Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

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i suspect this is an Alfa built Renault.

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No idea why.

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[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Wait - there's more than one of them? You'll be saying there are lots of Santa's next 😀

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, martc said:

No idea why.

What a punt!

[Lord Sterling]

@martc this was deliberate wasn't it?

Even the lady underneath was windering what the guy in the boat was doing;

"What on earth is he doing?" 

[martc]

2 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

@martc this was deliberate wasn't it?

I wish it was! 

Unfortunately I'm the sort of person who thinks of the witty retort on my way home.

[somewhatfoolish]

Doesn't everyone get their W116s delivered by punt? 🤣

3 hours ago, martc said:

That's some nightmare fuel there, the Dr Who episode they didn't screen because it's too fucking scary.

[colnerov]

7 hours ago, martc said:

RHD, but where? The number plate is covered, but my guess, due to the dusty road, is Australia or South Africa.

Zimbabwe, Africa, apparently.

 https://www.morningmirror.africanherd.com/bulawayo-morning-mirror-newspaper/index.htm

[georgeinabz]

Hope they got a big discount, the mk 5 came out in Aug '79

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[MiniMinorMk3]

18 hours ago, martc said:

One for the Stars thread. That's Lee Trevino at the height of his career.

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Forest Hill, 1970. Traffic actually moving.

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An 'Indian Summer' limited edition Trans Am in Brooklyn, 1982.

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Messengers of the Ministry of Oil seen on the premises of the National Oil Company, Tehran.

Is that a free sample of crude oil on the ground?

[New POD]

14 minutes ago, martc said:

I've seen more life-like manikins in House of Frazer....After Mike Ashley took control and it went to shit. 

[New POD]

7 hours ago, georgeinabz said:

Hope they got a big discount, the mk 5 came out in Aug '79

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Mk5 ? I'm sure the brochures my dad had to choose his company car said "Series 80" on it.

 

Still pissed off that he choose a 1.6 L cortina estate, when he could have has a 1.6L capri. I would have been 13. I don't think my respect for his life choices ever recovered. 

[adw1977]

Well the Mark 5 was marketed as "Cortina 80" but that's just the usual practice of having a "model year" that starts sometime in the second half of the previous year.

The Mark 5 was indeed launched in August 1979 and went on sale in October 1979.

[Metal Guru]

11 hours ago, New POD said:

Mk5 ? I'm sure the brochures my dad had to choose his company car said "Series 80" on it.

 

Still pissed off that he choose a 1.6 L cortina estate, when he could have has a 1.6L capri. I would have been 13. I don't think my respect for his life choices ever recovered. 

My Dad “specialised” in late Cortinas. 

Mk 3 1976 Mk4 1979 Mk 5 1982.

Company cars. Just coincided with when they were due for replacement.

[New POD]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

My Dad “specialised” in late Cortinas. 

Mk 3 1976 Mk4 1979 Mk 5 1982.

Company cars. Just coincided with when they were due for replacement.

Mine had a mk2, mk3, mk4 estate, mk5 estate (I conceed that those on the cortina spectrum call it the mk5, when it was just a minor facelift). He cried when the Sierra came out, had a dangling mirror estate a sapphire and then a late 2.0 ghia estate. He cried again when he ended his career with a mondeo.  

3 focus estates in retirement. 

I digress. Let's agree it's a mk5 series 80.