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surfblue63 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:37 pm This is a Heinz 57 Hornet

It’s a very interesting story on LLH827D. It was pulled out of a scrap yard in 1973, I have the as found photos. If it hadn’t been customised it would have died at 7 years old. Not to my tastes but it’s loved and cherished by its owners.

2016 at the 50th anniversary I organised.

This is a great early shot. I have used it before when trying to explain parts book change points for parts and their total lack of actual factual use. Here’s a photo of the Longbridge line showing a LHD North America spec Deluxe (cloth seats) with the revised air filter and behind it on the line is a RHD with the early type and behind that another revised type. Mix and match at its BMC best.

There’s a stack of air filters on the floor, way past where they’d be fitted on the line. Maybe they’re changing them to the newer type???

Interesting to see those cars with no overriders fitted but having the opening rear quarter windows which suggest a de-luxe spec?

As you say, that Heinz Hornet is an ugly sod but at least it has survived and is loved

Oneball wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:01 am There’s a stack of air filters on the floor, way past where they’d be fitted on the line. Maybe they’re changing them to the newer type???

Very probably

Old English White wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 11:00 am Interesting to see those cars with no overriders fitted but having the opening rear quarter windows which suggest a de-luxe spec?

As you say, that Heinz Hornet is an ugly sod but at least it has survived and is loved

Early on it was again not fully accurate to say all Deluxes had them. Some build records actually list them as additional options on Deluxe while some don’t even though their a standard fitment on a Deluxe according to the spec sheets.

Moor Lane, between Exeter and Honiton on the old A30.

What a photo - if they haven't used already, would make a great advert...even got a little garden going on by the side of his box

5 star petrol 71p a gallon 1970's....on its way to the £1 gallon!

Tim Evans and his 1275 Cooper S in 1969 (Photos are from British Road Scene 1955 to 1985)
Lots more period pictures:-
https://www.facebook.com/groups/British ... 555659968/

Henderson Row, Edinburgh 1969. Filming "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie".

OYF 445F
✗ Untaxed
Tax due: 1 December 1985
Vehicle make MORRIS
Date of first registration June 1968
Year of manufacture 1968
Cylinder capacity Not available
Export marker No
Vehicle status Untaxed
Vehicle colour BLUE
Wheelplan 3 AXLE RIGID BODY
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 23 November 1983

Early 70’s in Broompark, County Durham.

mab01uk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:17 pm



Tim Evans and his 1275 Cooper S in 1969 (Photos are from British Road Scene 1955 to 1985)
Lots more period pictures:-
https://www.facebook.com/groups/British ... 555659968/

Love that aftermarket dash and the quilted vinyl door bin covering!

mab01uk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:29 pm
Early 70’s in Broompark, County Durham.

For some reason I can't help thinking that looks like the kind of estate 'Bob Ferris' moved to in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. No Viva's to be seen !

'S'-type wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:06 pm

mab01uk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:29 pm
Early 70’s in Broompark, County Durham.

For some reason I can't help thinking that looks like the kind of estate 'Bob Ferris' moved to in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. No Viva's to be seen !

Well spotted, apparently it was the same builder but about 30 miles apart. Bob and Thelma's new house was on Agincourt in Killingworth.


New homes being built in Broompark, County Durham in the early 1970’s. No health and safety back then.....a mother with her 2 kids standing in the middle of the site road with no hard hats or hi-vis !

Some exectly like that on the poets estate in Abingdon. The garages were so narrow that you couldn't put your car in them. Well, you could...... but you couldn't open the car doors to get out!

John Wayne writing off a Capri on Tower Bridge in a car chase from the 1975 film "Brannigan"

Now there's something you do not see every day, a Lancia Flavia saloon.

mab01uk wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:15 pm


New homes being built in Broompark, County Durham in the early 1970’s. No health and safety back then.....a mother with her 2 kids standing in the middle of the site road with no hard hats or hi-vis !

Very similar to the new build that I moved into in Bromley in 1971. And talking of site safety, the house on the left was not built when we moved in, the builders still had around 10 houses left to build on the cul-de-sac. As it was the summer me and my brother used to go on the site nicking all the builders empty R-Whites bottles to take up the shops to get the 1/- that each one was worth. It was great climbing up the scaffolding and dropping breeze blocks to the ground and messing about in the waterlogged foundations.

There was a post on a Face page about glass bottles and recycling which brought back memories of money back schemes for empty glass bottles in the 1960s. The local "lads & lassies" used to get into the back yard of my family's business and repatriate the empty bottles - more than once and "get the money back! several times. Oh to be back in the 1960s!
And then they invented "Jubbly" containers for orange drinks and similar milk cartons to replace very small glass bottles.