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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
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Location: Le Mans
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Le Mans Classic is behind us, but here's our usual photo of friends who stayed here:-
 IMG_1963 by Tony Brown, on Flickr
The E-type on the left was on its first shakedown cruise after a restoration that has taken 30 years! A few niggles as always, like the inevitable Lucas fuel pump, but all went well apart from that. |
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Ashley
Joined: 02 Jan 2008
Posts: 1426
Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| Great photo |
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Rick
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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Location: UK
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016
Posts: 1950
Location: East Yorkshire
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| Rick wrote: | | Ellis wrote: | Many, many TVRs passed through the village this morning, every model from Tuscans to Cerberas.
Quite an impressive sight. |
Several TRs just went by in convoy, it must be the weather for open-top cars 
RJ |
Or, just making a noise? Why can't folk just go into the sunset quietly? Or am I missing the point? |
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Rick
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Ellis
Joined: 07 Mar 2011
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Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| alastairq wrote: | | Rick wrote: | | Ellis wrote: | Many, many TVRs passed through the village this morning, every model from Tuscans to Cerberas.
Quite an impressive sight. |
Several TRs just went by in convoy, it must be the weather for open-top cars
RJ |
Or, just making a noise? Why can't folk just go into the sunset quietly? Or am I missing the point? |
Five years ago, I seriously considered buying a TVR Chimaera, their values were somewhat in the doldrums then.
Everybody I spoke to warned me off including my friend and owner of the independent garage where I take the "moderns" for servicing and the "old ones" for MOTs.
"Buy one by all means" he said, "but don't ask me to come with you to look at one because if you're looking for unreliability, you'll get it and some................"
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014
Posts: 6304
Location: Derby
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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My brother is a fan of them. He is now on his 4th TVR - a Chimaera 450. Previous cars have been the S4c, the V8s and the Chimaera 400.
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Took the wife's car in for a couple of tyres this morning and a chap brought in an N reg MGB to have its wheels balanced.
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Rick
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Ellis
Joined: 07 Mar 2011
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Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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Bumper sightings today.
The first was a white Dutch registered VW Karmann Ghia coupe driving through the village today.
Then, this afternoon, driving back from Anglesey there were multiple sightings of 1960s and 1970s Fords - it must have been a local club run because some cars had local registration numbers.
There were 105E Anglias, Mark One Escorts, five Mark 2 Escorts in Mexico, 1600 Sport and RS 2000 guises, Three late Capris but what really took my eye was a beautiful Ford Escort Mark 2 GL 4 door in metallic blue.
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Da Tow'd
Joined: 16 Jun 2010
Posts: 349
Location: Bella Coma British Columbia Canada
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 12:24 am Post subject: |
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My wife , our dog and I flew to Halifax Nova Scotia to buy a Sprinter van and travel back across Canada. We just got back to British Columbia and had a great time.
The Sprinter ran perfect and we saw many interesting sights. I'd like to share some photos with you.
We met some interesting car people
cheers
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Ashley
Joined: 02 Jan 2008
Posts: 1426
Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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By way of c0ntrast, this was in Nailsworth on Friday showing how unnecessarily huge far too many cars are now.
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014
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Location: Derby
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Please don't take this the wrong way, Ashley but I seem to remember a rather nice Bentley??  |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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Passed a rather tatty Commer Highwayman camper van this morning, parked up in a layby just off the main road.
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Mikey77
Joined: 10 Jun 2014
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Location: Limoges
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My friend parked his 1929 Austin 16 outside our house yesterday, down a dead-end back road in deepest rural France. We were enjoying an aperitif in the sunshine when we heard a vaguely familiar noise. When we looked, two quite young lads had stopped to admire the Austin - from their very tidy 1970-ish Dodge Challenger. I've never seen that one round here.
My friend said 'I should have brought the Pontiac...' |
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