Eye-catching black and whites

[MiniMinorMk3]

[D.E]

[D.E]

[Remspoor]

[Metal Guru]

On 17/07/2025 at 21:29, D.E said:

At least the criminals are honest.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Mazda

[Dyslexic Viking]

Mazda 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Mazda 1800

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[Remspoor]

On 20/07/2025 at 20:06, Dyslexic Viking said:

Mazda 

The rear of this car just does not sit right in my eyes. The rear axle is located too far forward. If only it had sat more towards the C pillar. The design would have been proportional. There may have been space for rear doors too.

Oh, is is not a grump about the design, but why are the mud flaps located at an angle?

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

The rear of this car just does not sit right in my eyes. The rear axle is located too far forward. If only it had sat more towards the C pillar. The design would have been proportional. There may have been space for rear doors too.

Oh, is is not a grump about the design, but why are the mud flaps located at an angle?

I don't think the rear axle on these is bad, I actually think they are nice little cars.

And mud flaps were mandatory in Norway in the 1970s  and some at the importer possibly had a bad day at work when they installed them or this was the only way they could install them. Are my guesses.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

The rear of this car just does not sit right in my eyes. The rear axle is located too far forward. If only it had sat more towards the C pillar. The design would have been proportional. There may have been space for rear doors too.

Oh, is is not a grump about the design, but why are the mud flaps located at an angle?

Most early Mazda, Datsun, Daihatsu, Toyota had ungainly styling, but it kinda worked. Jap vs Euro eyes, I guess

[Richard_FM]

57 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Most early Mazda, Datsun, Daihatsu, Toyota had ungainly styling, but it kinda worked. Jap vs Euro eyes, I guess

The next generation of Japanese cars were even stranger, being an odd mix of scaled down American looks blended with styling that would be out of place on Matchbox original die cast cars & cars from Gerry Anderson's shows!

Luckily by the end of the 1970s they were looking more angular & closer to European cars in looks.

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[Remspoor]

Isle of Wight Ferry.

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[sheffcortinacentre]

Currently sorn 

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

 

 

Oi loved driving in my old MG

Though it’s not quite a Ferrari

I went to Kent, to Sittingbourne

But now it’s fucked and declared SORN!

(Say it as Pam or sing it like Madness)

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

[martc]

Jim Parkinson driving his 1935 Rytecraft through the streets of Tokyo during a world tour, 1965.⁠

We have a winner! @LightBulbFun Does the 1984 date of first registration imply that it was brought back from the dead? 

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Jim Parkinson driving his 1935 Rytecraft through the streets of Tokyo during a world tour, 1965.⁠

We have a winner! @LightBulbFun Does the 1984 date of first registration imply that it was brought back from the dead? 

pretty much, around November 1983, the DVLA closed the vehicle register/record, and ended the RF/VE60 (buff logbook) to V5 scheme, because of rampant fraud and number plate robbery on the go, if you had not computerised your old buff logbook vehicle by then you *had* to register it anew on an age related plate *unless* you pleaded your case and could prove the vehicle and its plate was historically significant and even still in a lot of those cases the DVLA did *not* record the original date of first registration

so generally you will see this sort of thing on Fancy high end or historically important vehicles (see @Six-cylinder's Rolls Royce 20/25 for example) but you wont see this sort of thing on something like a Morris Minor (unless said Minor was in itself historically significant in some way)

see also for example the registration marks of the great train robbery vehicles (which is a fun thing in itself because the registration mark on the lorry was a false plate used by the robbers, but then it got "legitimised" when that Lorry was computerised in 84! see my musings on that here https://autoshite.com/topic/50439-cae-dai-1950s-museum)

as a given practical example thats why @Andrew353w's "lowly" Skoda Octavia ended up on an age related plate back in 1984 despite a complete buff logbook being present, because back then likely it was not seen as historically significant enough to have its orignal number given back to it, thankfully in the 1990's the DVLA relented and allowed people to claim back original numbers with suitable evidence on a non transferable basis, the V765 scheme so I was able to help Andrew get its original mark back you can read about that here  

 

https://autoshite.com/topic/43497-christmas-collection-with-a-bit-of-help-from-shiply

 

[Richard_FM]

Here's another picture of it!

[Metal Guru]

16 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Here's another picture of it!

When did Noddy buy it?

[Remspoor]

 

[Richard_FM]

16 hours ago, Remspoor said:

 

Gerry Anderson's place of business.

[Remspoor]

22 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Gerry Anderson's place of business.

And not a Stingray in sight