Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2
Discussion
CivicDuties said:
Don't worry about the number plate thing, you're not the only one afflicted, I can remember all my Dad's plates still, and all the plates of the 37 car's I've owned since 1987...they make very handy bases for passwords these days, with a bit of judicious special character and capital use, and if you need to leave yourself a clue as to what the password is, then something like "blue Citroen GSA" will prompt you, but mean nothing to anyone else.
Go on then, prove it! List them all here! LotusOmega375D said:
CivicDuties said:
Don't worry about the number plate thing, you're not the only one afflicted, I can remember all my Dad's plates still, and all the plates of the 37 car's I've owned since 1987...they make very handy bases for passwords these days, with a bit of judicious special character and capital use, and if you need to leave yourself a clue as to what the password is, then something like "blue Citroen GSA" will prompt you, but mean nothing to anyone else.
Go on then, prove it! List them all here! But honestly, it's a great database of potential passwords which are easy to remember, which nobody else would ever guess. I highly recommend it!
-Cappo- said:
hidetheelephants said:
We had one of those when I was a kid, same colour too. CNO 838G iirc (don't ask me how I remember that over 50 years on!).It had allegedly come straight from the set of Z cars!
My dad borrowed one and got it stuck on the kerb performing a U turn across a central reservation. He got me and my brother to sit on the boot to put the rear wheels back onto the tarmac, but we weren't quite heavy enough, so he put it in drive and climbed on to the boot too, with the three of us bouncing it gradually made it's way clear then dad had to chase after it
Turbobanana said:
CivicDuties said:
You're not catching me that easily
But honestly, it's a great database of potential passwords which are easy to remember, which nobody else would ever guess. I highly recommend it!
I do exactly the same, Civic.But honestly, it's a great database of potential passwords which are easy to remember, which nobody else would ever guess. I highly recommend it!
I also remember my old Dad's reg numbers apart from one, a POS VW Derby that nobody liked.
21st Century Man said:
My dad borrowed one and got it stuck on the kerb performing a U turn across a central reservation. He got me and my brother to sit on the boot to put the rear wheels back onto the tarmac, but we weren't quite heavy enough, so he put it in drive and climbed on to the boot too, with the three of us bouncing it gradually made it's way clear then dad had to chase after it
Made me smile , what a memory of your old man that is :Dixy said:
CivicDuties said:
My Dad had the posh one, a Zodiac Executive,
I think that is an Executive, from the badge in the centre of the grillAbandoned rather than left to rot but interesting nonetheless - a '70 / '71 Mustang Grande left in a car park in Newcastle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtuM5mybNpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtuM5mybNpw
GTRene said:
huh? what type is that? must be pretty rare or most others rotted away.
From memory, it was a conversion available in the 1980s. It looked awful then as many kits and conversions did of that period and it hasn't improved with age. I think the firm that did it was called something like Cal Conversions, Fibrefab or maybe Wizzard of Rods.
Clearly my memory isn't that good and apologies to any of those firms if they weren't guilty of creating that.
I took a wrong turn while out for a run in Manila and came across these.
The surprising thing for me is that all the cars you see in Manila are Japanese or Ford and most of them here are what I would call 'new' cars (10 years old or newer) and then there were these.
I've seen one performance car (911 Turbo) and there does look to be a car scene.
I'm sure it will be different when I get out in the provinces with older cars.
Oh and millions of motorbikes of course
The surprising thing for me is that all the cars you see in Manila are Japanese or Ford and most of them here are what I would call 'new' cars (10 years old or newer) and then there were these.
I've seen one performance car (911 Turbo) and there does look to be a car scene.
I'm sure it will be different when I get out in the provinces with older cars.
Oh and millions of motorbikes of course
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