How many do you remember 🤔🤔🤔

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"Open Mike Night " sounded like a lot of fun until i found out i was going to an Autopsy

Gordon Murray the trumpton and camberwick green creator died this week. Shame.

Really used to enjoy them as a kid, bagpuss and mr Ben were my
Favourite tho. There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
FFRR 4.4 SDV8 Autobiography Santorini Black.
KIA E-Niro 4+
2021 Discovery 5 D300 MHEV commercial

my god that has just taken me back joker

Wot??!! No Mary, Mungo and Midge?! Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

And the biggest spotty dog you ever did see.

Was the Marina ute a British or Australian model? Ron B. VK2OTC
2003 L322 V8 Auto
2007 Yamaha XJR1300
Previous: 1983, 1986 RRC; 1995, 1996 P38A; 1995 Disco1; 1984 V8 County 110; Series IIA

Sadly I feel we must admit it was British

Mick, what about Chigley?? Where's that in the wee menage.

I heard bungle from Rainbow went on to become a successful property developer while zippy couldn't find work after being typecast in his role of straight man 😄 2015 4.4 AB
GSXR 1000 K5
R1 1998

Hmm. The Marina ute looks very Datsun 1200 ute-ish

http://datsun1200.com/modules/mediawiki/in...0#Overview Ron B. VK2OTC
2003 L322 V8 Auto
2007 Yamaha XJR1300
Previous: 1983, 1986 RRC; 1995, 1996 P38A; 1995 Disco1; 1984 V8 County 110; Series IIA

In the UK we got the Datsun 120Y which would have been the equivalent I think. Much better mechanically but rusted just as rapidly as the Marina. There were no common platforms back then either so the Marina was indeed 100% British Leyland.

Yep, we had the 120Y, too, but they were somewhat later than the 1200.

A common mod out here for he Datsun 1200 is to fit a warmed up Morris 1500 engine. If one looks at the Datsun 1200 engine, it look just like a Morris engine.

I bought this new in 1971 and sold it in 2008

http://p38arover.com/hillman/660.html Ron B. VK2OTC
2003 L322 V8 Auto
2007 Yamaha XJR1300
Previous: 1983, 1986 RRC; 1995, 1996 P38A; 1995 Disco1; 1984 V8 County 110; Series IIA

DrF wrote:

Well, I never thought I would say this but I am quite frankly ashamed to be British right now!!!

Words fail me..........


The state of this country, i used to be proud to be British, cant say the same right now!!

Anybody remember this??  405 AB exec seats Baltic and Cirrus
93 RR Classic efi

Remember it's easier to get forgiveness than permission!

Gone in order:
4.4 TDV8 SE - gone to a good home
93 Classic hard dash Plymouth Blue
03 L322 Oslo Blue
2000 Disco TD5 ES Epsom Green
98 P38 Rioja Red
89 Classic Cairngorm Brown

Just to maintain continuity with this thread - my Dad used to have a Morris Nomad - a derivative out of BMC in Aus - somewhere in 70's as best I can remember. Used to tow our little caravan and strangely always overheated in 40C days, had to run the heater the whole time - just what one wants - before AC was even thought about.






Pete.. '07 4.2 S/C
'13 X3M

I, too, had a Nomad. I kept a bottle of Hydrolastic fluid at home and a modified brake master cylinder to attach to keep it pumped up - shades of my P38A!

SOHC 1500cc engine. It wasn't a bad little car overall. I bought it dirt cheap from a chap at work who was sick of it and hadn't used it for some years because of recurrent gearbox problems When I got it home I found the nuts holding the cable shift to the gear lever had worked loose so gear changes weren't too good. I tightened the nuts and all was well. I used the Nomad for my 120km commute to work in Sydney and the Hunter was my wife's daily driver.

I kept a bottle of Hydrolastic fluid at home and a modified brake master cylinder to attach to keep it pumped up - shades of my P38A! Ron B. VK2OTC
2003 L322 V8 Auto
2007 Yamaha XJR1300
Previous: 1983, 1986 RRC; 1995, 1996 P38A; 1995 Disco1; 1984 V8 County 110; Series IIA

My mates old man had one of these a Ford Corsair remember as a kid we thought it was some sort of car from Thunderbirds 😄😄😄 must have been because of the front of it ...