RMweb Gold 30801 Posted July 5, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2015 If modern motors were restricted in BHP to something sensible (Say 100BHP) with gearing that prevented speeds in excess of 90mph, and the removal of the things that make modern motorist feel invincible, then I think a lot of accidents would stop happening.... Taking the soundproofing out would do it. People think their modern car is standing still at 70mph when really it's just quiet. Physics is still the same and there's the exciting prospect of decelerating to a complete stop in the length of your bonnet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 5, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2015 While your internal organs try to keep going. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 At a closing speed of 100mph (two cars doing 50), you have time to think to yourself "bloody hell, what do I do now", then the next you know is when someone says "it's OK, we'll get you out"! I think there was also time to slam on the brakes too, as I'm still here! And that was in a 1982 XR3 where you could hear and feel what was going on outside! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Can I suggest a man walking in front with a red flag. He could double up as a mobile loft inspector. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Taken by a mate in Coventry last week... what could possibly be more exotic, glamorous or completely and utterley fabulous in the soggy Midlands rain than an orange Lamborghini Miura...? (*** and the correct answer is.... two orange Lamborghini Miuras *** ) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Hope he didn't drive it into a tunnel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqtNThufkk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Hope he didn't drive it into a tunnel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqtNThufkk You swine Sir, now you've posted that I've had to dig the DVD out to watch the rest - & I was going to have an early night....!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 (edited) Thanks if someone can tell me the make of this car. (not my photo). It was in a "Rootes" rally. Edited July 6, 2015 by DDolfelin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 Now have the whole car: (not my pictures). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Standard Vanguard,1950's vintage. I'm sure there will be others who can give you chapter and verse. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Just checked on DVLA, it's 1952. Standard merged with Triumph, eventually became part of BL, not part of Rootes Group. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 Thanks, Ed. That was my first thought. The unique back profile seemed different somehow but the DVLA should know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 They did make those with notch-back and estate bodies as well as the "beetle-back". If you google "standard Vanguard" and look at images, there is a photo of DCP 7 that shows the side a little better. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Standard Vanguard,1950's vintage. I'm sure there will be others who can give you chapter and verse. Ed Sometimes known as the 'Phase 1' Standard Vanguard:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Vanguard Dad had an Ensign and a Phase 3 Vanguard, but at the time the Phase 1 came out, I hadn't arrived and so a BSA 3-wheeler sufficed... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Dread Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Just checked on DVLA, it's 1952. Standard merged with Triumph, eventually became part of BL, not part of Rootes Group. Ed The last time I tried to read my Glass's Index I made a mess of it, so here's a more careful reading. DCP 7, Halifax, Nov 1952. By the start of 1953 the numbers had reached 107 and this issue stopped in the July of that year. I hope that's correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 The last time I tried to read my Glass's Index I made a mess of it, so here's a more careful reading. DCP 7, Halifax, Nov 1952. By the start of 1953 the numbers had reached 107 and this issue stopped in the July of that year. I hope that's correct. Please can you do me a favour and look up 5021 ED? It should be a 1961? Jag in Warrington. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Dread Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Please can you do me a favour and look up 5021 ED? It should be a 1961? Jag in Warrington. Ed Sorry, nothing for that number, could be a "private" plate and in any case this guide only deals with letters and numbers and not actual vehicles. That would be the DVLA's domain. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 5021 ED: Vehicle details could not be foundVehicle details could not be found as it has not been possible to locate the vehicle details, your enquiry cannot proceed and has been cancelled. If you want to check the vehicle record held by DVLA... Please contact vehicle enquiries: Phone:0300 790 6802 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Sorry guys. Yes it is a private plate. It's mine, and it's been on my MG since 1977. In about 1974 a friend acquired the Jag with the plate and gave me the number. It was easy to do back then with the old log books. I just wanted to double check the original issue, my understanding is Warrington in approx 1961, assuming it went on the Jag from new. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 The unique back profile seemed different somehow but the DVLA should know. Hahahahaha...!! Sorry about that, but over 25 years of working there proved to me that that is far from true...!! (but to be fair, in the majority of cases they can only input to the system the information people tell them - which in a large number of cases isn't exactly correct (or even truthful!!)) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Moxy Posted July 6, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2015 Sorry guys. Yes it is a private plate. It's mine, and it's been on my MG since 1977. In about 1974 a friend acquired the Jag with the plate and gave me the number. It was easy to do back then with the old log books. I just wanted to double check the original issue, my understanding is Warrington in approx 1961, assuming it went on the Jag from new. Ed Hi Ed, It is a Warrington registration, issued 1960 onwards, see link http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/ed.htm HTH Moxy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 6, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2015 (edited) Please can you do me a favour and look up 5021 ED? It should be a 1961? Jag in Warrington. Ed ED, a Warrington mark issued between October 1960 and August 1964. 1960 1000-1345, 1961 1346-3009, 1962 3010-4734, 1963 4735-6782 and 1964 6783-9999. The first 999 numbers were preserved for motorcycles. Edited July 6, 2015 by PhilJ W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 According to that it was issued in 1963. I am surprised it was as late as that. Thanks for the help guys. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 had the pleasure of viewing this beauty today before it was taken back to its owner after a bit of bodywork care miami vice theme in my head instantly shame is i didnt get time to take pics like this with her 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Just two more I've found to go with the last post. From the final picture in the last post with the Rover sat on the M&GNR track bed by turning around you can see the trackbed somewhat overgrown but still passable as a foot and cycle path heading off towards Caister camp station there's even a few sleepers still in situ on this section. Track bed from Caister.jpg Final picture of a man and his machine in perfect harmony - what a hansom beast..... Nice car too! Me and my car.jpg Thanks for looking. Steve Edit I'm thinking of starting a blog with views of the eastern end of the old M&GNR track bed from Yarmouth to say North Walsham if anyone is interested and who know maybe further if that works out OK. Caister station stood where the row of new houses now stand at the corner of Manor Road, the old house opposite is still called Station House (I think, not looked at it recently). I have a caravan on one of the sites on Manor Road, got home from there earlier this evening. Can't say I've found the sleepers you mention, must look harder next time. Haven have recently been scraping the tops off the dunes, no idea why, maybe they intend putting vans on the top like the ones on the Seashore site? Must be a premium position on top of the dunes but when there's a good easterly blowing they'll need to be well anchored. I took a few photos a year or two back of the trackbed from around the lifeboat station down as far as where it disappears under the North Denes (Seashore)caravan site. I have them somewhere on an external HD but as we now run IE I can't get the thumbnails big enough to see what they are 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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