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[HMC]

 

 

[barefoot]

I went to the original Marquee, but only once. It was very small & dingy and the band, Amazon were OK. According to Malc MacMillan in the NWOBHM encyclopaedia; "They produced melodic rock with singing in the style of Pat Benatar.  In the promotional text to 'Hypnotising You', the group was described as a mixture of Rainbow, Fleetwood Mac, The Who and The Police". - Hmmm

[egg]

Large Yank-mobile in central London? You are the justified ancients of mu mu, AICMFP

[High Jetter]

50 minutes ago, egg said:

Large Yank-mobile in central London? You are the justified ancients of mu mu, AICMFP

Nah, they were in an ice cream van, shirley? 

[Dan_ZTT]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Nah, they were in an ice cream van, shirley? 

I'm in Shirley, he's in London

[motorpunk]

Some tracksuited 'entrepreneur' who has escaped Ukraine's military draft to bravely take his G Wagen shopping in London, I guess.  

[HMC]

[HMC]

[HMC]

Forgot about this spot

[HMC]

Stopping at mcdonalds en route back

[Matty]

12 minutes ago, HMC said:

Stopping at mcdonalds en route back

One for the parking thread 😆

 

 

 

(Given the circumstances, a free pass is issued)

[Matty]

Anyhow, what I really want to know is:

A) what is it like to drive?

B )  is it appreciably different to your last crown Vic? (Obvious not withstanding)

[High Jetter]

21 minutes ago, Matty said:

One for the parking thread 😆

I was thinking he did well to get the front wheels in the box. It might be an extra-wide space?

[timolloyd]

It’s a coach space

[gadgetgricey]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

Stopping at mcdonalds en route back

Hopefully via the drive through!!!!

[High Jetter]

6 minutes ago, gadgetgricey said:

Hopefully via the drive through!!!!

Nah, the bends would be too tight!

[gadgetgricey]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Nah, the bends would be too tight!

Yep. Also have to go through backwards to be at collection window, but I have faith in @HMC 

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, gadgetgricey said:

Yep. Also have to go through backwards to be at collection window, but I have faith in @HMC 

 

Noway I'm going backwards there, Ronald might be about

[HMC]

Back! 

Car ran like a dream, with the exception of loosing the idle near stonehenge which was solved by reconnecting a vacuum hose beside the intake system.

[Schaefft]

Looks like it used to have a vinyl top?

[somewhatfoolish]

1 minute ago, Schaefft said:

Looks like it used to have a vinyl top?

Is that not a gaffer tape landau? 🤣All it needs is some pram irons. 😁

[Jim Bergerac]

This is full of win. Perfect sensible transport for the larger family. 

[Zelandeth]

34 minutes ago, Jim Bergerac said:

This is full of win. Perfect sensible transport for the larger family. 

I came surprisingly close to buying this a couple of years ago after figuring out that it actually wouldn't be a bad way for a family of four adults and two larger dogs to get around on longer trips.

Think it was about two feet shorter than the camper van which I'd quite happily dailied on several occasions.  So should have been entirely usable.  The one HMC has just picked up looks rather longer!

Sadly the guy selling this was after £1500+ and it needed a not insignificant amount of welding plus probably a grand spending on it to get it back roadworthy - for a car that's optimistically worth around four grand once sorted.  Don't doubt for a second he got his asking price from someone else given the value in parts - but it wouldn't have been from someone intending to get it back on the road.

[HMC]

18 hours ago, Matty said:

Anyhow, what I really want to know is:

A) what is it like to drive?

B )  is it appreciably different to your last crown Vic? (Obvious not withstanding)

Drives well, its a far from perfect example but the last owner spent 10k on it which included a front suspension rebuild, so its not a sloppy to drive as you might think. That 97 p71 was in nicer condition, but this appealled as it was cheap (£875) someone had recently spent out making it reliable and ive always wanted a limo at some point. 

This has a P73 chassis number so it’s civilian spec, rather than that black p71 having heavy duty springs and shocks etc; although the vendor mentioned the base car was a police spec vehicle; unless those uprated bits were subsequently added post production.

The kids were amused at the overhang!

[gadgetgricey]

4 minutes ago, HMC said:

The kids were amused at the overhang!

Assumed they were looking in wonder at the gaffer tape rear window seal.
Must admit a limo is on my "want" list but not sure if I have your cahoonies.

 

[HMC]

4 hours ago, Schaefft said:

Looks like it used to have a vinyl top?

It has a vinyl roof, but its starting to disintegrate, hence the gaffer tape. 

[Bren]

While the back of the car was still in that there London....

[HMC]

We also went to see a musical

 

[HMC]

Meanwhile its blotted out the sun in one corner of taviatock…

[jonny69]

Not clicked a single like, but this is one of my favourite buys and collections of all time!