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by mercrocker
Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Camper van opinions....
Replies: 4
Views: 93

Re: Camper van opinions....

The DVLA do not know their own rules though. I don't worry about it, mine has been registered as a panel van since new, insurers know and don't care. The only small issue is a possible interpretation of the speed limit rules but as my vehicle is patently a camper I still don't think it matters what ...
by mercrocker
Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12433
Views: 2884123

Re: EBay Finds

Looks very worthwhile, that.
by mercrocker
Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:30 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6618
Views: 1063795

Re: Found pics

Basically, yes, I think, stroked to the bigger capacity.
by mercrocker
Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2929
Views: 569592

Re: Wobland Spottage

Yeah, most of the surviving ones seem to have ended up on the strip. Interesting cars but very difficult to see one in stock form.....
by mercrocker
Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2929
Views: 569592

Re: Wobland Spottage

treehugger wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:45 pm IMG_20240428_144839_3.jpg
Ford?
Aye, a Crown Victoria. Last great American sedan and bastion of taxi and police fleets across the land. Did you get the Kaiser Henry J in the background....?
by mercrocker
Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6618
Views: 1063795

Re: Found pics

I wondered about that, too.....Perhaps the bold number on the Airstream indicates a hire fleet or could it belong to a sited community of some kind and be on the move between those? I took the two foreigners to be Fiats as Norfolk indicates and that is definitely an America - the later models of whi...
by mercrocker
Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Replies: 56
Views: 6876

Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................

Yeah, those floors....! Good to see work progressing and what a solid base to go from.
by mercrocker
Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2929
Views: 569592

Re: Wobland Spottage

Nice shots which belie the bloody coldness that is blighting me at present....That GTE is a perfect slice of Seventies goodness with the original rims and Golde roof, love it! I know it isn't your bag but that W108/9 Mercedes behind the droopy hatch Vauxhall looks to be LWB, did it perchance run a 6...
by mercrocker
Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Austin A70 Hampshire
Replies: 496
Views: 50093

Re: Austin A70 Hampshire

Aye but you will have added time, labour of love and skills into what has already been built. That sum total is more worthy than something stamped-out nowadays no matter how much "heritage" is in it. Am I alone in presuming that even manufactured articles retain a "spirit" of tho...
by mercrocker
Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6618
Views: 1063795

Re: Found pics

So it is! I seem to remember a few years ago one of the Post Office car insurance posters on the wall in our local PO featuring a Zaporozhets....I wonder if it is deliberate to avoid brand-imaging or similar marketing tosh.