For those interested in old cars.

[Nick C]

47 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

With old cars it all becomes a bit muddy. With this I wouldn't think the dvla would be involved. 

They would however if it was to be registered as a new vehicle and then I would think it would need to meet modern emissions standards etc

Although this is basically a new car its still a restoration 

It's covered by the same set of rules that deal with heavily modified cars - the so called 8-point rule, whereby the car has to have at least 8 points in order to still count as the same car (and therefore not need to be re-registered on a Q plate), where 5 points come from the original chassis or bodyshell, 2 from the engine, etc. 

[boxbrownie]

15 hours ago, Kickstart said:

Bit more for the later shells, and £12500 for the mk1 shell!

 

All the best

 

Katy

So at a guess maybe £25K for a completed car? £10K labour and £2.5K for powertrain sourced and rebuild and running gear, and maybe £5K contingency?

 

Not necessarily with an original Cooper reg/shell though obviously that would be much more at a guess, but you might end up with a “brand new” Mini Cooper replica which would be than enough fun.   

[jcredfer]

5 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

That Meteor has such simple, classic styling. No fussiness.

 

It might make a decent barbecue table, but might need the suspension beefing up a bit, to stop the plates from sliding orf.  Wide enough for keeping social distancing, too.

 

Julian 

 

[Metr0Land]

I guess everything here has rusted away by now

 

 

 

[jcredfer]

1 hour ago, Metr0Land said:

I guess everything here has rusted away by now

 

 

 

 

I note that the Dagenham Dustbins didn't last for long enough for the photo exposure time.....

 

Julian

 

 

[PhilJ W]

3 hours ago, Metr0Land said:

I guess everything here has rusted away by now

 

 

 

The Humber Sceptre and the minivan are looking a bit frilly around the sills.

[PatB]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

The Humber Sceptre and the minivan are looking a bit frilly around the sills.

OTOH there's an FC Victor stage right that must have been brand new in 1964.

[Hobby]

I was more intrigued why the photo was "quoted" two posts on the trot straight after the original, surely it would have been easier just to comment, or at least delete the photo and leave the text so we knew what they were commenting on! Hard luck for anyone with slow internet...

[Oldddudders]

Dream on. Throughout RMweb I find huge posts full of multiple pics being quoted in their entirety, with the addition of "This is really good" or similar. 

[alastairq]

I counted a definite two, if not three, dagenham dustbins in that photo....

[jcredfer]

1 hour ago, Hobby said:

I was more intrigued why the photo was "quoted" two posts on the trot straight after the original, surely it would have been easier just to comment, or at least delete the photo and leave the text so we knew what they were commenting on! Hard luck for anyone with slow internet...

 

I have been "scolded" a time or two for not leaving the picture, because it can cause readers to have to scroll back, should they have opened my post, without having gone through previous posts.  You win some.....

 

Julian

 

[Enterprisingwestern]

1 hour ago, Hobby said:

I was more intrigued why the photo was "quoted" two posts on the trot straight after the original, surely it would have been easier just to comment, or at least delete the photo and leave the text so we knew what they were commenting on! Hard luck for anyone with slow internet...

 

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Dream on. Throughout RMweb I find huge posts full of multiple pics being quoted in their entirety, with the addition of "This is really good" or similar. 

 

We've had a thread on this very subject which fell on extremely deaf ears!

 

Mike

[Oldddudders]

15 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

 

We've had a thread on this very subject which fell on extremely deaf ears!

 

Mike

Laziness, use of phones (why? why?) to look at things, which make editing very difficult, and someone else is paying for the storage. 

[boxbrownie]

39 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Laziness, use of phones (why? why?) to look at things, which make editing very difficult, and someone else is paying for the storage. 

Another forum I use must have a slightly different set up when quotes are used, the images are not repeated, just the text, maybe that would be the answer for everyone?

 

Of course it’s down to the site owner and whether the software used allows it.

[Oldddudders]

3 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

Another forum I use must have a slightly different set up when quotes are used, the images are not repeated, just the text, maybe that would be the answer for everyone?

 

Of course it’s down to the site owner and whether the software used allows it.

Eminently sensible, not least in view of the recent outage where Andy was scrambling to find more storage space. But one of his goals in setting this place up was the ability to embed pics in posts, so software that discarded them in quotes hasn't been one of his objectives, I suspect. 

[PhilJ W]

I seem to recall that when a post was quoted images were shown as a link.

[Kickstart]

Quoting images shouldn’t use any meaningful extra storage, and if displayed twice on the same page no extra bandwidth (Should only fetch the image once, and hopefully cached even when used on another page).

 

But it does slow down scrolling, etc

 

All the best

 

Katy

[Rugd1022]

Is there a date and location for that fine photo....? Somewhere up the north a very long time ago....?

Edited September 8, 2020 by Rugd1022

[BernardTPM]

5 hours ago, alastairq said:

I counted a definite two, if not three, dagenham dustbins in that photo....

Two 400E Thames vans, one a chassis cab, the smaller 307E Thames (Anglia) van, 105E Anglia, Mk.1 Cortina (behind the Imp, RH side) and, a bit further back, a Mk.2 Consul or Zephyr, but I would say more Rootes & BMC cars.

The vinyl roof on the Victor 101 (FC) is unusual at this date, though two tone colours with a contrasting roof and boot was common.

Edited September 8, 2020 by BernardTPM

[boxbrownie]

2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said:

Is there a date and location for that fine photo....? Somewhere up the north a very long time ago....?

Accrington Viaduct 1964....the site of the “new” Arndale Centre now........it’s in the pictures details.

[PhilJ W]

5 hours ago, Rugd1022 said:

Is there a date and location for that fine photo....? Somewhere up the north a very long time ago....?

 

3 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

Accrington Viaduct 1964....the site of the “new” Arndale Centre now........it’s in the pictures details.

I was going to say about 1965 going by the lack of Transit vans.

[PatB]

10 hours ago, BernardTPM said:

Two 400E Thames vans, one a chassis cab, the smaller 307E Thames (Anglia) van, 105E Anglia, Mk.1 Cortina (behind the Imp, RH side) and, a bit further back, a Mk.2 Consul or Zephyr, but I would say more Rootes & BMC cars.

The vinyl roof on the Victor 101 (FC) is unusual at this date, though two tone colours with a contrasting roof and boot was common.

I didn't notice the vinyl roof. Would that make it a VX4/90? A beast so rare that, even as a car mad kid, I don't think I ever saw one. The FB version, yes, but never an FC. 

[sandwich station]

43 minutes ago, PatB said:

I didn't notice the vinyl roof. Would that make it a VX4/90? A beast so rare that, even as a car mad kid, I don't think I ever saw one. The FB version, yes, but never an FC. 

 

I could be wrong but I don't think the VX490 had a vinyl roof.

[BernardTPM]

No, it didn't. It was considered when the model was being developed, but it was not on the production models. See the relevant Vauxpedia section (about 40% of the way down). The VX4/90 in both FB and FC series had a contrasting side stripe, edged in thin chrome.

Edited September 9, 2020 by BernardTPM

[PhilJ W]

I had an FD Victor, the boot was enormous. The engine was very good when it was running properly and quite powerful. Although only 1600 cc the car was quite capable of a recorded 100 mph. It was a mechanics nightmare though, even changing the spark plugs was difficult.