Better Days
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Rocky 2 buckets replied on 05/04/2020 17:16
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:10 by Cornersteady
replied on 05/04/2020 17:17
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:15 by young thomasDavid, lîle de Re, for sure...
heres some nice cycling, too...
Cornersteady replied on 05/04/2020 17:28
young thomas replied on 05/04/2020 17:31
replied on 05/04/2020 17:42
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:02 by young thomassteve, mine was just like this one....
...and a couple of these others, too...
and plenty of other junk around the same time...
better days?
ps....the white one was the real thing....a Twin Cam...
young thomas replied on 05/04/2020 17:46
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:17 byThat hillside looks as though it would give the batteries some stick
Spain is it?
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:46
yes, its the CV147 which runs westwards out of the back of Benicassim up into the Desert des Palmes national park, along the range and then back down near Castellon de la Plana...
its a bit of a rite of passage for locals of all ages...
i generally pass the locals going up (but prefer to chat with them, but they often dont have spare breath, lol) but they come down the other side like lunatics...thankfully, the road surface is like a billiard table...
one guy i met (in his 60s) said he had done it over 1500 times.....
he was on his 2nd circuit that day...
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Tinwheeler replied on 05/04/2020 17:52
chasncath replied on 05/04/2020 17:55
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:55
Photo from before Covid-19? How far back are we allowed to go? Cath is sorting through old photos ( and chucking out a lot!). Here we are in Berlin in 1983 on a taxpayer funded visit to Berlin. We went through Checkpoint Chas to the Russian Sector but didn't take a camera!
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replied on 05/04/2020 18:26
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:55 by chasncathPhoto from before Covid-19? How far back are we allowed to go? Cath is sorting through old photos ( and chucking out a lot!). Here we are in Berlin in 1983 on a taxpayer funded visit to Berlin. We went through Checkpoint Chas to the Russian Sector but didn't take a camera!
young thomas replied on 05/04/2020 18:34
Posted on 05/04/2020 17:42 byBB,
Is the white car a 'special'? I was thinking it might be a Kyle Walker Escort ... Naughty, but topical
Steve
Posted on 05/04/2020 18:34
it was a 1971 Ford Escort Twin Cam, built to win the WRC, a smaller, lighter, faster Cortina Lotus.
Lotus twin cam engine, twin webbers about 110 bhp.....soo much power....about the same torque as my ebike, lol.....
i bought it from a local rallyer, needed servicing every half an hour, absolute nightmare.....spat out small end bearings for a pastime, got to know my way around it PDQ.
i bought it for £900 in 1972/3 and eventually gave up on it and traded it in for an easy to maintain Capri GT XLR.
only 1263 were made and a few years ago these little 'gems' were fetching £60k....average price now around £43k....hmmmmm.