Old Wrinkly wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:01 pm
I drove the off road course at Coney about 15/20 years ago when I was still using a series Land Rover, good day out, although a degree of care was necessary.
Earlier in the day a Lightweight owner had got out his truck at the top of hill to engage the free wheeling hubs and hadn't applied the handbrake correctly, or the hand brake failed.
It rolled down the hill and hit a tree, writing it off.
Also seem to remember someone getting killed on the course shortly after my visit
I bet you still had fun but LWB isn't ideal there I bet.
I've spent an afternoon on there years back with a couple of mates and it was great fun. The pay and play was still on while we were there. The road the place is on aka The Switchback is notorious for being more dangerous tbh There's a set of corners and undulations between the trees on the Bewdley end that can really catch you out. As I'm sure Red5 will testify.
It was running a matching set of newish off road tyres and had the military extended shackles.
Ahead of me an off road prepared Range Rover Classic had ended up on its roof on one of the more difficult parts of the course.
All the gear and no idea? A chap I know used to do trials in a Series I with a few subtle mods (lead loaded bumpers and the like), he could get places a lot couldn't in coily cut downs as he knew what he was doing.
As I have droned on about before, what is hilarious about that P6’s number plates is that the first owner wouldn’t have been seen dead without reflective plates on it. Everyone wanted to emphasise how new and up to date their vehicles were at the time and reflective plates were even fitted to older stuff to make them “look better”. Funny how times change. I have some pics of my Chevy (1956) fitted with reflective plates.
When my Grandfather bought his last P6 (on a J plate) there were still folk not happy to stump up the extra for reflectives, even on a relatively prestige car. In fact, the next four sequential registrations after his were on black and whites, I remember seeing them lined up in the PDI area.
My main gripe with the plate on the blue one is it doesn't fit the plinth, unlike the reflective that would undoubtedly have been there before. Just looks shit to me especially when it has obviously been changed for an "old" type.
I used to love seeing imported Yanks on big square pressed reflectives, especially when they just used to get the relevant year issue. I do admit to being a number plate twat but that P6 and others like it just make me shake my head.
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When my dad bought his (later my first car) Mk1 Escort KJJ470K in 1972 he wouldn’t pay extra for the reflective plates so it came with black and white, very white not silver, plates.
As I'm sure Red5 will testify.
