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by mercrocker
Sat May 06, 2023 12:19 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12431
Views: 2873151

Re: EBay Finds

The cutaway doors add to the feeling of low-flying but I would say that the MGB needs to be a fairly late model to appreciate any significant improvement. Mind you, I've only had experience of freshly-rebuilt MGAs..... I'd take a sorted "A" over a "B" if actual money was set to o...
by mercrocker
Sat May 06, 2023 10:07 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6617
Views: 1055822

Re: Found pics

Apart from anything else, what were they running that on...? Heating oil?
by mercrocker
Fri May 05, 2023 3:39 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6617
Views: 1055822

Re: Found pics

One of those Safaris was actually bought by a member of the target demographic....A gamekeeper on one of the nearby sporting Estates (they are all garden centres and timber plantations now) traded in a Hawk for one. It didn't linger long and was replaced by a P5 Coupe.....
by mercrocker
Fri May 05, 2023 12:17 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Trucks Lorries Vans Commercial Whatever
Replies: 104
Views: 41083

Re: Trucks Lorries Vans Commercial Whatever

I very nearly joined the Army Cadets at school after seeing them all go off for summer camp in a General Service RL....
by mercrocker
Thu May 04, 2023 10:20 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6617
Views: 1055822

Re: Found pics

The centre foreground of that Ford pic could almost be the car park at the freight company I used to work for. We had a fleet of yellow Mk3 Escorts, a couple of Cortinas and a Mk1 Fiesta.....I remember one of the Escorts causing a ruckus with the cunt of a manager because one of the agents had put t...
by mercrocker
Wed May 03, 2023 9:42 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15651
Views: 3158686

Re: What did you do today?

Some nice stuff there, though....Like the goose-stepping dog by the Granny too.
by mercrocker
Tue May 02, 2023 9:01 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2927
Views: 562733

Re: Wobland Spottage

Yank motors often bring out the worst in some folk, I remember going to a funeral in a mate's Continental. He got some petrol before we left (I think he did tend to run it on fumes) and whilst he was carefully watching the meter click round we became aware of a cardigan-wearing old codger gawping lo...
by mercrocker
Tue May 02, 2023 7:56 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6617
Views: 1055822

Re: Found pics

Of course horses have hands. Otherwise they would be completely flat.
by mercrocker
Tue May 02, 2023 7:33 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6617
Views: 1055822

Re: Found pics

Of course. One might have one's photograph taken.
by mercrocker
Mon May 01, 2023 10:35 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: ?
Replies: 267
Views: 182129

Re: ?

If Peter Wheeler's dog really did assist with the Chimeara styling details then I am quite prepared to believe that Mahindra was designed by a pug.