James Vette
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This is the thread for posting about other classic cars.
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plastic orange
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My 1950 LS powered Minor, owned by me since 1972:
plastic orange
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Here's my 1953 Chevy Bel Air. It's got a 6 litre LQ4 with alloy heads and corvette cam from Turnkey Engine supply company, a 700R4 box, TCI mustang 2 front clip with power steering and a Ford explorer rear axle. Downside is that it has a MEFI-4 ecu which apparently is locked by said turnkey company, so I can't do a thing with the tune - although it does run lovely, but could be improved. The car is completely re-wired, has new tinted glass and a refurbed interior. I bought it 4 years ago from a guy who imported it from Carlsbad in 2013. It really is a lovely car, looks stock, but isn't.
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plastic orange
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Here's my other Minor - 1955 with Rover 3.9 V8, jag IRS and Vauxhall Chevette front clip. It's very 70's in appearance having been built back then, but still more than keeps up with modern traffic. I've owned this for almost 20 years
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James Vette
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So I like watching car interviews and came across this episode with a beautiful cascade green C1. I recommend the channels My Classic Car and Lou Costabile for more. America looks so beautiful I'll have to look into getting a work visa or something to get out there after covid clears up but who knows how many years until then.
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Chuffer
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As lad of 10 -11 years old I used to help Fred our local Co Operative Dairies milk man on Saturday mornings doing his delivery round with Northamptons last horse drawn milk float . It had a 1 HP engine called Maude and as a treat I got to drive her home when the deliveries were finished . When Maude was put out to pasture and Fred got an electric milk float , he hated it . The round took us 
twice as long because an electric float can`t follow you along the street like a horse can as you dropped off bottles of milk at each house . 
twice as long because an electric float can`t follow you along the street like a horse can as you dropped off bottles of milk at each house . 
James Vette
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Can't believe people had jars of milk on their doorstep like surely it turned warm or rats climbed all over it.
Roscobbc
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No - it was delivered in glass bottles in the early morning, generally before 9am. Rats even though intelligent wouldn't be able to open or pierce the fairly silver paper bottle tops. Birds were the problem. Blue Tits were bright enough and had sharp enough beaks to peck through the bottle tops and get at the cream settled in the top of the bottle (none of that heathy semi-skimmed milk back then). Most households would leave a piece of wood on the doorstop that the milkman would simply place on top of the bottles preventing the birds getting at them.Can't believe people had jars of milk on their doorstep like surely it turned warm or rats climbed all over it.
Chuffer
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What I hated was the crates of free school milk in 1/3 pint bottles that were delivered to the school yard . In the summer they had curdled in the heat by break time and in the winter they froze and the milk expanded and pushed the foil caps off so you had a milk ice lolly . Blue tits loved the rich pickings though .
Chuffer
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The worst bit was being made to drink it all up by the teacher when warm , creamy and half curdled on hot summer days . It put me off warm creamy milk for life . I can still only drink semi skimmed straight from the fridge to this day . What traumatic childhoods we had back then !!