Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

[martc]

[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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[martc]

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[martc]

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

[martc]

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. 

[Joey spud]

Good looking van the CF. Why don't modern vans have sliding doors I always thought they were a great idea ?

[Metal Guru]

18 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

Good looking van the CF. Why don't modern vans have sliding doors I always thought they were a great idea ?

Continuing a theme, my Dad also bought a Bedford CA in 1969, a few weeks before the CF was launched. I think he was probably after the large discounts on offer for outgoing models.

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Green Park, London, 1953

[Wibble]

Mum, with Dad’s Chevy Bel Air

[Dick Cheeseburger]

7 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Mum, with Dad’s Chevy Bel Air

That's a cracking photo. Wow. Tell us more!

[Wibble]

41 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

That's a cracking photo. Wow. Tell us more!

Thanks! Mum, from County Donegal, had just left the convent, from being a nun, when she met Dad, a Dubliner who ran away from home and, after a while, being bored of driving taxis and flipping burgers, joined the US Air Force. They ended up in Tennessee for a while. I could go on for pages but this isn’t the thread for this. Happy to tell more of their early years story elsewhere, if anyone is interested. Their early lives were quite astonishing and a bit of a scandal in Mum’s home town😆

[Dick Cheeseburger]

23 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Thanks! Mum, from County Donegal, had just left the convent, from being a nun, when she met Dad, a Dubliner who ran away from home and, after a while, being bored of driving taxis and flipping burgers, joined the US Air Force. They ended up in Tennessee for a while. I could go on for pages but this isn’t the thread for this. Happy to tell more of their early years story elsewhere, if anyone is interested. Their early lives were quite astonishing and a bit of a scandal in Mum’s home town😆

Yes please! Sounds fascinating already...