30/01/2013 @ 12:26:46: dsl: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
Yes. Good fun discussing imcdb and some of its members and what goes on - swapping experiences was a useful perspective on things we've come across separately and found difficult/odd etc. And agreed we might well do it again for the next convenient event - so ingo if you're thinking Scotland this year, let us know - we might have a Marmite meet.
30/01/2013 @ 19:13:15: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
Let's see. We still have no travelling plans, but it's likely. After the small concert of
http://www.reidvansante.com/ yesterday, my wife has decided, that the next SCO-trip is urgently needed.
P.S. Maybe you can contribute a similar pic, as antp and sixcyl once had from their rowdy party
I cannot find it again, but chicomarx has kept it IIRC.
30/01/2013 @ 19:41:38: chicomarx: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
^The sixcyl and antp party? It's still on the forum. antp will appreciate me finding it.
Les membres se rencontrent... et ça continue! ... hier, à Bruxelles, Antp , notre webmaster en chef, et Sixcyl...autour d'une mousse et d'un jus d'orange...
Instant très sympa, après une "rude" journée de labeur...
si on a l'air un peu figés sur nos chaises, c'est à cause du barman à qui j'ai confié l'appareil , qui a mis 3 plombes pour cadrer
30/01/2013 @ 19:53:47: Sandie: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
No photos of ourselves (that should be left to your imagination
). I must reiterate what dsl has said. It was a nice day out and we had a chance to chat and see some nice cars.
Looking at Chico's picture Antp looks young there. Sixcyl (I've never seen a picture of him before) looks exactly how I'd expect him to.
30/01/2013 @ 20:07:16: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
31/01/2013 @ 10:26:23: antp: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
Looking at Chico's picture Antp looks young there.
It was at least seven years ago I think.
The guy took so many time for taking the picture that I ended up with that face
02/02/2013 @ 04:29:58: Sandie: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
Shot of the back on another forum:
15/04/2013 @ 17:34:15: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
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04/05/2013 @ 18:52:01: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
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04/05/2013 @ 20:42:24: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
Nice Lagonda. We don't have Escort VVX 958L on imcdb,
Have you understand the text on the display? This car was driven by Chris Sclater (GB) at the Rallye Monte Carlo in 1973.
04/05/2013 @ 21:21:47: dsl: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
... but livery is Mikkola on 72 RAC (badges, stickers, signwriting) (retired) and that car was VVX 958L (its only event as a works car before being sold off as a competition prize).
Have you understand the text on the display?
No. But I can recognise Mikkola and 72 RAC in the 2nd para. So did Sclater get hold of it and use it himself? Or is it Sclater's 73 Monte car done as a faked replica of Mikkola's 72 RAC car?
04/05/2013 @ 21:55:18: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
Translation of the display:
"Totally 21 LHD RS 1600 BDA were made by Ford as regular street-cars. An unknown amount of company-rallye-cars was made with a bodywork by the company Gomm, of those maximal 10 cars still exit today. This RS 1600 is an original car of those (= the company-rallye-cars) and was driven in 1973 by Chris Sclater at the Rallye Monte Carlo.
Racing operations of the 1600 BDA (I think the term "des" means here "the" for the BDA-series and not "this" for this specific car) were et al. the RAC-Rallye England 1972 with Hannu Mikkola and the winning of the British Rallye Trophy by Bill Coleman.
This car is in the "Embassy Racing Design".
The car belongs to that club:
http://www.escort1.de/ (their homepage looks outdated. The last guestbook-comment is from 2007 and the gallery from the 90ies, the newest pics from 2001)
Also not really trustworthy for me was, that the other Rallye-Escort MkI was a fake, the MkII, too. For that reason I even didn't made pics. I generally ignore fakes, no matter, what ones.
05/05/2013 @ 19:04:32: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
Today I've been on
http://youngtimervestival.de/
Not really my glass of beer, as too many tuned and pimped cars, but still with a plenty of classics, plus several unusal plates for the plate-freaks. Best weather -I even catched sligh traces of a sunburn- and not far away from here, so it was fine.
For dsl:
Its life-career:
"This Chevette is in original, unrestored condition, just little optical damages were repaired.The car has two previous owners. The first owner (born in 1917) had the car for 18 years and reached a mileage of 17.000 km in that time. The car was in 1999 rescued from a junkyard, in 2001 I got the car with 31.000 km on the clock. Meanwhile in the last 10 years I drove 13.000 km with it.
For sale:
The sheet with the details:
If needed, I can translate it completely. As a brief summary: Triumph Acclaim 1.3 Triomatic HLS, reg.10/1983, 2nd hand, original 47.000 km -veryfiable!- totally original including the 1983' tires, everything can be confirmed by the original dealer (today a Volvo-dealership, back in 1983 Jaguar and Austin-Rover).
3990,00 €
More pics later, it's dinner time now.
05/05/2013 @ 19:17:02: Sandie: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
The Scimitar is more 'for Sandie' than 'for dsl'
Was the Acclaim originally sold in Germany then? I didn't realise they were sold there.
05/05/2013 @ 22:43:30: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows
This was was sold originally as a new car in Germany, as to read on the sheet (the mentioned dealer shall confirm that, too).
So it seems, that it was in the official range of the (very very few) German Austin/Morris/BL-dealers, but the other question is, how big the selling rates were. Most probable some single cars were sold here on special request.
It seems to be similar with the selling of Rootes cars here. In a story about the only surviving original German sold Humber Sceptre (maybe the only officially sold one, too) the same was told. If you have ordered one at a Chrysler-Simca-dealer, you could get one. But it never happened, that they were delivered to the dealer and the dealer had to see, how he can sell it.
05/05/2013 @ 23:42:04: ingo: Pics, specially made for IMCDB-fellows