LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Sat Jul 10, 2021 4:40 pm Any idea why you were relatively lucky rust wise?

The car was always garaged.

Photobucket is an utter pain.

The next time I went down to the body shop to see my car I was particularly anxious to discover what was going on inside the bulkhead, under the scuttle. The previous time I had seen my car I poked my finger down the hole here and felt the rust flakes give way down below with quite a crunch. My hear...

Named after a kind of carriage.

SubPar wrote: ↑Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:09 pm Brougham? Interesting, I thought the Brougham name was only used by GM, not FoMoCo too.

Chrysler used it too.

I think this is more or less up to date now. There’s loads more photos somewhere from the wedding venue too but I can’t find them at the mo. Here’s a few other random pics. AEE994D2-CF21-47DC-BA0D-0F3C0DDB9051.jpeg The top picture looks like a still from an episode of Columbo of an evil advertising...

They are nice things, those Volvos. I remember in the early '80s as a small car-mad child getting a brochure on how to choose the colour of your car from a Mercedes dealer in Manchester (Portmann, very snooty and off-hand). It was all about visibility and contained graphs and all sorts. Basically, i...

I'll bet the front rises up like a boat when you put your foot down - and that the motor sounds delicious. Pure Americana!

BL really did know how to lose from a winning position.

I was about to say the greasy bits are now all shiny bits!