Jeffds1360 Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 I've just found out that my car was built on 4/12/70 !!! Plum was first registered 15/6/71.... so..... shall I have two 50th parties? One belated and one in hopefully better and warmer times? Oh... decisions decisions Is it not unusual for a car to sit about for 6 months I wonder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 My car sat about for 15 years before my daughter said "I want it for a wedding car" "WHAT!!!!" Took 7 months to get it to an MOT She has 4 kids now. Another 3 years and it will be 50, will I make it to the party? Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 some new Cars sit in fields for years , pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 8 hours ago, Pete Lewis said: some new Cars sit in fields for years , pete Do you remember the Vauxhall frontiers at luton? All sat in the car park near the airport! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 14 hours ago, Pete Lewis said: some new Cars sit in fields for years , pete Some classics don't exactly fly off the lot either.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Twitchen Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 Born and raised in Coventry all the car factories had parking lots around city for the new cars, in some cases just before moving them to become a showroom queen. My GT6 came off the production line 21 Nov 67 but first registered 1 Jan 69. Nothing new: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/standard-motor-company-history-coventry-15803806 But this perhaps a bit Covid extreme! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8290433/Old-RAF-airbase-packed-35m-worth-cars-wants-amid-covid-19-crisis.html Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterH Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, Dick Twitchen said: Born and raised in Coventry Did my apprenticeship with Massey Ferguson, Banner Lane, so that made me a freeman of that fair (?) city. Still keep an eye on how the Sky Blues are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 I wonder who ordered the two yellow ones.... Nice to see that all that Government subsidising is productive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gully Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 Bruntingthorpe aerodrome is covered in new and ex-fleet vehicles and the company operating the storage there has recently taken part of RAF Wyton too. Bedford aerodrome is also a parking lot. Gully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bfg Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 On 06/12/2020 at 17:43, Jeffds1360 said: I've just found out that my car was built on 4/12/70 !!! Plum was first registered 15/6/71.... so..... shall I have two 50th parties? One belated and one in hopefully better and warmer times? Oh... decisions decisions Is it not unusual for a car to sit about for 6 months I wonder? Belated happy birthday wishes to Plum.! Of course, it was not usual (..in my family) to celebrate ones own registration certificate with the Office of Births and Deaths, nor even the day we might have been Christened - so why celebrate the registration date of your car ? That said.. I do with my old bikes Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 I recall being on a Summer holiday job, sub-apprentice and floor sweeper at a local MG Dealer - they did six or eight apprentices in one dealer in those days! One day, the apprentices and I were told to report early next morning. We were bussed to Oxford, where the company had a pound - that had become a pond, flooded with sewage (!). Dozens of MGBs had been flooded, up to the windscreens. Our job was to strip out the trim, and throw it in a skip, while our foreman went around with a big battery and a plug spanner, turning all the engines over to expel the water. It was like a school of whales! The cars went back to the trim shop and were retrimmed and sold, so if anyone has ever come across a B, that even faintly smelled of poo in bad weather, you know why. JOhn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffds1360 Posted December 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 Thanks Bfg. Of course it is the Build/Birth day we should celebrate!. Not many peeps get that car information though. Plum got some new additions.... reversing and rear fog lights. It starts on the button and purrs now I've sorted the throttle return. All I need to do now is sex it . No idea where to start.... it's not an iit.pleased I've never had a B JOhn ATB all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 The BMIHT Certificate will give the build date; my Estate was built on 30th June and despatched to the dealership on 5th July, and then registered a month or two after that. It's a bit like birthday, coming home from the hospital, and christening.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffds1360 Posted December 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 Wow Colin, a whole housing estate??? Yes mate, I got the BMIHT the other day, just too late to celibate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bfg Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 16 hours ago, Jeffds1360 said: Thanks Bfg. Of course it is the Build/Birth day we should celebrate!. Not many peeps get that car information though. Plum got some new additions.... reversing and rear fog lights. It starts on the button and purrs now I've sorted the throttle return. All I need to do now is sex it . No idea where to start.... it's not an iit.pleased I've never had a B JOhn ATB all. Plum is a great name.. Like yourself I find naming a vehicle isn't necessarily based on 'its' registration number, for example my '66 S-type Jaguar was beautiful, exceedingly elegant and tbh dressed in red - a Flirt ! ..and so that became her affectionate pet name. Conversely, a 1955 Sunbeam motorcycle I sold just a couple of years ago was registered HVS and so was known as 'Hovis' ..quite appropriate for the era. Another bike came from Renfew (Scotland) and so that name stuck. Both my present 1953 Sunbeams each have the registration NXN and there was no way I would name a British motorcycle Nixon ! ..so I was pondering about this on the way back from collecting her, taking her home with me inside my Chrysler Voyager. The bike's front wheel was poking through between the driver and passenger seat, and as the drove back the wheel gentle nudged against my elbow. It was just like a little old grandma, a little excited in the back seat going out for a jolly ride, nudging me when she wanted to say something. The name 'Nudge' stuck. Six months later I brought home her sister, which is also NXN. Although also a '53 Sunbeam, she is the S7 model with fat tyres. Perhaps a little teasingly she became known in the family as 'Pudge '. I also owned a very sad looking project bike (yet another Sunbeam) and she was known as 'Grudge '. And so it goes on. I had fourteen motorcycles and two classic cars at one time so naming them was the only way we could keep track of what we were talking about. They are all feminine, but perhaps that only because it sounds less daft to me ..being affectionate towards the fairer sex. Mind you - they can also be bloody obstinate ..in only the way 'the fairer sex' can be. ! I did however have a military-green coloured BMW at one time who was a Herman. I had a huge respect for the power and stance of that bike, but not a lot of affection. It was very much a He. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 not a name i would choose but HYA had to be Hyacinth !!!!! whats yours called ????? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 My 13/60 is called Ruby. Simply because the colour is ruby(ish) and I bought it the year and month that coincided with me and Madame celebrating the ruby anniversary of being together. Not married that long in one stint though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Pete Lewis said: whats yours called ????? Toby and Tessa were both names inherited from the previous owner. The GT6 doesn't have a name. Of the old ones, Harry came from the registration (HRY173L), as did Spike (SPK844M) and my brother's old Felix (FEL585D) and Gordon (GDN500D). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 I had a Simca 1501 ended in 81N " its was always called Nobby by my Staff Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 My car is small and yellow, the first time my dad saw it he laughed and called it "a banana on a roller skate." There after, the banana. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bfg Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 ^ just wondering like ..what he he said when he first saw you as a scrawny bright-pink new born ..that is before your mother insisted that your name would be Doug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 I was Leslie, after him, Ernest after his dad and Douglas, my mother's maiden name. So actually he didn't give me a name of my own, explains everything, I guess. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 41 minutes ago, Bfg said: first saw you as a scrawny bright-pink new born well i was early and only 3.5Lbs most looked in and said........Oh Dear !!!!! Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark powell Posted December 9, 2020 Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 Some while ago, we bought a Series 3 Land Rover. The key fob was leather with the name Henry on it. The name stuck. Green and white Landys have always been 'Henry's'. | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark powell Posted December 9, 2020 Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 Oh, and the family referred to my 13/60 estate as 'The Hearse' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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