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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"

There was an identical machine at a similar Shell station on the road north out of Evesham.
A life saver on my journey back from Sussex to Kingswinford in 1971-72

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"

The big hands are a dead giveaway!

Great pic! Genuine Mk3 S with Mk2 style 1275 badge added...?

Photo c/o Jamie King on one of the London nostalgia facebook groups, he bought the car new in '68....

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.

Somewhere in the Neterlands early years.

Kees.

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"

The big hands are a dead giveaway!

When I first clapped eyes on it I immediately thought of this lot

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.

Special looking Mini with the Ferrari team. MK1 with a bigger rear window?

Don't know where Penton Corner is, but it's an Oxford numberplate

Hampshire.

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!

Yes it is a BMC Publicity pic.

Slightly different colour version....
https://shop.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/p ... metal-sign

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........

Is that JRX 999B? Sorry was on p1. Doh!

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.

At the price of petrol nowadays, I'd expect at least a B*** J**.