Blast from the past

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:28 pm

What did these chase .....bank robbers in bubble cars?

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Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:35 pm

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Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:38 pm

Sorry guys I'm bored Shltless with nothing happening at the club so I thought I'd post a few pictures of old motors....or anything from the past will do.

Wokingclaret · Post by **Wokingclaret** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:41 pm

Hillman Imp

Volvoclaret · Post by **Volvoclaret** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:47 pm

Bosscat and Steve.

Aclaret · Post by **Aclaret** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:49 pm

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:35 pm
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A gas blast from the past ?

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:50 pm

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Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:51 pm

Wokingclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:41 pm
Hillman Imp

That was my first thought and then I thought it might be a Simca perhaps ?

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:53 pm

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:51 pm
That was my first thought and then I thought it might be a Simca perhaps ?

Deffo a Hillman Imp rear engine

But now this is what I would call a police car

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KLClaret · Post by **KLClaret** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:57 pm

Now that is a thing of beauty. Favourite car I had mk 1 Grenada

Guller Bull · Post by **Guller Bull** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:58 pm

My first car was a Marina in Tundra Green ( a bit like this)

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One of my favourites was my Triumph Dolomite Sprint in Inca Yellow (a bit like this)

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Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:59 pm

Austin Allegro....

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:00 pm

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Old footballers really looked bobbins

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:06 pm

Our very first car back in 1979 was one of these we pushed it more miles than we drove in it

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Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:09 pm

We then had an upgrade to one of these....it fell in bits outside the house.

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bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:11 pm

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:53 pm
Deffo a Hillman Imp rear engine

But now this is what I would call a police car f8150509bdbf3ec42f2f77eb51a083ee--ford-granada-police-vehicles.jpg

Ahhh… the jam butty.

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:11 pm

a bit later but nostalgic nonetheless

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Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:15 pm

The coach all of us over a certain age know all to well from day trips to Blackpool
The smell of sick was always overpowering on the way home

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Aclaret · Post by **Aclaret** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:16 pm

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A blast from the past...The good old Longside.

Im_not_Robbie_Blake · Post by **Im_not_Robbie_Blake** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:17 pm

Ah, but it wasn't called a coach then. It was a shaara.

Targetman · Post by **Targetman** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:20 pm

Yelloway and Ellen Smith from Rossendale to Blackpool.
Was that pic taken next to the station at Rawtenstall?

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:21 pm

In fact that picture of the Yelloway coach looks like its on Bury Rd Rawtenstall outside what is JA Taylors Ford Garage I'm sure someone will verify it is.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:22 pm

Targetman wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:20 pm
Yelloway and Ellen Smith from Rossendale to Blackpool.
Was that pic taken next to the station at Rawtenstall?

You beat me to it TM yes I'm sure it is with the BT phone exchange in the background

mkmel · Post by **mkmel** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:34 pm

Longside toilets

https://images.app.goo.gl/CjgfVWwc3WuHb2P66

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:36 pm

I seem to remember the second car in this thread, the Ford Anglia, having a crazy V6 version.

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:42 pm

Looks like the woman in the green Morris Marina photo has trodden in dog poo and got some on her dress.

Guller Bull · Post by **Guller Bull** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:49 pm

Billy Balfour wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:42 pm
Looks like the woman in the green Morris Marina photo has trodden in dog poo and got some on her dress.

White dog poo though.

aclaretinstevenage · Post by **aclaretinstevenage** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:06 pm

KLClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:57 pm
Now that is a thing of beauty. Favourite car I had mk 1 Grenada

Same here.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:08 pm

Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:49 pm
White dog poo though.

That's a blast from the past on Claretsmad.

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:13 pm

My Marina had the turning circle of a fully loaded supertanker.

yorkyclaret · Post by **yorkyclaret** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:21 pm

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:36 pm
I seem to remember the second car in this thread, the Ford Anglia, having a crazy V6 version.

Very much doubt it, the Anglia was on it's last legs by the time the V6 was launched. You might see one at a Custom show. Are you thinking of the Cortina Savage?

lrac · Post by **lrac** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:26 pm

My first car was a lada riva.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:26 pm

My Dad's first car,I still remember the dial in the centre of the dashboard which was for the indicators.....think this might have been the model where a flashing stick popped out of the side of the of the car between the doors

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Aclaret · Post by **Aclaret** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:35 pm

Vauxhall Chevet my 1st love x

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:37 pm

My 1st car back in 1975 was a 1964 Mk1 Cortina 1200 (with a 1500 engine fitted) before I passed my test. I bought it for £50 off a mate at work after I passed my test I bought my Mum and Dads old 1967 Triumph Herald 1250

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:42 pm

yorkyclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:21 pm
Very much doubt it, the Anglia was on it's last legs by the time the V6 was launched. You might see one at a Custom show. Are you thinking of the Cortina Savage?

You're probably right- I think it was a mod that some did as it would take the Capri V6 block.

chorleyhere · Post by **chorleyhere** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:03 pm

My first car was an old mini and enjoyable to drive but gave me backache when driving from Skelmersdale to Edinburgh for a holiday. Loved it all the same. It kept going in the snow when even the buses had stopped coming over from Rawtenstall to Burnley, though my wife had to keep looking out of the passenger window to tell me where the ditch was , as the snow was blowing so hard that the windscreen wipers couldn't keep up.
When I first got it and began to give it a full valet I found lots of straw under the back seat and several rabbit snares !!

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:23 pm

Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:49 pm
White dog poo though.

Heh. My dad talks with great affection about the days when white dog poo was a common sight. I mean, of all the things you could reminisce about.

claret1977 · Post by **claret1977** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:26 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZTsoeCNcY

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:32 am

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:28 pm
What did these chase .....bank robbers in bubble cars?
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Sprightly motors, Imps.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:58 am

Quicknick wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:32 am
Sprightly motors, Imps.

I see what you did there

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:41 pm

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:58 am
I see what you did there

Mmm.i didn't

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:09 pm

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:41 pm
Mmm.i didn't

You have been "beyond the wall" too long Steve

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:57 pm

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:09 pm
You have been "beyond the wall" too long Steve

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MG70 · Post by **MG70** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 1:52 am

Bosscat wrote: ↑
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The Allegro is as ugly now as it was then. The Granada though, is still beautiful.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:46 am

We had a police van at our "Party on the green" on sunday (not this one as I didn't take a picture of it).

This is very similar...

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Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:08 am

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I paid £30 for one if these in 1974

GordonvaleClaret · Post by **GordonvaleClaret** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 7:58 am

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:26 pm
....think this might have been the model where a flashing stick popped out of the side of the of the car between the doors

They're called "trafficators".

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:22 am

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:13 pm
My Marina had the turning circle of a fully loaded supertanker.

Wow! You must have had modifications!

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:02 am

Christmas time in our household in the sixties this box of chocolates made an appearance 3 layers of chocolates you never saw the like of any other time of the year

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