather than closing it and causing a strike/work-to-rule/etc. spartacus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said: The same manufacturer was churning out ADO16s and Minis, they just had blithering idiots for managers, intransigent unions and too many factories to keep busy in a saturated market where Ford and GM were eating their lunch, the easy option was to leave a factory building Farinas rather than closing it and causing a strike/work-to-rule/etc. The Franias should have been replaced by the Landcrab in 1964, but as that ended up too big & overweight it stayed in production. They probably would have given it a smoothed up reskin & possibly some mechanical upgrades if they knew how long it was going to be in production for so long. Austat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 20 hours ago, ETCHY said: Nice mix of cars there. Incredible that the BMC Farina's lasted so long, that looks so old fashioned compared to the Mk2 Cortina but was on sale at the same time ! 20 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: Probably a sign of some parts of the British motor industry failing to keep up with trends. 16 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: The same manufacturer was churning out ADO16s and Minis, they just had blithering idiots for managers, intransigent unions and too many factories to keep busy in a saturated market where Ford and GM were eating their lunch, the easy option was to leave a factory building Farinas rather than closing it and causing a strike/work-to-rule/etc. I wouldn't be too smug about Ford, there's three Fords in that photo, all made in the same decade. Production of two of them, the Pop and the Anglia, overlapped each other by 3 years (and 2 decades of development). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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