retrogeezer Posted May 29, 2008 Posted May 29, 2008 Had a good afternoon here with my daughter, made better by the following in the car park: And cream of the crop - superb:
Karmann Ghiaman Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 "Daddy, Daddy, can you please stop photographing the car park so we can go and look at the monkeys.' "There are monkeys?"
Richard Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 I wonder if the BMW and Renault arrived together. It's great to see cars getting to that age without being neglected or molested, especially the entry level BMW.
pogweasel Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 WOW! 316, non-injection with ultimate poverty spec: BMW ownership at it's very grimmest.Can you imagine someone ordering that new in 1986... they probably could have had a top-spec Montego or Cavalier for the same bread.
r.welfare Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 What a lovely facelift 21 saloon! So much better-proportioned than the hatchback.
mk2_craig Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 Don't be fooled into thinking that the bus is actually 26 years old - the chassis is - but it would have been re-bodied in the early 1990s. This is how it looked originally!!
retrogeezer Posted May 30, 2008 Author Posted May 30, 2008 Good work Craig!My dad drove for Green Line out of Staines back in the 80's - I wonder if he ever drove that actual one!He also used to drive the Heathrow-Gatwick express - 747 Jetlink it was called IIRC.
bigstraight6 Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 Love the Leyland bus, in particular that you went above and beyond the call of duty and obtained a few interior shots!
retrogeezer Posted May 30, 2008 Author Posted May 30, 2008 Love the Leyland bus, in particular that you went above and beyond the call of duty and obtained a few interior shots! I'd have gone up the steps too but the driver was asleep across the aisle and snoring like a goodun'!
Gompo Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Don't be fooled into thinking that the bus is actually 26 years old - the chassis is - but it would have been re-bodied in the early 1990s. This is how it looked originally!! ...How did you manage to find that ? Just coincedence?
pogweasel Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Probably not. Bus nerds are very good at record keeping so a google of the registration is all you need.
mk2_craig Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 What he said... There's absolutely LOADS of people have scanned in old slides, photo prints etc to Fotopic online galleries. A bit more research would no doubt tell me that Green Line had 10 or 20 of these things, so if it wasn't possible to find a photo of that exact bus - then surely a similar vehicle from the WPH-Y series would be out there in cyberspace.Just noticed, incidentally, that the Green Line vehicle is missing a big chunk of the front bumper... I'd like to think that you couldn't get away with that today...
Richard Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 You should see some of the shitters that Stagecoach run.
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