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I've been out all day but having returned I'll have a TOH plump for Gants Hill? :-D
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mickthemaverick wrote: 29 Jul 2022, 17:37 I've been out all day but having returned I'll have a TOH plump for Gants Hill? :-D

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Have you been there :?:

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Indeed I have, my cousin used to live roughly halfway between Gants Hill and Newbury Park so I would get off at Gants Hill and walk 500m to his house then a further 600ish to Newbury Park if it was rush hour and Gants Hill was very busy!! :-D
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 29 Jul 2022, 10:49 More a Where's this then :?:

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Not had a mystery car for a while so what do you make of this? There are clues to be found in the picture! :-D
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Beats me. '50s or '60s I would say and possibly with a big engine, otherwise I'm stumped - but I'm not very observant. General motors? Opel?

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Peter.N. wrote: 19 Aug 2022, 10:42 Beats me. '50s or '60s I would say and possibly with a big engine, otherwise I'm stumped - but I'm not very observant. General motors? Opel?

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A Borg Ward maybe?
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A Borgward certainly.
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Ah yes, that stirs the grey matter. There was a big hoarding at the top of Masons Hill Bromley advertising them, Borgward Isabella if I remember correctly.

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Well done all and you do indeed remember correctly Peter, It is a Borgward Isabella !! :-D

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I worked on one back in the late fifties buy haven't seen one for years, what I did get lumbered with was a Wartburg Knight I took px that ended up with the scrap man when it blew the big ends.
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How about a Wheresthisthen ?
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mickthemaverick wrote: 20 Aug 2022, 20:08 How about a Wheresthisthen ?

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Dont know it from general knowledge Mick, but will hang fire on an easy look up. If no one else gets it maybe we can tease out the answer in guesses and clues.

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