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by mercrocker
Fri Jan 13, 2023 10:50 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6636
Views: 1081030

Re: Found pics

Warren t claim wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:17 am PNGrs104.PNGrs105.

#angrydickyalert - Hampshire at the back of that car lot....


The pub view is the Hunter's Moon in Exmoor, think it is still operating but I went there back in the 80s and it seemed to have a timewarp car park then...
by mercrocker
Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:04 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Are you still a car enthusiast?
Replies: 47
Views: 2255

Re: Are you still a car enthusiast?

Or those fucking stupid acoustically-tuned modern "sports" exhausts that sound like they are dropping 3 gears at the Nurburgring instead of waiting for the lights to change on the Great West Road.
by mercrocker
Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Are you still a car enthusiast?
Replies: 47
Views: 2255

Re: Are you still a car enthusiast?

On the contrary, all my childhood and early adult friends were car enthusiasts - probably more in the sense of the word we understand than in Clarkson/Jamiroquaihisnameis sense. Just trainspotters at first - car numbers, different trim levels/ Marks and then progressing into running £15 scrappers as...
by mercrocker
Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:29 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)
Replies: 1194
Views: 248205

Re: Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

OK, I must admit I didn't read it very closely and assumed he'd got them the other way around...
by mercrocker
Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:59 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)
Replies: 1194
Views: 248205

Re: Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

I don't disagree but reading the link it would seem he got most of the bird for swinging the grinder at a copper....
by mercrocker
Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:08 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Are you still a car enthusiast?
Replies: 47
Views: 2255

Re: Are you still a car enthusiast?

Some quite common themes throughout this thread which confirms to me that most of us are in the right place.....
by mercrocker
Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:56 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15672
Views: 3212048

Re: What did you do today?

I felt the whole shebang was doomed once Charlie passed....
by mercrocker
Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:44 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6636
Views: 1081030

Re: Found pics

Quite simply any car first registered for use on British roads between Aug 1st 1976 and July 31st 1977 would have been given an "R" suffix by the issuing authority. It is very probably ex-MoD but could easily be a personal import or one of the (admittedly very rare) occurences of a Minor h...
by mercrocker
Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:31 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Are you still a car enthusiast?
Replies: 47
Views: 2255

Re: Are you still a car enthusiast?

I'm enthusiastic enough to have more than I can afford to have but apart from that I don't really know.... Autojumbles, Car shows, Car clubs and all the other things I used to enjoy completely leave me cold now, if not outright piss me off. I still get massive pleasure from seeing something tasty be...
by mercrocker
Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:49 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6636
Views: 1081030

Re: Found pics

There's a facebook thing about it....Apparently built immediately after WW2 by Czech firemen in Brno as an actual fire tender, presumably with the abiility to get there quickly and with comparative ease of progress through streets etc. Probably some kind of war reparation or liberated from German fo...