RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2020 30 minutes ago, steve1 said: Can someone confirm for me that Ford used a logo on their garages and adverts in the 1960s that featured the four letters in four diamonds? A web search hasn’t helped. Am I imagining this or was it some other car company and I’m confused? ( The latter is not unlikely...) Thanks steve I seem to recall that each letter was in a hexagon or an octagon not a diamond. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Al51 Posted July 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, steve1 said: Can someone confirm for me that Ford used a logo on their garages and adverts in the 1960s that featured the four letters in four diamonds? A web search hasn’t helped. Am I imagining this or was it some other car company and I’m confused? ( The latter is not unlikely...) Thanks steve Four hexagons going by this image Al Edited July 8, 2020 by Al51 5 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 That's exactly what I was thinking of. Many thanks! Interesting Anglebox too.. steve 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 There are some staggeringly amazing cars here --> https://www.andysaunders.net/cars/ If I was given the choice, I'd take Panhard! steve 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Yuk! 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 14 hours ago, steve1 said: There are some staggeringly amazing cars here --> https://www.andysaunders.net/cars/ If I was given the choice, I'd take Panhard! s The Panhard I wanted alongside my DS in Liverpool 8 in the early sixties was the 24 coupe https://www.flickr.com/photos/voodoo-punch/9416803638 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2020 14 hours ago, steve1 said: There are some staggeringly amazing cars here --> https://www.andysaunders.net/cars/ If I was given the choice, I'd take Panhard! steve Now there's a man with taste. Mike. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 34 minutes ago, runs as required said: The Panhard I wanted alongside my DS in Liverpool 8 in the early sixties was the 24 coupe https://www.flickr.com/photos/voodoo-punch/9416803638 The 24CT was always on my list of Top Ten Cars when I was young enough to be excited by such things. steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Old man Enzo takes a snooze at the Modena test track.... 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted July 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2020 6 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: Old man Enzo takes a snooze at the Modena test track.... Now that reminds me of proper test track work......loads of prep, a bit of rushing around and something breaks.....then......just waiting for the fitters to find the only roll of duct tape that hasn’t welded itself together 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 (edited) My mate Kev has been out and about in the Mk2 Cooper I sold to him nine years ago, he completely restored it to standard spec but has recently fitted a set of rare 4.5''x10'' Mk1 Cosmic alloys, it's quite unusual to see them on a Mk2.... Edited July 9, 2020 by Rugd1022 8 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Nice houses in the background - is that Rugby? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 2 hours ago, runs as required said: Nice houses in the background - is that Rugby? No, my mate lives in Pangbourne so it's probably somewhere round there . 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 link to a bit of Fiat goodness 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Like the fact it doesn't give subtitles - its brilliant for refreshing my Italian comprehension* Always easier when there's a lot of universal tekkie jargon. *from 1980s onwards EU Erasmus days - sometimes in Torino opposite the famous Fiat Lingotto factory! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 On 07/06/2020 at 19:11, boxbrownie said: The mini only failed it’s MoT in 2018 for wheel bearing and worn hub joints......not the tin worm....soooo The mini has gone! Let’s hope someone will look after it. It’s place has been taken by a Yaris . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 9 hours ago, runs as required said: Like the fact it doesn't give subtitles - its brilliant for refreshing my Italian comprehension* Always easier when there's a lot of universal tekkie jargon. *from 1980s onwards EU Erasmus days - sometimes in Torino opposite the famous Fiat Lingotto factory! The Motor show used to be at the old Lingotto building (may still be, I have been out of touch since retiring) and some years we managed to sneak up onto the roof to have our lunch.......I used to imagine the three Coopers whizzing around it and the locals objecting 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 The Lingotto building is now a hotel. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) 15 hours ago, peanuts said: link to a bit of Fiat goodness As Italian car chase thrillers from the '70s go that's not too shabby, but the lack of fast zoom in and out close ups, semi naked ladies of the night and bodies flying everywhere is duly noted . I could watch stuff like that all day! Edited July 10, 2020 by Rugd1022 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: The Lingotto building is now a hotel. Must be absolutely huge , cos the one across the boulevard looking onto the river was no small Art Deco Iti pile. i was leading a group of TP students exchanging with World class Torino poly and studying the Alto-Adige Autonomous Region. They can spend all the income taxes raised in the region within the region. While studs were there, they’d run out of infrastructure stuff to spend and had voted to dish out Benz 4x4s to all farmers to save on snow clearance. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 19 hours ago, peanuts said: link to a bit of Fiat goodness Very interesting. I wondered if the whole film was in real time and only 38 minutes long because the average Mirafiori would have failed an MOT for corrosion after about 45 minutes. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Another random dose of Italiana.... a gorgeous De Tomaso Mangusta in Spoleto in the Umbria Region of Italy.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
43179 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Just imported this beast as I've always loved the styling : a 1972 Gaz -24 'Volga' favoured wheels of the KGB , officials and apparatchik etc - this ones an original black car so would have been for 'offical' use rather than being on sale to the genral public (i guess you should read that as 'proletariat') Its presence, quirkiness , and er , 'build quality' has won me over - its 90% original , including the paint so they must have some something right back in the day when they built these things. Its been converted to LPG but other than that is stock and drives like an old volvo on steroids. Jon 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
43179 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 10/07/2020 at 17:22, Rugd1022 said: Another random dose of Italiana.... a gorgeous De Tomaso Mangusta in Spoleto in the Umbria Region of Italy.... Gosh - that , and the Iso Grifo posted earlier - I need to have a little lie down! The Holy grail for me has to be the Alfa Romeo Montreal - that over a Miura any day. Jon 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) Had to click the 'like' button Jon but not the 'agree' one! Your holy grail is spot on, but the last time I saw a Miura in the flesh (about two years ago at the NEC) I was actually rooted to the spot for several minutes, I was standing right in front of it with my shin brushing against the front bumper (not that it's much of a bumper in reality) and I couldn't stop myself from absorbing the sheer bloody glamour of the thing, the fact that it exists at all is something to be savoured, admired and celebrated. I would happily take any one of your chosen three though given half a chance - for me the Mangusta pips the Pantera to the post in the desirability stakes, I find it much more satisfying visually from all angles and the drama of the split rear engine lids is equal to the scissor doors of the Lambo Countach. There's currently a lot of activity on Pistonheads in the various Italian car based threads, the enthusiasm is palpable when someone posts photos and news of a new purchase of an old Italian classic, no matter what it is, from a humble Fiat to an exotic Iso, and long may it continue. Edited July 12, 2020 by Rugd1022 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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