Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

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On 04/03/2024 at 22:57, Richard_FM said:

I did a similar thing with a Gold Triumph Acclaim someone parked outside my Gran's house unlocked, which was more or less identical to my Gran's, which was usually in the garage.

BL keys seemed to be made in a limited number of combinations, my Mum once locked her keys in her Metro & asked to borrow someone else's keys & one of them worked!

The older Ford ones were similar, & the tibbe ones had a quirk where a key could lock any lock!  The company car pool at the company where my Uncle worked fell foul of this a few times!

I've done the same with our old Royal Mail Transits. Most of them were 05 reg, mine was LC55 GOX. I used to do an early morning business run and would always try and park in the same spot when I got back. This day I couldn't because there was already another van there. So I went back inside, did some more stuff and when I came back out I  forgot I'd parked somewhere else and got straight in to the other van. It was only after I'd sat there for a few seconds I felt something wasn't right. All the rubbish was in different places for a start.

I thought maybe the other guy had left it unlocked so I put the key in the door and it operated the lock as easy as if it was the right key. So out of curiosity I went and tried another Transit and it was exactly the same. Turns out you could open any Transit with any Transit key. These were the early 2000s Ford keys that were like a shaft with a series of flats machined in to them. We didn't have central locking on them so we had to unlock them manually every time and had to do so maybe 100 times a day so they obviously wore out rather quickly.

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12 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

It's interesting to look at these older pics.  I can't help thinking, that's probably someone's granny there.

The above pic is even more interesting: note that of the three cars and one van visible, three are Morris Minors!

Definitely NOT my granny on that motorbike.

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On 04/03/2024 at 16:05, martc said:

Nearest windmill, second on the left, you can't miss it.

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29 minutes ago, Austat said:

I had that brochure when I was a kid but didn't find it when I rediscovered a load of my old stuff, and buying it again directly led to me ending up with a slightly broken Estelle sat on my drive

(posted on FB that I would have to make do with the brochure given how prices had gone silly and got a PM offering to sell me a car)

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