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A few gems from the event today. Very small but looked to be a success.
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This was the star for me. So clean and very well restored. Was so taken by how good it was under the bonnet I forgot to take any more pics of it. 3ltr auto.

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3 minutes ago, Catteeclan said:

A few gems from the event today. Very small but looked to be a success.
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How obsessive must you have to be to keep something looking like that while still riding it?

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4 minutes ago, Catteeclan said:

A few gems from the event today. Very small but looked to be a success.
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This was the star for me. So clean and very well restored. Was so taken by how good it was under the bonnet I forgot to take any more pics of it. 3ltr auto.

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Original Capri Dave?

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1 minute ago, XTreme said:

Original Capri Dave?

Yes. Took the owner an age to get it how he wanted and you can tell. I'll text my mate later see if he took any more pics of it.

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Some nice cars and bikes there Dave (apart from that godawful Virago).  I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

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Just now, boboneleg said:

Some nice cars and bikes there Dave (apart from that godawful Virago).  I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

I drove a Hunter GLS with the Holbay engine......bloody rapid car for it's day!

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4 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Some nice cars and bikes there Dave (apart from that godawful Virago).  I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

Funnily enough I was thinking what an eyesore that Virago was.  Love the yellow Triumph and the V50. 

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5 hours ago, busabeast said:

Nobody would get any id have drank it all....

once it was dragged out of a ditch and you found a few bottles that weren't smashed you mean.

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2 hours ago, Catteeclan said:

A few gems from the event today. Very small but looked to be a success.
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This was the star for me. So clean and very well restored. Was so taken by how good it was under the bonnet I forgot to take any more pics of it. 3ltr auto.

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Our next door neighbour had one of them old capris , was in the 1970's , he was a keen golfer, he would drive round the  alley where we used to play as kids  after golf as pissed as a fart... fuck knows how he got home with out hitting anything, one time he came home closely followed by the police and got nicked .

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2 hours ago, Six30 said:

Our next door neighbour had one of them old capris , was in the 1970's , he was a keen golfer, he would drive round the  alley where we used to play as kids  after golf as pissed as a fart... fuck knows how he got home with out hitting anything, one time he came home closely followed by the police and got nicked .

Steve McQueen did the same on a Benz 300SL during the filming of The Great Escape, being chased by cops into the film set. He must have been better than your neighbour, or more famous.

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13 hours ago, boboneleg said:

 I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

Many years ago me and my older brother fitted a used auto gearbox to one and didn't quite get the torque convertor alined. 30 miles down the road the noise bearing and seal failed resulting in a long line of oil on the floor before it could go no further.

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On 30/09/2023 at 10:58, Saul said:

We had Skoda Octavias as Doctors cars, now we have Kodiacs.  Bloody good cars.  Not without fault but our Octavias  were hammered and not really serviced properly.  Even so 10 cars over 5 years around 150000 miles each I think we only had 3 breakdowns and one burnt to the ground but that was user error.  

I had an Octavia vRS TDI estate a number of years ago as my company car. The boot was huge and it went pretty well too! The only downside was that it didn't really like a lot of town work, so, when I'd been doing a bit of driving around London for a few days the DPF would clog and a couple of times wouldn't regenerate, so it had to go into the dealers to get sorted. Other than that it was a brilliant car. It went back to the lease company with 100k miles and still looked like new.

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17 hours ago, Catteeclan said:

Yes. Took the owner an age to get it how he wanted and you can tell. I'll text my mate later see if he took any more pics of it.

Did you sit on that man’s Chopper?

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1 hour ago, Catteeclan said:

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Mine was like that, but white.......the bloody thing rusted away before i had finished paying for it. 😂 

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Start prepping for a week w/o the missus....she's leaving Wed. for her hometown (Emmett ID) to sit with her 12y/o grand-daughter while her son & daughter-in-law pay a visit to Nashville TN. She's making me some of her kick-ass meatloaf for me to survive on while she's away.😋

Had to run off 7 deer this morning outta the backyard....keeps her dog from getting beat up by one again....gave that dog a concussion & a coupla staples in her head last time. That dog thinks she's 10ft. tall & bulletproof....she's a Chihuahua/Italian Greyhound mix & can run like a gazelle.🐎

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3 minutes ago, Catteeclan said:

Agree, mk1 escort colour, but I'd still have it.

I have just looked on DVLA website, and the Capri (1.6 GT) is still on there!! 😲

Well sort of, last taxed in August........................1987 😂

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