Surprised the Seven hasn't found a buyer, there's a pretty strong following for them on the Island and it carries a sought-after "ADL" numberplate. Perhaps that is its Achilles heel - the local market have probably seen the car for most of its 90 years and as you know it is a very ageing d...

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 ...

Looks very worthwhile, that.

Basically, yes, I think, stroked to the bigger capacity.

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.....

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....?

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...

Yeah, those floors....! Good to see work progressing and what a solid base to go from.

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...

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...