'93 Mondy thread - clock bulb fixed (the little things)

[Mr Pastry]

I have not much interest in Diana or her cars, but since the subject has come up, and there are clearly experts around, I will mention this.

Back in the 1980s I bought a dreadful Fiat 124 Estate for beer money.   There were never many of these around.  At the time I knew a gentleman locally who was quite a high - up executive in Fiat UK.   When he heard about this car, he told me that it was the car in which Diana had learnt to drive.   He had no reason to lie about this, and was in a position to have some inside knowledge.   I didn't bother much about it, had more important things to do, never checked it out and have never seen any evidence such as a photo.   I know she had a new Mini Metro at one stage, so it would presumably have predated that - maybe an old car from someone in the Spencer family. 

Does anyone know more?  I had some good use from it, and scrapped it in the end.  Yeah, it would be worth a fortune now. 🙄

[Richard_FM]

I think I've seen a clip of her driving a Renault 5 around the time she first became famous.

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10 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I think I've seen a clip of her driving a Renault 5 around the time she first became famous.

[georgeinabz]

Never mind that the 2 door colt lancer in the background , my 2nd car , incidentally renault 5 my 1st

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[Alan_Green]

24 minutes ago, georgeinabz said:

Never mind that the 2 door colt lancer in the background , my 2nd car , incidentally renault 5 my 1st

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Not only was my first car a Renault 5, but it was USB361T!  Same series as Di's R5.  Argyll registrations.  Made it to London somehow.

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@RobTbeing the gent that he is has arranged some new tyres for me, which should make it drive a bit nicer. Being on the spare (2003) and rears were 2008 😮

[sierraman]

Old rubber is never good. Should be much better in the wet as well. 

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14 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Old rubber is never good. Should be much better in the wet as well. 

yeah, I couldn't in good conscious sell a car on shit tyres.

[sierraman]

Would definitely get the inner wishbone bushes checked to make sure it’s not going to scrub the tyres off. 

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29 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Would definitely get the inner wishbone bushes checked to make sure it’s not going to scrub the tyres off. 

Yes, agreed, that would be a waste, but Rob's only using it round the doors at the mo.

[stuboy]

7 hours ago, sierraman said:

Old rubber is never good. Should be much better in the wet

too much leakage

 

[Richard_FM]

14 hours ago, egg said:

Yes that's the one, I think there's some news footage of her getting in or out of it.

[greengartside]

On 8/11/2022 at 1:25 PM, egg said:

Never seen this doc before. But at £25 won't be buying it, but features loads of early SVE and TCE K-reg cars. Rubs trousers.

You may well see it’s not on eBay any more.

Someone may* have asked for it as a Christmas present…..

[wesacosa]

there is a nice 6 page feature on the Mk1 Mondeo in this month's Classic Retro Modern Mag 

[sierraman]

Once it’s in the Classic car press these days it’s a toss up whether your money is better spent on a Hargreaves Lansdown Global Markets 2 or a 1995 Mondeo 1.8 LX. 

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Why the Contour failed in America.

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Have we had this yin?

[KWhite]

I've only ever seen one K Plate Estate which was K577 BNE. Annoyingly it scrapped a few years ago and I never managed to get a picture of it

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12 minutes ago, KWhite said:

I've only ever seen one K Plate Estate which was K577 BNE. Annoyingly it scrapped a few years ago and I never managed to get a picture of it

K plate estates are unicorns!

[KWhite]

Yep! I was reading one of my old What Car's before (August 1993) and the K Plate Ghia Estate that they tested (K535 HHK) still exists, not had an MOT since 2010.

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From 'Sitting there Rotting on a driveway group' on FB

[MorrisItalSLX]

11 hours ago, egg said:

From 'Sitting there Rotting on a driveway group' on FB

A close relative of @Slowsilver’s K plater

[greengartside]

Beat me to it! I spotted this one earlier too on faceache.

[greengartside]

On 9/11/2022 at 10:11 PM, KWhite said:

Yep! I was reading one of my old What Car's before (August 1993) and the K Plate Ghia Estate that they tested (K535 HHK) still exists, not had an MOT since 2010.

K535 HHK - build date 15.04.1993, registered  13.05.1993. Incredibly early!

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Love it.

[sierraman]

EFA... Just fitted a set of bottom arms for him, one of our mechanics fancied it to slam and stance so we did him a fantastic new deal on a £24,000 Fiesta and generously part chopped him the Mondeo in for £174.35. 🤣

[MantaGTE85]

Awesome car, an absolute credit to him! Looks like one of the last mk1 Ghias as well. Great colour.

[sierraman]

12 hours ago, MantaGTE85 said:

Awesome car, an absolute credit to him! Looks like one of the last mk1 Ghias as well. Great colour.

It’s a Verona 

[Popsicle]

I'm sure this is on your list already but thought I'd take a pic just in case.

Spotted at Morrisons in Derby, looked in really good condition.

[MantaGTE85]

18 hours ago, MantaGTE85 said:

Awesome car, an absolute credit to him! Looks like one of the last mk1 Ghias as well. Great colour.

 

5 hours ago, sierraman said:

It’s a Verona 

You are right. It is a Verona. It's in one of the two colours you could get them in. I was thinking Ghia because of the trims and front fogs. It would be a 1.8 petrol.