Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

[martc]

[hairnet]

On 29/10/2024 at 11:07, Austat said:

'is this the V8............'

[5speedracer]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Nice colour co-ordination. 

How did she get the ball there?

[artdjones]

On 27/10/2024 at 21:29, Yoss said:

Safety mostly. When I first became a postie, in 1990, all our Sherpas had sliding doors. And when it was nice day you would leave the doors open. And because you're doing deliveries you wouldn't put your seat belt on. You can see where this is going can't you? Nothing ever happened at our office but some posties died or got seriously injured. Of course even with the door shut and your seat belt on you might not have survived, they were Sherpas after all, but Royal Mail had to be seen to be doing something.

It is a shame, they were handy and much easier to get in and out of than standard doors. They'd be very useful today too as the parking in our yard is so tight. 

I believe one postman fell out of the van and over a bridge parapet 

[colnerov]

3 hours ago, martc said:

Obviously a UK car but with an obscured Italian plate, what's going on?

I see the parents are getting in the back if the daughter's going to drive.

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, martc said:

'Director of the Production of Passenger Cars of the Kamsk Automobile Plant'*,Oleg Belonenko, and the first 'Oka', produced in Naberezhnye Chelny, December 1987.

*who has the longest name plate on his office door in the whole complex.

you made me wiki that as i couldnt remember

uno mixed with panda mixed with charade

the two cyl sounds interesting da?

[eddyramrod]

5 hours ago, martc said:

They've lost something. It's either gone underneath, or that shitehawk has flown off with it.

Guido!  Head them off at the autostrada, we will come in from behind them.  Fancy using Mini Coopers for a getaway, silly sods!

[martc]

4 hours ago, 5speedracer said:

How did she get the ball there?

In the crash hat dangling off the handle bars.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, artdjones said:

I believe one postman fell out of the van and over a bridge parapet 

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

[Inspector Morose]

19 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

Not quite but our Biology teacher had the top of her thumb fairly cleanly removed by such a sliding door that used to be on our school minibus. It was when I found out that teachers could swear. A lot. And creatively too. Including the hot female ones.

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Metal Guru]

7 minutes ago, Inspector Morose said:

Not quite but our Biology teacher had the top of her thumb fairly cleanly removed by such a sliding door that used to be on our school minibus. It was when I found out that teachers could swear. A lot. And creatively too. Including the hot female ones.

I found out about how much teachers could swear when one of ours got struck by lightning while we played cricket. ( It hit his umbrella which he dropped PDQ)

[camryv6]

6 hours ago, martc said:

Obviously a UK car but with an obscured Italian plate, what's going on?

Looks like a mk1 fiesta in the background ?

Actually just relooked at the photo and the RAC and AA badges look 80s

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

Met Police had Mk 2 Transits (up to around 1983-ish) with sliding doors - SWB, no side windows used as station van/prisoner transport.  There were 'orrible rumours of guys falling out of them, unpinned doors taking the passenger's head off etc etc but they were just that, rumours. I did see a couple of the doors slam shut under braking though, taught you to keep your elbows in
I seem to recall that they modified the Transits at one point by moving the nearside mirror onto the sliding door and removing the ability to lock the door back, idea being passengers were less likely to fall out as the driver would need the door shut to use the mirror  (and prisoner security - the driver had a plywood bulkhead around the back and part sides of his seat but there was feck all on the passenger side - just the seat).

The replacement vans were 100% hinged doors though.

[martc]

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I've been skiing there - Sestriere. It was built by FIAT in the '30's, as a healthy holiday resort for its workers, it's 60 miles from Turin. The people at Alfa have a brass neck to use it as a background for their advertising.

[artdjones]

On 30/10/2024 at 17:04, Metal Guru said:

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

Lots of companies used walk through vans with heavy sliding doors. before about 1990. Initial Laundries having loads of these Leyland FGs.

I remember two of us standing up beside the driver, a friend who worked for Initial, who had borrowed the van to move some gear. The outboard standee was very close to having a finger removed at a traffic light on Penarth Road, Cardiff.

[High Jetter]

52 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Initial Laundries

To be pedantic, it's Initial Services. The  UPS delivery vans have sliding doors I think

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

To be pedantic, it's Initial Services. The  UPS delivery vans have sliding doors I think

Most vans these days have a sliding door for the front of the cargo bay.  It would be unnecessarily complicated to have a sliding door , sliding over that. 

[62 Austin]

VW Lady

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Most vans these days have a sliding door for the front of the cargo bay.  It would be unnecessarily complicated to have a sliding door , sliding over that. 

Huh?  We're talking about sliding side doors to the cab, like that FG and the UPS vans

[eddyramrod]

36 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Huh?  We're talking about sliding side doors to the cab, like that FG and the UPS vans

Yes, but if you have an opening cargo door to one (or sometimes both) side, a feature almost standard these days, where does the sliding cab-door on that side slide to?  One will interfere with the other.  Hence the slam doors to modern cabs.

[High Jetter]

18 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Yes, but if you have an opening cargo door to one (or sometimes both) side, a feature almost standard these days, where does the sliding cab-door on that side slide to?  One will interfere with the other.  Hence the slam doors to modern cabs.

Of course, I get that. The discussion was about walk-through vans though, I thought, which don't have sliding side doors to the cargo area, like that FG.

[eddyramrod]

7 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Of course, I get that. The discussion was about walk-through vans though, I thought, which don't have sliding side doors to the cargo area, like that FG.

Ah, sorry; I thought we were considering vans in general.

[Muniphobia]

[MiniMinorMk3]

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[Muniphobia]

[martc]

I'm not sure what she's looking at, good job there's a massive lump of metal blocking the view.