Practically Classics Forum

Spotted this Land Rover camper a few days ago.



Note the WA numberplate. Western Australia, so it's a long way from home.

It was back again today, and I managed to park my Beetle next to it.



I think I'm developing a thing for old landies.

Quite a bit yesterday. I spotted a Morgan in Cheltenham but couldn’t see how old it was (Though Morgans are almost a special case; some might say they are manufacturing classic cars).

I rode on the http://www.gwsr.com/ and the loco in use was a 1940 ex LMS 8F.



I took lunch in pub at Winchcombe, opposite which I spotted this tired looking Spitfire behind a house (Lets hope it’s fortunes are about to improve).



After lunch, I hung about to get some photos of 8274 as it came out of Greet tunnel towards the road bridge and an early 1970s VW Type 2 camper drove past (Not sure what conversion it was). Back in Cheltenham, I saw a blue four door Morris Minor 1000 (1098) and somewhere (I forget where) I saw a Mercedes, with a K suffix plate visible, languishing under a cover.

Sorry folks, two consecutive posts .

An unusually scruffy looking MGA went by the shop today (The first MGA, I recall seeing, was a rough one in the mid 1970s but that was before they were really worth anything).

Late this afternoon my father had a slight mishap with a drill (Whilst working on his MG Midget, so in a good cause) and sort of took the tip of his little finger off. As I drove him to A&E, we saw an MG TF, with a Varitone Magnette behind. Whilst we were at Nevill Hall hospital, an MGA Coupe passed by, so I deduce something is going on west of here this weekend (Hope the bl**dy weather picks up for them).

My father’s finger should be OK; the tip has been secured with about four of five stitches but take this as a warning, turn the plug off before changing the drill bit. It was one of these drill round corners drills and the switch is quite large. I suppose it’s more like an angle grinder, than a regular drill but instead of having a disk attachment, it has a chuck. Unlike most angle grinders I have seen, there is no safety mechanism, that you have to press in conjunction with the switch. He happened to touch the switch and it was the chuck key that did the damage, not the drill bit itself. I suppose when metal had a powerful motor behind it, it doesn’t have to be sharp to cause damage

It was quite eventful in A&E. On man came in dressed in shorts (Presumably so the doctors could get a good view). He had been riding an off road motorcycle and going up a gully, swiped his leg on a broken tree branch. It looked like his shin had been cut to the bone. A man, who had come in with someone else and who had not hitherto required treatment fainted at the sight of this. I bet none of us there thought the day would end up as it did when we got up this morning

several of bmw 635 sharknose things.. and a k10 micra

Parked just out side of my house lastnight..

nice! is it yours?

rich. wrote:nice! is it yours?

No..It appeared last night..it's still here this morning..i'm hoping to catch the owner brfore they leave to ask a few questions.

john-saab wrote:

rich. wrote:nice! is it yours?

No..It appeared last night..it's still here this morning..i'm hoping to catch the owner brfore they leave to ask a few questions.

are you a stalker?
it does look lovely though .. good luck!

I saw this K-reg Porsche at the local garage earlier.

A green Morris Traveller drove past earlier and caused me to look up from my wheel building