Practically Classics Forum

A60 please!

Or the A55 MK2 because I've never seen another automatic one of these. Come to that, I haven't seen an A55 with what would appear to be a Peugeot 404's front end attached. Is this the Italian built version or a DIY custom? I suspect it's the former.

Nice finds, Rich. Apart from the Cadillac, which has informed me that the word "Elegante" means the opposite of what I've spent my life so far believing it meant. Who knew, eh? Elegante is French for "fell out of the ugly tree and was walloped along the face by each branch on the way down.."
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thought you might like those..
meanwhile
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1986-Nissan-L ... 2406060267

rich. wrote: https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/948985439.htm?ca=18_s
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/951324657.htm?ca=18_s
enjoy!

Those two Austin Cambridge cars prompted a reminisce. My Morris Oxford back in the day, not exactly a babe magnet, but it was column change, which meant that the front seat was a bench seat, which in turn negated the need to climb into the back for a leg over. Fond memories of that car.

Oh dammit man, that very lovely & straight Oxford VI has made me dribble into my laptop keyboard and herhjhj erljif duon esijh!

I do love those things.

Here's a picture of my most recent one, formerly known as 4388DG and reregistered when I met a bloke who offered me silly amounts of wonga for that plate, hence the age-related 1964 suffix issue she's wearing here:


Sorry Rich, I know it's not a breakdown truck, but it did once pull a Range Rover out of a soft verge to the side of the road through Windsor Great Park, one dark night as I went that way home from work. The stricken 4x4 had been playing host to an exuberant session of, erm, horizontal jogging, and had somehow dropped its nearside wheels down a grassy hole when the occupants were in full flow, so to speak.
The bloke in the 4x4 gave me a fifty pound note "for my trouble", which I told him was quite unnecessary as I handed him a twenty back by way of change. That twenty was a genuine one, can you guess whether the fifty was real, or a clever forgery?..

Do get a grip man, I too used to dribble, number of times I had to send my pants to the dry cleaners.

http://www.lesanciennes.com/annonce/A86 ... cat=autres
http://www.lesanciennes.com/annonce/A91 ... cat=autres
http://www.lesanciennes.com/annonce/A27 ... cat=autres
http://www.lesanciennes.com/annonce/A74 ... cat=autres
http://www.lesanciennes.com/annonce/A56 ... cat=autres

Did you notice that the second choice, the Romany caravan, was unpriced? They have a high collectable value among those that enjoy them. Some collectors love horse related vehicles, a couple of years back, a horse drawn 19th century Bristol tram, that had become a chicken coup, sold at auction for well over £500K, chicken sh&t and all!

I need that Humber! That, or maybe the Renault with its water cannon and its thick steel hull, would make parking in my space at work so much easier as it really wouldn't matter whether someone had arrived early and stolen my plot, I'd just park on top of their hybrid!
I like a good horse drawn thing too, around here most of the young 'uns have horses and little jaunting cars that they drag around, with many highly decorated Romany-style living vans parked up on the drives of their homes, awaiting the show season when they'll be out all over the region, travelling at walking pace with their amber beacons ruining the aesthetic appeal of the vans.

Some of the young folk take a suitable horse drawn device to the pub rather than having to take along a designated driver. These outfits are tethered in the car park and the bar staff keep the horse supplied with drink as the passengers get themselves legless inside. It seems that there's no official blood-alcohol limit for horses so, as long as they can find their way home, nobody gets into trouble and would you want to breathalyse a horse? Darned sure I'd rather not, their breath is foul! Lovely animals they are, and most industrious, but if a horse breathes on you it takes ages for that smell to fade.

i would have thought john would be on his way to france now with a pocket full of euros to collect those austin automatics
the renault is fitted with a 20mm cannon & hydrojets.. i think the latter is used to propel it through water.. the former is used to make holes in people....i will need to check with my military friends... just don't get me started on about horses

JPB wrote:Some of the young folk take a suitable horse drawn device to the pub rather than having to take along a designated driver. These outfits are tethered in the car park and the bar staff keep the horse supplied with drink as the passengers get themselves legless inside. It seems that there's no official blood-alcohol limit for horses so, as long as they can find their way home, nobody gets into trouble and would you want to breathalyse a horse?

Now then Dobbin, how many, exactly have you had?