Impromptu BL line up

[Yertis]

55palfers said:

I don't know if this one is sufficiently mellow (1971) or yellow, but it was amongst a number of lovely cars at Stratford on Sunday. I think I mentally spent about a million Pounds.

That dog is clearly unimpressed.

I was recently looking at a Stags at a rally I was on and the thing that struck me, which never had before, is how small they are, relative to modern cars. When I first looked at getting one, and drove a few, in the late '80s I rejected them as being too big. Then when I looked at Stags again in the early '90s it was as a family car. We got a Scimitar instead; obviously we had a reliable car as well – a GT6. Crazy, in retrospect.

[yellowjack]

Breadvan72 said:

I have followed the restoration of that car on Autoste. If I had not just bought a bronze metallic Lancia Beta 1600 Coupe that requires new sills but is in most respects otherwise sound, I would be on that Ambassador like a vagabond on heated potato products.

I passed a Princess for sale on Saturday. I can share the location if you're tempted...


Unfortunately I don't currently have a working camera, else I'd have taken pictures. Co-located with a Morgan and an MX-5, along with other stuff in the back of the garage.

Also spotted a Triumph 1300 saloon (light blue, and certainly no 'garage queen') out on the roads over the Bank Holiday weekend.

[anonymous-user]

Lowtimer said:

I've been a bit off Stags ever since some flash harry used one to impress my sister. But they do look nice. One of those mellow-yellow ones for me, please

Lowtimer, earlier: -

[Lowtimer]

My dear fellow, I would never be seen with such a vulgar shotgun and certainly not in such a cap. Apart from those cultural points, 9/10 VG

[Scotty2]

I was hoping to contribute to this thread with a pic of my newly re-charged Hydragas units and the rig I have made for refurbishing my Allegro suspension (in readiness for becoming Son No3's Learner). Due to some shoddy fittings which went porous, I am having to get 2 of the 4 cut off and rewelded. They will then get 20 bar of Oxygen free N2 before fitting and bringing the suspension back to life rather than being rock solid.

[anonymous-user]

Lowtimer said:

My dear fellow, I would never be seen with such a vulgar shotgun and certainly not in such a cap. Apart from those cultural points, 9/10 VG

OK, your grandfather's matched Purdeys, engraved with his monogram by someone at Garrard's.

So, you like the tats, then? How are the dags?

[anonymous-user]

yellowjack said:

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I passed a Princess for sale on Saturday. I can share the location if you're tempted...
...

I am not tempted, but I know of several sorely benighted people who may be, so please send deets, ta.

[yellowjack]

Breadvan72 said:

yellowjack said:

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I passed a Princess for sale on Saturday. I can share the location if you're tempted...
...

I am not tempted, but I know of several sorely benighted people who may be, so please send deets, ta.

It was parked outside this garage... http://www.classiccarwebsite.com/tony-howards-gara...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3738173,-1.09252...

I was about 30 miles from home on a bicycle when I passed it, with 70 more miles to ride, so forgive me for not having better recall of the particulars, such as age and price.

Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 2nd May 18:32

[anonymous-user]

Thanks! Top cycling, BTW. Stay safe when the PH cycle haters in their appalling cars are near you.

[TR4man]

Yertis said:

I was recently looking at a Stags at a rally I was on and the thing that struck me, which never had before, is how small they are, relative to modern cars.

Very true, particularly in the second photo my Stag is dwarfed by the Renault Twingo

[anonymous-user]

I'm just saying ...

[jith]

Breadvan72 said:

I'm just saying ...

I know, I know!!

I have to get this out of my system. I utterly, utterly, utterly HATE all the ludicrously swollen modern 4x4s. The new Range Rover is wider than a Transit van!! I hate the snobbery and the fuel they consume. Then there's the pollution, and the waste of resources building the bloody awful things in the first place!!!! And then you can't park them 'coz they don't fit in a parking space! So the cretins that drive them take up two spaces; or at least one and a half.

Then there's the usual congested posing outside the school in the morning. I mean you can't expect the little darlings to walk 500 yards to school, can you. 'Specially when you can pose in a Rangey and do your makeup in the rear view mirror at the lights!

And don't have me start about the blinding headlamps in your rear view mirror.

Ahhh, that's better.

J

[uk66fastback]

jith said:

And don't have me start about the blinding headlamps in your rear view mirror.

J

Add to that the rear lights on the auto versions burning your retinas to shreds when you're sat behind them at the lights. They're SO powerful. Do we really need to see someone braking a mile ahead?

[anonymous-user]

The way to mess with the heads of the school run mafia is to turn up in the most shonky and disgusting old tat that you can find, with a number plate from before the year number series. The status anxiety types can't compute, and their heads explode.


Lights: I feel ya.

[V8 Fettler]

An Alvis Stalwart would be ideal.

[yellowjack]

Breadvan72 said:

Thanks! Top cycling, BTW. Stay safe when the PH cycle haters in their appalling cars are near you.

Cheers!

I almost always wear PistonHeads colours when I'm road cycling. I've been spotted a few times in it. It can really fry the brains of the most small-minded of bike-haters...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNsQgbQxghA

That's me, immortalised on YouTube two years ago. (Looking rather more "round" in my PH Lycra than I hope I appear these days!)



Saturday was lovely. I took a quieter route (apart from a few miles on the westbound A4), not out of consideration for drivers, but because it was prettier. Near 7 hours in the saddle and I only got two "dhead" moments. One was two Doris' in a BMW who were SO intent on not giving way to me at a mini-roundabout in Newbury that they were very nearly in collision with the car I was giving way to. The other was a "cut-in" too early after an overtake. When the overtaking car kicks up dust from the verge, you kinda know it's a "you were riding too far out" 'punishment' pass.

I think I may have got a friendly multiple 'toot' of recognition for the PH jersey from a Golf driver in Newbury. Although they may just have been juveniles attempting to attract the attention of the slightly chubby potential mates waiting at the bus stop. I suppose I'll never know.

The area is really well served by classic car garages, with a Mercedes Benz specialist in Silchester who often has some lovely W113 Pagodas, and currently a very nice old saloon in the window, and a classic MG place, with stuff from MGBs to 'modern' TFs in the yard. Lots of cool stuff seen out on the roads too. Two stood out, and I'm ashamed to say I couldn't identify them. Pre-war British cars, radiator mascots "winged" but not Rolls Royce. Proper coach built bodies, one a real 'needs a chauffeur' coach of a car, the other more akin in style to a blower Bentley. Their occupants were all at least late 60s, but could have been in their 80s, the two gentlemen carrying the bags while their wives went ahead into the hotel. (Edit: I think they may have been 1930s Alvis cars, thinking about it. The Silver Eagle mascot would be about right, possibly Speed 20 cars?)

I seriously need to get another camera, even if it's just a cheap point'n'shoot, because not having one feels like I've lost an arm at times. I'd have taken pictures for the "spotted" thread if I had the means, especially of the Princess, and the Triumph 1300 I saw.

Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 3rd May 08:19

[anonymous-user]

Yertis said:

55palfers said:

I don't know if this one is sufficiently mellow (1971) or yellow, but it was amongst a number of lovely cars at Stratford on Sunday. I think I mentally spent about a million Pounds.

That dog is clearly unimpressed.

I was recently looking at a Stags at a rally I was on and the thing that struck me, which never had before, is how small they are, relative to modern cars. When I first looked at getting one, and drove a few, in the late '80s I rejected them as being too big. Then when I looked at Stags again in the early '90s it was as a family car. We got a Scimitar instead; obviously we had a reliable car as well – a GT6. Crazy, in retrospect.

I think that is a BL colour Primrose/Jasmine used on Triumph's and Jag's but not sure if the factory ever made a stag in that colour but have seen a few on the internet mainly in the states and imho it looks the best colour I have ever seen for a stag especially with US spec red side marker lights and wire wheels, strange me saying that because as a rule I don't tend to like wire wheels on stags especially on lighter colour cars like my own colour which is white.
Regarding how small stags seem now we only have to look at the width of average garages in the 60s/70s which at the door opening I think was 7ft 6'', I often here someone say to me "I saw you go past in a little sports car the other day" but SL Mercs are similar when you see them going down the motorway next to other cars. Not sure if there are any Brit bikers amongst us on this part of PH but anyone notice how Triumph T160's and Norton Commando's seem to have have shrunk too.

[Carfield]

That colour's called Honeysuckle isn't it? As seen on 2000s and Toledos but not normally Stags? Looks good on it though.

[Sardonicus]

jith said:

Breadvan72 said:

I'm just saying ...

I know, I know!!

I have to get this out of my system. I utterly, utterly, utterly HATE all the ludicrously swollen modern 4x4s. The new Range Rover is wider than a Transit van!! I hate the snobbery and the fuel they consume. Then there's the pollution, and the waste of resources building the bloody awful things in the first place!!!! And then you can't park them 'coz they don't fit in a parking space! So the cretins that drive them take up two spaces; or at least one and a half.

Then there's the usual congested posing outside the school in the morning. I mean you can't expect the little darlings to walk 500 yards to school, can you. 'Specially when you can pose in a Rangey and do your makeup in the rear view mirror at the lights!

And don't have me start about the blinding headlamps in your rear view mirror.

Ahhh, that's better.

J

That is crazy and I remember the SD1's and P6's being a big beast as a kid

[anonymous-user]

Carfield said:

That colour's called Honeysuckle isn't it? As seen on 2000s and Toledos but not normally Stags? Looks good on it though.

Could be right, seen a few in the Triumph range that colour.