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Rick
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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 Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:57 pm Post subject: Search for your car's reg. on google, yahoo etc |
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If you search for your car's registration (ideally in double quotes, eg "ABC 123"), does anything crop up? Or maybe try a reg. for a car you once owned.
The jolly green giant's reg. brings up photos hosted in a couple of photographers' Flickr photo albums, same for the tourer.
Naturally it relies on the vehicle registration(s) being mentioned specifically on a webpage, this tends to happen with image archives, and also past results with the larger auction houses.
RJ
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traction39
Joined: 19 May 2009
Posts: 399
Location: South Wales
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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My Riley 9 plate comes up with an old banger - literally! However, they call it a Green Hornet but I know it is a Green Riley!  |
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peppiB
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Posts: 686
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| My Landcrab comes up as a Morris Maxi! 1 photo. Think it was taken at Newby Hall about 5 years ago. Shows a friend who used to help me at the time |
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Minxy
Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 273
Location: West Northants
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:58 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps I shouldn't have included the word Minx in my search   |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012
Posts: 1763
Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| Minxy wrote: | | Perhaps I shouldn't have included the word Minx in my search |
The roads and pavements round here are so bad that I've long preferred military type boots to any other footwear, but the laces - 6 feet long - are next to impossible to buy on the high street, so the internet is the way to go. The first time I searched fleabay for long bootlaces I got umpteen listings (with pictures) for corsets and the like, in various flavours including black shiny PVC with long matching gloves
As for reg numbers, I've just tried a few with no sign of any photos or other interesting content, theough the Herald's number seems to be significant to several sites in Russian  |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 1600
Location: Le Mans
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| Nothing on the XKSS, but a couple of track day photos of the E-type. VPC 712 (the Kettle C-type) brings up a few though. God that car handled badly! Tail was far too heavy. |
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