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[Chippy_Tea]

It took a while but i finally found a 1966 Anglia with the separate side light and indicator the white one i posted earlier had a single light.

I need to get out more

 

[Gingerbrews]

Is it just me?.........Or does anyone else think the front of the Anglia looks like a grumpy old guy
with bad teeth?

 

[CD]

Oh Yes There Are !

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Who remembers Wimpy.

 

[RichardM]

Who remembers Wimpy.


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And the Ford Capri. I took my driving test in one.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

And the Ford Capri. I took my driving test in one.

When wing mirrors were wing mirrors.

 

[user 44889]

I posted both Anglia pictures as i thought all Anglias were the same shape as the blue one below but it turns out the early ones did indeed look like the rusty one (see white Anglia below)

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Hiya Chippy, yeah i didn't know there were 2 different grills for the Anglia so never to old to learn. Sorry i was talking about the white car in your original photo. If you look between the open door of the old rusty Anglia and the Herald you can just make out another car in the greenary..

 

[user 44889]

Who remembers Wimpy.


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My mate and i used to ride our motorbikes every Saturday night and have a Wimpy.. we were only 17 then... in a time long long ago

 

[user 44889]

And the Ford Capri. I took my driving test in one.

Always wanted a Capri but never got one. still think they look cool lol.

 

[Dutto]

Always wanted a Capri but never got one. still think they look cool lol.

They were “cool” but they couldn’t hold the road in snow!

I did a full 360* on a backroad on my way to work in about 1976 …

… but after a break from Ford, I went back for more in 1986 and got another Capri; by which time I had calmed down a bit!
:hat:

 

[Dutto]

…….. Sorry i was talking about the white car in your original photo. If you look between the open door of the old rusty Anglia and the Herald you can just make out another car in the greenary..

Well spotted! If you check the reflection in the wing mirrors of that particular car, you can see the raked back window of another Anglia!

Honestly! Plain as day!
:hat:

 

[user 44889]

They were “cool” but they couldn’t hold the road in snow!

I did a full 360* on a backroad on my way to work in about 1976 …

… but after a break from Ford, I went back for more in 1986 and got another Capri; by which time I had calmed down a bit!
:hat:

Sounds fun doing a360.
By the time i could afford one i was married, 2 children and a mortgage So had to get the classic family car lol.
If i ever win big on the lotto might treat myself to a mint Capri... ahhhhh pipe dreams lol... love old American 50's and 60's cars too as Chippy does.

 

[user 44889]

Well spotted! If you check the reflection in the wing mirrors of that particular car, you can see the raked back window of another Anglia!

Honestly! Plain as day!
:hat:

Pmsl....

 

[Dutto]

l... love old American 50's and 60's cars too as Chippy does.

I always wanted an Enfield Bullet motorbike as a kid and in the 1990’s I got a job in India based in Chennai (Madras) where they still make Enfield motorbikes!

I got talking to the Logistics Manager who could easily get me an Enfield transported to the UK, just like he had done!

We met up in Morecambe and arranged to go on a trip to Kendal, he on his Enfield and me on my Pan European; and then swap bikes.

Ha! It didn’t work out! I never got out of third gear going to Kendal and watching him wrestle the Enfield round every bend, I realised why the UK motorbike industry had gone down the tube in the 1960’s and 70’s.

My reply in the cafe in Kendal to “Let’s swap.” can’t be printed here, but I can reiterate “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be!”
:hat:

 

[user 44889]

I always wanted an Enfield Bullet motorbike as a kid and in the 1990’s I got a job in India based in Chennai (Madras) where they still make Enfield motorbikes!

I got talking to the Logistics Manager who could easily get me an Enfield transported to the UK, just like he had done!

We met up in Morecambe and arranged to go on a trip to Kendal, he on his Enfield and me on my Pan European; and then swap bikes.

Ha! It didn’t work out! I never got out of third gear going to Kendal and watching him wrestle the Enfield round every bend, I realised why the UK motorbike industry had gone down the tube in the 1960’s and 70’s.

My reply in the cafe in Kendal to “Let’s swap.” can’t be printed here, but I can reiterate “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be!”
:hat:

It's only when you look back you realise how old we are and so many memories. You look in the mirror and remember your younger self. There are advantages to being older... retired at 62 in good health, so im not complaining.

 

[Dutto]

Mark Twain is quoted as saying something like:

“Never complain about getting old.
Many people don’t get the privilege!”​

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[user 44889]

Mark Twain is quoted as saying something like:

“Never complain about getting old.
Many people don’t get the privilege!”​

:hat:

Very true and very sad, you work all your life then bang... something happens, enjoy life as you never know whats round the corner. Brew brew brew lol

 

[CD]

My Mum once had a letter from one of her sisters-in-law which made us all laugh. In it she said “Old age is hell dear. Enjoy yourself while you’re still only eighty.”

It doesn’t seem at all funny to us now . . .

 

[Chippy_Tea]

@Hudson1984

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[Chippy_Tea]

Looks like a young Bobby Ball.


1st January 1972 - The winning entry in the Co-op National Milkmen's Uniform Design Competition, supposedly favoured by British housewives.
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