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dandarez
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LewG said: My dad with my great grandad's Volvo in 1963  Fast forward that nice pic to today and he'd have fallen down a pot hole! 
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cjb1
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And a 4 door marina in 'Limeflower'. I passed my test in a 'Limeflower' Ausin 1800! Great pic martin010161 said: found another picture taken in the 1970's; 1978 I think 
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cjb1
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well spotted and how true! dandarez said: Fast forward that nice pic to today and he'd have fallen down a pot hole!
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W124Bob
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Probably not that long ago,circa 1986.Pretty sure it's a Mercedes publicity shot for the new W124.Sad but true a poverty spec 200d is a real dream car of mine 
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dandarez
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Been going through old pics this morning. Not a lot of Imp stuff on this thread so here is a redress of balance! Some (polaroid) snaps. Mid 60s and I was absolutely IMP mad. This was my second/third? Here are 3 shots from the period. Must be about 1970 I got this one, a Sunbeam Imp Sport KJO 983G.  Didn't look like that for long! Soon was lowered, 998cc engined, painted Rootes/Chyrsler Wardance red and BL Glacier white two tone with new Astrali alloys, Corbeau seats... - looked the biz compared to mate's Vauxhall Viva in front!   I thought hmm, she looks really nice now... the car wasn't bad either! Mainly road car but did the odd autotests (poorly).  It then got modded for the odd road rally use in 73 with full Cibie lighting etc. Next year got married and went on honeymoon in it to Torquay (same young lady). Even bumped into another couple with Imp.  Then when Richard Grant Accessories (think it was Dunstable area?) advertised the first ABS Imp front spoiler I was there like a shot to get that first one! Everyone was asking why I had a snow plough fitted And ABS Escort 1/4 bumpers finished the job off on the front. Then I sold it and the sod who bought it wrote it off within a fortnight!  Imp days were not numbered... always hankered for a Ginetta G15 after seeing it at the 67 Motor Show - bought this one for £850, - For several years after I had completed my apprenticeship, my workmates had got sick of Imp this, Imp that and me on and on about a Ginetta G15. Then one evening the plan was laid. I skived off overtime with 2 workmates while others covered for us. They drove me 65 miles to St Albans to view this G15. They couldn't wait to see it, nor could I. Didn't take long for me to get the cash out! G15 in background. Lady on left is one and the same, my wife, with her sis, this must be over 30 years ago. From driving an Imp to something that was hardly the height of a bus tyre - incredible. Start of a long affair! If you don't realise how tiny the G15 was, here is Production Sports Car Champion David Beams' G15 in 1977. Gives a real look at just how small the car was. Looks like the TR7 is about to swallow a dinky toy.  My G15 as purchased was yellow, but my then love for two tone paintwork continued and it was soon red and yellow. Sold to a lady in Norway mid 80s after I owned it for 10 years and clocked up 100,000 miles. It's still there today in Norway. Think this was holiday caravan site in Wales circa 1980? 
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vixen1700
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Excellent! 
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nicanary
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Was the spoiler bought from Richard E Grant ? We want the finest spoilers known to mankind,we want them here, and we want them now!
Love the Viva HA in the early pic. Had one as my first car, also an SL model -you got two-tone paint, chrome wheel trims and a lockable glove-box. SHK 497D, if anyone's got it. We were easily satisfied in those days.
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RESSE
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LordBretSinclair
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LewG said: My dad with my great grandad's Volvo in 1963 Oh heck, that really does age me !!! This is me in 1960s !!!!!  
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nicanary
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What would Tony Curtis think of this?
Ahhhh..TV175 . Went from Norwich to Brands Hatch on one in the rain to see the BOAC 1000km - it's a long way at 50/55mph.
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LordBretSinclair
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nicanary said: What would Tony Curtis think of this?  RIP.
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RichB
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nicanary said: Went from Norwich to Brands Hatch on one in the rain to see the BOAC 1000km - it's a long way at 50/55mph. If it was 1970 and pissing down with rain most of the day that was the same year I was there. Went with a mate from Ealing by train and bus. We were about 14 and it was my first ever race meeting. His mum worked for BOAC at Heathrow and got complimentary tickets, I don't think that thought about how we'd get there back in those days and we didn't care. Just jumped on the tube at Ealing Broadway, made our way to Charing Cross or Victoria and wound up at some country station somewhere. I remember getting a country bus for the last leg to the track. Can you imagine that these days...
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Johnspex
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LordBretSinclair said: Oh heck, that really does age me !!! This is me in 1960s !!!!! One for the Mods there! Dr Jimmy or Mr Jim? Should be a GS really.
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LordBretSinclair
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46 months
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So long ago now I can't remember why but Vespas didn't do it for me and I had 2 Lambrettas. In my old age I've gone to the other extreme and ride a Norton Commando. Back in the day I wouldn't have been seen dead on one.  
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RichB
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LordBretSinclair said: Back in the day I wouldn't have been seen dead on one. Seriously? I had a poster of a yellow Commando with racing tank and single seat as the main attraction on my bedroom wall  I'd have given my eye teeth for one.
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LordBretSinclair
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I was very young and impressionable. Mods, scooters, Twiggy etc turned my young head.
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W124Bob
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 Used to inspect the underground sections of the Washington Metro circa 1975, it's a diesel so was deemed safer to use.Bedframe is of unknown origan.I didn't realise the yanks had heard of Heath Robinson!
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Boshly
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1 PST said: This was taken around 1980 when we lived in Dubai. It was my dads company car, a Chevrolet Caprice Classic and my mums Toyota Carina in the garage. And me on my bike, I was seven!!  We lived in Abu Dhabi at the same time and my Dad had an identical Caprice and my mum a Honda Prelude 
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nicanary
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LordBretSinclair said: I was very young and impressionable. Mods, scooters, Twiggy etc turned my young head. Never Vespas for me either. Mohair suit jacket, Ben Sherman oxford-cloth button-down shirt,stone-washed Levis, tasselled mocassions. Small Faces and Otis Redding. Bikes were a big no-no, all the wrong associations. And yes, it was 1970 - we didn't have stand tickets, but we just walked in anyway cos we were so pissed-off, and no-one stopped us.You could hardly identify the cars with all the spray.
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nicanary
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Aha, as they say in Norway. I didn't of course wear mocassions, but moccasins, which would today be called loafers. As for Vespas, they had the engine out on the right-hand side of the frame, and thus were so heavy on that side that the rider had to lean to the left to counterbalance - we called it the "Vespa lean".From behind you saw a weird S-shape of the drivers head and curved body ending with the bulbous sidepanel.
I knew a guy with and Eddie Grimstead Hurricane - an SS180 bored out to 200cc. These things were really quick but the cylinder wall must have been paper-thin and he put the rod through the side when flat-out on the Acle straight (twixt Norwich and Gt. Yarmouth, maybe the longest straight in the UK). He was "hors de combat" for a while.All the scooter racers were Lambrettas, so they must have been more suitable in some way, maybe the "balance" thing.
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