Austat Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Shite Ron, Dick Longbridge and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Viewers of a nervous disposition should look away, there's going to be an accident... I think we should film it - Are you ready? Someone is about to come a cropper, is it Evil Kinevil above, showing off to the girls (off screen) or someone else? It was someone else, luckily she is wearing all the safety equipment available at the time. Shite Ron, LightBulbFun, Fat_Pirate and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Meanwhile, in London, Doris and Hilda are trying to find the House's of Parliament, but their map reading skillz are not what they should be (insert further sexist jokes about female map reading here _ _ _ _ _ _ _). hennabm, warch, Dick Longbridge and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 A caravan with a porthole; does it float? They were obvs going off-piste given they're packing wing-mounted jerrycans and a capstan winch. martc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 hennabm, JeeExEll, Austat and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Thunderbirds in Japan: JeeExEll, Amishtat and RayMK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 loserone, Bfg, DSdriver and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Around the world, in B&W 'Nischelgasse' (Das Karl-Marx-Monument) Chemnitz (nee Karl-Marx-Stadt), Germany (nee DDR), unveiled in 1971, sculptor Lev Efimovich Gerbel. I've stood in the very same spot as the photographer and witnessed the rider of a Simson Swallow being knicked by the VP for speeding! May Day demonstration in Moscow, USSR, 1930. Smelly. Not sure, but a picture is worth a thousand words. Spar corner shop, Bolton, 1975. georgeinabz, JeeExEll, DSdriver and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Anyone want to comment about 'health and safety gone mad'? Remspoor, RayMK, Dick Longbridge and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bfg Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 ^ he only had one fatal explosion in 40 years ..so smoking while filling the petrol tank obviously ain't that dangerous.! mitsisigma01 and martc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 On 5/3/2021 at 4:06 PM, martc said: Anyone want to comment about 'health and safety gone mad'? Well he ain't going to get lung cancer is he? martc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vantman Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Canterbury-- hennabm, Austat, RayMK and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Not an import to be seen! How time's change. georgeinabz and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Skut, adw1977, Dick Longbridge and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 sheffcortinacentre, Austat, Amishtat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 32 minutes ago, JeeExEll said: That's a great pic. I can remember custom cars like that, usually in some lurid colour with a fake fur interior & no doubt full of "plastic padding" covering the rot. The other thing is that Range Rover, am I the only one who sees an original Bache 2 door with its clean classy styling & just can't believe how far the current Rangie's have fallen with their bloated styling, naff detailing & shit low profile tyres on huge alloys - they now look just sad somehow ? JeeExEll, sheffcortinacentre, lisbon_road and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 In the early 80s, when I had not long started secondary school, a young lad who I think was an apprentice mechanic used to terrorise the local streets in a jacked up Mk2 1600E just like this. It was a S1 in dark midnight blue with the 4 instruments on the dash top and it had a V6 Essex, wolfrace slot mags (slots painted red), black film windows, huge furry seat covers, and for some reason he'd cut the bottom edges of the over-large home-made rear mudflaps in a jaggy pattern with a hacksaw. A red light lit up the rear underside at night to reveal a standard axle painted bright red. The leaf springs were painted gold (!!!???) and the extended spring shackes were chrome (wow!!). It also had sidepipes and a CB radio. sheffcortinacentre, Amishtat and ETCHY 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 17 minutes ago, JeeExEll said: In the early 80s, when I had not long started secondary school, a young lad who I think was an apprentice mechanic used to terrorise the local streets in a jacked up Mk2 1600E just like this. It was a S1 in dark midnight blue with the 4 instruments on the dash top and it had a V6 Essex, wolfrace slot mags (slots painted red), black film windows, huge furry seat covers, and for some reason he'd cut the bottom edges of the over-large home-made rear mudflaps in a jaggy pattern with a hacksaw. A red light lit up the rear underside at night to reveal a standard axle painted bright red. The leaf springs were painted gold (!!!???) and the extended spring shackes were chrome (wow!!). And it had sidepipes. Extended spring shackles, yep they were chrome. We did that on a mate of mine's 1.3 Marina... not surprisingly jacking up the back end made the handling worse & it looked horrific !😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass, 1920. He's after these two - Dick Longbridge and Bfg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 10 hours ago, ETCHY said: Extended spring shackles, yep they were chrome. We did that on a mate of mine's 1.3 Marina... not surprisingly jacking up the back end made the handling worse & it looked horrific !😂 You'd never think that was possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 23 hours ago, ETCHY said: ....can't believe how far the current Rangie's have fallen with their bloated styling, naff detailing & shit low profile tyres on huge alloys.... Maybe there'll be a counter-culture fitting smaller wheels and tyres with massive aspect ratios.... LightBulbFun and ETCHY 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 JeeExEll and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew353w Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 4/25/2021 at 3:47 PM, Remspoor said: This looks like a scene from an early 1960s black and white cops and robbers “B” movie, with lines like “blimey, mate, the rozzers are coming-better jump in the Rover and ‘op it quick! Leave the gear in the van!” Remspoor and martc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 5/8/2021 at 3:35 PM, martc said: What sort of bike is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 37 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: What sort of bike is that? I think it's a Yamaha AT1, soz not B&W - Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 33 minutes ago, martc said: I think it's a Yamaha AT1, soz not B&W - That's lovely. Thanks! *heads to ebay* martc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 JeeExEll, Dannyk, Remspoor and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Macscrooge, Remspoor, Austat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 I never knew that the R4 van made it to Australia: 3 years before decimal currency was introduced in Australia. Dick Longbridge, JeeExEll, LightBulbFun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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