Cars You Never See Anymore
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Leafster
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According to the DVLA is was first registered in April 1959 which makes it 62 years old.
mx wcfc
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I just can't help being nosey - just use DVLA....
Vehicle makeAUSTIN
Date of first registrationApril 1959
Year of manufacture1959
Cylinder capacity1500 cc
Elpenor
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Well that’s impressive. Was parked in a disabled space so perhaps the original owner.
mx wcfc
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You just beat me to it!
Puddy_Tat
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No, xSJ is one of the ranges of registration numbers that was never used first time round (Bute were still working their way through the two letter SJ 1234 range when the year suffix came in) so was released by DVLA in relatively recent years.
Car either wasn't new in GB, or has lost its original registration somewhere along the line (either someone sold the original number, or a previous owner wanted to keep the number but not the car, or it fell out of the system and a new owner didn't jump through all the hoops to prove it really was the car they said it was.)
And those number plates just don't quite look right for the era (although I know DVLA are awkward about these things - on my previous car, having the original early 90's plates was acceptable, but when one needed replacing, I had to get one with the newer style typeface.)
The odd bit of trim on the rear door (looks like it was intended for two tone paintwork) suggests it's a 1959-61 Farina
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On a tangent, we saw no Cambridge's yesterday, nor princess's.
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"Moving on to the categories judged today at the NEC Classic Motor Show, first it is Best Small Club Stand. Our team was most impressed by the efforts from both the Austin A30-A35 Owners’ Club and the Wolseley Register, but our third finalist and the winner in this category took it up a gear."
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"Moving on to the categories judged today at the NEC Classic Motor Show, first it is Best Small Club Stand. Our team was most impressed by the efforts from both the Austin A30-A35 Owners’ Club and the Wolseley Register, but our third finalist and the winner in this category took it up a gear."
Leafster
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Yep, it's an A90 Atlantic. I have seen one at a distance but never close up.
not sure i've ever met one of them (Austin A90?)
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This Lancia is gorgeous even though they only came with tiny engines
However, it is surely trumped by this 1992 Lancia Hyena Zagato
However, it is surely trumped by this 1992 Lancia Hyena Zagato
8ball
Decolonise colons!
That would look great with orange alloys.
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No. It wouldn’t.That would look great with orange alloys.
AXE EX8 ORANGE ALLOY WHEELS - Speedy's Wheels & Tyres
Puddy_Tat
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hmm
pseudonarcissus
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Oh yes it would!
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Oh no it wouldn’t
Nivag
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If I had the space and more importantly the cash I'd have that 127
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6k, the 124 is the one I'd have, but it's 12k
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When I was in Sudan there were three or four, battered but running, being used as taxis.
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You are Corporal Jones, I claim my voucher
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Absolutely not. I was commissioned.You are Corporal Jones, I claim my voucher
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Are
the Corps of Commissionaires still going?
Puddy_Tat
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I have a great friend who looks a bit like this, and can be just as pompous. Lovely bloke though, he'd give you the shirt off his back if you needed it.
Puddy_Tat
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one or two workplaces ago, our department manager was referred to by a few people as 'captain mainwaring' (more for his approach to life rather than appearance.)
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Sort of a serious question. We used to have one on guard where I used to work…but I can’t remember the last time I saw one…did they fade away with Ford Cortina’s?
