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Penman



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
On the M40 this afternoon near Gaydon,, on cruise control at 60, (sat nav speed not speedo) I was overtaken by a very nice looking blue Ruby.
Unfortunately it was on a transporter whiich was also towing a trailer with a modern SUV on it.
I hope it got to it's destination safely
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Penman wrote:
Hi
Saw a turquoise "yank tank" on the M60/M66 junct, Simister Island, Rbt this morning
It crossed in front of me as I was approaching down the off slip to the r/bt so I only had a side-on view
It was from the tail fin era but I can't find it in any of my books.
The fins were quite high, looked vertical not splayed outwards and had a definite convex curved leading edge starting around where the back of the rear window was.

Any suggestions?


Perhaps a Plymouth Plaza? Wink



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1957-Plymouth-Plaza-4-door-/202729431855?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

Was that not the model that was the subject of the film "Christine"?

Oh, no apparently that was a Plymouth Fury.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085333/

Are you sure that was "Simister Island" and not Sinister Island?

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Penman



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
Most of the pictures I have seen following this up have had the straight line to the top of the fins which this has, but that doesn't fit with the curves I remember.

"Sinister" is the rhyming alternative name I have often used for it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saw a green Frogeye Sprint whilst picking the youngest up from childcare today.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A Routemaster bus has just rumbled by in the rain, its headlamps glowing merrily.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saw a nice red Jaguar E Type on my way home today, parked up for a rest in a layby on the A303.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seen in Whitchurch (possibly en route to this evening's meet), a convertible Herald 13/60, a split-window VW, and a rare Farina-bodied MG Magnette.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very dusty Saab 99 just spotted on a recovery truck, while yesterday's most interesting "spot" was a Mk1 Mazda RX7 with Elford turbo conversion. Also of interest was an immaculate early/mid 1950s Buick (I think) spotted in a grassy driveway. Other sightings included a Mk2 A40 on the motorway, and a Minor pickup (non-original) on another recovery vehicle.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yesterday afternoon, outside Penguin Towers.

Mo the Morris by Penguin 45, on Flickr

A veritable cast of 'Crabs.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shouldn't that be a dose? Very Happy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This afternoon a superb and presumably newly restored white Mini Moke passed me going in the opposite direction. If was "F" registered and driven open top style without a hood.

I haven't seen a Mini Moke "in the metal" for years.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mini Moke for sale in Australia AUD$15,000 ......
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

White Corvette from the 1970s went by earlier, plus an E-Type Roadster.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spotted a black Austin 7 box saloon a couple of times in town this morning.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ellis wrote:
This afternoon a superb and presumably newly restored white Mini Moke passed me going in the opposite direction. If was "F" registered and driven open top style without a hood.

I haven't seen a Mini Moke "in the metal" for years.


I have a feeling I may have seen that one somewhere around (old) Monmouthshire in the last week or two now you've mentioned it.
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