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

Kees.

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

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

Were they staying at "Dunromin?"

Very nice done, I did send those cards in those days to my frends

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

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

On the line

1967, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham

Would be interesting to see a 'today' photo of the location now . nice photo G

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!

The Moke based six wheeled vehicles used for filming 'UFO' in 1969 and 70...

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.

Amazing pics Nidge, still have a Shadow Interceptor somewhere!!

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.

hi what is the bronze car
cheers roger

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

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...

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.

The colour is Ford Tawny bronze apparently.