Wobland Spottage

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That's how I remember the awful things, like a dog with worms.
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The Proton was outside a paint shop and looked like a new car inside and out :shock:
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Re: Wobland Spottage

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Where's the proton? Isn't that a lada samara?
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paulplom wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:15 pm Where's the proton? Isn't that a lada samara?
Looks like one, my dad had a couple of them. Even went on holiday to Southsea (part of Portsmouth) in one and came back in a different one. That's in the days before the interweb and on line banking.
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paulplom wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:15 pm Where's the proton? Isn't that a lada samara?
Well I thought that exact same thing when I first saw it but unless someone has gone to massive trouble as a windup it was badged as a Proton.
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Probably like A60s. Different names for same things.
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Hooli wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:53 pm That's how I remember the awful things, like a dog with worms.
:lol:
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Scruffy Bodger wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:39 pm
paulplom wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:15 pm Where's the proton? Isn't that a lada samara?
Well I thought that exact same thing when I first saw it but unless someone has gone to massive trouble as a windup it was badged as a Proton.
Deffo not a Crouton.
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Yes I think they're dull old McPhersons up front, hydro only on the back - ironically like the first use of the system on late Tractions...
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cros wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:25 pm
This was half asleep, arse down front up.
Yes I think they're dull old McPhersons up front, hydro only on the back - ironically like the first use of the system on late Tractions.
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