How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[austin]

How do you get away with having the same numberplate on two cars?

[smiffy220]

This was the very last picture of me in my Sunbeam on the 1994 Kune Tune stages rally in Essex. I crashed 5 seconds after landing and wrote the car off. Gutted, finally got the engine running really well just before that event too.

[na]

(ETA number plates being the same) this is posible as long as the two cars are different in make, model, year and colour

Edited by na on Tuesday 13th December 13:16

[Trommel]

na said:

(ETA number plates being the same) this is posible as long as the two cars are different in make, model, year and colour

No it isn't.

[LordBretSinclair]

austin said:

How do you get away with having the same numberplate on two cars?

You can have it on 9 cars if you're really clever

Edited by LordBretSinclair on Tuesday 13th December 13:27

[na]

Trommel said:

na said:

(ETA number plates being the same) this is posible as long as the two cars are different in make, model, year and colour

No it isn't.

no of course it isn't, I was applying what some call the lowest form of wit

[lowdrag]

One number plate - one road tax

[BobbyMel]

Heres me posing beside my Viva

[M3DGE]

LordBretSinclair said:

You can have it on 9 cars if you're really clever

Edited by LordBretSinclair on Tuesday 13th December 13:27

Fantastic montage!! Was the plate originally allocated to a B in 1962? Your first snap is a 1970/1 if I am not mistaken, but I know some dealers went out of their way to register cars in Middlesex when 'reverse MG' was released. Glad to see it's last incarnation on a reall good example (rather than the Metro, IMHO...)

[LordBretSinclair]

Hi, not sure which car first wore this plate. I bought a knackered 105E Anglia in 1968 for £50 just for the plate, got it through an MOT (don't ask how), transfered the plate to my MGC and sold the Anglia for £75 - those were the days
Sorry about the Metro Turbo but that was the stage when room had to be made for the kids and it sort of fitted the bill (for a while). Didn't have it for long though as I went back to a 2 seater and Lady S had a ZA Magnette to transport the sprogs.

[HereBeMonsters]

BobbyMel said:

Heres me posing beside my Viva

fking YES.

[Balmoral Green]

How is Tommy Cannon these days anyway?

[sumlin]

BobbyMel said:

Heres me posing beside my Viva

Thread is closed. In fact, the internet is closed. You sir are the winner!

[cjb1]

I've hundreds of pic's somewhere in the house, all of the Madeira Wine Rally 1982. It was a round of the European Rally Championships. These were taken on our honeymoon when we just happened to go to Madeira at the same time, "pure coincicence honestly Dear".

I'll dig some out and post them at the weekend, Escort MK 1's and two's in action with Roger Clark at the wheel.

[JaySTee]

Not a very interesting background but this is/was my Grandparents Splitty bought in the early sixties and the pic taken shortly afterwards. I have vague memories of it from whe I was very young in the '70s...

[cjb1]

sumlin said:

Thread is closed. In fact, the internet is closed. You sir are the winner!

Do you still have the mullet? As class as the Viva mate!

[radlet6]

BobbyMel said:

Heres me posing beside my Viva

just to prove we didn't get everything right in the 70's.

[bob1179]

sumlin said:

BobbyMel said:

Heres me posing beside my Viva

Thread is closed. In fact, the internet is closed. You sir are the winner!

That is 70's tastic! God bless a good jack up kit.

[BobbyMel]

Balmoral Green: Tommy Cannon keeping ok, used to get called Bobby Ball at work them days.

cjb1: Mullet, no way, bald as a coot.

bob1179: No Jack Up kit, Rally springs all round.

Bob

[HQB]

JaySTee said:

Not a very interesting background but this is/was my Grandparents Splitty bought in the early sixties and the pic taken shortly afterwards. I have vague memories of it from whe I was very young in the '70s...

Gosh I had a bit of a shock as the picture opened from the top and for a second I thought it was pictures of THT 186, the 1954 VW Microbus that belonged to a friend of my father. It was in the almost never seen Fawn/mushroom colour scheme very close to your 'bus. I believe it was lost decades ago after being bought by Davan Caravans near Weston Super Mare and it is not on the DVLA records. When new, wherever we went we were quizzed by people wanting to know what it was and demonstrations of the seats and displays of the engine compartment were a regular formality. It was used as a private hire vehicle on runs to what is now Heathrow Airport and massed over 100,000 miles before being replaced by a Standard Atlas..which lasted three months, then a Bedford Dormobile (WHY 945)..that survived about a year before a change of direction meant that he started up a driving school with a 1958 Vauxhall Victor Delux (760 VVJ). By 1971 it was back to VW with a new "Bay window" Devon Valley Conversion ERD 691K and that one still survives somewhere so if you own it and are reading this and would like it's history from 1971 until 1994, just ask!

All good memories and thank you for bringing them flooding back!

Edited by HQB on Friday 16th December 17:49