1987 E reg Transit

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#11 Post by rich. » Tue May 30, 2017 2:57 pm

GHT wrote:
Tue May 30, 2017 6:24 am
rich. wrote:
Mon May 29, 2017 6:13 pm
calm down dear, i am sure there are things that you find interesting that most normal people would find dull.. ;) ;)
Well, I like old biplanes, steam trains and cars with side opening bonnets, running boards and exposed headlamps. Being dressed smart gets attention, whilst you lot call my Aloha shirt collection dodgy, others can be down right rude. A youngish chap, with his jeans worn so low they nearly exposed his crotch, a garish pair of orange dayglow trainers, a T-shirt bearing an unprintable profanity and a baseball cap with the peak hanging over one ear, told me that I looked like a prat. It was a vintage suit that I was wearing, some months previous my sister had unearthed some family photos, they were very precious as mother died young, she was just 33. In the photo was little three year old me with my parents. Dad's suit was the one he had been issued with when he was demobbed after serving in the armed forces during WW2. I took the photo to a specialist tailor and had a replica made. It has wide lapels and trouser turn ups, but other than that it's quite a conservative sombre sort of suit. I do wear it with braces, perhaps that's what made me look a prat.

Back on the subject of vans, I wouldn't mind a van like Jones the butcher in Dad's Army.
more pics of the suit please :lol: anyone who wears orange trainers has no right to criticise you :lol: i wore trainers once.. they went a manky orange brown colour after the recent melon war that occurred in the field next to our place after much wine had been consumed..
jones van gets my vote too.

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#12 Post by GHT » Tue May 30, 2017 4:46 pm

rich. wrote:
Tue May 30, 2017 2:57 pm
more pics of the suit please :lol: anyone who wears orange trainers has no right to criticise you :lol: i wore trainers once.. they went a manky orange brown colour after the recent melon war that occurred in the field next to our place after much wine had been consumed..
jones van gets my vote too.
Here you go, Dad looked much better even though his photo was black & white, then again he was only 29 when his was taken, I'm more, much more than double that.
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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#13 Post by rich. » Wed May 31, 2017 1:01 pm

rather smart! i wouldn't say you look like a prat mate..a late 40's gangster maybe, but not a prat :lol:

im still traumatised by the shoes though.. :scared:

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#14 Post by GHT » Wed May 31, 2017 6:00 pm

rich. wrote:
Wed May 31, 2017 1:01 pm
a late 40's gangster maybe, but not a prat :lol:
im still traumatised by the shoes though.. :scared:
Why is it that Foyle looks like a copper, yet he's dressed, in your words, like a late 40's gangster. And if the shoes make your blood pressure rise, think what Aggros, Land Crabs, Three Litre Austins, Maestros, Marinas and all those other B/L monstrosities does for my constitution. I've got this theory that Prozac was invented for owners of such cars, furthermore, BL held millions of Prozac shares.

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#15 Post by rich. » Wed May 31, 2017 7:26 pm

GHT wrote:
Wed May 31, 2017 6:00 pm
rich. wrote:
Wed May 31, 2017 1:01 pm
a late 40's gangster maybe, but not a prat :lol:
im still traumatised by the shoes though.. :scared:
Why is it that Foyle looks like a copper, yet he's dressed, in your words, like a late 40's gangster
who? :?

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#16 Post by JPB » Wed May 31, 2017 8:40 pm

Foyle was a time-traveling character in telly fiction. He was from World War 2, but was frequently seen in the show listening to late 40s broadcasts on a radio set that wasn't built before 1951. :roll:
The show did feature some nice cars, some of which were actually of the correct period..

Edited 01/06/2017 09:52:

This just in: The USA takes Foyle's War too, though the show is known by a different name there: Covfefe! :scared:
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"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#17 Post by rich. » Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:50 pm

well im none the wiser, i don't watch that either.. i am a little concerned by that chap bertie woosters american bizzare accent in his doctor programme :?

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