Classics left to die/rotting pics
Discussion
Cliftonite said:
tali1 said:
The red on that french 205 is one that was not on uk cars.
Is being a car "anorak" cool?Just askin'
gforceg said:
Flip Martian said:
My first car was a UK Pug 205 1.1GL in exactly that colour. Great car (at the time).
My mum used to have a non-turbo diesel 205 in that colour too. Unless we've both got it wrong.
RichB said:
100 IAN said:
Does this qualify?
Excellent, what is it? A Gnat? Is she still at Dunsfold? She had her first flight from there on 09 January 1959, although built at Kingston. She looks a bit the worse for standing outside, seen looking a
Service with ETPS must have been at Boscombe Down? If so, it's likely that I've been 'bombed' by that very aircraft while NBC training at Porton Down. They used to use a Hunter to simulate chemical attacks by dropping a liquid that stained the detector paper on our NBC suits blue.
yellowjack said:
Hunter T.7 (2 seater), military serial number XL621, which, it was planned, was to be made airworthy again.
Is she still at Dunsfold? She had her first flight from there on 09 January 1959, although built at Kingston. She looks a bit the worse for standing outside, seen looking alittle lot better in 2007 here... http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/sur...
Service with ETPS must have been at Boscombe Down? If so, it's likely that I've been 'bombed' by that very aircraft while NBC training at Porton Down. They used to use a Hunter to simulate chemical attacks by dropping a liquid that stained the detector paper on our NBC suits blue.
I wonder if my dad ever "bombed" you. He passed through ETPS in the '60s. He'll be interested to see that picture above.Is she still at Dunsfold? She had her first flight from there on 09 January 1959, although built at Kingston. She looks a bit the worse for standing outside, seen looking a
Service with ETPS must have been at Boscombe Down? If so, it's likely that I've been 'bombed' by that very aircraft while NBC training at Porton Down. They used to use a Hunter to simulate chemical attacks by dropping a liquid that stained the detector paper on our NBC suits blue.
gforceg said:
I wonder if my dad ever "bombed" you. He passed through ETPS in the '60s. He'll be interested to see that picture above.
Unlikely! I wasn't born in the 60's 
In fact, looking at what history I can find for XL621, I don't think it would have been 'on strength' at Boscombe Down when I was being bombed, but it was certainly a Hawker Hunter that used to visit us to drop 'suspicious liquids' when we were being ragged all over the place on Salisbury Plain in the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s.
To add: I reckon my memory is fuzzy, because I've now found the aircraft that regularly 'attacked' us...
...it was a single seat FGA.9, XE601. She spent 42 years at the A&AEE at Boscombe Down, retiring in the late 1990s, and may still be airworthy, but in France.
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