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On 17/04/2025 at 20:27, brownnova said:

Don’t think I’d ever seen the famed early GPO Morris Minor vans with rubber wings before, but a trip to Avoncroft Buildings museum in Bromsgrove yielded this treat! 

As well as some excellent buildings, fabulous phone boxes and in one of the most random shite moments I can ever recall a chance meeting with @SiC with both of us far from home! 

thats very cool! I had read about those but never actually even seen one pictured, I always wondered exactly how they worked, since rubber is not a very rigid material,  for some reason tho I kind of assumed that the wings where still Morris Minor shaped but made out of rubber and so the headlights would of just wobbled around I guess? so its very weird to see they are separate units, but it makes sense! I wonder if its also a bit of a hold over from the Morris Minor low light? (but I dont know when these rubber winged GPO moggies where first introduced...)

[lesapandre]

7 hours ago, EspenO said:

Wasn’t that used as a location in an episode of «Taskmaster»?

It was full of pairs of shoes, and the contestants had to find a particular pair by eliminating all the others and throwing them out the window on the right…? 🤔

The 'tin tabernacle' churches were available as kits from a number of manufacturers (along with a whole range of other buildings) like Bolton & Paul and Humphreys'. 

Quite a few survive in-situ and some have Listed status. Houses could be purchased the same way too.

[SiC]

I'm quite tempted to buy some corrugated metal sheets and some 2x4 to make a shed like that, rather buying a generic wood shed.

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

I'm quite tempted to buy some corrugated metal sheets and some 2x4 to make a shed like that, rather buying a generic wood shed.

Think bigger - build a house? Got one nearby that's been listed
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300084257-hafod-y-coed-pontarfynach

[Stinkwheel]

 

2 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Think bigger - build a house? Got one nearby that's been listed
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300084257-hafod-y-coed-pontarfynach

Just drove past that one, quite a few wriggly tin buildings left around here as well

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

[Stinkwheel]

15 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Had forgotten it was the 2CVGB National this weekend. Not hard with it being at totally the wrong time of year this time around. 

[barefoot]

My kid brother is there in a green/white dolly with a boot extension and shoes.

[chaseracer]

On 18/04/2025 at 11:01, SiC said:

There was also a small RAF museum on site that was pretty interesting. It was the site where they developed radar systems during the war.

Though based at RSRE in Malvern, the Owd Giffer did a lot of his radar work out of Defford.

 

[richardmorris]

[SiC]

Weston Super Mare pageant of transport is on today and tomorrow. 

I went down earlier but the weather was shite. So not a huge amount there. Loads of moderns including a nearly new Tiguan that someone was buffing to a shiny polish. Fair enough but I couldn't see why someone would go to that much effort for a bland brand new VW. 

Anyway here are the photos. Mostly of stuff that interested me more than anything else.

Suzuki Ignis Sport. I remember when these were new. I went into Suzuki Newbury to take a look at one and the sales guy didn't ever stop pestering me try me to buy it. Presumably because hardly anyone bought one.

Big snailed Civic 

 

Mrs SiC did question why I was taking a picture of a bland modern Audi. Had to point out it had a V10 also used in a Lamborghini and the fact it's bland looking made it cool...

I think these are ace. Used to see one around Newbury area when I was younger. I think it was owned by the local Alfa specialist - Black and Whites.

Had a few giffer scrapes over it.

Scruffy Moggie was right up my street.

 

About it really. Others were mostly Tesco car park moderns. Maybe more tomorrow if the weather is nicer but I won't get a chance to go down. 

[eddyramrod]

I've "Liked" that post because on average, the pics deserve it, but I'm absolutely with Mrs C on the Audi, regardless of engine spec.

[SiC]

22 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I've "Liked" that post because on average, the pics deserve it, but I'm absolutely with Mrs C on the Audi, regardless of engine spec.

I know you don't like German cars especially post-2000 but I'm sure you must appreciate that during VAG mental period, someone thought it was a good idea/absurdity of putting a Lamborghini 450bhp V10 naturally aspirated engine into a saloon. Just because they can, not that they should. Wish it happened more nowadays rather than every car has a boring 4 pot turbo lump in various states of tune.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_V10

[richardmorris]

49 minutes ago, barefoot said:

My kid brother is there in a green/white dolly with a boot extension and shoes.

 

[eddyramrod]

9 minutes ago, SiC said:

Just because they can

TBF that was the thinking that gave us the Pontiac GTO sixty years ago!  I do like the idea of a sleeper - a car that looks ordinary but goes like fuck - but they ALL look ordinary now!  "Ordinary" has resulted in these chubby, aggressive pebbles we are lumbered with these days and the only way to tell a hot version from a base model is the tyre profile.  More power = less sidewall, reliably.  Never mind actual comfort, nobody needs that in their car, do they?

Anyway, most of the rest made up for it, so thank you.  I'm just Old.

[barefoot]

12 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

 

I'm pretty sure his is G registered. Perhaps he hasn't got the box on. It might even have a side exit exhaust... Whatever, he's had it since new.

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

Never mind actual comfort, nobody needs that in their car, do they?

Ask my missus - she's developing a bad case of crunchy neck (posh name Cervical Spondylosis) at the ripe old age of 56 and has become a connoisseur of wafty barges over crashy, bangy stuff. So her Bini is kind of 'mine' and she's happier driving/passenger in the CLK (which has 40/45% profiles but the suspension makes up for it).
 

[Split_Pin]

Second run out in the Monster Beetle today and it didn't break down this time.

 

It's really fast though and I had to be careful not to tip it over on the grippy tarmac. I need to find a dusty or gravelly area!

 

[comfortablynumb]

I thought I'd better stick my head into the garage and see if I'd still get a car in there, after my discussion with @Matty yesterday 

 

Yup, still there, first time I've seen it for about 3 months, battery flat, but tyres aren't 👍

Can't get any further in because junk, but put the battery on charge

[HMC]

Rover p4 desnagging- missfire when warm, dragging brakes. The coil was wired backwards for a negative earth car (its had its polarity changed) curiously it still ran ok.

[JJ0063]

On 18/04/2025 at 20:03, JJ0063 said:

Third time lucky perhaps?

Back to within 15 mins of the Combo I viewed today, going to see this tomorrow afternoon. 
 

2013 Berlingo 1.6 HDI, Enterprise spec so parking sensors, air con, cruise etc. 145k, 13 service stamps, cambelt done, last owner 10 years. 

Only thing he said to mention is the clutch pedal is high but doesn’t slip. It’s £1750 which to be honest is cheap enough to have to throw a clutch at in 6 months if needs be.

…. and it’s HPI clear!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchased. 
 

Mrs JJ happy, immaculate van for the age and miles! Clutch is fine, I wouldn’t have even mentioned the pedal if it was me selling. Not higher than anything else I’ve driven recently.

 

 

 

Driveway is definitely full now… need the Fiesta gone!

[Matty]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

I thought I'd better stick my head into the garage and see if I'd still get a car in there, after my discussion with @Matty yesterday 

 

Yup, still there, first time I've seen it for about 3 months, battery flat, but tyres aren't 👍

Can't get any further in because junk, but put the battery on charge

It's a start! (Well not physically yet, but metaphorically like 😄)

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

I'm pretty sure his is G registered. Perhaps he hasn't got the box on. It might even have a side exit exhaust... Whatever, he's had it since new.

Had a look but didn’t see another green n white.

[barefoot]

17 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Had a look but didn’t see another green n white.

 

[richardmorris]

21 minutes ago, barefoot said:

 

See, hiding!

[richardmorris]

Imperial Garage, Rhostyllen, November 1986.  Courtesy of Local Bygones and Leader Live.  Now the  view of the area is certainly changing with many new houses being built by the Church.

[stuboy]

Boot fair today... some mini mud flaps... no i didn't buy them, also an 80s jigsaw i also didn't buy, and what the hell is this car?

 

 

Also nearly bought another arc welder .. but swmbo said ain't u got enough... say what woman...lol

[Sigmund Fraud]

21 minutes ago, stuboy said:

what the hell is this car?

Stephens Cipher Coupe - the only one in existence, based on a Proton Satria. Autoshite-tastic !

[Rustybullethole]

Nice. Looks better the other way round.