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White thing was wearing a Seat badge... as to what it actually is though im mystified.Did they sell marinas in grece?

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Cheers, probably one of those, it looks indeed slightly less angular than the A111.

 

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Quality spots :D I took pic of one of those Seat 124/1430's in Menorca in 97, god knows where it is now, they used to be everywhere there, but disappeared very suddenly at the end of the 1990s :(

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Cheers! I had it down in blackpool at the weekend for the Ford show on the front. its my daily at the mo as the Cortina is broken and the Probe's out of MOT.

 

Got a set of side stripes for it from the capri club which the missus has made a nice job of applying i think and tidied up the door bottoms with a halfords aerosol... on the down side its started to whine a bit in fifth gear... tried topping up the fluid but no joy. hopefully it will whine for a while before it goes pop.

 

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  michiel said:

Cheers, probably one of those, it looks indeed slightly less angular than the A111.

 

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Fantastic pic! Hard cornering on crossplys while smoking some Rough Shag in your pipe must surely be outlawed by the Health & Safety Nazis these days.

 

Capri looks good, Dave!

  • 2 months later...
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time for an update on my shiteseeing over the last couple of months. No holy grails sadly, FSO's and Tagoras hae eluded me this time.

 

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This was in blackpool.. boarded up windows of the house suggest a less than caring owner

 

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Imagine my surprise to visit a garage and find this...

 

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which a year ago belonged to me and looked like this:

 

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Future is uncertain apparently. it needs a fair bit.

 

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Mk4 i sold a month ago heads for its new home.. fittingly aboard a pikey truck

 

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Hearing aid beige... check. Obscure old citroen... check Boarded up window.... check

 

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Finally.. the sight thats been greeting me most mornings of late when i'm late for work.

 

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Bollocks... no time to defrost, I'll take the cortina, it's more sheltered from the frost in the drive....

 

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hmm maybe not.

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wicked spots

 

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yay for le harlequin

 

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cool halfraud now fit whelchairs :oops::twisted:

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Slightly alarming that a car that looked as tidy as your ex 'Tina did can actually be so far gone that it's in danger of being too far gone! :shock: And what's the future got in store for the one which left you on the truck? Not too promissing, I'm guessing?

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Black one wasnt as good as it looked... I got it from a cortina forum member who'd been given it for free after it had been in a barn for years.He said he'd done a full "resto" on it and put it up for sale... asn the bloke was a regular forum member and held in quite high regard on the board i bought it sight unseen.Drove 200 odd miles to get it and picked it up late at night... made about ten miles before the engine went bang and it came home courtesy of the AA.He hadnt even changed the oil, just given it a blow over and a highly suspect MOT... oh well lesson learned.A shame too as it had a full history with one owner before he got it and rare factory special order black with no vinyl roofBlue one has a good future.. the guy was a cortina fan and bought some spares off me as well... says he is going to use it as a daily after a bit of work.

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This looks like a scene from 'Open All Hours'

 

"Its N-n-n-nurse G-g-g-gladys Emmanuel!"

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  Volksy said:

This looks like a scene from 'Open All Hours'

Don't think Arkwright would take too kindly to the competition from Morrisons? (yellow sign in the background). :-)
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couple of quick extras i missed:

 

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A dodge in dundee

 

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Not sure if this is the same marina as in the earlier pic... the two were taken many miles away from each other! surely there cant be two scabby sick colour marina estates???

 

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Love the Rapier! Can't recall seeing one, outside of a car show, in decades!! Don't ever recall seeing one that colour!

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First Pic of the marina was in hamilton i think, but it was a year or so ago... the second one was coming out of the Kingsway East retail Park in Dundee.. yesterday lunchtime!Those Rapiers are stunning looking cars... that one was actually spied by my missus while she was working in London who sent me it as a picture message with "is this shite?" above it :lol:

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Hope you named and shamed the Forum member that sold you the dud Cortina.I dont know how you manage to spot all these crackers, they are all so near me and I've never seen them!

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wow wicked..

 

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have to admit my dad was the last person i saw with one of these on the road wasnt exactly mint either.. defo one for johns stash barn museum

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  IainL said:

Hope you named and shamed the Forum member that sold you the dud Cortina.I dont know how you manage to spot all these crackers, they are all so near me and I've never seen them!

he dropped a load of unsubtle hints................but the twat is a thick skinned C**t, most of the Cortina world thinks he is a god, we know better, never met anyone that was happy with what they have bought of him...............I ended up putting replacment engine in it, sorting most of the suspension out, then it decided to chuck the gearbox out the pram.................feckin ungratefull motor :lol:
  • 5 months later...
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well since its been... er half a year since my last posting heres some shite for your perusal.. usual apologies as pics were almost always quick camera phone snaps out the window with beeping horns behind me

 

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Plenty more to come soon[/img]

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Its not clear in the pics, but this metro has a big "57" sticker on the side, and a ring of "57"'s round its wheel trims for some strange reason.

 

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This surprised the hell out of me when it went flying through Markinch station for no apparent reason at the weekend, followed by the union of south africa later in the day. Saw it again when i was in Dundee later in the day.

 

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Ooh, Ro80, brownish P6... nice update!

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