Old shite pics

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And then in December the Lada was gone... apparently.Oh dear2.png

That's about right, it was traded in for a Samara in October or November of 2003.Shame it didn't live a bit longer.

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That's about right, it was traded in for a Samara in October or November of 2003.Shame it didn't live a bit longer.

A shame indeed because it looks quite good in that photo. I'm surprised the owner hates it so much. At least they could have driven it back to Hull.... for a Russian to T-bone on one of their dangerous crossroads. Nice Samara (2108?) by the way. Shame you didn't bung it into a shed either!

[Amishtat]

I wish I had, there was room enough for it. Ah well..

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I've heard tales of people managing to jump start their entire streets with their Lada. Would be very useful for a yard of cars.

[Amishtat]

I certainly recall it jump starting the Wolseley and my Austin 3-litre no bother. Another one I ought to have kept but they were just another car back then. I went out in a mate's Riva about three or four years ago and was astonished how people's reactions to them had changed over the years.

[Fumbler]

One day I'll own one... hopefully. Just got to have my eyes peeled and make sure it's not too* rotten on the bottom. I can deal with that.

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So would this be a bad time to point out the estate currently in my shed that I was thinking of parting with?

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Estate. Oh my. A 2104 is on my list of must haves. Only ones I've found for "Very low price" are in East Germany, and have holes in every panel bar the boot. Shame.  Now money: I will not have until October because Le Banque. Parental consent to let me have a fine piece of Russian clog-iron.............................miiiight be harder to do.

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This was in January this year, first daylight the poor thing had seen for about five years

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I sent a carrier pidgeon with PM your way. I don't know where you are but it does.

[mercrocker]

This was the yard behind Earlpart, autumn 2001

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Riley Riviera, a special from Wessex Motors if I remember right. I think there's at least one other known survivor but this is the only one I've seen.

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Wonder what's happened to the Riviera since the demise of Earlpart?   I think it was the owner's personal vehicle so I would like to think he got to keep it. 

The other Riviera is apparently an absolute basket case.   It was indeed Wessex Motors, Salisbury who did them, along with the Silhouette which IIRC kept the stock Riley rear wings and tail lights....

[JeeExEll]

I'd never heard of the Riley Riviera before. Really interesting pics

 

Some info and pics available if you google it, including this,

https://sites.google.com/site/thecambridgeoxfordownersclub/vehicles/riley-riviera-sihouette

 

With a name like Riviera it would have been nice with something like a 2.5 Daimler V8 (- edit, Daimler 2.5 V8 not around until 1962 anyway).

[Amishtat]

Someone in the Cambridge Oxford owners club restored one a few years ago and took it back to Salisbury to meet a few ex-employees and attempt to recreate some of the brochure pictures, I don't know whether it was the example I pictured though. Probably not, although I hope it survives somewhere.

[Amishtat]

So anyone who's managed to stay awake through this thread will have figured out I had, and still have, a major horn for Farinas, six cylinders especially. These were taken at Gaydon around 2004.

The best colour they did in my opinion. Also a really good example.

This was an absolute cracker. Bought new by a man from Leamington, it had been laid up about 1972 after he got caught up in traffic coming back from Coventry and vowed never to drive again because the roads were so full.

I've also got quite a thing for these. Most of the people who slag them off have never even sat in one, never mind experienced just how nice a drive they are. But why are all the manual overdrive survivors this colour, Fawn brown?

[RayMK]

Are they Norevs?  They seem to be warped.  Nice cars though I've never been in any of them, not even the more mundane 4 cylinder Farinas.

[mercrocker]

4608BY still looks every bit as lush as it did 14 years ago....Probably the nicest Westy I can think of - pre deluxe with tin dash too.   Share the love for 3 litres too....despite all the tosh written in magazines about them, they should have been a bigger seller really as the big Humbers had finished and there was no other real replacement for the C Series Farina.   Don't understand all the "stretched 1800" nonsense either - big Farinas were never hampered by looking like Oxfords/Cambridges.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This thread is doing nothing for my fears whenever I see P5b Ro-styles on big Farinas ( or PC Vxs, 3-Litres or P4s) whilst they look nice and shiny , they definitely have the whiff of a life in Motorsport on the horizon.

 

I could (and should) put my money where my mouth is and buy a 60's barge to save, but I just know from past experience ( 3 zodiacs, a pair of 3 litreVdPs and DS420) that I can't refuse the rigger boot and Hi-ab owners cash.

[mercrocker]

Fear not.  Most rossie-shod big sixes seem now to belong to those ex-bangers or old school drivers who are some of the biggest money-spenders on their saved cars....Its almost like a badge of honour, I suppose!

[Amishtat]

You're both right. It used to make me cringe to see them on Rostyles but certainly now if you see them on a nice example it almost always belongs to an ex-racer or mechanic. This one however was at the Bromley Pageant in 2001 and I'd reckon it didn't live a lot longer,especially being manual.

[adw1977]

HHJ979D has been untaxed since 2005.

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Kind of more surprising that it lasted another four years. I remember going to look at one in a front garden in Ipswich in 1998. Still kick myself for not buying it, I did take some pictures but they're way too dark to reproduce here. RYM66E, a maroon automatic, it started and sounded sweet enough and had a reasonable interior, but for whatever reason I couldn't come up with £350,cheap even then.

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This appeared outside a garage a few villages over three years ago. With visions of it getting plateraped before getting disposed off, I did go and ask about it only to be told it wasn't for sale. Not seen it since.Nice 1960 Chevy Station wagon next to it as well

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More of the same.. Twycross Zoo, summer 2000

[64A60]

I saw RYK 350E at the Tewin Motor Show last month. Interesting colour scheme!

 

 

 

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Yes, I quite like it but haven't seen another. Good to know it's still being cared for.

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Surrey area of the Cambridge Oxford owners club six-cylinder meet, June 2009

This was nice, hot Pinto in it.

Yeah they do look a bit Norev..

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Car park of the Queens Head, West Bergholt spring 1998.

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They were joined there by my first PC Cresta for about five hours until the landlady blew a gasket. This car already appeared in "What happened to your shite?" so apologies if there's any repetition.

My mate's uncle, the village's premier chod dealer let me put it on his driveway for a couple of weeks.

Before long it had to move again so I had the genius* notion of waiting until my dad was at work, my stepmother was at her parents, I caught the bus back from school one afternoon and stealthily hid it in the front garden. Bus back for afternoon lessons, wander in nonchalant about quarter past four and wait to see who mentions it first. I was surprised to last until most of the way through dinner.

I still remember the mile or so drive, they're a powerful beast when they run properly and this must have been a fair bit lighter than intended as some important sections of floor, inner sills and a-pillars were no longer present. This, combined with an unfamiliar column change and my ineptitude with a clutch made for one of those drives that sticks in the mind somewhat but once we'd acclimatised to each other it absolutely flew down the lanes. It was about that time I realised the driver's seat wasn't as firmly fixed to the floor as I would have liked.

[Guest Hooli]

Stunningly well hidden there.

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I didn't think they'd notice