Eye-catching black and whites

[MiniMinorMk3]

13 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Think that's a fibreglass flip front, they were avl in the late 60's-70's

There used to be a shop in Elmers End, called Pit Stop I think, that used to have Mini and escorts ones on display outside. 

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[lesapandre]

2 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The past is another country etc...

I once went to Elland - and it was a mythic place because of Leeds United - this was the actual 'Elland' that the 'Road' of my childhood football led to...I was at THE destination.

The b/w past is often so grim tho.

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46 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

The performance? 0-60 in 22 seconds. Is there any modern car THAT slow?

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15 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

The performance? 0-60 in 22 seconds. Is there any modern car THAT slow?

That is a whole new thread - slowest cars on the market!

Overall Austin's advertising was pretty poor.  Sales of the Hereford were dismal compared to similar offers from Ford and Vauxhall.

[JeeExEll]

On 07/07/2024 at 20:47, sheffcortinacentre said:

Think that's a fibreglass flip front, they were avl in the late 60's-70's

Still available sheff, for some reason I think someone's still making them. There's an ebay listing now showing 5 new ones available. Maybe made to order. Honestly, what is the current demand for them? Fibresports used to do them about 150 years ago.

Don't see any listed for a Fiesta or Ka or Mondeo or Puma. Or Cortina or Capri or Mk2 Granada.

A mate had a lift off Mini flip front with the electrics which connected / disconnected through a caravan trailer socket. A highly tuned 13-something -cc A-series with Triumph 1500 pistons and a front mounted Fiesta radiator. But no cooling fan yet. One really dark stormy night out in the country rain got into the socket and we had no headlights. 'Right I have an idea, why don't we reverse home using the boot-mounted rally spotlight, the roads are quiet and road users would see the light and know there's a car there'. Ok.

So after about 5 miles of this A-series absolutely revving it's tits off in reverse gear with horrendous noise and no cooling, (and the driver and passenger seated facing the wrong way), we had HGF and an A-series kettle. It wasn't exactly easy to steer or drive backwards along narrow country roads, rear wheel steering on a Mini FFS. Not much distance between bores with the Triumph pistons.

Oh bugger. An interesting night.

Fucking hilarious when I think about it now.

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[sheffcortinacentre]

3 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Still available sheff, for some reason I think someone's still making them. There's an ebay listing now showing 5 new ones available. Maybe made to order. Honestly, what is the current demand for them? Fibresports used to do them about 150 years ago.

Don't see any listed for a Fiesta or Ka or Mondeo or Puma. Or Cortina or Capri or Mk2 Granada.

A mate had a lift off Mini flip front with the electrics which connected / disconnected through a caravan trailer socket. A highly tuned 13-something -cc A-series with Triumph 1500 pistons and a front mounted Fiesta radiator. But no cooling fan yet. One really dark stormy night out in the country rain got into the socket and we had no headlights. 'Right I have an idea, why don't we reverse home using the boot-mounted rally spotlight, the roads are quiet and road users would see the light and know there's a car there'. Ok.

So after about 5 miles of this A-series absolutely revving it's tits off in reverse gear with horrendous noise and no cooling, (and the driver and passenger seated facing the wrong way), we had HGF and an A-series kettle. It wasn't exactly easy to steer or drive along narrow country roads, rear wheel steering on a Mini FFS. Not much distance between bores with the Triumph pistons.

Oh bugger. An interesting night.

Fucking hilarious when I think about it now.

I think Smith & Deakin or similar still offer them.

You could chuck one on a std Anglia, midget etc back in the day in place of rotten wings etc & get an MOT pass.

I know someone who had a MK1 escort one in the 00's.

If you look in the period mags you could get fibreglass sills for most 50's/60's cars! I used to wonder how you'd get on in the 90's if you had something with these unbeknownst to you???

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29 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Nice to see Dell Boy doing "his bit" for children.

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[lesapandre]

7 hours ago, Remspoor said:

What an overpass - pedestrians going up and down all those steps just to cross the road.

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Maybe a rail station access too?

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On 19/07/2022 at 17:16, Remspoor said:

I know it's a bit late in the day, but I recognise where that is, it's the bottom of London Road in Sheffield. I lived near there in the late seventies at the time of my disastrous first marriage (only lasted two years, not sorry it ended when I realised I was also married to the mother in law). Now been bery happily married for 34 years after recovery time of a few years. 

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22 hours ago, lesapandre said:

What an overpass - pedestrians going up and down all those steps just to cross the road.

 

20 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Maybe a rail station access too?

junction of Northumberland Street and New Bridge Street, Newcastle

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