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Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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'Evel Knievel was born Robert Craig Knievel on Oct. 17, 1938 in Butte, Montana. He set the world record where Evel jumped 14 greyhound buses at King’s Island amusement park in Ohio in 1975, four months before a spectacular crash in the jump over 3 Minis in Stockport, England. Evel was buried on the spot by a headless man with a small blue cock. Tributes have flooded in from friends and celebrities alike, perhaps the most poignant of which was a letter from the DVLA expressing their deepest sympathy and one that read 'RIP LITEL SOLJA' from Vin Plates, who asked to be anonymous'

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-C-Reg-Mini-998cc-project-barn-find-spares-or-repair-resoration-trailer-/222368546632?hash=item33c632bf48:g:1ksAAOSw241YWqOp

 

'One's a pile of rubble that needs a Hiab operated lorry to take straight to landfill, the other is some hardcore we dug up from our yard' 

 

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TripleRich Rank: Austin Maxi

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Starts drives and stops as you would expect from a 32 year old car 

 

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ford-granada-ghia-mk2-1984-2-8-v6-89k-executive-leather/172469613769?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D38661%26meid%3Da534b77ef5de48c5a5f6fcc12b45a019%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D252711264697

AMC Rebel Rank: Renault 16

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Seller says "has no MOT"

 

MOT history says

 

 

Test date23 December 2016 Test ResultFail Odometer reading158,683 miles MOT test number8669 2924 7005 Reason(s) for failure

offside rear Brake pipe excessively corroded above sub frame on bend marked with yellow chalk (3.6.B.2c)

nearside rear Brake hose excessively deteriorated (3.6.B.4d)

nearside front Front suspension ball joint dust cover excessively damaged so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt control arm (2.4.G.2)

nearside front Front suspension ball joint dust cover excessively damaged so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt wishbone arm (2.4.G.2)

offside front Front suspension ball joint dust cover excessively damaged so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.4.G.2)

nearside front Front suspension ball joint dust cover excessively damaged so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt track rod end (2.4.G.2)

nearside front Anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.4.G.2)

offside front Anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.4.G.2)

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wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Mot failure due to injection warning light being on mot station would not do emissions test

Is that a thing??

 

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Ghosty Rank: Talbot Tagora

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I know, I know!

 

There's about ten of them out there IIRC. They started life at Stagecoach Kenya, but they weren't working out for them for some reason, so they got exported here in the late '90s. They worked on Megabus for a while, then got transferred to Manchester's Magic Bus division, running up and down from the city centre to Didsbury on the 142/143 until about 2009 when all the shite buses started getting pulled from the Magic Bus fleet (shame, it was ace) because they weren't low floor (maintenance costs of the six wheels won't have helped - I heard they liked to eat through centre tyres). After that it was all Presidents and ALX400s, now it's mainly Enviro 400s. Zzzzz.

 

They all got sold off and either ended up being holed up or used as school buses and the like.

 

Fond memories of riding these things home from school, they were the only buses about with sliding windows you could stick your head out of, nice high ceilings, and decent big comfy individual seats too. Well maintained but shonky at the same time. Some of them had dot matrix panels but it wouldn't surprise me if Stagey kept them for something else.

 

Thanks to Flickr here's the same bus in happier times:

 

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And here's all of them at Ensignbus not long after the end of their time with Stagey: https://flic.kr/p/93QGgk

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