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No. Much smaller. WIki has no reference to it, oddly. It woulda been about the same kinda dimensions as the Triumph Vitesse (with which he replaced it),
Lovely little car - when it was in the mood!!
No. Much smaller. WIki has no reference to it, oddly. It woulda been about the same kinda dimensions as the Triumph Vitesse (with which he replaced it),
Any nearer, Citroen Ami.No. Much smaller. WIki has no reference to it, oddly. It woulda been about the same kinda dimensions as the Triumph Vitesse (with which he replaced it),
Lovely little car - when it was in the mood!!
Sadly, no.Any nearer, Citroen Ami.
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The bottom one of those was the worlds biggest money pit. Citroen complexity with 1970’s/80’s French worker build quality. Wedded to a Maserati engine buried so deep you could hardly touch the block with a pencil.No. Much smaller. WIki has no reference to it, oddly. It woulda been about the same kinda dimensions as the Triumph Vitesse (with which he replaced it),
Lovely little car - when it was in the mood!!
The phone in the hangar at Long Kesh was "modified". You could jack the front off the unit set the mechanism forward so the cash dropped into a hand instead of the cash box.Queueing in the rain to call your girlfriend from the only un-vandalised phone box for a 5 mile radius whilst someone with £5 worth of 10p's was in the box....
There used to be a truly disgusting toothpaste that haunted much of my youth. Pink Euthymol was made by the Parke, Davis company whose UK office was on Hounslow Heath (building still there but now occupied by Eaton). My grandfather used to work there and got the toothpaste free (no idea how but can make a wild guess) thus the haunting.
I have used Euthymol for years now. Whenever anyone borrowed it, it was spat out and declared vile, ensuring that the same tightwad never borrowed it again.
Every now and then it has disappeared from the shelves as the EU banned yet another ingredient.
Sent from my karzi while losing several pounds
... and frozen milk bottles on the door step with the the tops pushed off ... also Co-op ? milk tokens .The tops of milk bottles being attacked by blue tits to get at the cream.
Not Bon Accord?
Is that because all the design engineers were ex British RailYes. IIRC the first Land-Rovers didn't have an inside door handle - there was a flap you stuck you arm though to use the outside handle.
Is that because all the design engineers were ex British Rail
As were a good few of the engineers on the Spitfire project. The Supermarine factory at Eastleigh was next door to the main railway workshop and many of the apprentices were “poached”.Is that because all the design engineers were ex British Rail
Well . . . . there was a problem with the HST Mk3 carriages, and folk "falling-out" of the doors . . . at speed . . . dying . . .. . . Even as a yoof it amazed me that the country that invented the railway, built most of the world's railways and prided itself in engineering could come up with something as daft as that.
My guess is that it was some sort of security thing to stop people easily opening the doors and jumping out.
Odd that when they put handles on the inside nobody ever did.
No. Much smaller. WIki has no reference to it, oddly. It woulda been about the same kinda dimensions as the Triumph Vitesse (with which he replaced it),
Lovely little car - when it was in the mood!!
I remeber a car near my school had an Armstrong Siddely which had a sphynx on it. Like this. I was always impressed.Having posted about nicking Mercedes mascots I now know they are called figureheads rather than mascots/badges (or hood ornaments to the Septics).
Which are again memorable things from my youth. Some cars had magnificent figureheads - the Rover Viking springs to mind.
Doing a Google search I can't help but think how many people must have been disemboweled by elaborate pointy metal figureheads ripping out their innards.