not-bono-ever
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saw one of these yesterday. it looked and sounded utterly shit.
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saw one of these yesterday. it looked and sounded utterly shit.
I was aware of Holdsworth’s history, but my post was regarding their last professional team’s support car.
Griff
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existentialist
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Liking the plate...A Jensen 541R (I think) seen on my walk today
nogojones
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It goes with the cars sad little faceLiking the plate...
dessiato
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I fancied having one. But when they were cheap I had other motoring ambitions. Now they're too expensive.I was pleased to spot a Lancia Delta Integrale last Sunday over Chelsea Bridge, pretty much like the model pictured below.
Clair De Lune
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Does anyone know a classic car which has a leaping fish emblem on its bonnet?
not-bono-ever
meh
if you go to the estates in the highlands, its pretty standard for some of the range rovers to have a leaping salmon on the hood. aftermarket obvs. At least the ones who catch me have.
that's a beauty
dessiato
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Years ago the Dolphin car company had a dolphin. There was an alternative to the flying B for Bentley that was bass.
There's currently a car dealership Dolphin Cars which uses a dolphin on the bonnet of some of its courtesy cars too.
There's a book about car mascots.
Clair De Lune
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I thought it looked like a classic Bentley but didnt recognise the mascot. It seems mascots can be ordered and placed due to the drivers interests ..I didn't know that. I thought it was related to the make of vehicle. Anyway I just spotted this charming old man getting into this car.
One of these drove past me when I went shopping earlier:
A Peugeot 309 - or, as it was originally going to be called, a Talbot Arizona.
A Peugeot 309 - or, as it was originally going to be called, a Talbot Arizona.
That version was hideous, but I'll admit to a soft spot for the original Scimitar:
"Princess Anne had one of those, you know."
pseudonarcissus
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My father had one of those...That version was hideous, but I'll admit to a soft spot for the original Scimitar:
"Princess Anne had one of those, you know."
the colour scheme was called, somewhat optimistically, "Champagne and tobacco". He claims he once parked next to the one belonging to Princess Anne.
He also had an SS1 (see post #931)
Good cars though.
Bring back beige cars!
Champagne and tobacco?! You'd never be able to call it that these days .... and tbh it look does look more like vomit and shit!
It's a pity there's not much space for the small sports car maker any more though. No-one would claim Reliant made the world's greatest cars, but at least they were different. The same could be said for TVR, Lotus and various others.
not-bono-ever
meh
one of these the other day - it was a 1990 or so model with the DDR manufactured ex-VW 1.3 rather than the 2 stroke ( with something like only 7 moving parts). I quite got the feeling for it - am keeping my eyes open for one
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
One of these drove past me when I went shopping earlier:
A Peugeot 309 - or, as it was originally going to be called, a Talbot Arizona.
My mate had one of these in 1991, looked exactly like that, and he drove us to what I now learn is referred to (at least by one website) as the Shoegaze Woodstock. Good times.
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A common sight in Spain at the time. It remains me of the Renault 9- I suspect they were competitors as they are very similar.One of these drove past me when I went shopping earlier:
A Peugeot 309 - or, as it was originally going to be called, a Talbot Arizona.
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Did they ever officially import Wartburgs to Britain? If they did they can only have sold a handful of them.
When I win the lottery (which I don't play) part of my car collection will be devoted to shite Eastern Bloc cars. Pride of place will go to a Skoda Rapid, unless I can find the king of rare Eastern Bloc imports:
The Dacia Denem. I did read on some classic car site that one of these turned up in a barn a few years ago, confounding everyone who thought they were completely extinct.
I was talking cars with a younger acquaintance - born in the late 90s - a while ago, and we got onto the subject of Eastern Bloc cars. Skoda obviously is still a familiar name, but he'd never really heard of FSO, Lada, Yugo and so on. For his generation budget cars come from the Pacific Rim, not the other side of this continent!
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Poverty Inequality Covid-19 - A Political Choice
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A Government should ultimately be judged on how it supports the most vulnerable in society. In the United States the people protesting are not just protesting about George Floyd death - the anger has been brewing for decades.
It's about RESPECT - inequality has skyrocketed. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic stripped away our dignity and respect they fundamentally lack the emapthic understanding. Government agencies demonise, patronise and marginalise the poorest in society. For decades the most vulnerable in society have been left to starve and in many cases left to die. Emergency Foodbank usage at an all time high. In the UK the Department for Work and Pensions with government ministers abuse the media spreading headline grabbing stories which demoralise and encouraged claimants into suicide. The true figure of those most vulnerable in society who have died from covid 19 has yet to be identified but the true figure will shock many.
Many of those who have been mentally, emotionally and financially tortured for decades will have paid the ultimate price..... dying at home alone from covid 19. There will be NO 'Business As Usual' when this pandemic is over!
The current regime within the Department for Work and Pensions demand sick and disabled benefit claimants back to work using the Work Capability Assessments - It needs to be scrapped. The Work Capability Assessments fails to take into account the long-term impact of covid 19's secondary impact diseases. The Work Capability Assessments has contributed to the deaths of more than 100,000 benefit claimants in recent years - directly or indirectly many have been persecuted and suffered under this regime.. it has to stop!
Poverty stricken areas are at a greater risk of those dying from Covid-19, areas with the highest levels of deprivation pay the heaviest price in terms of death count. The impact of poor diet low wages, unemployment and benefit sanctions had left those in disadvantaged areas more vulnerable to the virus.
It's totally unacceptable" that a government review into black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) deaths from coronavirus has been delayed. The Public Health England review was launched last month with the aim of analysing how factors such as ethnicity can impact people's health outcomes from the virus. According to data from the Office for National Statistics, black men and women are more than four times more likely to suffer a coronavirus-related death than white people.
In the 1980's Britain saw Mass Riots just like the ones taking place in the United States in 2020. The UK suffered serious riots across many major cities. Perceived as race riots between communities, the main motives were related to racial tension and inner city deprivation. The riots were caused by a distrust of the police and authority. The most serious riots that occurred were the Brixton riots in London, the Toxteth riots in Liverpool, the Handsworth riots in Birmingham, the Chapeltown riots in Leeds, and the Moss Side riots in Manchester. There were also a series of less serious riots in other towns and cities.
In 2020 - we now have 8.4 million workers furloughed unable to work on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Recent figures from the government's independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility, show that the cost of the government's efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic is expected to hit £123.2bn. The OBR expects annual borrowing to equal 15.2% of the UK economy, which would be the highest since the 22.1% seen at the end of World War Two.
The true cost to people's lives could well prove to be breathtaking. We could well be looking at nearly 3 Million being Unemployed within months. Statistics over next six months will expose the real impact of this tory regime mismanagement of our economy and this pandemic.
Britain could well be heading for riots in the near future!
In the 1980's we had the Poll Tax Riots
Britain faces being thrown into the ‘chaos’ of the poll tax riots yet again in 2020
Child poverty is rising ‘inexorably’ and we predict that we will have over 7 million children living in poverty in the UK by 2022 due to current economic chaos caused by the tories in response to covid 19. Before the coronavirus pandemic the Child Poverty Action Group was projecting 5.2 million by 2022.
Before the Coronavirus Pandemic
* 47% of children living in lone-parent families are in poverty. Lone parents face a higher risk of poverty due to the lack of an additional earner, low rates of maintenance payments, gender inequality in employment and pay, and childcare costs.
* Children from Black and minority ethnic groups are more likely to be in poverty: 45 per cent are now in poverty, compared with 26 per cent of children in White British families.
Nearly 400 people were arrested and 113 injured when the poll tax riots swept the country in 1990, in opposition to the Community Charge, which later became the council tax.
To avoid paying the Tax many refused to sign the Electoral Register but this also stop those marginalised in society from Voting in the Elections - this enable the Tories to get re-elected into government by removing poorer people from the Electoral Register
The 2011 England riots, more widely known as the London Riots, were a series of riots between 6 and 11 August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, which saw looting, arson, and mass deployment of police, and resulted in the deaths of five people.
Protests started in Tottenham, London, following the death of Mark Duggan, a local man who was shot dead by police on 4 August. Several violent clashes with police ensued, along with the destruction of police vehicles, a double-decker bus and many homes and businesses, thus rapidly gaining attention from the media. Overnight, looting took place in Tottenham Hale retail park and nearby Wood Green. The following days saw similar scenes in other parts of London, with the worst rioting taking place in Hackney, Brixton, Walthamstow, Peckham, Enfield, Battersea, Croydon, Ealing, Barking, Woolwich, Lewisham and East Ham.
From 8 to 10 August, other towns and cities in England (including Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, West Bromwich, and Wolverhampton) saw what was described by the media as "copycat violence", with social media playing a role. By 10 August, more than 3,000 arrests had been made across England, with more than 1,000 people issued with criminal charges for various offences related to the riots. Initially, courts sat for extended hours. The riots have generated significant ongoing debate among political, social, and academic figures about the causes and context in which they happened. Attributions for the rioters' behaviour include social factors such as racial tension, class tension, economic decline, and the unemployment that decline had brought.
Only a Socialist Government based on Respect with a Planned Economy can get Britain out of this mess!
We need to lift people out of hunger, poverty, sickness and ignorance. Our planet's eco-system must be rescued. Even under wasteful and destructive capitalism, the productive forces exist that could, if planned and utilised to meet human need instead of maximising capitalist profit, ensure sufficient food, nutrition, health care and education for all.
Never before in history have the rapid advances in science and technology provided such opportunities for the all-round development of every human being. But while it has proved possible, from time to time, to curb capitalism's tendencies to crisis, pandemic deprivation unemployment and war, those tendencies have always reasserted themselves because they arise from the nature of the capitalist system itself. The capitalist economic cycle produces gluts, crises, cut-backs, redundancies and then shortages before beginning all over again. We can not allow economic crisis to allow a busness as normal mentality. The anarchy of the capitalist economy in general militates against society's need for planned, balanced, equitable and sustainable development across countries, regions and the whole world.
Since society first became divided into classes, the ruling class of the time has used the oppression of sections of the exploited classes to maximise exploitation and reinforce its rule. Under capitalism, the oppression of women, black workers and other groups has reaped super-profits and helped ensure the reproduction of existing class relations economically, ideologically and politically – not least by fomenting or perpetuating divisions within the working class itself.
Such oppression is sustained by sets of prejudicial ideas and assumptions, for example those of sexism and racism. These ideologies apply across class boundaries, affecting members of the oppressed group in every class, although their impact is felt most severely by those in the exploited classes.
Poverty Inequality Crisis and Covid-19 - It's time for Societal & Governmental Change
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pseudonarcissus
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you certainly don't see many Morris Oxfords (or even Austin Cambridges) around anymore, they really were rust buckets
And much loved by banger racers. There are still Farina-only meets to this day. One back in 2011 wrecked a third of the number that - according to the DVLA - are still extant.
dessiato
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They were based on a Renault (11)Did they ever officially import Wartburgs to Britain? If they did they can only have sold a handful of them.
When I win the lottery (which I don't play) part of my car collection will be devoted to shite Eastern Bloc cars. Pride of place will go to a Skoda Rapid, unless I can find the king of rare Eastern Bloc imports:
The Dacia Denem. I did read on some classic car site that one of these turned up in a barn a few years ago, confounding everyone who thought they were completely extinct.
I was talking cars with a younger acquaintance - born in the late 90s - a while ago, and we got onto the subject of Eastern Bloc cars. Skoda obviously is still a familiar name, but he'd never really heard of FSO, Lada, Yugo and so on. For his generation budget cars come from the Pacific Rim, not the other side of this continent!
