What classic vehicles have you seen?

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2101 Post by UKJeeper » Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:41 am

Spotted in Sarfend this morning.

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2102 Post by GHT » Sun Sep 03, 2017 4:30 pm

Now there's some pics that you can see and some you can't. You can't see the naked ladies, sorry. But you can see the MG Midget, if you like that sort of thing. OK naked ladies first. A dear friend of ours was diagnosed with breast cancer and elected to have a double mastectomy.That was five years ago. She's had all the chemo, the hair loss, her marriage broke down, she went through the mill. Five years on, and no sign of the cancer returning she has had breast augmentation, that means reconstruction. A group of her mates got together and decided to do a charity calendar with a WW2 theme, namely land Army girls. My missus got recruited to style the ladies hair in 1940's victory rolls, then my car got recruited because it looks the part. (Forget that it's actually post war.)
So about three weeks ago we were down on the farm with a gaggle of giggling girlies all looking 1940's and mostly naked. Look I know it's hard work but someone's got to do it. Whilst the photos were being shot I had a little wander around and this is what I saw in the grass verge. In the first couple of pictures you can see my car, and in the last, you can see my missus' Golf.
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2103 Post by Luxobarge » Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:57 pm

Ah! Another Midget with the boot rack on the wrong way round....... :roll:
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2104 Post by UKJeeper » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:45 am

The 'D24' I posted above? Suspicions were well founded. Ive been informed it's a Sammio Spyder, based on a Triumph Herald chassis.

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2105 Post by Mitsuru » Mon Sep 04, 2017 11:59 pm

Well not a full car...

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2106 Post by Zelandeth » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:45 pm

Given the undergrowth around it that Midget looks to have been there for quite a while, yet at least from the photos there it looks to be in remarkably good nick.

Probably for the best that it's probably at the far side of the country of I'd go looking for another project when I've already got two too many cars.
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2107 Post by rich. » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:10 pm

i spotted a simca 8, quietly rotting away in a hedge.. the owner said its been there for at least 45 years.. i will try & get some pics .. but since photobucket are playing silly beggars im not sure if i can post them.. :?

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2108 Post by GHT » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:29 pm

Luxobarge wrote:
Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:57 pm
Ah! Another Midget with the boot rack on the wrong way round....... :roll:
If the boot rack is on the wrong way round, why is there an elevated bar at the bottom? I would have thought that it was there to help prevent suitcases sliding off.

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2109 Post by Luxobarge » Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:25 pm

GHT wrote:
Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:29 pm
Luxobarge wrote:
Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:57 pm
Ah! Another Midget with the boot rack on the wrong way round....... :roll:
If the boot rack is on the wrong way round, why is there an elevated bar at the bottom? I would have thought that it was there to help prevent suitcases sliding off.
No, a common misconception. The elevated bar is supposed to be at the top, to stop the driver and passengers being decapitated by flying luggage in the event of heavy braking or worse still a frontal shunt. The forces acting on the luggage are far stronger in such a scenario than mere gravity, if you need a bar at the bottom to stop them sliding off then you simply haven't tied them on well enough.

I know it looks odd with the bar at the top but it's a very real safety issue so some of us with terminal OCD get very worked up about it.... ;) ;)
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2110 Post by harvey » Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:09 pm

Luxobarge wrote:
Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:25 pm
some of us with terminal OCD get very worked up about it.... ;) ;)
Errr.....That's CDO if you don't mind.....
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