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The 'made by robots' one?
Cars You Never See Anymore
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Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
I overtook one of these on the M20 last week
And i saw a car that looked very much like this on the M20 today - some little Englander in Kent still got their British made Rover.
And i saw a car that looked very much like this on the M20 today - some little Englander in Kent still got their British made Rover.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Ahem an R8 I have one outside although that particular left hand drive model is probably a 600
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
One of my cousins was part of the team producing that ad.
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
the one i saw was a right hand drive and i only saw it passing rather quickly - so that's the only photo i could find that looked like what i saw.
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
Seen on my street today
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
In 1996, me and a mate hired a Carlton from a co. in Newcastle called Rent-A-Wreck and took it to Tribal Gathering in Luton. I remember holding on v tight to the steering wheel as it lurched alarmingly to the left. It also chucked out massive clouds of smoke from the exhaust under heavy acceleration. On the other hand, it was big enough to fitfully sleep in for a couple of hours before driving back the next day.
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
I saw another Rover this week - not this one which is a photo i found using google - but it looked like this.
mx wcfc
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25 years ago there was one of those parked round the corner from where I lived. Don't think I ever saw it move.
I wonder why the third headlight in the middle never caught on......
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
Ahh i changed the photo cos it wasn't quite the one i saw - but I've nailed it now. But tbh i do prefer the one i posted up first.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
yuk
not sure i've met one of them before
agree, i prefer the style you posted earlier.
was it a fog-light rather than headlight?
there was a variety of mid 1950s buses (Bristol LS) that had a central fog-light which also didn't catch on
(not my photo)
may have been a change to construction and use regulations as much as fashion.
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
Wikipedia seemed to be saying that its predecessor had two lights, one was a headlight and the other was a fog light, So reading between the lines that's what i think - they doubled up the headlights and introduced a separate fog light.
My autistic outlook on the world really grates with fog lights being on just one side of a vehicle. Central fog lights would be so much better for my mental health.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
dunno really.
to me it seems natural, but then i grew up with these at the end of the road.
and in practical terms, it probably makes sense to have extra light where you can see the kerb / edge of the road.
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
at the risk of causing further distress, there were some London Transport buses that were built without a proper offside headlamp, presume on the basis they wouldn't go off roads without street lighting.
think they got an offside headlamp at a later stage.
until dipping headlights were a thing, there was a separate switch for the offside headlight, and drivers would switch the offside one off in circumstances where you'd now go to dipped beam.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
My dad had one of them when I was a kid. A right pile of shit it was too. Amazed there's any still running.
e2a: Actually that looks like a 400. We had a 218. Also the one in the picture is left hand drive, so must've been an export model. Didn't know they made any export models.
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
The buy British brigade in Bromley kept theirs running for years because it was the last fully British production line car (I think). It looks the ones round here in south Kent have got over this "fully British" bit now and are all running round in Jaguars.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
My grandparents bought one of the last Rovers, the 75 I think, because they wanted to buy British. My Dad tried to explain to them that they could get a Honda that was also British-built and would actually be good, and that Rover was no more British-owned than Honda by that point, but they wouldn't have it
Griff
Hardly posting anymore
Been watching YouTube videos about the RT buses as shown above over the last couple of evenings, showing them in use up to the late '70s in parts of London. They date from 1934 
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Have a look at Mac's Tracks on YouTube, bus stuff but has great early-mid-late '70s car footage.
The things I find myself watching with a whisky late at night.
.Have a look at Mac's Tracks on YouTube, bus stuff but has great early-mid-late '70s car footage.
The things I find myself watching with a whisky late at night.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Been watching YouTube videos about the RT buses as shown above over the last couple of evenings, showing them in use up to the late '70s in parts of London. They date from 1934
not sure about 1934 - the prototype saw light of day in 1939 (although its chassis with an earlier body first ran in 1938), about 150 were built before production was stopped because of the war.
Most were built 1947 - 1954, and all the 'pre war' ones were out of passenger service by the late 50s. But yes, the last ones in regular service were on route 62 at Barking until April 1979 - the oldest in service then was nominally a 1948 bus (although the way they reassembled buses out of overhauled chassis and bodies means it's hard to say exactly how old it was then.)
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
My latest sightings. Saw the Rolls Royce on the M20 a few days ago when i overtook it. Saw the Dolomite today being driven near Hythe.
Jennaonthebeach
U75 tolerates fascism
Oh, and in Dover today I saw a Reliant Robin heading towards the coast.
