A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)
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5 In a Row said:
My parents had a Clubman estate identical to that (apart from the wheels) in the early 80s.
Someone at my mum's work also had one in the same colour and discovered one day, accidentally, that their key worked on both cars!
I think that was fairly common on BL products in the seventies. I suspect they had a fairly shallow gene pool of key profiles. I certainly remember going to a scrappy's once to get a bootlid for my Marina. Not only did I find one in the exact same colour (Sandglow), but my keys even fitted it so I didn't need to change the lock!Someone at my mum's work also had one in the same colour and discovered one day, accidentally, that their key worked on both cars!
P5BNij said:
Turbobanana said:
With the two tone grey colour scheme I'd go with Wolseley Hornet.... might still be wrong though!I still recall finding a crashed early one (Hornet) in the 70s in a local scrappy and removed the (undamaged) rear chrome bumper. I'd not long bought my first Ginetta G15 which utilised the Elf/Hornet rear bumper (as did Loti).
The scrappy was puzzled that was all I wanted and no other parts from the car. When I told him it was for my Ginetta G15 he gave me such a puzzled look I had to take him out to the front roadside where I'd parked. He had no idea what a Ginetta was and said just two words: 'Good God!'
This might be untrue but sure I read somewhere once that BMC were going to call the Riley 'Elf' the Riley 'Imp' (but, of course, didn't).
dandarez said:
This might be untrue but sure I read somewhere once that BMC were going to call the Riley 'Elf' the Riley 'Imp' (but, of course, didn't).
That wouldn't be too surprising as they had resurrected the Kestrel name from the pre-war Riley Nine range for the ADO16 and the Imp was a (rather nice) sports model of the same era.dandarez said:
P5BNij said:
Turbobanana said:
With the two tone grey colour scheme I'd go with Wolseley Hornet.... might still be wrong though!I still recall finding a crashed early one (Hornet) in the 70s in a local scrappy and removed the (undamaged) rear chrome bumper. I'd not long bought my first Ginetta G15 which utilised the Elf/Hornet rear bumper (as did Loti).
The scrappy was puzzled that was all I wanted and no other parts from the car. When I told him it was for my Ginetta G15 he gave me such a puzzled look I had to take him out to the front roadside where I'd parked. He had no idea what a Ginetta was and said just two words: 'Good God!'
This might be untrue but sure I read somewhere once that BMC were going to call the Riley 'Elf' the Riley 'Imp' (but, of course, didn't).
Another quick slice of yank nostalgia, albeit with a gruesome background - the location is 10050 Cielo Drive up in the hills above Los Angeles on Friday 9th August 1969, several hours after four of Charles Manson's followers had slain five people at the house rented by Roman Polanski, both cars belonged to victims of the awful crime, the black 911 was hairdresser Jay Sebring's while the yellow Pontiac Firebird 400 belonged to Abigail Folger, both of them were house guests at the time...
Just down the driveway in the garage was Sharon Tate's rented yellow Chevy Camaro...
The investigating officers assumed that the killers had made off with Tate's red Ferrari 275GT/4, but it was later found in the workshop a few miles away where she'd booked it in for repairs a few days earlier.
Unweder said:
manorcom said:
We never got those mirrors on the 84/85 Accord be it base version 1.6 or 1.8 EX , no wing mirrors fitted to UK spec just door mirrors , bland but Honda reliability we will never ever witness again sadly 
Milkyway said:
Citroën B14http://www.autovehicle.info/citroen-b14/detay/citr...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_B14
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