Wobland Spottage
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Re: Wobland Spottage
It does look a bit off but looking inside it certainly had all the hallmarks of a true model
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Great pics, Bub.....Willys had a plant in Turkey from the mid-fifties, not sure how long it survived or whether it continued under different ownership after AMC/Chrysler and everybody else got involved with Jeeps.
I have an idea there was a Chevy assembly plant over there around the same time but I don't think that '64 Impala was built there, maybe locally assembled? I do know that there were several stories of Yank-filled taxi ranks there during the 70s/80s.
Turkey is also the last home (along with India until recently) of the outposts of the BMC empire. Those BMC-badged commercials are the product of a now totally independent Turkish factory who still continued the BMC name.
And how nice that Mirafiori looks amongst all the bloats......
I have an idea there was a Chevy assembly plant over there around the same time but I don't think that '64 Impala was built there, maybe locally assembled? I do know that there were several stories of Yank-filled taxi ranks there during the 70s/80s.
Turkey is also the last home (along with India until recently) of the outposts of the BMC empire. Those BMC-badged commercials are the product of a now totally independent Turkish factory who still continued the BMC name.
And how nice that Mirafiori looks amongst all the bloats......
There's a great long bar in Rock & Roll heaven.......
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It is a locally built CJ3 similar to the ones made by Kaiser in South America, probably due to the simpler pressings etc.
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I just thought it looked too tall & narrow, but I'm not into Jeeps. Silly fake LRs...
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There's a bmc branded LDV convoy pick up toomercrocker wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 12:34 pm Great pics, Bub.....Willys had a plant in Turkey from the mid-fifties, not sure how long it survived or whether it continued under different ownership after AMC/Chrysler and everybody else got involved with Jeeps.
I have an idea there was a Chevy assembly plant over there around the same time but I don't think that '64 Impala was built there, maybe locally assembled? I do know that there were several stories of Yank-filled taxi ranks there during the 70s/80s.
Turkey is also the last home (along with India until recently) of the outposts of the BMC empire. Those BMC-badged commercials are the product of a now totally independent Turkish factory who still continued the BMC name.
And how nice that Mirafiori looks amongst all the bloats......
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Re: Wobland Spottage
This was filling up next to me this morning at the A36 Ower Services. Different numberplate since it was an auction lot at Baron's last year which explains why it was not age-related but an earlier "C" suffix. Owner (if he were, he may have been the car's guardian) told me it had been a Pakistan Presidential car. He didn't know if the car was a Phantom V or VI (it is the former) but to be fair I cannot tell them apart without knowing the build year. Magnificent beasts, the final model of which was completed some time in 1992. The Empire truly finally crumbled with their demise.
Paint and retrim not to my taste but it certainly looked imposing, especially next to the 2-tone Minor in which I crept away to put my miserly tenner's worth in whilst he clocked up about £90....
Paint and retrim not to my taste but it certainly looked imposing, especially next to the 2-tone Minor in which I crept away to put my miserly tenner's worth in whilst he clocked up about £90....
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The Lord Mayor of the City of London has the use of one of those Phantoms albeit in a nice dark livery, may be black. It is registered LMO, I used to see it quite a lot when I worked in the City. Oh and when I say Mayor, it doesn't refer to that fucking oil slick of a twunt Citizen Khan't.
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Re: Wobland Spottage
Surely that is a Phantom mk6. Lower wing line and twin headlights, higher wing line and single headlights were the MK5.