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EyesWeldedShut Rank: Lancia Gamma

EyesWeldedShut

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11 hours ago, Asimo said:

Not for me,  I want one with the five stud wheels…

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https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1747261

Now you're talking - 4 x 1 extra studs and 1 x extra turbo over my posting. Trouble is the 924 is getting into proper classic money and out of daily driver/bangeromics country - a lot of the shonky ones have gone over the past few years and a cheap fixer-upper is getting hard to spot. My wife stil regrets flogging hers a few years back but I think that ship has (financially) sailed now.

busmansholiday Rank: Lancia Gamma

busmansholiday

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18 hours ago, sierraman said:

What a depressing epitaph to life being carted off down to the crem in that. Could only be topped by having the wake in a Hungry Horse. 

When I was down the crem a couple of months ago when they drop off the 'direct cremations' there was an interesting* selection of vehicles arriving with coffins in them including a normal Mondeo estate.

sierraman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

sierraman

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32 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

When I was down the crem a couple of months ago when they drop off the 'direct cremations' there was an interesting* selection of vehicles arriving with coffins in them including a normal Mondeo estate.

I know but a Vectra hearse… 

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lesapandre Rank: Talbot Tagora

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1 hour ago, busmansholiday said:

When I was down the crem a couple of months ago when they drop off the 'direct cremations' there was an interesting* selection of vehicles arriving with coffins in them including a normal Mondeo estate.

(Direct cremations are about £1000 - as opposed to multiple £1000's and getting rinsed by the big undertakers with their shiny cars and shiny cuffs and 'dearly departed' nonsense. You still get to have your own event in the crematorium chapel. 

All just means it's more informal than having some vultures in attendance. Highly recommended.

Maybe the person in the Mondeo was making a last journey in their favourite car. Of course they could keep the connection by flicking the ash into the ashtray afterwards.)

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Cavcraft

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7 hours ago, lesapandre said:

(Direct cremations are about £1000 - as opposed to multiple £1000's and getting rinsed by the big undertakers with their shiny cars and shiny cuffs and 'dearly departed' nonsense. You still get to have your own event in the crematorium chapel. 

All just means it's more informal than having some vultures in attendance. Highly recommended.

Maybe the person in the Mondeo was making a last journey in their favourite car. Of course they could keep the connection by flicking the ash into the ashtray afterwards.)

I think I'd rather be alive during my cremation than go to the church in the back of a Mondeo hearse.

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6 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

I think I'd rather be alive during my cremation than go to the church in the back of a Mondeo hearse.

Aye aye, calm down.

I'm sure we could rustle up a Vectra estate for you if you ask nicely.

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busmansholiday Rank: Lancia Gamma

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7 hours ago, lesapandre said:

(Direct cremations are about £1000 - as opposed to multiple £1000's and getting rinsed by the big undertakers with their shiny cars and shiny cuffs and 'dearly departed' nonsense. You still get to have your own event in the crematorium chapel. 

All just means it's more informal than having some vultures in attendance. Highly recommended.

Trust me, they're more than a grand and you cannot go into the chapel, well certainly for the one we organised in September.

 

Oh and there was a Transit van with coffins in and a Transit Connect as well.

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lesapandre Rank: Talbot Tagora

lesapandre

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8 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Trust me, they're more than a grand and you cannot go into the chapel, well certainly for the one we organised in September.

 

Oh and there was a Transit van with coffins in and a Transit Connect as well.

I've been involved with two. Both under £1000 - there was the opportunity to attend inside the chapel on both occasions for any ceremony required. It may be down to your provider.

'Private ambulances' tend to be small vans run by those who undertake the direct cremations - any provider would naturally use a respectable vehicle thought it may indeed be modest. The other vehicles seen may have been provided by the families as a way of making a saving. 

Others may prefer more elaborate ceremonial provided by undertakers - but clearly more expensive.

But death is an expensive business - and folk have to do what they can afford. 

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3VOM

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25 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Trust me, they're more than a grand and you cannot go into the chapel, well certainly for the one we organised in September.

 

Oh and there was a Transit van with coffins in and a Transit Connect as well.

Some of those might be the equivalent of a "pauper's funeral". I can't remember the correct term. Public Health Funeral. The deceased goes straight from the morgue to the crem and likely the ashes get scattered nearby. Used where there is no money any or relatives taking an interest. Funeral co will get several hundred.

You can always take "The Big Lebowski " approach.

 

808 Estate Rank: Renault 16

808 Estate

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Breakdown truck. I guess there isnt much this cant tow. :D

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226454774947?itmmeta=01JD2TGQXE1DFD31ZYATWKG4D2&hash=item34b9c1a4a3:g:tS0AAOSwaO9nOlm-&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4Mxmj%2BiGvOveHXEBClPb29ijJIMNlZSmRwdb1A9WzE4J%2Fw1%2BOLg2uQE7b9WKKwo7MPVRJMDnOfQ5XCqWn42x5QnNcUhUqwbO3MWif9zQSvBTW2nn5Ba6lLiBkjr4YWRvWehhHBd9AUO4bX0mUeZXv4cMY%2F%2BLNOgu2HH3U8DW5sSIvJmcPH4un7e23w6ouwMzDYQ3fqaf0gKkiDK12%2Bu0KD58ZN2zT1j8b8DIvEffjya72HS9oQpcpChjrytUx3Fj0r4TILjOAOG6bR5Ls22K0PP2q0xN%2BMOwUavAfH7rie5o|tkp%3ABk9SR-L-wtroZA

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Shite Ron Rank: Citroen Ami

Shite Ron

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Ooooof! This is very sexy. Not red sorry @Wibble. Not Roman bronze either which the seller incorrectly states (unless it has had a bad respray since I last saw it) The colour is Sable brown and I like this car a lot, Wibble, if you view it in black and white or are colour blind then it could be red, maybe.

I am sure this used to have Capri wheels on, it looks much better with the proper ones on it now.

The number plate is very apt as driving or even seeing this would bring me a lot of joy.

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https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1806405

Wibble Rank: Renault 16

Wibble

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16 minutes ago, Shite Ron said:

Ooooof! This is very sexy. Not red sorry @Wibble. Not Roman bronze either which the seller incorrectly states (unless it has had a bad respray since I last saw it) The colour is Sable brown and I like this car a lot, Wibble, if you view it in black and white or are colour blind then it could be red, maybe.

I am sure this used to have Capri wheels on, it looks much better with the proper ones on it now.

The number plate is very apt as driving or even seeing this would bring me a lot of joy.

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https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1806405

Ha, yes thanks, I did see it and also knew it was sable. Unfortunately though, it has to be red. I don’t care what spec it is but it must be red. I do agree about the wheels though👍

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tooSavvy

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2 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Breakdown truck. I guess there isnt much this cant tow. :D

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226454774947?itmmeta=01JD2TGQXE1DFD31ZYATWKG4D2&hash=item34b9c1a4a3:g:tS0AAOSwaO9nOlm-&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4Mxmj%2BiGvOveHXEBClPb29ijJIMNlZSmRwdb1A9WzE4J%2Fw1%2BOLg2uQE7b9WKKwo7MPVRJMDnOfQ5XCqWn42x5QnNcUhUqwbO3MWif9zQSvBTW2nn5Ba6lLiBkjr4YWRvWehhHBd9AUO4bX0mUeZXv4cMY%2F%2BLNOgu2HH3U8DW5sSIvJmcPH4un7e23w6ouwMzDYQ3fqaf0gKkiDK12%2Bu0KD58ZN2zT1j8b8DIvEffjya72HS9oQpcpChjrytUx3Fj0r4TILjOAOG6bR5Ls22K0PP2q0xN%2BMOwUavAfH7rie5o|tkp%3ABk9SR-L-wtroZA

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IIRC there is one of these (for doing this work @MOD) called a 'tea pot lid' because of the architecture 🤔.

They were specced to have extreme articulation over the 3 axles.... C..A..F !! 😉

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RoadworkUK Rank: Lancia Gamma

RoadworkUK

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I love the pics on that Cortina Estate ad. 

This one, though:

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Can somebody please remind me what that lamp was for? I vividly remember it on my Dad's 2.0 GL – which I last sat in in 1989.

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