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.

Agree completely.....As I have mentioned before, effectively AD has saved two A70s. Full-width body styling belies the fact that they are traditionally built on a chassis and many a pre-war vehicle has been re-bodied or re-chassised but very often with a replica or new-build of one or other "co...

I hate out-of-character numberplates but then I am a bit weird about the whole thing admittedly. I agree with Mr Impala, they do jar. Badly. I am also sensitive to those cars who have lost their original registrations and/or being imported after the change to age-related (but plainly never issued) o...

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:24 pm



Me? I'd prefer this smol boxy luxury saloon: Moretti DAF 55.

A connection with the base vehicle of both that and the Rio is of course Michelotti.....Did he pen that Moretti, too?

Some folk just do not understand......

Yeah, that would do...Nice.

The first B&Q store, in Portswood, Southampton housed in an old picture-house. Named after Block & Quayle, the two founders.
"B" in the Greek alphabet is of course "Beta". The other car is a Quapri.

None of my insurance has gone up more than 5/6 percent, across Adrian Flux, some bunch up in Watford that Mrs Rocker has always used nor Peter James on the Morrises. I auto-renew as well, I can guarantee I would have ended up paying more on at least one of those policies had I shopped around as all ...

In complete contrast, I just walked past our local Co Op Funeral Director and they have their latest acquisition outside (or maybe a demo, I dunno). Stretched "Mustang" badged Mach E SUV thing, I take it perpetrated by Coleman-Milne. Too bleedin ugly to take a picture of and in fact I had ...

Panther Rio....Dollop-of-shite in a party frock with Granny's eyes. Nice to see, though, I don't think I've clapped eyes on one since the 1975 Motor Show.