What's the coolest thing you own?
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Blayney said:
Probably the Vox AC30 given to me by my GF's Father.
Going from what I can find on the internet it was probably built around November 1963.
Untitled by blayney1989, on Flickr
I have plans to give it a refurb of the electrical components next year.
That's pretty cool...and very loud too by all accounts, having tried the modern AC15 recently I'm sure it would be.Going from what I can find on the internet it was probably built around November 1963.
Untitled by blayney1989, on FlickrI have plans to give it a refurb of the electrical components next year.
it was a stainless steel landrover ( bit of a ******* to keep clean ).
Very cool, Ruskie. Did you have a career in the game or drop out after youth/U21 level?
I've got loads of stuff that might be considered cool to a very limited number of people who happen to have followed Donny Rovers or other clubs around that level over the last twenty years but due to the limited appeal I wouldn't claim any of it is actually cool.
When my granddad died a few years ago, my grandma gave me loads of his 1980's BR uniform still in its packaging and told me I was welcome to sell it and keep the money if it was worth anything. I wish I'd kept one or two bits now. The woollen overcoat with BR logo buttons was unbelievably good quality compared to the sort of stuff you'd be issued as uniform these days.
The only thing of his that I've kept is a pair of fairly plain rectangular base metal cufflinks. Worth bugger all but I wear them quite regularly and think of him every time I do.
To add to the WW1 stories, I wouldn't be here if my great granddad hadn't been shot at the Somme. He was lucky to survive and ended up marrying the nurse who cared for him.
I've got loads of stuff that might be considered cool to a very limited number of people who happen to have followed Donny Rovers or other clubs around that level over the last twenty years but due to the limited appeal I wouldn't claim any of it is actually cool.
When my granddad died a few years ago, my grandma gave me loads of his 1980's BR uniform still in its packaging and told me I was welcome to sell it and keep the money if it was worth anything. I wish I'd kept one or two bits now. The woollen overcoat with BR logo buttons was unbelievably good quality compared to the sort of stuff you'd be issued as uniform these days.
The only thing of his that I've kept is a pair of fairly plain rectangular base metal cufflinks. Worth bugger all but I wear them quite regularly and think of him every time I do.
To add to the WW1 stories, I wouldn't be here if my great granddad hadn't been shot at the Somme. He was lucky to survive and ended up marrying the nurse who cared for him.
DRFC1879 said:
When my granddad died a few years ago, my grandma gave me loads of his 1980's BR uniform still in its packaging and told me I was welcome to sell it and keep the money if it was worth anything. I wish I'd kept one or two bits now. The woollen overcoat with BR logo buttons was unbelievably good quality compared to the sort of stuff you'd be issued as uniform these days..
You could clothe yourself at a pound shop and it'd still be better quality than the uniform TOCs issue nowadays 
I've got a 1960 BR Rule Book, complete with all the amendments that its original owner had to carefully cut out of update publications and paste into the Rule Book himself thus keeping it current for several years. Again, nowadays you get issued a new A5 booklet for each relevant section of Rules twice yearly. Take out the old one and let it fester in landfill. That's progress
Ruskie said:
It's worthless to anyone else but me. I was lucky enough to play for England at youth level at football. I made 10 appearances from U16-U20 and I was in numerous other squads. I was in the under 21's squad for a European championship but I never played.
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