Spots by Mash - BEEN A WHILE

[55bloke]

Slightly surprised you were so unimpressed! I used to go every year when I lived just down the road at Kirkbymoorside, and always thought it was a great event with something for everyone. I think the only UK steam fair that's bigger is in Dorset.

[Mash]

Some more pics I forgot to upload. These were taken at the gathering at the Elvington Air Museum near York. Some interesting cars turned up; quite a few I'd not seen before.

 

Concours XR4i. Can't decide which colour I'd get if I had one of these

 

 

Pink XJ6, locally supplied when new and still with dealer plates. I very much want one of these:

 

 

The ex-Mash Victor FB still looking well. The Polish tyres on this must be about 15 years old now and don't seem to have worn at all!

 

 

Unusual Flying Standard Utility in the museum hanger. Normally these are Austins or Hillmans:

 

 

Nice low-spec R5:

 

 

Very early F-type Victor with the exhaust that comes through the rear bumper:

 

 

2-door Granny. I've seen this at the NEC but wasn't aware it was based near me:

 

 

Gold overload on this 190:

 

 

Very late Mini:

 

 

Jumbler's weapon of choice this wonderfully scruffy C15:

 

 

I can't remember what this was but it was very cool. Looks like the Green Hornet's car!

 

 

Apparently this is one of very few black RS Turbo Series 1s. There was some blurb about Princess Di having one of them when new:

 

 

Mint giffermatic Golf. More stuff like this making an appearance at shows now as time marches on:

 

 

Nice looking Mk3 Cortina. Bit of a mix and match spec though:

 

 

Fresh out of the box Beford Beagle camper. For Pog's overnight surveys!

 

 

Another locally supplied car this A40. I was particularly fond of this and would happily donate a non-vital organ to have it in my garage:

 

 

Another Mk2 Golf, this time an extremely early GTi with the Pirelli alloys. Nice to see in unmolested form:

 

 

Say what you will but Ford had no business foisting this colour on people, mid-80s or not. It's the most hideous shade of beige ever and has a slight pink tint to it. Ugh!

 

 

This is much more like it. One owner V6 auto Granada estate - lush:

 

 

Blimey! Singer Hunter

 

 

I snapped this shot near the end of the day as it caught my eye in a quiet moment. Very reminiscent of a 60s garage scene:

 

 

And I saved the shitiest for last. I R SCARAMANGA AND ALL UR MIDGETS BELONG TO ME:

 

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[trigger]

Wow!, There's some classy tat amongst that little lot! The 2 Door Granny is a real first for me! I bet the doors are really heavy on it.

[eddyramrod]

I can't remember what this was but it was very cool. Looks like the Green Hornet's car!

 

Well done for spotting the connection! You are indeed looking at a 1965 Imperial, the top of the Chrysler line. A four-door version was remodelled to become Black Beauty, the battle limo of Green Hornet. Hands up who remembered his chauffeur was played by Bruce Lee?

 

Also well done spotting the Bond connection!

 

And that disastrous Ford Beige was called "Coral Beige" IIRC...

[michiel]

That Singer is fab!

[Angrydicky]

Love the FB - is that an ultra-rare Standard model?

 

My dad has a '63 FB Deluxe - lovely cars.

[Mash]

Love the FB - is that an ultra-rare Standard model?

 

My dad has a '63 FB Deluxe - lovely cars.

Yep - well spotted. No chrome around the gutters or screens, horrible thin, smelly rubber floor covering and a tin dash with no padding! I loved it though.

[keef]

Concours XR4i. Can't decide which colour I'd get if I had one of these

 

Presumably not red.

 

Was going to ask about the A40 behind, but I see you got it further down. This one appeared in PC 10/98 p40.

 

That Singer is a rare find!

[boobydoo]

Thanks for the pics.....I've hardly been to any Car Shows this year so it's great when someone taked the trouble to download stuff to look at!

 

Never had an interest in Montegos at all, but time softens the heart and I really like that gold one...I would have spent quite a while looing at it!

 

Can't say the same for the Golfs, though.....90s stuff doesn't do it for me....yet!!

[55bloke]

Wow!! Excellent pics, looks like a good show, really hacked-off that I missed it, had no idea it was on. Shame, coz I love the Elvington Museum anyway and used to live not that far from it, and it's still relatively close. I've never seen or heard of a Singer Hunter before! I also spy a blue Sunbeam Alpine in the background of one of the pics - identical to the one my folks had back in the '70s - lovely things!

[fotorabia]

excellent Mash up you ve seen there mate..so much to like..i love the 2dr Granny..the black Viva...etc X 23...i also havent been to any shows..still stuck in Highlands..but this has made up for it..good man..

[Mash]

Slim pickings as usual but a mixed bag for this update. A couple from the TSSC show first including the prototype Herald hatchback:

 

 

This is the Anglia used in Heartbeat and it's now parked up outside the garage in Goathland as a tourist draw. I was up that way for the WW2 weekend last week and took these snaps of it. As you can see it's had a hard time of it:

 

 

The only cars I snapped at the York Racecourse do now, mainly because I'd seen all the others before or wasn't that bothered with them! Alfasud was a beauty. The Cresta has a Coventry number that was in a series used for quite a few press fleets including some Triumph 1300s:

 

 

Followed this lovely Cortina one Sunday morning as I was going out, I'd love one of these. I assume the number is original, if so it must be from a small local authority that hadn't got very far by the 60s:

 

 

Quick surreptitious snap of this Audi Avant. I think the bloke also owns the other one I see locally:

 

 

This Muir-Hill is at an agricultural engineer's just down the road from me. The guy is going to fully restore it. By coincidence a friend of mine is also currently restoring one just the same which was bought new by my dad's boss:

 

 

That's all folks!

[Angrydicky]

JFT = Tynemouth CC, 1963. This council only started issuing registrations in 1957 with AFT.

 

Nice pics!

[55bloke]

Nice pics - is it my imagination, or are the side windows on that Herald hatchback asymetrical? I used to live in North Yorkshire, and if I remember correctly, that Anglia has been parked outside the garage in Goathland for years, along with an A40 and a Moggy traveller - I think it's a different one to that used in the TV show. I also attended the Pickering WW 11 weekend for several years, an absolutely superb event which seemed to be in danger of becoming a victim of it's own success. Pickering just isn't big enough to cope with the huge numbers of visitors!

[Spottedlaurel]

Man, that 'Sud is bright!

 

Interesting to compare the two Toledo front ends - the later black grille looks better IMO.

[VWPowered]

yum alfasud

[seth]

Nice pics - is it my imagination, or are the side windows on that Herald hatchback asymetrical?

 

Nope, it was a styling exercise so its got different pillars on each side Saw it at the NEC show last year.

 

Nice spots Mash.

[In The Pit]

Do you have any pictures of the Crystal Green Cortina MKV that appears in the background of the second Alfa Sud pic? If so could you you post them up thanks.

[Mash]

The car park at the Doncaster racecourse model fair is always good for a couple of tat spots. Yesterday yielded this scruffy 240 saloon and rather fine Escort estate just like the one on eBay at the mo. I can just imagine it being piloted by some old boy who's completely happy with his lot living on his tod, shopping at Lidl and surrounded by train layouts, not a care in the world.

 

 

A very good fair if you're into mini-shite, lots of excellent stuff to be had. I picked up this 1/18 XR3i while I was there too for a very reasonable 22 quid. It's a fabulous model:

 

[eddyramrod]

The car park at the Doncaster racecourse model fair is always good for a couple of tat spots.

 

Likewise many other fairs; I used to frequent the ones at Aintree and Haydock, and often took whatever American barge I was driving at the time. I remember going to one at Port Sunlight in my 79 Cadillac, and as we sat eating our butties outside, a 1960 Chevrolet Impala was cruising round looking for a place to park to attend the same fair! Sweet Volvo, by the way, I love the 240/740 series.

[Mr Lobster]

A very good fair if you're into mini-shite, lots of excellent stuff to be had. I picked up this 1/18 XR3i while I was there too for a very reasonable 22 quid. It's a fabulous model:

 

 

And thats exactly why I don't do model fairs £22 is slightly less than trade price. The red XR3i only came out here about three weeks ago as well so I'd say you did very well there! Whoever bought it originally lost out a bit on that one

[Mash]

Here's my selection of highlights from the NEC. As always a bit hit and miss if you don't take a tripod but thank goodness for digital cameras that's all I can say because 200-odd pics would cost a fortune on film! I'll let the pictures do the talking, hope you enjoy

 

[55bloke]

One day, I WILL get to this event!!

[Mr Lobster]

Good stuff Mash, you seem to have taken photos of stuff that I either didn't manage to or did but had poor light.

 

55bloke, do go. Its not cheap but it is good.

[55bloke]

is it only me, or does everyone see a whole bunch of the images missing?

[seth]

Mega!

 

I've never seen a Mk1 Cortina with that grille before. Is it a very early/prototype/povo spec one?

[Albert Ross]

The Escort in the Doncaster racecourse pics belongs to a young married woman! I used to work with her husband. They also collect Land Rovers.

The R16 in the NEC is from the same run of numbers as MY Land Rover. Mine's PEB 861J.....!

[Mash]

is it only me, or does everyone see a whole bunch of the images missing?

 

They're all there now - Photobucket took a while catching me up!

 

BTW I can frame a picture OK, if you're seeing edges missed off it's this site not me!

[Mash]

Mega!

 

I've never seen a Mk1 Cortina with that grille before. Is it a very early/prototype/povo spec one?

 

Povo spec - it's the Fleet model and they're extremely rare.

[Richard]

I've seen a picture of one before. No windscreen washers or heater IIRC.