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Re: Just a nice period picture

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Pete wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:49 pm I thought this looked abit staged but is apparently Sidmouth, early 70s..
Thats a bloke, surly !

EDIT or is it "Sid Mouth" :lol:
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There was an identical machine at a similar Shell station on the road north out of Evesham.
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Exminiman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:27 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:49 pm I thought this looked abit staged but is apparently Sidmouth, early 70s..
Thats a bloke, surly !

EDIT or is it "Sid Mouth" :lol:
The big hands are a dead giveaway!

Great pic! Genuine Mk3 S with Mk2 style 1275 badge added...?
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Photo c/o Jamie King on one of the London nostalgia facebook groups, he bought the car new in '68....
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Nice bit of footage shot in Finchley in June 1970 for an episode of 'The Persuaders' called 'The Long Goodbye'....

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

Only a few Minis in it but it's striking how clean and tidy everything looks.
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Somewhere in the Neterlands early years.

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WMU 211G wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:43 pm
Exminiman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:27 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:49 pm I thought this looked abit staged but is apparently Sidmouth, early 70s..
Thats a bloke, surly !

EDIT or is it "Sid Mouth" :lol:
The big hands are a dead giveaway!
When I first clapped eyes on it I immediately thought of this lot


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That's a nice MGA Coupe there as well Kees! Not many about, and if that says MA-88-78 it looks like it isn't either anymore. I'm still upset a fellow club member bought a Coupe shell a few years ago only to cut the roof off! Said he preferred a roadster and couldn't find any coupe doors (I think they had wind-up windows, and definitely had door handles unlike the roadster!), such a waste.
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Special looking Mini with the Ferrari team. MK1 with a bigger rear window?
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Don't know where Penton Corner is, but it's an Oxford numberplate
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Hampshire.
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It's near Andover in Hampshire. I reckon that shot is a BMC publicity photo?

Haha, I must have been typing while Mark was posting!
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Yes it is a BMC Publicity pic.
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Is someone saying that in the olden days, someone would put the daily papers down, get of his fat arse, come out and fill your car up with petrol for 5 shilling a gallon........ Surely not........
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Is that JRX 999B? Sorry was on p1. Doh!
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Peter Laidler wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 6:09 pm Is someone saying that in the olden days, someone would put the daily papers down, get of his fat arse, come out and fill your car up with petrol for 5 shilling a gallon........ Surely not........
You'll be surprised to hear there are still a few village petrol stations up here in the north that still have attendant service. Some of them get a bit shirty when you go for the pump yourself.

But at todays prices I would expect an oil level check, a screen clean and my tyres done.
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At the price of petrol nowadays, I'd expect at least a B*** J**.

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