tornado64

On 23/09/2022 at 00:57, pH said:

A rather garish, left hand drive XK-E 2+2 in a mall car park this afternoon:

 

that's the colour i'd want one in . was a roadster in that colour in a local showroom for years , absolutely gorgeous

On 08/09/2022 at 14:20, Rugd1022 said:

 

It was chosen because when they approached Jaguar and asked for a new E-Type for the show, Jag turned them down saying they didn't need the publicity. Roger Moore suggested to Robert S Baker and Johnny Goodman that they should consider the P1800 which he saw in a showroom, the call was made and a few days later Volvo happily sent two cars over to the UK.

a lesson they learned from , they gave an XJS for the ian ogilvy  return of the saint TV show

On 08/09/2022 at 11:38, Rugd1022 said:

Another dose of rose tinted nostalgia...

 

This was Roger's own car, he used it to commute between Denham and Elstree each day, it passed through several owners after Roger had it and is now in the USA...

 

 

 

 

neighther the car or person is genuine it is a modern photoshoot with a look alike .. both very good stand ins though it has to be said , the original car was sympathetically restored a few years  ago leaving marks roger had left on it like burns in the ash tray etc

BUT ME , I'M RETIRED FROM DRIVING ,  driven pretty much everything , and my last vehicle is still languishing in my mates garden since i parked it there  3 yrs ago , i  was getting too irresponsible and it wasn't scaring me anymore or giving me the Adrenalin rush it once did popping wheelies at 60MPH , jumping railway level crossings and 0-60 in 3.5 secs had become boring but never the less it was heading towards half a day out with the undertakers

another friends car an ultima GT ,  the intended V8 wasn't pokey enough , so replaced with a ferrari enzo engine  with many re designed items such as new exhaust systems , re designed air intake through bulkhead cavity , plus a whole list of re design re manufacture

GOT A RIDE IN MY FREINDS CAR THAT HE FULLY RESTORED ,  unlike many it's driven as intended . like he stole it

i use the test units as mini sanding blocks , a source of styrene , etc

Dirty Dog!!  He has certainly been eating his Pedigree Chum. 

 

Jez

he looks to have had the " bradd pitts !!"

the ford fell down a fjord and got stuck in a ford !!

best thing to do with a ford !!

FG looks good Paul

 

Should the motors be strapped to the pallets as well as the lorry?

 

Cheers

 

Jim

i  never did  when i worked for an engineering company transporting heavy items like motors etc  ,  although the most likely scenario would be no pallates , heavy items like motors that were likely to be lifted were provided with a lifting eye bolt  on the ballance point at the top  so they were lifted with the forklifts forks overhead with a sling threaded through the eyebolt  once tied down or ratchet strapped  the pressure from the weight  and the tieing down would keep them in place

so if it was a company doing this work regular  no pallates would be the norm  far safer and more secure

ah i follow your meaning now  ,  have to say that is another unusual livery !!

Indeed, but must admit that the Class 31 with its weathering looks just like the version of D5578 i am planning to recreate.

 

 

 

trouble is that that wasn't weathering  that was the previous owners  none too tidy use of evo stick

a bit of light painting

and some slow shutter panning

quite by accident and with no intention of modelling BR blue  or a layout for that matter  here i stand building up stock to build  my signal box area  from 1981-82

it started by buying a Hornby 47 for a poseable model for an oil painting i am doing  and sort of escalated

i also enjoy restoring basket cases

the 31 below is the one above after much restoration

yes i did indeed view it as a dull period , given my father used to be a guard on them

  and as a kid  was made to go to work with him  especialy during the summer holidays when i'd have much rather been out with my mates .

 at the time class 40 mainline cab rides from manchester to llandudno , york , chester , as well as class 47 , 25 , 08's  and DMU cab rides all over the north west  ( including being allowed to drive one ) albeit sat on the drivers knee being guided were well down my to do list !!

the highlight was  getting a look around the great train robbery loco that was cut up in privacy to stop souvenir hunters

i moved onto working on the railways in both signal boxes and on platforms but it wasn't what i wanted back then so i moved on  as i was far more intrested in cars and motorcycles  so ended up working in garages

ironicly a bit of thinking and i could have worked at newton heath sheds ( however i had been around that place many times with my father  and fe**ing filthy  was a huge understatement

altho i didn't particularly enjoy it at the time you look back and realise what a privaledge it was to have done it

it is still very much a boring phase to me but  i have always wanted to build the signal box area where i once worked  so memmory and variety of traffic were deciding  factors