Just a nice period picture

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:lol: Got the same postcart in my collection, must be 35+ years old.

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mab01uk wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:38 pm Image

Wish you were here: Holiday Post Card featuring a Mini from back in the day...
Nice to see that pic again, painted by Nick Gibbard of Falmouth - he was one of my students back in the day ;-)
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Were they staying at "Dunromin?" :lol:
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:lol: Very nice done, I did send those cards in those days to my frends ;)
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WMU 211G wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:39 am Lovely pic Mark - just noticed the woman standing on top of her bay window cleaning the upstairs window! A pound to a penny her name is Vera, Enid or Doris :lol:

Meanwhile, at Longbridge.... ''does my bum look big in this...?''


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I wonder how they used to clean the top floor windows back in those times lol
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1967, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham
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Would be interesting to see a 'today' photo of the location now . nice photo G
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Pre-Cooper Pete wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 7:51 am IMG_8457.jpeg
1967, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham
From a social point of view - how nice to see a pretty quiet high road!
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The Moke based six wheeled vehicles used for filming 'UFO' in 1969 and 70...

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Pre-Cooper Pete wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 7:51 am IMG_8457.jpeg
1967, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham
That could be Austin dealer Lincoln Street Motors 550 Stratford Road Birmingham. My Super was bought new there April 5th 1962! Now a carpet and furniture warehouse.
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Amazing pics Nidge, still have a Shadow Interceptor somewhere!!
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One of the Shado cars was rescued from a scrap yard in Tenerife and returned to the UK.

Jeroen did a feature on it for Maximum Mini earlier this year. It's now been fully restored and back on the road.
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hi what is the bronze car :?:
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minibitz wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 11:07 pm One of the Shado cars was rescued from a scrap yard in Tenerife and returned to the UK.

Jeroen did a feature on it for Maximum Mini earlier this year. It's now been fully restored and back on the road.
SHADO Jeep found in a scrap yard:-
https://maximummini.blogspot.com/2014/0 ... -yard.html

SHADO Jeep is alive:-
https://maximummini.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... alive.html

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roger mcnab wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2024 8:24 am hi what is the bronze car :?:
cheers roger

That was Ed Straker's car, although it was driven by one or two other characters in the series, it was based on Ford mechanicals...

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The wheel trims look very similar to the Rover P6B 3500S items (which didn't appear until late 1971) but they're not - they came from a very early pre-production Porsche 914 which the production company bought over to the UK to use in another episode ('Psychobombs'), there's a photo of one of these early cars wearing these 'Fuchs' style wheel trims in a recent 914 book. Porsche decided to go with steel wheels and smaller hubcaps in the end though for the base model 914.


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The colour is Ford Tawny bronze apparently.
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