Cars You Never See Anymore
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I think it might be an A40 Devon but not really sure.
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I was at brooklands for the best of British a while ago, there was barely a ford there. A MK2 cortina...I don't remember anymore. There might have been a later cortina and maybe the odd Granada but fords of any era were certainly thin on the ground
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Mk1 Escort in the Garage next to mine.
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I can't remember exactly when but British Leyland sold Innocenti to De Tomaso so the later nuovo Minis had the De Tomaso badges on them.I know this was exceptional circumstances, but all the same (a de tomaso badge on the right)
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I spotted a well kept mk1 Escort Estate whilst I was out on the bike today.
I think the Bank Holiday weather brings them out of hibernation.
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1972. Daihatsu later had shares in them. Before all of that they made lambrettas.
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I cannot see a Darracq without thinking of Genevieve 
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1906 Darracq Type XX Two-Seater For Sale By Auction
Formerly exhibited in two French motor museumsCosmetically and mechanically restored in the 1990sDescribed by the vendor as ‘perfect’Very...
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I re-watch the film every now and then.I cannot see a Darracq without thinking of Genevieve
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1906 Darracq Type XX Two-Seater For Sale By Auction
Formerly exhibited in two French motor museumsCosmetically and mechanically restored in the 1990sDescribed by the vendor as ‘perfect’Very...
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One of the cars which appeared briefly two or three times in the film belonged to a friend of my father's. He and my father used to rally it extensively as well as doing the Brighton Run every year. I drove it on the Brighton Run one year.
Here's a publicity still from the film with the Spyker. The car behind (AHC 9), was my father's friend's. The bloke in the driving seat is my father's friend's father!
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
One of these rolled into the car park as I was leaving the dentist this morning:
A Subaru Brat - or whatever the UK version was called. In blue, pretty original condition, with all the 80s graphics looking a little faded and as far as a pickup goes, no bigger than any other family car of the era.
A Subaru Brat - or whatever the UK version was called. In blue, pretty original condition, with all the 80s graphics looking a little faded and as far as a pickup goes, no bigger than any other family car of the era.
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Feeding the foxes
Pulled up next to a 205 Gti 1.9 in a petrol station the other day. Totally immaculate and bog standard in silver.Couldn’t take a pic but I saw a Peugeot 205 the other day
Had to be a dealer driving it as I've never seen such a mis-match between car and driver.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Pulled up next to a 205 Gti 1.9 in a petrol station the other day. Totally immaculate and bog standard in silver.
Had to be a dealer driving it as I've never seen such a mis-match between car and driver.
Coke dealer I'd imagine. The coke dealers I knew in the 80s seemed to favour the 205 over the Golf
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Nah, a real conservative looking bloke in a grey v-neck and grey Farahs. Hardly the type to drive such a stonking looking 205 Gti.
Edited to say, I should have said 'car' dealer in my earlier post, not just 'dealer'
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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Puddy_Tat
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Couldn’t take a pic but I saw a Peugeot 205 the other day
my one (diesel, not a GTI) that got nicked and written off about 5 years ago would probably be worth 2 - 3 grand now
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although it was not london ULEZ-able
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Aldi carpark served up a Nissan Bluebird of nearly four decades vintage this morning. On the way here I was also tailing a very nearly as old E reg Volvo 340, in tidy condition and being driven by a grandad, giving out the one-owner-from-new vibes (Though probably not as they were only ever driven by pensioners and the bloke didn‘t look like a centenarian).
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Surely these are all "cars I had thought I would never see any more, but which I have just seen"
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Back in the 90s, every minicab driver servicing the London nightclubs at closing time seemed to have one. I might have vomited a bit of water on the back seat of one or two Bluebirds over the years...
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I think it's a Standard but don't know if it's an 8, 10 or Pennant.
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Ive tried checking the reg on the MOT checker but cant get it
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I can't work out the reg number. I thought it was 632 UTY but that doesn't work on the DVLA site.Ive tried checking the reg on the MOT checker but cant get it
