Rugd1022 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 Not the best of photos but we spotted this '79 Porsche 924 at our local Sainsburys petrol station the other day... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 More archive stuff from the, er archives... Slade guitarist Dave Hill's RR Silver Cloud III, and a nice screen shot form a late episode of 'UFO', how the 'eck did Mike Pratt squeeze into that tiny 914...? This was filmed in late '69 so it was probably one of the first examples into the country... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwich station Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 6 hours ago, rocor said: Recent post on this forum have discussed at what age is a car, an "old car". I have dug out this picture of the first car that I owned, and find it hard to believe that it would now be 54 years old. Fiat 500. They were a funny little thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 6 hours ago, Porkscratching said: There was in recent times anyway, a garage off Caledonian Rd, that had a load of those in various conditions, the up and running ones they wanted utterly mad money for, 12 to 15 grand as i recall... Yes, Blundell Road - I remember having an interview up that way in 2005 (I can remember it was 6/7/2005 as I passed through Edgware Road exactly 24 hours before the bomb went off there....). Discovered the garage whilst trying to find the site of 'Mrs Lopsided's house! The FIATS show up on Street View (April 2018). Incidentally it seemed very strange to be walking around the full sized Copenhagen Fields! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 Richmond Park in 1966.... the Landrover type thingy on the right of the frame, is it an Austin Scamp perhaps…? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 51 minutes ago, sandwich station said: Fiat 500. They were a funny little thing. Dubbed 50mph shopping trollies round our way. Stewart 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted March 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 8, 2020 9 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: Richmond Park in 1966.... the Landrover type thingy on the right of the frame, is it an Austin Scamp perhaps…? It's an Austin Gipsy, made 1958-68 as competition to Land Rover. The Scamp was a mini-based kit car. 5 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 1 hour ago, RJS1977 said: Yes, Blundell Road - I remember having an interview up that way in 2005 (I can remember it was 6/7/2005 as I passed through Edgware Road exactly 24 hours before the bomb went off there....). Discovered the garage whilst trying to find the site of 'Mrs Lopsided's house! The FIATS show up on Street View (April 2018). Incidentally it seemed very strange to be walking around the full sized Copenhagen Fields! Mrs lopsided's house was I believe built for the film at the end of Frederica st, all that remains of the street is the very short stump of it off Cally rd. The rest of the street was built over with modern housing. A friend used to live there so I was a regular visitor. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Sainsburys in Rugby not long after it opened... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 35p a litre for petrol! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 6 hours ago, big jim said: 35p a litre for petrol! That's expensive! I remember my first car, an Austin A30, in 1967; filling (yes completely) the tank and getting change from a fiver, (And there was an attendant to do it for me). Mind you, in 2000 I converted to lpg and rejoiced in paying 20p/litre for it. (About 55p, sometimes less, today). Stewart 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom q vaxy Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Lets face it everyone who rides a donkey does so in high heels! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2020 That is the most discombobulating advert I have ever seen, what the hell does it mean? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2020 I didn't see a car there? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 spotted this on a drive way across from our local spar last night 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2020 55 minutes ago, tom q vaxy said: Nice ass. Mike. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2020 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: I didn't see a car there? Well if you like Dalmatians that much, live and let live I say 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, peanuts said: spotted this on a drive way across from our local spar last night Hmm nice, Stiletto.............Sunbeam of course Edited March 11, 2020 by boxbrownie 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) The '69 W&P Mk2 Cooper S I've been lusting after for years has popped up for sale again, at a fiver short of £70k it's a bit bonkers but with history from day one and some choice rock star connections it's quite the period piece... Edit : I've just checked the dealer's website and it's sold...! Edited March 11, 2020 by Rugd1022 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 5 hours ago, tom q vaxy said: Blimey looks like the cover of s German porno fillum..! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2020 39 minutes ago, Porkscratching said: Blimey looks like the cover of s German porno fillum..! Aha,,,now I recognise it...... 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 In my distant youth one of my mates got hold of one from somewhere called "Animal Tricks".... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: The '69 W&P Mk2 Cooper S I've been lusting after for years has popped up for sale again, at a fiver short of £70k it's a bit bonkers but with history from day one and some choice rock star connections it's quite the period piece... Edit : I've just checked the dealer's website and it's sold...! Our 1972 Mk3 “S” was registered by some Lord of something, I think it was Lichfield. It was sold by the dealer after being held over.........we got it from Jon Mowatt engineering, Essex in about 1975 after our 2002tii blew it’s rear diff.......the S lasted about a year before being written off on a lovely sunny Sunday in Essex by a drunken farmer driving his 2000Pi running into the back of us after he turned out of the pub and apparently didn’t see us waiting in the country lane waiting to turn right. We then bought a 1275GT......not the same but hey ho, that lasted until we got married in ‘77......blimey I wish we still had some of our cars! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2020 6 hours ago, peanuts said: spotted this on a drive way across from our local spar last night I wonder if that is the one John Simister from practical classics used to own 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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