Nothing In Particular

[Dave the bass]

Me dad had the TC, in vomit colour (actually called Autumn Gold if memory serves)

Ha! My Dad had an Austin 1300 'Countryman' Estate in that same vomit colour too, like this, but uglier and boxi-er!

[pre65]

My Dad had more British Leyland cars than your Dad. Nerrr.

Green 850 Mini

Tartan red MG1100

Sandy Allegro 1500

Blaze Mini 1275gt

Green MG Metro

Green Triumph Acclaim Triomatic.

And several P4 Rovers before that, but that was pre BL.

[Dave the bass]

My Dad had more British Leyland cars than your Dad. Nerrr.

I agree, he did. My Dad had a mixture of small cars over the years.

The 1st I remember was light blue colured A40 Farina (624HOH), then a green Vauxhall Victor 101 (RGC604E), then the Vomit coloured 1300 (FKJ282L), then a 'Russet Brown' 1300 Allegro (ARX411T) which he taught me to drive in (ta Dad!), then he went all 'Fords' with a Red Ford Fiesta, then a Silver 1.1 Ghia Ford Fiesta which Julie and I bought off him when he bought his final car...another Ford Fiesta 1.25 Ghia thingy which wasn't used much due to his terrible health so we collectively part-exchanged that and bought a Renault Kangoo Popemobile disabled conversion car so we could shuttle him around.

[Ant]

Kev who lives next door to mi dad had a t reg morris ital in vomit beige with a shit brown velour interior. my grandad had escorts for years, then got a red a reg metro brand new that had a wing that rusted through within a year of it being bought.
There was a huge great Austin ambassador that was a nice mint green colour on a street near us when i was a kid. I always quite liked the wedge when i walked past it.
Oddly, there was a beautiful white v12 e type with a fishtail exhaust on a drive at the side of an end terrace on my way to school. I used to stare at it every day. A very strange sight in a shitty mining town in the 80s. Everything else was either an old escort, fiesta, cavalier ect. The only other exception was a lotus carlton that my mates neighbour had. Another oddity.....

[Ray P]

First car my dad has was a Mini Countryman, like this;



I remember Mum, Dad and four of us went around the 'The Lions of Longleat' in it; I don't think it was much bigger than the lions!

Next he got one of these;



a Ford Classic (at least by name). A small piece of the US transplanted to the UK.

Then dad got all sensible, starting with a Hillman Super Minx Estate;



and ending with the car he owned when he passed away;

[Ray P]

Of the cars I've owned, this is my favourite, a slightly tweaked Hyundai Coupe; lovely looker and great fun to drive;



Unfortunately, Judy hated it for all the things that made it fun; too fast, too low, too firm and too small (you had to be a dwarf to sit in the back) but I managed to hang on to it for three years!

Today I drive a tired old Volvo estate, which is treated as the utility item it is.

[Mike H]

Ha! My Dad had an Austin 1300 'Countryman' Estate in that same vomit colour too, like this, but uglier and boxi-er!

Yes that looks like it.

Yes we saw the lions of Longleat too.

Got a sticker, “We have seen the lions of Longleat”




Change of context:


Crossing the path tonight on my way home from the pub, 12 frogs and 2 snails!

[andrew Ivimey]

A lot of people, in those days were taking drugs, or so I reckon.

[Mike H]

What we talking about, car paint colours?

Definitely something going on - “OH WOW LOOK AT THIS FANTASTIC COLOUR GOTTA PAINT EM ALL WITH THIS”

[Mike H]

Who'd have thought all those years ago, Black Sabbath's Paranoid eventually being used in a TV commercial (Nissan Qashqai)

[Nick]

Who'd have thought all those years ago, Black Sabbath's Paranoid eventually being used in a TV commercial (Nissan Qashqai)

The one that came as a shock to me was Masters of the Universe

[Mike H]

Ah well yes!

[Ray P]

Here's a bit of a British success story;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43775440

Clever stuff when you sit down and consider the implications of the satellite moving over the target area at kilometres a second.

BTW, satellites that acquire the sort of high resolution images we regularly see in Sunday supplements and the like don't actually take 'pictures' from orbit but actually work more like the scanning head of a photocopier that just keeps going forward collecting a swathe of data, which then needs to be processed to create a picture like image.

[jack]

On my way back to UK on Thursday...

Via a route I'd rather not take...

[andrew Ivimey]

Syria's a bit out of the way or just via the mother in law?