RMweb Premium 30368 Posted May 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6 1 hour ago, Sidecar Racer said: But not a valid plate . Spoilsport! Kind regards, 30368 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Didn't the diesel Mk2 Fiesta introduce new levels of understeer? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted May 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6 I've been scanning old family photos and have found photos of some of my paternal grandfather's cars. Does anyone know what they are? His car in 1926/7 caravan holiday 1933 Grandmother and car 1939 1948 David 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6 2 hours ago, DaveF said: I've been scanning old family photos and have found photos of some of my paternal grandfather's cars. Does anyone know what they are? His car in 1926/7 caravan holiday 1933 Grandmother and car 1939 1948 David Sunbeam, Rover?, Plymouth?, Standard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 A local meet at Crick this afternoon... 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 And a few more... 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Round three... 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted May 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6 (edited) 7 hours ago, alastairq said: Didn't the diesel Mk2 Fiesta introduce new levels of understeer? The 1.1 petrol ones with 135 tyres would get wayward on dry roads if you went above second gear! God knows where the garage that serviced it before I got it found them. Took a set of 155 Michelins to get mine to behave. Edited May 6 by Dunsignalling 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6 12 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: But not a valid plate . That is because of the spacing I assume. GIG 1300 would be OK?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted May 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6 9 minutes ago, phil_sutters said: That is because of the spacing I assume. GIG 1300 would be OK?? Even that is a no go Phil , plate rules here including this , The letters not used on UK number plates are the letter I as it looks like the number 1, or the letters O and Q as they can be confused with the number 0. Although there is one exception to this rule, as the letter O is used for Oxford in reference to the memory tag system . https://www.octanefinance.co.uk/blog/uk-number-plates-explained 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6 The spacing is illegal but it's a valid registration from Northern Ireland. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7 7 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The spacing is illegal but it's a valid registration from Northern Ireland. I always check the make and year of manufacture or date of first registation on the DVLA website, before adding my caption, so I know that it is valid. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cuttle Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 10 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: or the letters O A recent change then? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 I've just looked it up on DVLA. Itis shown as SORN, on a 3 wheel 1989 BMW with a 300cc engine..... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7 (edited) The letter O was not used until the 1950's when many counties were running out of suitable letter combinations so they started using the letter O. The *OO series was allocated to Essex. Then the year letter was started in 1962 (But did not include I or O as a year letter). When registrations were introduced in 1903 each registration district was allocated a single letter. The letter S was allocated to Scotland and I was allocated to Ireland, O and Z were not used as single letters.By 1910 some districts were already running out of numbers so two letter registrations were introduced. Edited May 7 by PhilJ W 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted May 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7 (edited) 51 minutes ago, Captain Cuttle said: A recent change then? A Jam Buttie of the Devon County Constabulary (not sure when it became "Devon & Cornwall"). Probably a VX 4/90 but maybe a Ventora? TTBOMK, Devon had issued _OD plates since the year dot. Their others were _DV, _TA, _TT, and _UO. John Edited May 7 by Dunsignalling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7 Its a Ventora, the VX 4/90 only had a single vertical bar on the grill. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cuttle Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 27 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Its a Ventora, the VX 4/90 only had a single vertical bar on the grill. It was a Dixon of Dock Green episode from the early seventies involving also a six or more wheeled passenger transporter thingy going across a causeway to an island where plod were trying to keep the dolly bird safe. She had other ideas and jumped into a Maxi to get away, hence the chase. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Some more Italianate nostalgia from Brooklands... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Imagine how gobsmacked I was when this Series 1 1964 Maserati Sebring turned up at a local meet this evening, rare enough to start with but even rarer in RHD... 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted May 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: Imagine how gobsmacked I was when this Series 1 1964 Maserati Sebring turned up at a local meet this evening, rare enough to start with but even rarer in RHD... What's the emoji for, "Oh my God that might only be a car but it is achingly beautiful"? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted May 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7 1 minute ago, Northmoor said: What's the emoji for, "Oh my God that might only be a car but it is achingly beautiful"? And the emoji also needs to recognise the wonderful sound that would emanate from that Maserati engine and the exhaust note too. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Some more from Monday evening's meet at Lilbourne... 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 To be a hairytick, I find that era of Pontiac to be particularly , erm, ugly? [Mid to late 1970's?] I much prefer the Pontiacs of the mid to late 1960's for beauty of line....So what went 'wrong' in Detroit? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyPenguin Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Some more from Monday evening's meet at Lilbourne... My favourite aut of that last set is the very original looking 2-door Range Rover. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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