RMweb Gold chriswright03 Posted January 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2019 Stolen borrowed from facebook. Just cos I know some of you have a fetish for the French weird stuff. Used to carry newspapers across Europe in the days of physical paper, could carry 1 metric tonne at 110mph. This one was believed to do the Frankfurt to Rome run overnight in around 10hours 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Crikey! That's some vehicle. A Safari on steroids maybe? Where's our Citroen expert when we need him? steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2019 Is he coming back? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Stolen borrowed from facebook. Just cos I know some of you have a fetish for the French weird stuff. Citroen.jpg Perfect for taking a brace of 3 metre baseboards to Telford Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Steve Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 And no rust... Everything rusted in the 60's, 70's and 80's Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 12, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2019 Crikey! That's some vehicle. A Safari on steroids maybe? Where's our Citroen expert when we need him? steve Is he coming back? Sadly he has well and truly blotted his copybook and is unlikely to return anytime soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2019 Sadly he has well and truly blotted his copybook and is unlikely to return anytime soon. That's a shame , I miss him on here 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 12, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2019 Stolen borrowed from facebook. Just cos I know some of you have a fetish for the French weird stuff. Citroen.jpg They produced something similar based on a DS but with a plain van body that was used for distributing newspapers in Paris. It was not a success by all accounts being too long and unwieldy for Paris traffic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 And no rust... Here's me thinking it was a two tone paint scheme! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Perfect for taking a brace of 3 metre baseboards to Telford ... and save the organisers on the accommodation bills but where would you park it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) Left hooker 190 SL in Wardour Street. Late import I would reckon going off the plates. London..undated...1960s? by Glen Fairweather, on Flickr P Edited January 12, 2019 by Porcy Mane 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2019 Love the street and traffic lights 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 12, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2019 Left hooker 190 SL in Wardour Street. Late import I would reckon going off the plates. London..undated...1960s? by Glen Fairweather, on Flickr P J reg. '71 at the earliest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 J reg. '71 at the earliest. Exactly. Last 190 SL manufactured in 1963. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) Suffix J reg was August 1970 to July 1971, so definitely not 1960s, but could still be pre-decimalisation (Can't see any clues in that respect though). Edited January 12, 2019 by BernardTPM 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2019 While these days you can’t get a registration newer than the vehicle, it wasn’t thus then. My 1969 ex-Army landie had a 1982 plate - OGO465Y. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Suffix J reg was August 1970 to July 1971, so definitely not 1960s, but could still be pre-decimalisation (Can't see any clues in that respect though). Back then used cars from abroad were given a current year registration. Not sure exactly when they switched to an age related plate. I think there was an interim period when such cars would be given a Q plate. My guess is that present system of Q plates and age related registrations goes back to around 1985. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 ... and save the organisers on the accommodation bills but where would you park it? Probably only a metre longer than a lwb sprinter.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 While these days you can’t get a registration newer than the vehicle, it wasn’t thus then. My 1969 ex-Army landie had a 1982 plate - OGO465Y. Nowadays one can get the date-of-manufacture recognised....and benefits taken advantage of with VED, etc. A nearby chum with an ex-milllliterry LWB series L/Rover has managed to do this, with a lot of help from the lady at DVLA....and even had a refund of back tax. He ha also acquired exemption-from-MoT as well.....which is a different system.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Q-plates were always allocated to a vehicle 'of indeterminate origin'....in other words, where a new 'identity ' [VIN plates?] had to be allocated? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2019 Do Q plates still use the old regional two letter codes or do they use the current letters but as a suffix? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 MOT History check WPM13JMERCEDES UNKNOWN ColourWhite Fuel typePetrol Date registered1 August 1970 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 They produced something similar based on a DS but with a plain van body that was used for distributing newspapers in Paris. It was not a success by all accounts being too long and unwieldy for Paris traffic. They saw use taking British papers via the Shuttle to Paris, back in the early days. Someone also did a 'Beavertail' flat on a Ctiroen chassis, with twin back axles; I saw it several times at a garage jusr east of Troyes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 While these days you can’t get a registration newer than the vehicle, it wasn’t thus then. My 1969 ex-Army landie had a 1982 plate - OGO465Y. And Manx registrations got a few years ahead of mainland registrations owing to insufficient suffixes being allocated to the island, meaning new year letters had to be started whenever the suffixes ran out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Nowadays one can get the date-of-manufacture recognised....and benefits taken advantage of with VED, etc. A nearby chum with an ex-milllliterry LWB series L/Rover has managed to do this, with a lot of help from the lady at DVLA....and even had a refund of back tax. He ha also acquired exemption-from-MoT as well.....which is a different system.... Soldiers serving in Germany could order a new rhd car and when they returned to the UK have it on the latest registration. Maximum kerb appeal. My Dutton was delivered in 1979 and built from a 1968 Capri. The builder failed to keep the documents as he was determined to impress the neighbours with a brand new registration. By the time I acquired it as a never quite finished project in 1987 the rules had changed and I had to register it on a Q plate. Pity. Had it used the Capri registration it would have become a tax free historic vehicle and might have seen a lot more use over the last 15 years or so. The upside however, is that it is correctly registered as a Dutton and thus relatively future proof against the changing whims of dvla. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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