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Nidge
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:18 pm 
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What year was it? I worked at the factory that made the above mentioned parts from 1976 to 1980



Yeah Nidge......do you have a serial number of the part too.......grandad promises to repay you if he made that one time off the road etc......has the car been in your garden since 1982? :lol:

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It went to the scrap yard in the sky some years ago mate, I part chopped it for a 2.8 Capri, proper f@nny magnet then. 8) 8) 8)

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I part chopped it for a 2.8 Capri,

I had one of them, best car I've ever had. Absolutely loved it.

Wish I still had it. :sad:

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I part chopped it for a 2.8 Capri,

I had one of them, best car I've ever had. Absolutely loved it.

Wish I still had it. :sad:


You need a magnet? :wink:

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Wish I had a magnet :roll:

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Midlander wrote:
captain cab wrote:
grandad wrote:
What year was it? I worked at the factory that made the above mentioned parts from 1976 to 1980



Yeah Nidge......do you have a serial number of the part too.......grandad promises to repay you if he made that one time off the road etc......has the car been in your garden since 1982? :lol:

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It went to the scrap yard in the sky some years ago mate, I part chopped it for a 2.8 Capri, proper f@nny magnet then. 8) 8) 8)

I only ever drove a Capri once. I couldn't see the road in front of the car for at least 30 feet. Oh and we made the same parts for ford as we did for Leyland and Vauxhall. We also made the handbrake assembly for the DeLorean, but we never got paid for that one.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:39 am 
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Sussex wrote:
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I part chopped it for a 2.8 Capri,

I had one of them, best car I've ever had. Absolutely loved it.

Wish I still had it. :sad:



A guy who works with us has an old Capri under wraps in his garage, it's an old S reg 2.0 auto, it only comes out in the summer.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:39 am 
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That article contained 2448 words.....of which 247 were broadly about the much malaigned Austin Allegro.....the rest should have made people aware that the cab trade is doomed.

It's nice to see the thread discuss the merits of the Allegro (or aggro as some wits chose to call it).

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captain cab wrote:
That article contained 2448 words.....of which 247 were broadly about the much malaigned Austin Allegro.....the rest should have made people aware that the cab trade is doomed.

It's nice to see the thread discuss the merits of the Allegro (or aggro as some wits chose to call it).

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Pmsl.... To be fair everybody likes a good reminisce hence the conversation turning to the Allegro. Give it a couple of years and everybody will be only too happy to talk about the taxi trade :wink:

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Give it a couple of years and everybody will be only too happy to talk about the taxi trade :wink:

But that would be about eighteen months too damn late!

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Chris the Fish wrote:
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Give it a couple of years and everybody will be only too happy to talk about the taxi trade :wink:

But that would be about eighteen months too damn late!


That was the point I was making :roll:

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