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Pick=Up with interesting conversion that was used as a support vehicle on the 1967 Gulf London Rally. Note early Cosmics.


Toney Cox, with co-driver Norman Salt drove a Rover 2000 on the event


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The late and much missed Paddy Hopkirk posing with the Jensen Interceptor 'BEA 898J' that was driven by Robert Vaughan in 'The Protectors', does anyone know who the other chap is...?

Neville Johnstone ….. Paddy’s Co-Driver on 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally

641071S wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:19 am Neville Johnstone ….. Paddy’s Co-Driver on 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally

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Sam colour Inno Mini Minor as driven by Sophia Loren in The Priests Wife


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Whizzo at the 1964 Geneva Rally


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Linda Keith, August 20th 1963. She'd just started going out with Keith Richards and was the inspiration for 'Ruby Tuesday'.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets visit the Austin Car factory, Longbridge in March 1958 on their only visit to England:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thDg5Mxp-PE

Costafortune wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 8:03 pm Linda Keith, August 20th 1963. She'd just started going out with Keith Richards and was the inspiration for 'Ruby Tuesday'.

She also dabble with Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix for a while

WMU 211G wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:40 am

Costafortune wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 8:03 pm Linda Keith, August 20th 1963. She'd just started going out with Keith Richards and was the inspiration for 'Ruby Tuesday'.

She also dabble with Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix for a while

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment ... 15d11b48a5 Well I Never

The usual muckraking nonsense.

I hope he's got a good lawyer.

"During the early days of the M1 — Britain’s first significant motorway, which had opened in 1959 — it had no crash barriers, lighting, or hard shoulder, and very little traffic. Oh, and there was also no speed limit.
At dawn one midsummer morning in 1964, the racing driver Jack Sears decided to test his AC Cobra sports car before the 24-hour race at Le Mans, and made a couple of runs up and down the M1 motorway from Watford Gap service station — at up to 185 mph.
Two policemen did come over to Sears in the car park: they wanted to look round the Cobra.
‘It was more likely they would ask for an autograph than write a ticket — because no laws were broken,’ Sears said later.
Which was true. Furthermore, being a decent sort, he slowed down to about 120 when there was another car — which did not happen often before five in the morning — so as not to give the driver a heart attack. And hardly anyone would have known if someone had not blabbed in a Fleet Street bar, whereupon it hit the papers.
Some blamed him 18 months later when Harold Wilson’s Labour government imposed a 70 mph limit, experimentally at first then permanently. But a more safety-conscious approach was undoubtedly needed on Britain’s roads. On bank holidays in those days there would be daily bulletins of death tolls, issued by the government and widely reported. The figures for the Whitsun weekend in 1964 were notably dreadful, with a total of 84 people killed. And 1966 would be the peak year — wartime excluded — for road deaths in Great Britain: 7,985, more than four times the 2019 figure...."

Paris in the '70s - a couple of Minis parked outside the hotel and right in front of the entrance is a Volvo P1800 Estate and an Iso Fidia saloon, one of just 192 built, two of which were owned by John Lennon, also an 1100 / 1300 in front of the Volvo...

mab01uk wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 10:17 am

which had opened in 1959 — it had no crash barriers

Interesting story but I am pretty sure it was built with a hard shoulder as standard.

No Armco though. They’ve got the wrong Cobra though. The M1 escapade was with the Daytona Coupe. No roadster could go that fast.

locrep wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:20 pm Interesting story but I am pretty sure it was built with a hard shoulder as standard.

Although in the photo posted by Oneball the 'hard' shoulder and central reservation look like just grass verges....

Update:-
"The M1 was Britain's first full-length motorway and opened in 1959. The early M1 had no speed limits, crash barriers, or lighting, and had soft shoulders rather than hard."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_motorway

Doubt the Cobra pictured could achieve 185mph. The one on the M1 was the Willment Cobra coupe (itself somewhat less effective than the Shelby Daytona Coupe and those not as effective as the prototype Daytona because of differences in what the Italian coachbuilder produced as the "production" batch...).