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by mercrocker
Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Replies: 56
Views: 6725

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: 2905
Views: 558730

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: 49780

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: 6601
Views: 1051037

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.
by mercrocker
Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:43 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Austin A70 Hampshire
Replies: 496
Views: 49780

Re: Austin A70 Hampshire

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...
by mercrocker
Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:52 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2905
Views: 558730

Re: Wobland Spottage

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...
by mercrocker
Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:31 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2905
Views: 558730

Re: Wobland Spottage

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?
by mercrocker
Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:49 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2905
Views: 558730

Re: Wobland Spottage

Some folk just do not understand......
by mercrocker
Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:33 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Wobland Spottage
Replies: 2905
Views: 558730

Re: Wobland Spottage

Yeah, that would do...Nice.
by mercrocker
Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6601
Views: 1051037

Re: Found pics

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.


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