Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

[martc]

On 13/04/2026 at 20:34, brandersnatch said:

My first bike after passing my test was a Le Mans II. Mine was red of course, they’re faster. Neither colour came with the bird. 

And my first Moto Guzzi was a V50 II in the same lovely silvery blue as the one in the advert. I didn't get a bird with it either.

[martc]

29 minutes ago, myglaren said:

I like her cloggs.  Everyone in Sweden used to wear them (träskor, literally wooden shoes).  A sort of precursor to crocs

Very cheap, around £2:50 in the seventies.  I would like some but they are expensive now.  Made in Poland now too.

We used to get fish oil tankers driven in from Denmark; I can clearly remember the 'clip-clop' sound of the Danish drivers wooden safety driving clogs. Which looked remarkably like normal clogs.... Imagine driving 20t of fish oil through the twisting roads of Hull and then manoeuvring a tanker around a factory built in 1840, whilst wearing clogs.

[martc]

7 hours ago, Muniphobia said:

There's got to be an interesting story here - Texan plates over what looks like Arabic plates. How did an Imp end up in Texas via somewhere in the Middle east?

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53 minutes ago, martc said:

There's got to be an interesting story here - Texan plates over what looks like Arabic plates. How did an Imp end up in Texas via somewhere in the Middle east?

 

 Nomadic oil worker!!

[Knotty Ash Towers]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

I like her cloggs.  Everyone in Sweden used to wear them (träskor, literally wooden shoes).  A sort of precursor to crocs

Very cheap, around £2:50 in the seventies.  I would like some but they are expensive now.  Made in Poland now too.

They were very popular in St Helens in the 1970's for some reason...

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[martc]

5 hours ago, colnerov said:

 

 Nomadic oil worker!!

More like nomadic anti-freeze salesman from my (bitter) experience of Imp ownership.

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

19 hours ago, urpert said:

Which appropriately enough means ‘abandon hope’ in Russian. 

FTFY

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20 hours ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

They were very popular in St Helens in the 1970's for some reason...

Probably all switched to Crocs these days.

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[Rustybullethole]

On 14/04/2026 at 21:32, Knotty Ash Towers said:

David Bowie looks a bit rough...

Someone HRT'd the booger sugar. 

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[Madman Of The People]

On 15/04/2026 at 04:27, martc said:

There's got to be an interesting story here - Texan plates over what looks like Arabic plates. How did an Imp end up in Texas via somewhere in the Middle east?

 

I don't know what the story of that particular car is, but Imps were sold in the USA as the Sunbeam Imp from 1964-67.  Like the original Mini, the Imp was withdrawn from the US because the car couldn't meet the new 1968 model-year emissions regulations.

 

[myglaren]

On 16/04/2026 at 15:22, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

She is the double of a woman lives near me.

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