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Good of you to think of me Mantis  I think the rover would likely be needing a lot of welding as well as the doors.

The Velox was a big beast although I preferred the later PA model.

As a young boy I remember seeing a Consul Capri coming into the car park at Fort Augustus and made up my mind that was the car I wanted although never knew anyone that owned one.

I got my Capri later in life although a different model a 1600XL and later a 1600L hatchback.

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Last of the Fords for now - a Ford Coupe from 1935 or 1936, and then a 1937 Ford Cabriolet.

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I found this tonight big brother is watching me  after posting about the capri.  Never made to the production line but could have been good!

 

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Great number on the Ford beside the Capri - "R60 World Rally Championship".

 

Across the pond again today.  The number plate tells us that it's a 1955 Chevy Bel Air.

The bloke in the purple top in the second photo reminded me of the ageing Jimmy Greaves

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You would not have any time to go on CTO or go to the football if you had to keep that car it's a cracker 

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And this is one that you'd never guess - unless you had built one yourself!

 

 

 

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I don't fancy that one at all but reading about the epoxy resin brought back memories. 

Back as a jointer with BT in the 70's we used epoxy putty for closing some joints which consisted of a resin and hardener that you mixed by hand but in the cold weather it was so hard you would boil water in a bucket on the gas stove in the back of your van to soften it before mixing and some of the rough jointers would use the bailer that was used for peeing in when you were caught short working in town and the stench in the back of the van was terrible 

It was not very good for closing the joints but it was good for filling in holes in rusty sills of cars though 

[The Mantis]

Back around the millennium I built 2 kayaks using ply and epoxy. It didn’t really have a smell but I don’t think it did my lungs any good.

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22 minutes ago, The Mantis said:

Back around the millennium I built 2 kayaks using ply and epoxy. It didn’t really have a smell but I don’t think it did my lungs any good.

No the epoxy didn't smell but the bailer that was used for pi55 certainly did when filled water and boiled and there were no gloves for opening up the packs either 

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And here is the latest Capri that I will never own an electric SUV.  Not enough in my pension even if I wanted one!

[Robert]

It’s just not right to use the Capri name for that!

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9 hours ago, Robert said:

It’s just not right to use the Capri name for that!

See also "Mustang" !

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Here are a few from Inverness from May this year.  This is another thread that was started by IHE as when he was posting old photos of the streets in Inverness with cars I was identifying the cars  and it's still going  although just a few oldies posting now but I suppose it's only us that is interested in old cars.

 

 

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Some well looked after old cars there.   Looks as though they use the entire length of Church Street?

Here are couple of sporty models with about 50 years between them.  I'm sure you'll recognise the first one, but I've left the giveaways there anyway.

I did once have a look at an S2000.  But I realised that my golf clubs wouldn't go in the boot, so that was the end of that!

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7 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Some well looked after old cars there.   Looks as though they use the entire length of Church Street?

Here are couple of sporty models with about 50 years between them.  I'm sure you'll recognise the first one, but I've left the giveaways there anyway.

I did once have a look at an S2000.  But I realised that my golf clubs wouldn't go in the boot, so that was the end of that!

I would rather the Jensen 

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Last one for now - a classic 2CV.  Complete with a model of itself, and the Michelin man.

Note that the first bloke on the right at the back has taken advantage of its legendary removable seats!

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Not a car I liked but it was a clever bit of engineering for it's time.

Along the High Street now......................

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I always liked these Vauxhalls.

As for the Riley.....  gather round, kids, and Gramps will tell you of the old days when BMC was into badge-engineering, putting out essentially the same car under up to five different marques - Austin, Morris, Riley, Wolsley and Vanden-Plas.  And guess what, kids - they were all rubbish!

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36 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

I always liked these Vauxhalls.

As for the Riley.....  gather round, kids, and Gramps will tell you of the old days when BMC was into badge-engineering, putting out essentially the same car under up to five different marques - Austin, Morris, Riley, Wolsley and Vanden-Plas.  And guess what, kids - they were all rubbish!

My father was a Riley man his first was a 1940's Kestrel before I was born second was 1950's RFM 2.5 which I remember as a very young boy third was a 2.6 reg MHL555 which was a big beast with a bench seat in the front and the gear lever was on the right side of the seat.  His last one was a 4/72 reg 479FS that he bought accident damaged while working away in Skye, it was also left hand drive!  He worked on it at night replacing the front, offside wing and bonnet and other work required to repair the damage, he also converted it from left to right hand drive using the dashboard from a similar MG so it was Riley outside and MG inside  

In the late 70's when he worked for Tawse down the Carse he had a Wolseley 16/60 which was rotten with rust, front wings, sills and the floor was like a Fred Flintstone car 

We stripped out the seats and carpets before welding the floor but there was a coating of bitumen on the inside so when he was welding underneath I was inside beating out the flames with soaking wet rags just glad it didn't catch fire  He got front wings from a Vanden Plas that had been rolled they were sound although a bit bashed so the old ones cut off and replacements welded on.  The Aird brothers one a panel beater the other a coach painter finished it of and it was like new or so I thought  

Looking back he was always repairing cars just to keep them on the road and you know what Gramps was right 

[Robert]

I took the grandkids to the Moray Motor Museum yesterday. If you’ve not been, it’s well worth a visit, with some incredible cars on display and a very knowledgeable staff member, who thoroughly enthralled an 11 year old girl who doesn’t like cars and a 12 year old boy who’s fascinated by them. 

Edited August 7, 2024 by Robert

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11 hours ago, IBM said:

Looking back he was always repairing cars just to keep them on the road and you know what Gramps was right 

Everyone apart from the well-heeled was repairing cars back then!

My father was a Vauxhall man, from old Veloxes, through Victors, up to a Cavalier.  (He did make a detour to a Hillman Minx once.  And also to a Morris Marina - the least said about that, the better!).

So I can remember him repairing rust holes with fibre glass and chicken mesh. 

He always had the lubrication chart for the current car on the wall of the garage, and periodically disappeared underneath with his grease gun. 

Points were always in need of adjustment, and the carburettor was always in need of a clean-out.

One of his friends was a mechanic at Highland Omnibuses, and he was a great bloke to know for diagnosing problems and helping you fix them.  And on more than one occasion we made out-of-hours visits to the bus garage on the Carse, to make use of the inspection pit.

And nowadays you don't even get a spare tyre!   Or a jack - as I discovered last year when one of our (heavy) fence panels became displaced and we needed to lift it up and back into position.  Neither my car nor my wife's has one - both have run-flats.  But a £20 jack from Halfords did the job.

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3 hours ago, Robert said:

I took the grandkids to the Moray Motor Museum yesterday. If you’ve not been, it’s well worth a visit, with some incredible cars on display and a very knowledgeable staff member, who thoroughly enthralled an 11 year old girl who doesn’t line cars and a 12 year old boy who’s fascinated by them. 

Looks great.  They even have a Jensen 541 for IBM!

[The Mantis]

13 hours ago, Robert said:

I took the grandkids to the Moray Motor Museum yesterday. If you’ve not been, it’s well worth a visit, with some incredible cars on display and a very knowledgeable staff member, who thoroughly enthralled an 11 year old girl who doesn’t like cars and a 12 year old boy who’s fascinated by them. 

Looks great but I can’t see me getting permission on one of my weekends staying in Sneck. Of course we could end up in the same division as Elgin…

We have the Myreton Motor Museum a half hour’s drive away in East Lothian, and the Museum of Flight nearby, which has Concorde on the site. Need to try and visit them this year as I haven’t been for yonks.

[The Mantis]

10 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Everyone apart from the well-heeled was repairing cars back then!

 

Exactly. My old man was a motor mechanic to trade in his younger days although he wasn’t in the trade during my lifetime. But he always fixed his own motors and I naturally just graduated from fixing my bike onto fixing cars. I’ve done a clutch, petrol tank, valve grinding, new wings, brake discs etc etc. However with the car I have now I got ready to change the oil, located the drain plug underneath the plastic tray they all have nowadays, but couldn’t even see where the filter was . So that was the end of my car maintenance days…

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11 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Looks great.  They even have a Jensen 541 for IBM!

It does look good so I will have to pay a visit and it's cheap for a pensioner