primeradoner Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Custombilt in Benwell. Pops WW nearly bought me a mk3 escort Ghia from there in the 90s. For my 18th birthday I think. I didn't get a license till I was 36.Its still there, I drove past it yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Its still there, I drove past it yesterdayI would have thought there would have been more interest in a Ford. It was only £300 too. BorniteIdentity and primeradoner 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Phwoar! lisbon_road, brickwall, oldcars and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Why isn't that an Olympian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 No idea, did anyone other then London Transport buy them new? TWPTE seemed to have chosen the MCW Metrobus over the Titan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 10, 2016 Author Share Posted April 10, 2016 Nice spread of British and imports of the day. I couldn't get the German between the cortinas. brickwall, mercrocker and Squire_Dawson 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overrun Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Mk1 Scirocco? Jim Bell and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overrun Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Keeping with the theme - but Sunderland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPQ7goOszmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWvnNTzeF8A 30 mins of road survey van footage, brickwall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 10, 2016 Author Share Posted April 10, 2016 Mk1 Scirocco?Winnar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overrun Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Winnar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 That Sunderland footage van must be 1990 at the latest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 The Titan was an integral to follow on from the National. The Olympian was a chassis based bus, more conventional, and came out a few years later. Apart from a few odd sales, London bought nearly all the Titans though I think Reading bought a few new ones. WMPTE and I think Manchester had tiny numbers. Stagecoach seemed to do well with them and many lasted for ages with them. Some great pictures thanks. HH-R 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 There now follows a chod speckled, pub related mega dump. The Toby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Long flattened Bourgogneys. mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Still standing are the Adelphi and the Ship. (Now the Tyne bar) mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 A couple of heads. mjrose, paulplom and mercrocker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Gosforth high street. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Some black and Whites of various ale houses with chod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Byker Grove. The old mitre was used for exterior filming of the hit* children's TV show. oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Always finish on a bus. Along with the legendary live music venue The Mag Bank. Still standing in North Shields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Just for fun. The aftermath of the first attempt at full public transport integration when a Metro train and a bus met unsuccessfully at Kingston Park level crossing in the early eighties. tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Urvan outside the Adelphi Hotel! DVLA says it was last taxed in 1990 and was black – not a standard colour, maybe a ‘private ambulance’? Look at all the Cortina Mk3 and Hunter taxis. Imagine how knackered they’d have been after a few years use on the rank…. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Is that a Ford Taunus with the BAOR plates, sneaking in on the left? And check how close the Capri's index is to Jack Carter's Jag-killing Cortina... NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Looking at these it's not difficult to see why O/S/F Tax exists,nalmost every picture from the 50's to 90's is full of Fords. Just the sight of a Cortina or Transit can stir nostalgic memories in even the most cynical of Citroenists or Jap lickers .its fun spotting the odd Fiat 132 or Datsun Cherry ,but the wall to wall Dagenham( or Halewood or Cologne etc) Dustbins , just shout This is Working Class Britain.The Rootes Arrow minicabs come as no surprise ,Terry drove one in the 'Whatever happened to The Likely Lads'Christmas special. AlabamaShrimp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Is that a Ford Taunus with the BAOR plates, sneaking in on the left? Yes, 12m, front wheel drive with an in line German V4 which, perhaps surprisingly, was not the same as the V4 used by UK fords. chaseracer and Jim Bell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 You see that 300-series Volvo parked outside of the Adelphi? I got a parking ticket in that very spot once in my dad's 416 as it was re-designated as a loading bay. PHACT! beko1987 and Jim Bell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire_Dawson Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 The 1634 Bourgognes building has gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Nice spread of British and imports of the day. I couldn't get the German between the cortinas. Gie'us our Sainsbury's back.... That ain't Sunderland - Lordshill, Southampton! (it actually says so on the wall mural!) Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Just for fun. The aftermath of the first attempt at full public transport integration when a Metro train and a bus met unsuccessfully at Kingston Park level crossing in the early eighties.Taking the Transfare a bit too far there... Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Further north east chodding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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