Practically Classics Forum

Hi, somtimes I like to browse around with google maps, and I wondered if the workshop is on there.I can get the mother ship "Bauer" (well the sign for it anyway ) but not the shop.I believe its in a business park?.I also think that its beside a motor car repair business "Motorvation"?.It would be nice to see the workshops location in a pic.

Both buildings seems to be kept secretive for some reason.............................?

Bauer
https://maps.google.ie/maps?saddr=Peter ... 2,270,,0,0

Motorvation ??
https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Motorvati ... 12,95,,0,0

And yes I am a nosy bugger

You're getting very warm


John.

should be easy enough to find, just follow the trail of rust & listen for the swearing

Grease Monkey wrote:You're getting very warm


John.

No, I am actually freezing here. .Ah so my detective work is paying off .I am right about that repair business though, arent I? .

Oh bye the way John, I have just discovered your youtube channel, great, I love vids,another channel to look at, James.

rich. wrote:should be easy enough to find, just follow the trail of rust & listen for the swearing

Oh yeah, never thought of that

Ha! I was in the carpark the day they took those images having a walk with tony Turner our archivist. We saw the car and shambled towards it, but didn't get our photos taken. Bad times. FYI the green Diahatsu Sirion parked near the entrance is my daily hack - was a free car that does 50mpg before you all start berating me... Good Autoshite car though, has one of their stickers on it and everything.

Neil

How could you, just how.........

that has just erased the nice piccy in my mind of you and Sam rolling up at 'Groats in the Marina, things just can't be the same now

Hmm, I do believe that a Daihatsu Sirion (it's A before I except after an aborted attempt at a badge theft by a dyslectic vandal) must surely be every bit as poorly thought of by the general public now as the poor old Marina was back in the 1980s and '90s when it was going through its disposable banger phase.

Prime Autoshite fodder and all the more desirable because it can be mentioned in the same breath as legends such as the Talbot Tagora, FSO Caro and Kia Vagentis or whatever it's called.
They'll all be sought after some day, you'll see, then who'll have the last laugh eh?

True , True, but can we nick their engines for were Moggies.. I was tripping over some Marina bits the other day and felt a slight pang of guilt

I know what you mean, in fact I too would feel a pang of guilt if I'd left a large lump of iron where someone could trip over it.