JeeExEll Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 From Street Machine, early 80s. warch, adw1977, Amishtat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Not 100% but is that the FE Victor that ended up with the gull-wing doors & gold paint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudsprint Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 AndyW201 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 That Capri is a close relative in the Ford press fleet to the 2000GT John Alderton drove in the 1970s sitcom My Wife Next Door, Snake Charmer, Sudsprint and warren t claim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 33 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said: Not 100% but is that the FE Victor that ended up with the gull-wing doors & gold paint? The only Gullwing Victor I remember was , I thought , called Invader and an FD. Can't find any pictures of that but did find ' What a commotion" again an FD but on a K plate and seemed to start off very similar to that FE. Also this yellow thing that also seems to have been matte black subsequently Sudsprint, AndyW201, Split_Pin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 This is What A Commotion  NorfolkNWeigh, Amishtat, Sudsprint and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 And this is another custom Vauxhall from back in the day  AndyW201, NorfolkNWeigh and Amishtat 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, bunglebus said: This is What A Commotion  Shag pile carpet and velvet, phwoar! Dashboard is a bit of a bodged job though. warch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I’d love to know what became of a lot of these old custom cars? Maybe the owners moved on and had other commitments and the car still sits in some council lock up somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 In commemoration of the recent news that Holden is dead. A mate of mine works at the GMH design studios in Melbourne, he's worked there for 30+ years, so this post goes out to him:      Holden/GMH (1856 - 2020), RIP. JeeExEll, Snake Charmer, Split_Pin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 hour ago, sierraman said: I’d love to know what became of a lot of these old custom cars? Maybe the owners moved on and had other commitments and the car still sits in some council lock up somewhere. People have been searching for What a Commotion for years, owner emigrated, he was from the town I grew up in. The yellow gullwing was scrapped. Loads here;  https://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/whatever-happened/ Amishtat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 42 minutes ago, Austat said: In commemoration of the recent news that Holden is dead. A mate of mine works at the GMH design studios in Melbourne, he's worked there for 30+ years, so this post goes out to him:      Holden/GMH (1856 - 2020), RIP. To be fair, Holden's demise was made easier the moment that it became too expensive to build them in Australia. I also get the impression that GM's ultimate aim is to stop catering for right-hand-drive markets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 3 hours ago, sierraman said: I’d love to know what became of a lot of these old custom cars? Maybe the owners moved on and had other commitments and the car still sits in some council lock up somewhere. Mostly they would have had the engines put in another project, if worthwhile, then scrapped. These would would have been rusty old heaps ,bodged together with a lot of fibreglass and filler in the days when the MOT was very lenient and in any case a blank one was only £25. Me and a mate looked at a CF , HiRoller which was a magazine featured well known van in the late 70's, by about 1984 it was sat on a housing estate in Milton Keynes , completely fucked- we wanted the Rover V8 , the owner wouldn't break it, so we walked away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 11 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said: Me and a mate looked at a CF , HiRoller which was a magazine featured well known van in the late 70's, by about 1984Â it was sat on a housing estate in Milton Keynes , completely fucked- we wanted the Rover V8 , the owner wouldn't break it, so we walked away. Are you taking about Cliff Marsh's Bedford CF "High Roller"? NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 That's it was probably thinking they were same car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 So some L'Auto-Journal magazines have arrived in the mail today, I've been keeping my eye out for them as they should have some good french shite to scan. There's one slight problem, they're too large: Turns out they were printed out in A3 size, so I can't scan them as my scanner can only take A4 or smaller. Anyway I'll scan some other stuff during the meantime, but keep an eye out for some french shite once I resolve the size dilemma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 Fiat 128 Coupe 1300 Road Test: Carlosfandango and adw1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 On 2/15/2020 at 4:54 PM, bunglebus said: I'd love a white MK2 Escort Pop From reading that article, I'm not sure you would. Unless you have a mortgage to pay off. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Austat said: So some L'Auto-Journal magazines have arrived in the mail today, I've been keeping my eye out for them as they should have some good french shite to scan. There's one slight problem, they're too large: Turns out they were printed out in A3 size, so I can't scan them as my scanner can only take A4 or smaller. Anyway I'll scan some other stuff during the meantime, but keep an eye out for some french shite once I resolve the size dilemma. An A3 scanner is a worthwhile investment if you're scanning a lot of old magazines or brochures. As well as dealing with the awkward size stuff, it allows you to scan A4 size items twice as fast and double page spreads are no problem. They're not necessarily that expensive. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 1 hour ago, adw1977 said: An A3 scanner is a worthwhile investment if you're scanning a lot of old magazines or brochures. As well as dealing with the awkward size stuff, it allows you to scan A4 size items twice as fast and double page spreads are no problem. They're not necessarily that expensive. I’ve got the motor magazine collection of road tests which I’ve been meaning to scen for ages but the paper size is just more than a4 so it’s really hard to get a page scanned in one go.  It’s just about possible if the margins aren’t tight but otherwise it’s 2 scans per page with a lot of fiddling with software to get the 2 scans lined up.  At least the stuff I’m currently working through is a4 or less.  I’ll upload some soon. Jifflemon and Austat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 1964 Triumph Vitesse adverts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) Opel Manta Rallye Long Term Test: Edited March 12, 2020 by Austat Missing the last page adw1977 and Snake Charmer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 12 hours ago, Timewaster said: From reading that article, I'm not sure you would. Unless you have a mortgage to pay off. This, lowered a few inches over a set of Lotus steels? Yum  Ford-Escort-Mk2-02 by RS, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 Ford Granada Automatic Test: My Grandad had something like this, but it was a Consul L. adw1977, The Mighty Quinn, NorfolkNWeigh and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 7 hours ago, Austat said: My Grandad had something like this, but it was a Consul L. Similar to the car used in The Sweeney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 32 minutes ago, The Mighty Quinn said: Â Another Ford winner. The way that would make BMW's, Alfas etc look a bit stupid for half the price....... Ford were really in a sweet spot in the mid 1970s in terms of model range. The Mighty Quinn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 20, 2020 Author Share Posted February 20, 2020 I've been trying out a friend of mine's A3 scanner, so here's some french shite from after testing it: bunglebus and hennabm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Nice I do like how the French use break for any estate car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 5 hours ago, Austat said: Are Opel trying to steal sales from the 2CV? We all know the yarn about eggs and traversing a farmers field... RayMK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 EV's, 1966 style: bunglebus and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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