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[martc]

'And don't forget mini-comrades, you can only turn left'.

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6 hours ago, martc said:

The Passo S Ubaldo now renamed Passo San Boldo is a phenomenal place. Hairpin bend in a tunnel. short bridge, then another hairpin in a tunnel then repeat then repeat then repeat. Here’s a picture of my bike at the bottom. See sat nav. 

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On 22/12/2023 at 20:32, EyesWeldedShut said:

OZ on the plates? Ireland? (cannot help noticing that they all seem to be carrying either a gas mask case or one of those old leather cash pouched the bus conductors used to have)?

The Zephyrs were know as Z cars , so naturally the Irish had O’Z cars!

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On 27/12/2023 at 15:47, martc said:

'And don't forget mini-comrades, you can only turn left'.

They're some impressive rails of coke that copper has lined up for the kids there! 

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On 27/12/2023 at 11:57, martc said:

From 1970, this is a Capri 2300 GT V6. In the late 60's the Autobahn police in Hilden wanted to replace their aging Porsche 356 Cabriolets and bought four of these Capris. They were not only faster, but also warmer and more comfortable. 

Dunno whether I've ever told this story before but hey ho, here it is again.

Back in 1976 a 6 year old WTC discovers that he's asthmatic whilst on a holiday visiting family in Oxford. This is where the facts of the story change depending on which relative you ask. Story one says that this was during an ambulance strike, believable as this was the mid 70s and therefore the police were sent to convey me and Mutha_Claim to hospital or story two which is a passer by flagged down a passing police car. 

Anyway, the result was me getting the Capri loving boy's ride of a lifetime in a Thames Valley Police Mk1 3 litre Capri to the John Radcliffe Hospital. As I was doubled up and struggling to breathe I was carried by one of the coppers to the Capri and dumped onto the front passengers seat while his mate sat in the back with Mutha_Claim.  TVP copper calmly thrashed the living fuck out of the Capri with a six year old WTC sat seatbeltless, well we all were as this was 1976, and told by the driver to keep telling him the speed on the police observers speedo and to shout out if it gets as high as 120mph. It did. Twice.

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A publicity photo taken in Lyon  demonstrating the new CRS uniform issued in 1980

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Another publicity photo - this time demonstration the video recording of traffic violations in Bulgaria, 1985. The Akai video recording equipment seems very decadent but I suspect there was no Bloc equivalent.

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Specialists from the Centre for Standardisation and Metrology, Moscow, deciding whether a Moscvitch-2137 car is producing enough pollution, Moscow plod looks on...

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Jawa 350 type 354 "NanuK" and Skoda Octavia

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French-Belgian border leaving Armentières, France and motoring into Belgium (probably Le Bizet).

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Production of RAF-2203 minibuses and RAF-22031 ambulances at the RAF factory in Jelgava, Latvia.

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Which shifty looking gent is the smuggler?

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Alfa Romeo Giulia estate, 1973.

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