I also had a Marina in later days …very fast…in a straight line :Drgds baz

…well mine certainly was baz.. barely two weeks after buying it instead of negotiating a corner i went straight on, hit a hidden tree stump and wrote it off. 😮

Nothing wrong with Avengers! First car, guess what – a maroon Singer Chamois! TBL 414G! Heater very sluggish and throttle cables kept breaking, Head Gaskets seemed to be a failing. Road handling in snowy conditions, well had to put a paving slab in the bonnet compartment for ballast!

Happy Days!

Ah yes.. that sounds familiar. I had a toolbox and trolley jack in the front of mine to try and hold the front to the road.

A terrible pic i know but around 20 years ago (hence my youthful looks) i had the good fortune to meet BoB pilot George Unwin at Duxford, and had this photo taken of us with George holding the 19 Sqdn ashtray that i own.. which he verified as an item made by one of the ‘erks’ of the time in Sept 1940.

Good thread baz. I passed my driving test in June 1985, and my first car was a 1965 Singer Chamois (pronounced sham-ee) GGX 277C in dark green with white pin stripe. I bought the car of my sister for £120, although six months before when she bought it for herself i couldn’t stop laughing at it, and promptly put a set of eight spoke white sports wheels and a louder exhaust on it :o. During my brief 6 month ownership of her i changed the engine after holing a piston, and constantly had to keep topping up the cooling fluid. But she was almost immaculate and recieved lots of polish and TLC… happy days.

After upgrading to a Marina 1.8 Deluxe (whoopee) i sold the Chamois back to my sister, and after her husband blew the engine up one night on the M11 i think she was scrapped, and i never got a pic of her :(. (here’s a pic of one from the tinternet).

Who the hell calls a cat VELCRO?!

My mother-in-law has a dog named Oddie… how ironic.! 😀

I think the pilot of the Lizzie at the time it flipped over was a guy called Daryl Stinson… but i’m happy to be proved wrong.

Well said that man. Let’s strip down all Blair’s ‘improvements’ and rebuild the UK as it was. Then we need a 20 year halt to immigration

I’ll second that.

and a parliament with the backbone to do what the French and German governments do with any EU regulations they don’t like, ignore them. Maybe then the country can get back on its feet.

I second that as well.

Also while we’re about it lets forget the european human rights act.. written around the rights of any immigrant or ‘british’ national hell bent on terrorism and or creating a british muslim state.

Personally i think Stephen Gray of TFC fame should be acknowledged. Because of his forsight and investment thousands upon thousands of people across Europe have been lucky enough to see and hear rare and previously unseen historic aircraft types actually flying again… his services to historic aviation and its merits for teaching and learning should not go unrewarded.