M j M Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Can anyone with a better knowledge of vintage cars than me tell me what model this is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 10 minutes ago, M j M said: Can anyone with a better knowledge of vintage cars than me tell me what model this is? No idea, but American cars got really dull after the age of chrome grilles and fins, didn't they? "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 8 minutes ago, Futtocks said: No idea, but American cars got really dull after the age of chrome grilles and fins, didn't they? Mmmm so you think it's American? Picture was taken in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 15 minutes ago, Futtocks said: No idea, but American cars got really dull after the age of chrome grilles and fins, didn't they? Great suggestion making me look more closely at it. A bit of digging suggests it's got a 1969 Virginia reg plate. I've gone from passively interested to intrigued now! Wonder what that car, brand new, was doing in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 45 minutes ago, M j M said: Can anyone with a better knowledge of vintage cars than me tell me what model this is? Got it. It's a 1969 four door Plymouth Valiant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Good grief! HS2 coming through! eiπ + 1 = 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun mc Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Went to Peru in 2006 and took the train from Cusco to Puno. This is a photo off the back of the train as it passed through the market. They didn't move the books from within the rails 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Big news this: All the Class 800, 801 and 802s have been taken out of service today. That's the LNER Azumas, Hull Trains Paragons and Transpennine's Nova 1s to us northern folk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 1 hour ago, M j M said: Big news this: All the Class 800, 801 and 802s have been taken out of service today. That's the LNER Azumas, Hull Trains Paragons and Transpennine's Nova 1s to us northern folk. Blimey! That's worrying. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumby Magic Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 Found out today Hitachi made them. Thought it was quite random tbh. Like poor jokes? Thejoketeller@mullymessiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 58 minutes ago, Mumby Magic said: Found out today Hitachi made them. Thought it was quite random tbh. One of the world's largest train builders now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 3 hours ago, M j M said: Yikes. Pilot was cool as a cucumber despite colliding with another aircraft - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 What an experience! https://uk.news.yahoo.com/veteran-survived-leap-burning-plane-101934577.html 1 eiπ + 1 = 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M j M Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Just a Class 3 going about its business in 1980s Birkenhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 3 hours ago, Futtocks said: Pacers might have been absolute excrement (literally sometimes) but they were a big part of growing up for me. I have a lot of great memories of Pacers from when I was a kid and all the days out to Brid and Scarborough, spending at least an hour sitting on one of those horrible bench seats they had. Great memories when I think back to what they were part of. Funnily enough I was saying to someone just yesterday about how I can still remember that unique smell Pacers had, a smell you will never experience anywhere else, it was sodding horrible but it was unique and so iconic and I still haven't quite worked out exactly what it was the smell of, disappointment I suppose, that special kind of disappointment you felt when you waited in the station for ages for the train to show up half an hour late and on top of that it being a Pacer. Good times..! Ps. Geoff Marshall's YouTube channel is brilliant, especially his least used stations series! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Just been reading that the government is going to commission a new flagship, a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, going to cost £200million, probably going to be named after the Duke of Edinburgh, going start building it as early as next year to be put into service within 4 years and will be in service for 30 years. Being built to showcase British industries and host international conferences and receptions or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearman Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 The track from Coventry to Nuneaton runs behind the posts at the Butts Park Arena. During this afternoon's game Coventry Bears v Rochdale Hornets this went passed https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&source=android-browser&q=midland+pulman#imgrc=acfBqtaM75yQfM 2 Ron Banks Midlands Hurricanes and Barrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearman Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Actual pic 3 Ron Banks Midlands Hurricanes and Barrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Warrior Dragon Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 57 minutes ago, Bearman said: Actual pic I'm impressed how both teams lined up to mark the Pullman train passing by! ps it's behind you! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted May 31, 2021 Author Share Posted May 31, 2021 On 28/05/2021 at 23:12, The Hallucinating Goose said: Ps. Geoff Marshall's YouTube channel is brilliant, especially his least used stations series! He also did some good videos for the Londonist channel, before striking out on his own. 1 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted May 31, 2021 Author Share Posted May 31, 2021 On 28/05/2021 at 19:40, Futtocks said: "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 https://news.sky.com/story/supersonic-passenger-flights-to-return-almost-20-years-after-concorde-retired-with-flight-times-from-london-to-new-jersey-halved-12324366 Exciting! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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