Stars in Shite

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, wesacosa said:

I remember his TV show. Bernie Winters was on it too.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Him & His brother.  Mike were a double act in the 50/60's

[wesacosa]

3 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Him & His brother.  Mike were a double act in the 50/60's

If you hadn't been comedians,' Morecambe & Wise were asked, 'what would you have been?' Eric Morecambe, without missing a beat, answered: 'Mike and Bernie Winters

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Him & His brother.  Mike were a double act in the 50/60's

Vaguely remember them. Bit before my time. 

[martc]

Fidel Castro and Herr Hoeneker. The car is really bugging me, the chrome windscreen surround and the grab rail on the back of the seat both look very familiar. A ZiL or tatra perhaps.

 

 

[chaseracer]

This might help: Halle-Neustadt in 1972, apparently...

[chaseracer]

Same car, with Leonid Brezhnev in Berlin, slightly clearer pic.

Bonus Tatra!

[jim89]

Zil 111 ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-111

Also in Lego 😅

[myglaren]

Charlotte Rampling

[myglaren]

Catherine Bell

[martc]

^^^^ I say, ding dong!

Thanks for the ZiL confirmation chaps, I recognise it now!

[myglaren]

Patti Smith

 

[Pieman]

On 03/02/2026 at 22:34, jim89 said:

Zil 111 ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-111

Also in Lego 😅

Always amuses me that despite the Soviets' hatred of the Yanks, they were happy to copy their car designs.

[jim89]

17 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Always amuses me that despite the Soviets' hatred of the Yanks, they were happy to copy their car designs.

Indeed. And reserve their use exclusively for higher level communal comrades*.... 

[Madman Of The People]

On 03/02/2026 at 16:34, jim89 said:

Zil 111 ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-111

Also in Lego 😅

 

Seems very reminiscent of a 1960s Lincoln Continental and, if you squint just a little, the bonnet badge looks as if it was nicked from a '60s Ford Thunderbird.

 

[wesacosa]

[sheffcortinacentre]

6 hours ago, wesacosa said:

Who?

[wesacosa]

1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Who?

Hmm , her name is up on the board outside but it seems to have been blurred with the resolution of the upload 

Greek singer and politician Nana Mouskouri 

 

[High Jetter]

What's in front of the Renner, an Avenger?

[Mr Pastry]

45 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

What's in front of the Renner, an Avenger?

Opel of some sort, I think.

[vaughant]

On 22/07/2025 at 21:28, delux said:

RIP Ozzy

I think they still own the Merc cosworth, seem to remember Sharon mentioning it in a podcast? 

[vaughant]

On 12/10/2025 at 14:21, Metal Guru said:

The days when premier league (then div 1), footballers drove ordinary cars not the latest Ferrari or Lamborghini, although  top of the range G Wagons are very  much de riguer just now.

Sure I've told this one before but Robbie James and Tommy Hutchinson both lived but far from me in Caswell when I was a kid and they were both sponsored by Yugo, as Swansea were basically a shit division 3 side 🤣🤣🤣.

I think they had to drive them x number of hours a week as they always looked miserable as fuck going to training in them.

Their cars of choice were the big Merc saloons, equivalent of the s class these days 

[vaughant]

On 20/09/2025 at 13:20, myglaren said:

Kate Moss

 

Never got the attraction with her, not in the slightest. 

I can remember someone trying to argue with me she was much fitter than my Mrs of the time..... Who wasn't an international model or claiming to be to be fair 🙄🙄🙄🙄... He of course didn't have a Mrs 🤭🤭🤭

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, Mr Pastry said:

Opel of some sort, I think.

Rekord I think.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

8 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Rekord I think.

Rekord C. The equivalent Commodores tended to have vinyl rooves.

[Metal Guru]

On 11/02/2026 at 01:10, vaughant said:

Sure I've told this one before but Robbie James and Tommy Hutchinson both lived but far from me in Caswell when I was a kid and they were both sponsored by Yugo, as Swansea were basically a shit division 3 side 🤣🤣🤣.

I think they had to drive them x number of hours a week as they always looked miserable as fuck going to training in them.

Their cars of choice were the big Merc saloons, equivalent of the s class these days 

Back in 2008, Portsmouth football club, then a Premier league team, had a Reliant Robin for the players. The worst player each day in training (Plonker of the day), had to drive it home.

It must have worked as some kind of incentive because they won the FA cup that year.

[vaughant]

48 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Back in 2008, Portsmouth football club, then a Premier league team, had a Reliant Robin for the players. The worst player each day in training (Plonker of the day), had to drive it home.

It must have worked as some kind of incentive because they won the FA cup that year.

Beating Cardiff also so they'll always have a place in my heart ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 

[Pieman]

Jasper Carrott with a Panther Lima (and is that an XJS in the background?).

[richardmorris]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]