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Always kept this clipping of a Ford Brezza Ghia, a concept car, taken from a mag' article in about 1980 as i loved it so much back then and still do, shame they never made it.

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Sierra doors & mirrors? 

Shows it's a good thing we all have different tastes - I think it looks completely & utterly naff!!

T'interweb seems to be giving me some trouble - this pic is missing from my post above... old 'Mackie' had MkIV rear light clusters when I owned it, the subsequent owner replaced them with the correct Mk1 type.... here's Mackie outside Macca's house in Cavendish Avenue in may '95, just round the corner from Abbey Road...

 

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Nice wheels Nidge!! 

Keith

Not one of your other half's better investment decisions?

No, & more fool me for listening!

A family friend had a 1973 Toyota Celica 1600ST for donkeys' years, and the only reason why she sold it on (for £150!!)

I'd bought a Mk1 Fiesta XR2 with less than 8000 miles on it from a friend in the model railway club for £500 when it was about 5 years old. His dad (who'd had it from new) had just died and my friend didn't want it (his daily driver was an 850 Mini auto and his 'weekend & special occasions' car was a huge 1930's Lanchester of some description!)

Anyway fast forward a couple of years & the wife wants to buy her dad's hateful Sierra Azura I've mentioned before. OK I says we'll keep the XR in the garage. No, SWMBO says, it'll just clutter up the place. It still had less than 10K miles, was absolutely mint - & she made me sell it to the local MOT centre for £250....!! This was in about 1998, if you can find even a half decent one with 100K miles on now you'll be lucky to get change out of £15000...!! Struggle to get that return from a savings account!

Fancy an orange Lada 1600?

If it's as solid as it looks it'd be a great basis for a historic rally car!

The Magnum had this stunt (not so) double. Broke my heart damaging a decent chrome bumper but that's what the whole double car was bought for i suppose. 

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That is a ringer for the first car we had after we got married (& I'd had to get rid of my last rally Escort) - same horrible colour, same naff condition, same hateful car. Had I still owned it, the production company needn't have bought a double - I'd have paid them to take the thing away...!!

Keith

Loving the jet cat talk, 

Jet cat?

Mmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.................................... 

Something for everybody.

 

Some crackers there - the "GT40" looked & sounded perfect.

Brave owners though taking some of those cars out in all that saltwater in January! And much admiration for those 'top down, hat & coat on' diehards - with full marks to the guy in the Mini Scamp at 9:49...!!

I think RMWeb needs a 'hmmm, not sure...'' button... never quite took to the Sierra in any of its guises,

We bought my Father in Law's 1600 Sierra Azura when he changed it after his normal three years ownership - he worked for Ford so changed car's before the first MoT - and as he lived only a mile or so from the plant cycled to work, so it only had around 8000 miles on it & he'd kept it like new. Being an 'Azura' it was a 'special edition'. To this day I have no idea what was special about it! It was hateful! Easily as bad a car as the 10 year old 1256 Viva HC we had when first married - & that was a total shed!  The Sierra was gutless, the engine sounded like a bag of spanners, there had obviously been no NVH engineering done the interior was dreadful & despite being a 5 speed also drank fuel if you tried to make any sort of progress - or when driving around town. The Mk5 Cortina he'd had before was a far, far better car!

Keith

Lagoon is a stunning colour, as modelled by a friend's Mumford Marina here

That is actually very close to the colour on our windscreen pillars! (if anything our blue is just slightly lighter)

I don't think I've ever seen a Mini in factory applied 'Lagoon Metallic' before, it looks rather nice...

Not suggesting for a minute ours was that particular colour, but it was a mid metallic blue before the 'restorer' painted it red. Bits such as the inside of the screen pillars still show the original colour!

Meant to add - the alloys on the green Clubman are rather nice, and it's good to see a '70s BL Mini with the correct 'flying plughole of doom' badge on the A panel.

You could have them if it was mine Nidge, as soon as I'd got it home after buying it, it would have a set of 5.5 inch Minilites with Yokohamas on!

Keith

On an N Plate. If car is to original spec. that would be Tundra green.

 

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Thanks for that Porcy!

 As he lives pretty much out in the middle of nowhere he has a massive sprawling garage come workshop which will easily swallow at least a dozen Minis, the lucky blighter.

And probably dozens of funnel web and redback spiders too, no doubt! I'll stick with my little single car garage - the hairy, eight legged beasts in there make me jump enough when they scuttle out from their hiding places! 

And £40K for a Mini I'd keep bumping my head on when driving? No ta, I'll pass!

Keith

That's an unusual colour on the Clubbie, I like that! Almost looks like an ex Army or RAF Germany car! Anybody know what colour it is? Nidge?

It would definitely look better on Minilites though....!! 

Keith

That Singer would look better with minilites...... 

They might look a little small, but I agree! 

That lovely Capri definitely needs a set!

 what about the mini-lites on the Red lotus  

 

Excellent they look great!! 

I'd love the Chevette pick-up.

Looks just like a Mk3 Escort to me....

...which is a Chevette…..

...with a different nose!

I know you said there'll be no water on Bleat Rob, but wouldn't that front edge of the board look good covered in stone sheet, with a tideline of weed & algae half way or so up the wall ?

Just a thought

Keith

Wonderful, my all time favourite steam loco!! (yes, really!)

Keith

I like the way the Zephyr 4 indicates as he's carving up the Triumph Herald.

.....and paused at a give way as a pedestrian crossed the road!

Very gentlemanly villain!

Wonder how long before Vauxhall's start sporting some sort of PSA badging !

I doubt they will - haven't you noticed the 'proud British brand since...' nonsense on their pre-Brexit advertising!

Does it just go twang, without the tears normally associated with twangs?

I had a Vauxhall Belmont SRi (which I actually really liked & would love another good one!) which had a non interference engine - when the cambelt went twang in that all it did was stop the car!

They all look a bit different to me Chaz - especially the first and last pics - and I especially like that last one! 

Keith

Anyway......I have heard that, daily driving one's E-type Jagwar, isn't about subjecting it to 'risk'.........after all, that's why it's insured...the risk is the insurers'......that's what we pay them for?

Indeed, but have that £200,000 E-type(or even worse the 2 million + quid Ferrari from earlier in the thread) stolen or torched and just imagine the effect on your next year's premium! The 'risk' may well be the insurers but they don't bear it for nothing.....