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peter scott
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Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7119 Location: Edinburgh
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Ray White
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Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6319 Location: Derby
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, but people look like prats in those things. |
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peter scott
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Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7119 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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Ray White wrote: | Sorry, but people look like prats in those things. |
A common problem with many Sinclair products.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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Ray White
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Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6319 Location: Derby
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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It gave him a good living.
God rest him. |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3820 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:05 am Post subject: |
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No denying he was a very clever chap.
I listened to a piece on the radio the other day that a chap had a collection of 40 Sinclair C5's?? _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Ray White
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Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6319 Location: Derby
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Rootes75 wrote: | No denying he was a very clever chap.
I listened to a piece on the radio the other day that a chap had a collection of 40 Sinclair C5's?? |
Why on earth would anyone want 40 of the things? |
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Ray White wrote: | Rootes75 wrote: | No denying he was a very clever chap.
I listened to a piece on the radio the other day that a chap had a collection of 40 Sinclair C5's?? |
Why on earth would anyone want 40 of the things? |
Hi Ray, A few years back I was in conversation with a guy at a hotel bar in Caernarfon UK, (short version).. he collected pencil sharpeners and was visiting the locality to pick up a collection of rare sharpeners... OCC is a fountain of knowledge, |
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Ray White
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Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6319 Location: Derby
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:10 am Post subject: |
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I am not against collecting. Pencil sharpeners is fine.
I used to have a vast collection of matchbox tops; several thousand in fact, but they were all different.
There is someone I recall who collected Trabants... so it's obviously an affliction.! ![Laughing](images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) |
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petelang
Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 444 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:09 am Post subject: |
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Back in the early 2000's I was working in Athens and the main Volvo dealership there, Sarakakis Brothers had crates in their warehouse with brand new C5's which were unsold. They had many of them. I don't know what ultimately happened to them but the Greeks took a gamble they would take off and it didn't happen. Maybe this is the source of a collection such as described? _________________ Daimler Fifteen 1934
Armstrong Siddeley 15 Long 1933
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