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brandersnatch wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 5:14 pm
Many years ago in the early ‘80’s I worked in Covent Garden in a building on Long Acre just behind and to the right of where the photographer was standing. My Moto Guzzi Le Mans II was parked in a bike bay on James St. behind where the Cortina is parked.
Somewhere by London Graphics ? I well remember all those Benlys parked on the pavement in front of the shop.
My office was in the other bit of Longacre in a little courtyard that ran between Bow St and Longacre , In 83 my CX500EUrosport was nicked from a bike bay in Drury Lane.Turned up undamaged 2 weeks later in Bow St .
I’m sure I’d have admired your Guzzi , walking past going to the pub or typesetters, there weren’t many around.,
It was a company called Artbeat Productions. Long gone now, as is the whole industry really. I was a rostrum camera operator, the things that it would take me days to shoot can now be done in minutes on PowerPoint.
The Guzzi was a red one, fastest colour right? I’d often use my green canvas bike cover on it.
Someone must have needed your CX to go on holiday. I hope they returned it with a full tank.
Ah a car that I would love, my Mk2 Cortina was the ever so humble 1300 Deluxe four door in Purbeck Grey with a red interior. A friend bought a red Savage after he sold me his lurid green bubble arched Anglia (yes there are photos of it!) and we used to go to Wimbledon to watch stock car racing. One night on the way back a Triumph GT6 took on the Cortina in the South Circular Traffic Lights Grand Prix. He lost twice before he clocked the V6 badge on the rear wing and gave up. Sadly the Savage was rolled into a field early one icy morning when my friend was on his way to work as a milkman, the deliveries may have been a little late that day.
It’s a crappy low res picture on Rightmove for a house I thought I might like the look of. Tempted to view just to see what it is. I think it may be an optical illusion - a car, and some panels all being unconnected.
Mrs SiC great nans car. Isn't marked as scrapped. Last sold in 1997 but nothing more than that. I guess run around for a few more years and then it might be parked up in a garage somewhere?
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