Just a nice period picture

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Maybe taking about the Downton Britax Cooper racing cars ?
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Somewhere in the UK in 1973.
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BMC CRYSTAK PALCE 1100.jpg
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Somewhere in Almelo the Netherlands in the 70th

Kees.
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UHR850 wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 12:31 pm Somewhere in the Netherlands in the 70th

Kees.
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WMU 211G wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 10:33 am BMC CRYSTAK PALCE 1100.jpg
I had to do a double take on that shot, it looks like the attendant has got a fag in his gob. :o
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He probably had. Happened all the time where I first started work :o Nobody ever even thought about it.
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Very rare Pink Morris Minor
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UHR850 wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 7:43 am Very rare Pink Morris Minor
Dont look very "minor" to me :o
Ohh you mean then car.......
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Same here...... When you were talking about being pink. I wondered how you could tell. Then I realised that you were talking about the car
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;) There you have two points :lol:
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:P This picture is great :shock: Alec Poole’s rapid Wolseley Hornet at Oulton Park 1967.( pic Elvet Pierce).
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Alec Issigonis as a young man in his modified 1932 Austin Seven Ulster.
(He gave this photo to Suzanne Johns as a present, after she became his secretary at BMC/BL from 1966).
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We've got a pub called the Barley Mow here and it looks JUST like that........ Clifton Hampden near Abingdon.
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It's The Barley Mow near West Horsley in Surrey.
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surfblue63 wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 12:37 pm It's The Barley Mow near West Horsley in Surrey.
Ohh yes, no mention of any famous guests on their website.......

http://www.barleymowhorsley.com/
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I think it was a favourite haunt of the motor trade and journos in the past. Something in my memory was sparked and it made me think of George Bishops column Carte Blanche, that I used to read in CAR magazine in the 1980s. I seem to remember that he mentioned The Barley Mow now and again.
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