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Tizer
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16/01/2008
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I've opened this thread to make a place for some pictures of motor vehicles - interesting or attractive or just simply curious. I've started it below with three pictures taken at a steam rally a few years ago. I've got a few more but please feel free to contribute pictures.
Tizer
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mporter
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 09:17
That handsome chap on the right in the blue overalls is my husband Mick, the young lady on the left with BROWN hair is me and the child is my now 16 year old daughter. I had completely forgotten all about these photos and so had Mick until last night when we saw them.
Margaret Porter
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Doreen
hippies understudy
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 12:11
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Tizer wrote:
Hello Doreen. I wondered when you might visit us in this thread - I enjoy your other posts! Thanks for sharing your fabulous pictures. Have you ever seen any steam engines in Spain?
Tizer I have never seen any in spain, but i know thwere is a running steam train in Madrid.
Very near to our town is THE railway museum , in the coast town of Vilanova,
and there are many old trains preserved there.
As far as traccion engines go i have had a good search on the net and came up with nothing so far.
Dordygail 
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 14:04
In the early 1960s when i moved from Yorks to Cheshire, I worked in Hyde, on the left hand side of Manchester Rd travelling in the Manchester direction there was a haulage company called Walter Denton, they had several traction engines parked up in the yard, does anyone know what happened to them ? Bodger
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Tizer
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Posted - 11/03/2008 : 11:56
My sister-in-law bought this toy car in Cuba. It's made mostly from Coca-Cola cans and probably reflects the expertise in metal bashing that developed in Cuba to keep old American cars going. It's also an example of recycling in action.
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 08:05
I love it. Human ingenuity and someone in a shed with a hammer and lots of skill. There is a lesson for us in this pic........
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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softsuvner
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 10:28
I loved it too. I have seen some recent photos of similar tractor models made in Mozambique, imagination, patience and skill, rather humbling really.
Of course, George B would not allow even this Cuban artifact to be imported in the Land of the Free!
Malcolm
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 18:02
There was a programme on R4 the other day about a home made battery lamp a bloke bought in a bazarr somewhere. Everyone who saw it admired it on the way through customs and when he got home to UK they had a power cut so he put batteries in it and the kids used it to do their homework.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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The Artful Bodger
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Posted - 12/07/2009 : 23:26
Time to add another one...
Triumph Herald chassis with dropped floor, 1200 engine, steel frame, ply skin, willow basketry. In a musuem for the last couple of decades but I still have the paint marks on the garage floor where I laid the patterns out!
This one replaced the basket car, Toyota 2ltr DOHC, fabricated steel chassis, Holden front suspension, Isuzu rear, fibreglass body. It was my daily runner for 10 years. It did not take very long to make especially as someone else made the body. (No, it is not a 'replica' of anything!)
Edited by - The Artful Bodger on 12/07/2009 11:32:26 PM
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 13/07/2009 : 06:42
I am more than impressed! Wonderful skill Bodge. A treat to see stuff like that. Is there a hint of TD about the bottom one? Octagonal speedo?
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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The Artful Bodger
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Posted - 13/07/2009 : 09:51
No flippin' way Stanly!
Fast, good brakes, good suspension, good hood, reliable, no rattles, nothing like an MG at all!!
Edited by - The Artful Bodger on 13/07/2009 09:54:26 AM
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Cathy
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Posted - 13/07/2009 : 10:30
(I'm getting in first ...  )
You can take me for a spin anytime Bodger.
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
Take Care...Cathy |
The Artful Bodger
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Posted - 13/07/2009 : 10:41
I would love to Cathy but the basket car is in the museum and the red roadster was sold in 1999!
Now I drive a boring Ford ute!
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Cathy
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Posted - 13/07/2009 : 10:56
Oh dear, another one bites the dust .. hehe
Doomed from the start, cause i'm in Oz anyway. 
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
Take Care...Cathy |
Tizer
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Posted - 13/07/2009 : 11:46
Never mind Cath, he's probably gone out and bought a luxury yacht and is halfway to Oz already!
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 13/07/2009 : 13:43
He'll get lost, NZers can't read maps, this is a well known fact.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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