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Re: Classic car Spring/Summer Collection-2017

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Not exactly an open-toppage day today, breezy, mostly overcast, and chilly. Had a trip down to foreign parts Redcar and Saltburn to be precise. Nice blue VW Beetle but awful wheels, and a nice VW Camper in green and cream which looked nicer from a distance than close up. The finish was more dulux than concours.

They both failed to trouble the camera shutter.

Captured this though, its a moggy, but a commercial moggy, and I do like an old commercial vehicle...and appropriately for good Friday, was advertising the nearby fish and chip shop with the long queue outside.
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I used to have a Fester like that.... They were nothing special I can tell you... Not mine anyway an 1100cc one...

I got it as as I wanted a very anonymous car for leaving at the station when I worked in London back in the 80s. In that role it was perfect.

Trying to identify the bike.... Looks like a GS500. I had a GS450 when I had the Fester.. Not a good bike at all... I quickly sold it and went back to enjoying my GT550 triple :)
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Have to confess to having quite a soft spot for the Mk IV Fiesta. I had one in 1.1 form (on a 93 L plate, so fitted with injection by then) a few years back immediately following my first Skoda being written off. I needed wheels, and I needed them *now* so went down to our local mate who always had a few "disposable" cars on sale. £250 later I had the Fiesta. Aside from putting oil in it (it had the usual porous sump) and replacing the HT leads and the front engine mounting the day after I got it, I barely did anything to it for nearly a year. It got driven like I stole it generally, and I did miles in the thing. It was really comfortable (mine had the velour option ticked, and it was ridiculously soft - only gripe was that cat hair stuck to it like velcro), had a cracking standard stereo, and was one of those cars which no matter where I was, what the weather was doing or what I was doing, just inspired confidence. I always knew it was going to start just fine. It didn't do anything in a truly exceptional manner, but at the same time, there wasn't one thing that I asked of it that it did anything less than acceptably. Plus parts - even from the main dealer - were *ridiculously* cheap. The gasket for the rocker cover was £2, and the sump was £18.

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I've mentioned before that down in Zunny Deb'n Minors, B's & Stags are regular sightings but Sunday I saw an Austin 3 litre being trailered towards Newton Abbot on the Totness, yesterday there was an earlyish Humber Sceptre parked at a Car Boot Sale (was it he I spoke to last year who was restoring one & was interested in some period road maps, I wonder) & out enjoying the sun & a resonably quiet Torbay Ring Road - a Capri convertible!

Driving back to London last evening, as I joined the A30 off the M5 I came up behind a 4-door Mk1 Escort: spare wheel held vertically at the back on a tubular steel frame, extended spring shackles (when did you last see them?) BUT, curiously, riding level, wide steel wheels - trials car? later on, coming the other way, an SL190, leading a "fintail". All in all, an interesting day.
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I was at the Coleford Carnival of Transport on Monday, took a few pictures, I'll try to post some of them up later.
I wonder if the Austin 3 Litre mentioned in Van's post was on its way there, a very nice one in pale grey was among the exhibits.
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Dog walking spot yesterday

MGA 1600 open-top roadster in beautiful "light blue" April 1960. There is something pleasingly perfect about its lines, very desirable and in one of my favourite colours. 0-60 13.3 seconds (its all you really need personally speaking) top speed 103.0 m.p.h. (no thanks!). Then again it may have been a twin-cam roadster of which 1788 were built between April 1958 and May 1960, which was 9.9 for 0-60 and 113 mph top speed. If it was it would have had discs all round but I have only just found that out so didn't nose enough to find out. Second-Class Classic spotting perfomance there and no pictures either...I'm afraid I am going to have to be harsh on myself and award nul points.

Here's the sort of thing I am talking about...in the words of John Gordon Sinclair in Gregory's Girl....

"She's gorgeous, she's ab-sol-utely gorgeous" :!:
http://www.mgcc.co.uk/mga-register/wp-c ... ster-2.jpg

It's a pic from the MGA register so just a link. If you enjoy the range of original colours of a model of car as I do there is a gallery of MGA Factory Colours here on the MGA-Register site.

What's your favourite? I do like the name "Alamo Beige" although not necessarily the colour, and for lovers of grey there is a Dove Grey, and if you are going to have a white..it has to be "Old English White" surely :?: :-D

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I've just returned from a 36 mile Cycle Sportive that took us all around the picturesque back lanes of Buckinghamshire and not once in all of that ride did I see anything remotely interesting...

Mind you, having said that I was more concerned with keeping up with the peloton ;)

Didn't smell anything either, apart from natural farm smells...
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So you were keeping up with the peloton while avoiding the pollution? Not bad.
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CitroJim wrote:I've just returned from a 36 mile Cycle Sportive that took us all around the picturesque back lanes of Buckinghamshire and not once in all of that ride did I see anything remotely interesting...

Mind you, having said that I was more concerned with keeping up with the peloton ;)
I'm glad you enjoyed it Jim.

My idea of hell though:) Cycling for me is escapism, doing it with others is intolerable. I'd manage ok riding with you but a load of cyclists? Ooh no. Even now, despite being a keenish cyclist myself I see lycra clad oiks in Team Sky gear on expensive bikes and think "cyclist (-expletive removed-)!!"


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mickeymoon wrote:Even now, despite being a keenish cyclist myself I see lycra clad oiks in Team Sky gear on expensive bikes and think "cyclist (-expletive removed-)!!


I know the sort only too well but today the peloton was mercifully free of them and every cyclist was a jolly lovely person. We all chatted together and it all ended up quite social, especially at the feed station...

I don't do the posh gear. I ride in BTwin (Decathlon) stuff. It may not carry any kudos but it's very functional and very keenly priced...

In fact, not long ago a big group test of shoes found the BTwin ones to be excellent, as did a test of it's top of the range bike...
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I use FDX stuff which came from Amazob cheap, I have some Muddy Fox kit too which was very cheap from Sportdirect in a sale, as was my occasional helmet. I've had the same shoes for 6 years and they are 40 quid Shimano ones. There's one or two lycra (-expletive removed-) who've come a cropper thinking they can leave me behind up a couple of hills here... they obviously haven't been practising 6 min high resistance flat-out hill climbs at Spin...

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mickeymoon wrote:There's one or two lycra (-expletive removed-) who've come a cropper thinking they can leave me behind up a couple of hills here... they obviously haven't been practising 6 min high resistance flat-out hill climbs at Spin...


Love that :) One or two thought the same of the BTwin attired person today and then got a surprise at the next hill...

Poetic justice or what? :wink:
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More MG's today, they were out on a 100 mile Rally through the Northumberland Countryside. Now in rank of desirability to be honest the MGA is tops, the newer stuff is a bit anonymous for me, and the older stuff, although being pleasant on the eye is a bit old-fashioned bordering on fuddy duddy material!

Do like the MGB/C Roadster, and the Midget...well it's alright if you have to. Not keen on the MGB GT whatever bulge lies under the bonnet, give me a Triumph GT6 any day of the week.

Best of the bunch passing through, a glacier Blue MGA like this....

http://www.mgcc.co.uk/mga-register/wp-c ... blue-2.jpg

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Triumph Vitesse today, strange sort of colour orangey beige might describe it. I will have to have a dig around.

J reg so 1970 vintage.

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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73 ... 41d29d.jpg

That could well be the exact car :-D Saffron Yellow.

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