May 2023:Quickfire A to Z of anything/everything

[mickthemaverick]

I can offer a treble from my own 'cars I have owned' list:

Own work XJ40 3.2S

BFTW XJS 3.6

Own work XJS V12 5.3

[NewcastleFalcon]

Three Two mentions for Jennings

No1 Beer of the day, from the 2014 Selection from the Cockermouth Brewery Tap



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Jennings Mention Number 2.

The Jennings books captured my interest as a boy.

Ebay sale item

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

On J-Day you can always remind yourself of what this sounds like. The most well known bit starts at about 3 minutes in. Rugby fans will recognise "World in Union" uses it, as did ICI in their fertiliser/plant protection ads on the Sunday Farming Outlook ad slot in the 60's/70's.



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

K-Day Officially open

Neil

[myglaren]

Karmann Ghia

[NewcastleFalcon]

Karmann Ghia

The Car one of the most popular threads on the FCF was kicked off with on a sunny day in Manchester...

As we get out and about there's a few more classic cars on the road at this time of year. "Classics" are very much in the eye of the beholder, well evidenced in the current edition of I-Spy Classic Cars which has 120 selections including Morris Marina, Austin Allegro, Ford Sierra.



Here's my starter for 10 spotted in Manchester, and one of the early whatsthhisthens?

Scores me 25 points as well

from I-Spy classic cars
This sporty 2+2 seater car offered as a coupe and a convertible, has striking lines from the Italian design house of Ghia, although the bodies were built in the high quality workshops of Germany's Karmann coachbuilding company. Yet under these fine clothes, the car is pure VW Beetle

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

There was a postie lived next to on of my aunt's that had one, brand new and I was impressed until I discovered it was just a beetle in drag.

Similar reaction to my first introduction to a Porsche 911.

[Gibbo2286]

A Jaguar is good (and indeed if there was a manual version I'd probably look at buying an XK8, they (the autos, was no manual) do seem very underappreciated/ undervalued) but obviously only a single "J"

So feel duty bound to come back with a double:

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a Jowett Javelin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jowett_Javelin

A nice/good car for its time, unfortunately met its end when Ford bought out the body makers then declined to supply the bodies.

[mickthemaverick]

K is for Kerb Drill:

Own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

Something else to look at. As well as the "we had better do a lager" Kestrel Lager from S&N in the 70's, Riley had a Kestrel model in the 1930's and revived the name for the badge in the 60's for the Riley version of the AD016 "1100/1300" models. In the 2020's the Lager and the Riley joined hands in this little project



Neil

[MattBLancs]

I'm jumping in with another triple for K day:

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I think the above might be a Garrett, but I mean this company:

KKK - nowt to do with pointy white hats and racism

[mickthemaverick]

Remember this?

[Gibbo2286]

I'm jumping in with another triple for K day:

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I think the above might be a Garrett, but I mean this company:

Kuhnle, Kopp & Kausch part of the Borg Warner Group.

[mickthemaverick]

Not everyone's favourite bathmate:

The Kraken