Shite in the garage / shite around the house?

[RoadworkUK]

I'm going to modify this thread and open it up to all.

 

It all started with these:

 

 

Nic and I have been hitting up charity shops for stuff to equip our then new gaff. Visiting the British Heart Foundation, Frinton, while I was perusing the CD's (absolute garbage in the shape of Northern line, Peter Andre etc. etc.) Nic said "There are some mugs over there that I think are supposed to be funny, but I don't understand them. And they say Ford on them".

 

So I had a look, and of course I had to have them. What they appear to be is a set of mugs given to Ford Trucks sales personnel circa '82 (the A-Series and Intercontinental are both illustrated), as each mug depicts a stage in the sales process. Hence Nicola didn't understand them. I did, though and think they're ace. £3.99 for five, thirty years old and in good working order.

 

And Nic says we can use them as our primary set of mugs. My girlfriend is the shit.

 

What's your proudest non-automotive purchase in the peripheral world of shite?

[warren t claim]

Is the cartoonist Bill Stott?

 

How much for the Transcontinental mug?

[RoadworkUK]

Is the cartoonist Bill Stott?

 

How much for the Transcontinental mug?

 

If his pseudynym is Noel Ford, then yes. And I imagine the set to have an insurance value of in excess of £15,000, so I'd want a figure to reflect that.

[eddyramrod]

Those mugs are bloody gorjus!

[andrew e]

Very nice set of mugs you have there, only take one on the antiques roadshow so you can utter the important line " I have more at home"

 

Certainly trumps my FSO lapel badge, but I reckon my £1 autojumble allegro SS badge runs it close.

[Rod/b]

Andrew do you still have the 1980's aftermarket electronically operated rear window venetian blind in original shrinkrap that i sold you?!

[CreepingJesus]

My 1951 AA England + Wales roadbook, with the letter and Bournemouth parking ticket in. £3 from a junk shop, it just makes me smile. And want to drive the A6 in its' entirety.

Or maybe my Model T eggcup with my name on it...

The Transconti mug might take some beating tho': nice find.

[andrew e]

Andrew do you still have the 1980's aftermarket electronically operated rear window venetian blind in original shrinkrap that i sold you?!

 

I think I do. God knows where it is mind!

[Station]

I've got some old local newspapers in the loft from 1994 with all the used car sale adverts in. Also photo of ex-girlfriend sitting on bonnet of her brother's 1st generation Toyota Celica (circa 1996), I need to get 'em all scanned in.

[AnthonyG]

When I worked for Hartwell Group in '97 & 98, I half-inched some prime tat from various sites, best was a Austin Rover 'Customer Satisfaction' mug from Clifton (Bristol) Rover. Also a book about the design and development of the Mondeo (must have been produced for the launch), various press and dealer launch kits for Fords and Rovers, a salesman's guide to the 'new' Transit from 1994, 'Ford Credit' and 'Isuzu' Parker pens, and some Ford cassette tapes (1997 promotion - 'Thanks for 21 years of being No1'). All were found in abandoned desks or in the back of dusty cupboards. I also found a Motorola 'brick' phone, minus battery.

[RoadworkUK]

...best was a Austin Rover 'Customer Satisfaction' mug from Clifton (Bristol) Rover.

 

I may need to actually start collecting mugs. I'm off to a good start.

 

I'm looking forward to any prospective shite meet, I have an extremely impressive sandwich bag lined up...

[Des]

This is my fave mug, charity shop about 10 years ago, used to have red text but now better without.

 

A 1954 invitation to a film of racing cars from the British Automobile Racing Club, this lives in an old workshop manual.

 

A few years ago visiting my Mother, she mentioned she had snagged an 'Old car book' for me, from a charity shop. I was expecting The Ladybird Book of poorly sketched Rancid Veteran Chod from the 70's or suchlike. Bristol Cars and Engines by LJK Setright, mint, 99p. These change hands for £200-ish.

[RoadworkUK]

This was the reason for thread ressurection; my bedside alarm clock.

 

 

It came in its unopened, original box from a tat shop in Walton-On-The-Naze (aren't they all?). OK, I accept that it doesn't have wheels and is therefore as off-topic as anything Leonard Hatred has ever objected to. But, I believe, with its krypto-digital readout, quasi-woodprint surround and chromesque knobs, together with its point of origin being a completely unknown Asian manufacture, I think the above is the absolute essence of non-automotive shite.

 

Does anybody have anything more shite than this that still performs in front-line service around the house? A thousand space-credits to anyone still using a Hoover Constellation.

[trigger]

I can't compete with that stunning example of retro gold but my dad still uses the Hotpoint Oven that he bought in 1977 when he married my mum, It takes 2 hours to cook a Fray Bentos pie and costs £10 in electricity every time he turns it on but he swears he'll never sell it whilst it still works.

[Lord Sterling]

I honestly thought I had alot more Auto-related tat. I havent got any car-related mugs unless you count the 'VW/Audi Wolverhampton Trade Parts Specialist' mug I got given when I left my job at the garage.

 

I've got a small 'Rover' flag hanging on my wall, its not the usual huge flag, about the size of the roof of my car.

 

I also seem to have a 'Mercedes' baseball cap that I found in a scrapped Renault and a very old 'Rover' body warmer.

[mk2_craig]

This was the reason for thread ressurection; my bedside alarm clock.

 

 

It came in its unopened, original box from a tat shop in Walton-On-The-Naze (aren't they all?). OK, I accept that it doesn't have wheels and is therefore as off-topic as anything Leonard Hatred has ever objected to. But, I believe, with its krypto-digital readout, quasi-woodprint surround and chromesque knobs, together with its point of origin being a completely unknown Asian manufacture, I think the above is the absolute essence of non-automotive shite.

 

Does anybody have anything more shite than this that still performs in front-line service around the house? A thousand space-credits to anyone still using a Hoover Constellation.

 

Would an Amstrad CPC464 that I still play Dizzy II on occasionally count?

[Felly Magic]

I have a fully functional Atari ST

[michael t]

I have these in the house,

 

Must be about 30 years old, its survived being stood on by a heavily pregnant woman 4 times and the torrent of abuse those 4 kids dished out to it (one of them being me )

 

I bought this on Ebay last year, wooden McEnroe racket and used it flat out until this year when in a fit of rage (much like the great man himself) I partially cracked the side of it, so its now on my wall away from danger

 

Apologies for the shonky pics

[warren t claim]

I've been offered a mechanical Almex bus ticket machine for not too many pennies. Its mechanism is stuck though. Any idea if it can be fixed?

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

I've been offered a mechanical Almex bus ticket machine for not too many pennies. Its mechanism is stuck though. Any idea if it can be fixed?

 

Yes I am sure it can be, this is a useful site:

 

http://www.ticketmachinewebsite.com/

 

He helped me out to get my own shite bus ticket conductors machine up and running:

 

 

^^ you can almost still smell the stale Players No6 on it.

[Felly Magic]

I've been offered a mechanical Almex bus ticket machine for not too many pennies. Its mechanism is stuck though. Any idea if it can be fixed?

 

It might just be 'locked'. I know behind the flap where the ticket roll goes in there is some form of switch, as a mate used to lock his on his bus so veg couldn't play with it if they got on when he wasn't in the cab

[Partridge]

 

I use no other brand.

[Guest]

I've been offered a mechanical Almex bus ticket machine for not too many pennies. Its mechanism is stuck though. Any idea if it can be fixed?

 

Yes. The fixing machine is called 'MM5'.

[FredTransit]

I WANT THEM TRUCK MUGS!!!!

[warren t claim]

I've been offered a mechanical Almex bus ticket machine for not too many pennies. Its mechanism is stuck though. Any idea if it can be fixed?

 

It might just be 'locked'. I know behind the flap where the ticket roll goes in there is some form of switch, as a mate used to lock his on his bus so veg couldn't play with it if they got on when he wasn't in the cab

 

This is a pic of a similar example.

 

I haven't got a fucking clue how to use it but I want it as a reminder of my bus ride to school as an 11 year old.