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Dead ringer for one of my teachers at middle school in the '70s...! :o

I've just posted this elsewhere and noticed the lovely BMC / Morris sign in the background... Piccadilly in 1965...
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Soho, 15th March 1966, two tone Elf or Hornet partly obscured by the little FIAT...
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Somewhere in London in '68, nice blue & white Mk1 on the left...
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No, it's not Margo Ledbetter in her swinging youth but there's a nice glimpse of a '66 Mk1 Morris 850 with a dented bumper, 9th September 1968...
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Charlotte Street, Soho 1965
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The pop art Mk1 Cooper again, 1966...!
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WMU 211G wrote:
Soho, 15th March 1966, two tone Elf or Hornet partly obscured by the little FIAT...
...and a Panhard PL17. That Fiats a long way from home too.
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Thanks Stu ;)

Templecombe Loco Shed, 5th March 1966, the day the Somerset & Dorset line closed, nice Cherry Red Mk1 in the yard...
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Costafortune wrote:I very briefly owned JOF129E in the nineties. It had been painted black and had a Clubman front end, rough as buggery - it came off the road in 1979. It wasn't a Cooper as such but iirc, it was a Mini Minor with a 998 Cooper running gear from the factory, an MA2S4 chassis number but 9F engine number. It may have been a police car - lots of Police Rover 3500 SD1's were specially built from 2300 cars with basic trim and no self levelling rear suspension. JOF is a Brum number plate.

Watch 'Robbery' and you can see the 100 mph speedo.

I sold it in 1999/2000 to a well known restorer of Minis. It has yet to resurface however.
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:o Somewhere in the Netherlands in the early 60th.

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SMOKE GREY wrote:
Costafortune wrote:I very briefly owned JOF129E in the nineties. It had been painted black and had a Clubman front end, rough as buggery - it came off the road in 1979. It wasn't a Cooper as such but iirc, it was a Mini Minor with a 998 Cooper running gear from the factory, an MA2S4 chassis number but 9F engine number. It may have been a police car - lots of Police Rover 3500 SD1's were specially built from 2300 cars with basic trim and no self levelling rear suspension. JOF is a Brum number plate.

Watch 'Robbery' and you can see the 100 mph speedo.

I sold it in 1999/2000 to a well known restorer of Minis. It has yet to resurface however.
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It would be interesting to see what Heritage have down in the ledger for that one.
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If that happened in the UK the Old Bill would have said " Your Nicked Sunshine " :roll:
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Chapel Street in Rugby, 1974...
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Camping in the 60th & 70th :lol:
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Last seen on a high street in Potters Bar or some such, and advertised in Motoring News @ 1974 for not a lot.
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Seeing as it’s still 1st April here...

Adolf in his later years, fitting transmissions on the Mk1 assembly line
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I think that's Ron and Russell Mael before they were on Top of the Pops
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Piccadilly Circus early '70s
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