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On 1/28/2022 at 10:06 PM, chodweaver said:
On 11/18/2021 at 8:10 PM, bunglebus said:
Couple more nice bits at the car dealer. Don't recall a Manta GT?
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Iirc, the two shapes available when i was paying attention were the GT (hatch) and the Berlinetta (fastback)

They were just trim levels. I once had a GT Berlinetta hatch.  Berlinetta gave you alloys and sunroof but nowt else iirc.

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2 hours ago, Wibble said:

They were just trim levels. I once had a GT Berlinetta hatch.  Berlinetta gave you alloys and sunroof but nowt else iirc.

Actually, my memory was slightly inaccurate. Mine was a 1.8S Berlinetta, so it went GT, Berlinetta then GTE and the last ones added Exclusive I think🤔

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An ex colleague of my mother’s had a Corona the same colour identical to that. It was the only one I had seen when I was a child in the seventies, I believe he had owned it from new, it must have been over 15 years old when he replaced it with a Princess. I do not recall seeing any others.

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I mentioned these in the storm thread, guy has been acquiring Seats and working on them sporadically. I suspect they aren't insured so this sucks a bit

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Had to drop the FIL's car off at a local garage for MoT, there always seems to be interesting stuff outside...

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...but I didn't know there was a 3 door Sierra lurking inside

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1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

I mentioned these in the storm thread, guy has been acquiring Seats and working on them sporadically. I suspect they aren't insured so this sucks a bit

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Had to drop the FIL's car off at a local garage for MoT, there always seems to be interesting stuff outside...

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...but I didn't know there was a 3 door Sierra lurking inside

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Somehow the  mileage of that S8 jumped from 19k in 2006 to 88k in 2007.

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On 2/25/2022 at 8:29 PM, bunglebus said:

I've seen lots of 240 and 740 series Volvos in the last few weeks, don't know where they're all coming from but this one has appeared by my local shops

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Rough as it is, it’s still nice seeing old Volvo estates looking like this and still being used. Odometer stopped 5/6 years ago it would seem. 

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