I'm scared. This is not going to end well.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Then things brightened up. Tremendously.

 

 

 

 

 

SIMON GERMAN! Has to be.

[Junkman]

Me too - I escaped as well. A truly frightening place with rare species. It's like a 1970's Doctor Who set.

 

The places we encountered were ca 1347s horror film sets, with gallows, blocks and stakes still firmly in place.

One of them had a Millenium Beacon, so handling fire must have been known there as early as late 1999.

[Junkman]

So Mr Junkman, were you at the place of the R16 man in Spalding? I am told that there is such a fellow who has many of them and spares etc. Think he has a rather nice gold low mileage TX. Oddly enough there is another low mileage 16 residing in Spalding, a red TL with circa 8k on the clock. If you were there you were about seven miles from where I reside and you would have been welcome to come and have a beverage and even something to eat. Plus of course you could have had a tour of my model room if you had so desired. And I promise you would not have been murdered and buried in my back garden.

 

 

Should I ever get anywhere near the place again, I will gladly take up your offer of providing temporary shelter

from the perils the indigenous conspire to inflict on me.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Many years ago - nearly 30 (1988) - I went to Louth in search of Renolt bits. For an 8 Gordini I was restoring, MML86C.

 

Set off in the 1979 Granada 2.3L Estate DUD2V in Solar gold over Roman bronze from Oxfordshire, ended up in Louth via Christ knows where but Leadenham rings a bell. An eerie bell.

 

There was Simon German, Renault legend. In 1988 of course, the 16 was still fairly recent and the Clio yet to be born. Bought four rust free Renault 10 doors (same) and a gearbox from a 1300cc 10. An 8 Gordini failing was the diff breaking so we slid a 10 'box straight in, job done. But he was mad keen on Ren 16's and had a few of them. Very nice bloke, gave me a load of 8/10 bits gratis.

[Junkman]

We were not at Simon German's place. In fact we do not know a person with this name.

[D Spares & Tyres]

True story:

 

I nearly bought the Renault 16 that used to be in 'The Buddha of Suburbia'

 

I was supposed to be meeting the owner in a service station. I broke down on the way. This was before I had a mobile so no way of contacting him as he didn't have one either.

[D Spares & Tyres]

SIMON GERMAN! Has to be.

We were not at Simon German's place. In fact we do not know a person with this name.

Never heard of him either

[wuvvum]

 

Set off in the 1979 Granada 2.3L Estate DUD2V in Solar gold over Roman bronze from Oxfordshire

My Grandma had a Fiesta, DUD632V, from new until she stopped driving.  She lived in Oxford.

 

 

As you were...

[Junkman]

A friend of my Grandfather's Brother in Law had a VW Golf, I can't remember the reg, from new until he sold it three years later.

He lived in Leupoldsgrün.

[Ghosty]

D701SWL?

[Junkman]

 

How do you manage to be disappointed by a Renault 16 finally getting a new lease of life?

For this result alone I class this trip a rousing success of all parties involved.

[Supernaut]

I was disappointed in the lack of a collection.

[Junkman]

There is no shortage of collections on this forum.

[junkyarddog]

When are you collecting the 17 then?

[Junkman]

Sigh...

 

That 17 has a very, very sad story.

Lincolnshire, you know.

[Squirrel2]

We were not at Simon German's place. In fact we do not know a person with this name.

Simon German was the 'Registrar' for the R16 in the Renault Owners Club when I was (briefly) a member in the 1980s. He was a serious fan of the car and a good source of advice and encouragement - which I needed at the time to keep my rapidly dissolving R16TX running.

 

He was at Louth in Lincs.

 

I assumed that was where this thread had been - wrong, but interesting nevertheless...

 

Squirrel2

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Simon German was the 'Registrar' for the R16 in the Renault Owners Club when I was (briefly) a member in the 1980s. He was a serious fan of the car and a good source of advice and encouragement - which I needed at the time to keep my rapidly dissolving R16TX running.

 

He was at Louth in Lincs.

 

I assumed that was where this thread had been - wrong, but interesting nevertheless...

 

Squirrel2

 

 

It's not just me then!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

My Grandma had a Fiesta, DUD632V, from new until she stopped driving.  She lived in Oxford.

 

 

As you were...

 

Hartford Motors, Seacourt Tower FTW.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I like Lincolnshire! Although I believe it is a jostling hotbed of Brexitry which has taken the shine off somewhat for me. Nice countryside and houses though in the main.

[DaveDorson]

I like Lincolnshire! Although I believe it is a jostling hotbed of Brexitry which has taken the shine off somewhat for me. Nice countryside and houses though in the main.

 

I like some of the bits of rural Lincs, South Kesteven especially.

 

Although there's a lot of Brexitry (I like that word, I'm nicking it), there's quite a liberal undertone from some quarters too, which suits me fine.

 

I like the place so much, I've decided to live in Stamford, although quite how long I'll not be priced out of that I'm not sure.

 

Sadly, as nice as Stamford is, it' another town sucombing to the world of the housing developer, it's a profitable place to build a nice gaff, and as such unafforable housing is springing up on once industrialised areas that really should be used for further employment land, especially with the sad recent announcment of 500 jobs at the local Cummins plant soon coming to an end.  *shakes head*

 

Any shitters who are ever passing this way, feel free to drop me a message, and I'll provide tea and biscuits if I'm home.

[Felly Magic]

Lincoln has a decent ish transport museum (their open day this Sunday BTW), one redeeming feature of the witch filled flatlands

[solid61]

All this talk of norfolk/lincolnshire reminds me of a weeks touring around said area in search of interesting car breakers,this was in 1980.The trip was made in a tatty mk 2 zodiac towing a mk1 escort van that was cut down into a trailer.Many small scrappys were found with interesting cars and a lot of ex usaf employees cars,We were in search of mk1 and mk2 zephyr convertible parts and struck gold at a closed down yard very near kings lynn hospital,strange place it was,abandoned with a buned out chalet bungalow on site but in full view of a passing main road,there was at least 3 mk2 convertibles on site so we spent a lazy day stripping all the super rare trim from them at no cost.Next place we visited was priors of yaxham,an amazing place with many LHD 50s british cars,mk1 zephyr cab being the most memorable english car there,the place geuinly had at least half a dozen tri chevys including a convertible an i think a 55 nomad if my memory is correct,this was mindblowing stuff to an 18 year old american car nut like myself at the time,next yard was wright engineering at holbeach st john in lincolnshire,job to get into the yard at first but after being sussed out by the owner on old car knowledge he was glad to let us in.walked through a workshop and parked up was a facel exellence in resonable condition and many other old bits and pieces that i cant really remember,but i do remember a 58 ford retractable out in the open with its roof half up,i will treasure my memories from this trip an in my mind the facel vega was the highlight of the week,hope it survives somewhere and i just wish id have taken my fuc..ng camera.wot a twit !!!.

[wuvvum]

Could the Facel be the one mentioned by Wobbler earlier in this thread?

[wuvvum]

So is the 16 definitely withdrawn from sale?  Only I've been doing some research on the Dark Web re the going rate for reasonably sound 38-year-old kidneys.

[chaseracer]

Everywhere no matter what day of the week seems to close when they hear Junkman is in the proximity, even 24 hr supermarkets LOL

Especially Ireland.

 

Or Cannock.

[59Impala]

All this talk of norfolk/lincolnshire reminds me of a weeks touring around said area in search of interesting car breakers,this was in 1980.The trip was made in a tatty mk 2 zodiac towing a mk1 escort van that was cut down into a trailer.Many small scrappys were found with interesting cars and a lot of ex usaf employees cars,We were in search of mk1 and mk2 zephyr convertible parts and struck gold at a closed down yard very near kings lynn hospital,strange place it was,abandoned with a buned out chalet bungalow on site but in full view of a passing main road,there was at least 3 mk2 convertibles on site so we spent a lazy day stripping all the super rare trim from them at no cost.Next place we visited was priors of yaxham,an amazing place with many LHD 50s british cars,mk1 zephyr cab being the most memorable english car there,the place geuinly had at least half a dozen tri chevys including a convertible an i think a 55 nomad if my memory is correct,this was mindblowing stuff to an 18 year old american car nut like myself at the time,next yard was wright engineering at holbeach st john in lincolnshire,job to get into the yard at first but after being sussed out by the owner on old car knowledge he was glad to let us in.walked through a workshop and parked up was a facel exellence in resonable condition and many other old bits and pieces that i cant really remember,but i do remember a 58 ford retractable out in the open with its roof half up,i will treasure my memories from this trip an in my mind the facel vega was the highlight of the week,hope it survives somewhere and i just wish id have taken my fuc..ng camera.wot a twit !!!.

Now if you still had all that Mk1/2 convertible stuff.....Priors of Yaxham was a splendid place, full of old American stuff including convertibles. Somewhere I have a photo of a much younger me just going under a 56 Chevy to cut through something to get the axle out, we had travelled up in a 56 COY99D now sadly no more. Loads of LHD British stuff from the US bases. Nice people too, friendly, made you tea and gave us bags of apples. I know John Wright, he's still around although the yard has long gone and it's now an airfield. He's actually building a sort of Facel using a Mercedes as a base unit and I'm guessing that he had one there that was too rotten. He has many other projects and was a drag racer back in the 60's, still has his race car. Great guy and very energetic for a man of 81.

[chaseracer]

...DodgyTom and I had second thoughts and agreed to not follow through...

 

Not following through is invariably a wise decision.

[solid61]

Now if you still had all that Mk1/2 convertible stuff.....Priors of Yaxham was a splendid place, full of old American stuff including convertibles. Somewhere I have a photo of a much younger me just going under a 56 Chevy to cut through something to get the axle out, we had travelled up in a 56 COY99D now sadly no more. Loads of LHD British stuff from the US bases. Nice people too, friendly, made you tea and gave us bags of apples. I know John Wright, he's still around although the yard has long gone and it's now an airfield. He's actually building a sort of Facel using a Mercedes as a base unit and I'm guessing that he had one there that was too rotten. He has many other projects and was a drag racer back in the 60's, still has his race car. Great guy and very energetic for a man of 81.

You are very correct about the priors yard,lovely interesting people,the yard was full of brambles and the old woman in charge gave us a scythe to cut em down to get to the cars.To be honest i can still account for most of the mk1/2 trim coz the cars it helped restore at the time are still about and still in amazing condition,looking back now it seems hard to beleive yards like those exsisted and im still pissed off about the lack of a camera,the mk2 zodiac i drove at the time was a poor ol thing but much better than something sensible,its reg was 862 DOK and i ended up trading it for a 1960 super 88 olds 393GTV,it wasnt much better than the zodiac but raised a few eyebrows locally.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I like Lincolnshire! Although I believe it is a jostling hotbed of Brexitry which has taken the shine off somewhat for me. Nice countryside and houses though in the main.

Countryside? I didn't see any, it looks like what the world was like before God invented scenery.

 

Cracking sunset on the way out though

[Junkman]

The way out of Lincolnshire is beautiful even if the sunset were half as sensational as it indeed was.