Remember the Aston Martin given free with a gallon of Castrol GTX to celebrate their Le Mans success?
I carefully put mine to one side without opening the packaging - it had to be destroyed to get to the car.
Brother-in-law came round and couldn't resist opening it. :>(
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SpamCan...Southern Railway ? Now I know what your username refers to !
Only recall seeing one Southern namer, Schools class 'Christ's Hospital' on ( I think ) Hungerford Bridge in 1951. Only disappointment with the Duke, is the name. Already got the old Triang Hornby one but not a good runner.
Did you know they are building one at Llangollen. Google ' The Unknown Warrior'.
Back to topic, I think the Yesteryears are really nice, My favourite is the Auburn Speedster but the Cord, Deusenberg and the other 30s Yanks are also impressive.
I don'think mine have been out of the boxes more than twice. FIL was a rep and knew all the model shops on his 'beat'. He used to buy one every trip away. Looking on various websites, they don't seem to have much value...certainly not unless I was destitute. I might get a display cabinet, put them on show and keep the boxes safe.
I have all the kit for the 007 car, even the spare passenger. Another model I have is the Airfix WW1 fire engine kit. I've never made it, it's still in it's poly bag in the box.
I must have had it 40 yrs ! Oh, and for SpamCan, I've got a Kitmaster/Airfix SpamCan kit, also unmade.
Boy's toys...HeHe...great, innit ?
Ted
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Yes Ted, I think I've got 3 Spamcans somewhere, one Airfix and two Dapol; unlikely to be built now, given the quality of Hornby's latest model.
I always fancied building the Airfix 1/12 scale blower Bentley, but it was always beyond the reach of pocket money and my skill level.
I've got one of those free cars with Castrol GTX too, without packaging, think it's a Jaguar XJR-9?
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I have a collection of model cars, Dinky, Corgi and Matchbox. Most are in mint condition but only a few in their original boxes. One, a Pontiac Parisienne with retractable antennae. Another, a Chrysler Imperial with a set of golf clubs in the boot. Anyone remember the Mercedes pullman with working windscreen wipers? Or the BMW 2002 TiLux with flashing indicators? They don't make 'em like that anymore. Playstations and gameboys? Pah! Today's kids don't know what they're missing...
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Spam....Now you've been outed, I have to admit that my username is not because we have a 1400 cc car ( or Swmbo has) it's actually the class no. of my favourite loco. Regrettably no model available...or likely to be !
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 1400 class, Aspinall Atlantic..' Highflyer '..... all gone by 1934.
I made the blower Bentley, and the Model T ' Flivver ' I've got a Frog Eye Sprite to make but my skills are somewhat fewer now !
I agree with you CC but my 4 yr old G'son likes his cars and I'm interesting him in trains, although he will insist on wanting to see ' big diesels.' When I've got time we're going to have a car trip to Madeley, south of Crewe where you can park down by the track. Everything going North or South has to go past there. It's very busy.
Ted
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Marvellous, Ted.
Would be great if you could take him to see the old Deltic Diesels. They look and sound amazing. There was a post about them not too far back on here ISTR with links to video footage
Regards, cc
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Pretty amazing things Deltics. They would not be allowed to run such a noisy engine anymore because you will get the residents complaining. Most of my customers are moaning that a light railway system (the metrolink) is going to run past their house.
Is there any Deltics still in service? I thought they were taken out during the late 70's?
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Not in regular, scheduled service, but the deviant types at the Deltic Preservation Society keep a few going for special outings;
www.thedps.co.uk/staticpages/index.php?page=locos
One of the impressive engineering requirements for the HST was that at 125 mph it was not allowed to put any more force down into the track than a Deltic did at 100mph.
One interesting piece of work I was involved in was when some HSTs clearly were putting down more force, and in some cases were actually moving the track out of alignment - the equal and opposite force acting on the power car's bogies was snapping suspension bolts!
Edited by Number_Cruncher on 16/05/2009 at 00:58
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Heavens to Betsy, train anoraks...
If you were talking about steam - I nearly said proper trains - I would say you were taking me back to the fifties when I had friends who were engine driver groupies and used to hang about the shunting yards hoping for five minutes on the footplate of a thoroughbred Castle Class loco, or even sometimes being allowed to drive a tank engine... not me though.
In the sixties, waiting for the last train from Birmingham to London, the one that stopped everywhere and got in at dawn, had a chat with the driver of one of those things in yr weblink. He was a mature character who said it was just like driving a car with one of those. In what he said were the good old days you had to get up at 3 in the morning - or someone did - to light the boiler. And to pull a heavy train out of Birmingham, a steep incline apparently, took two wheelspinning steam locos in slippery winter conditions...
In First Class, ripped as a stoat, I came across a Labour Minister whose face I knew and who was in my good books at the time, and congratulated him. More than that I cannot say.
Edited by Lud on 16/05/2009 at 01:25
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Meanwhile in 21st Century Britain a car silently rusted away - back to motoring ! :0
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Spoilsport!
I had a go at that blower Bentley but didn't do a very good job, and about the same time one of those American things with all the chrome... 'fraid to say that the steam locos went together better and easier for some reason!
(PS Spamcan - did you mean "Duchess" of Sutherland in that original post??) ;)
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If any of the discussion has made you want to go out and get a model car but you don't know where your local model shop is, try here:
www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/
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(PS Spamcan - did you mean "Duchess" of Sutherland in that original post??) ;)
I think 1400ted's new loco is this one::-
www.ehattons.com/StockDetail.aspx?SID=23471
The Duchess of Sutherland is indeed a common model loco from Hornby though.
I think most Backroomers with an interest in railways were outed by the Deltic thread:-
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=69489
93 messages of extremely borderline motoring relevance. Thanks mods :-)
ooohh I had a Pontiac Parisienne too, metallic burgundy colour IIRC.
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said it was just like driving a car with one of those.
I rest my slightly dodgy case PU...
:o}
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Very borderline indeed but I like trains in a non anorak way. :-q
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Another favourite of mine was a Revell kit of a Datsun 240Z, 1/24 scale I think. The first kit I recall building with lots of 'chrome' plated parts. still one of my all time favourite cars from a styling point of view. Remeber buying it from the toy shop on Lymington high street, still there I think.
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Of course, of course, didn't mean anorak offensively to you or anyone else... surely among any enthusiast subculture it isn't such a deadly insult to a self-aware individual, is it...
I guess thinking back there was a difference between the schoolmates I had who were in with the railway staff and drivers and the ones who just collected numbers in notebooks with a penny platform ticket, these last the true anoraks. But the groups overlapped of course. I think. I wasn't a train person although I liked the actual locomotives. Very splendid beasts with half their works on display, true engineering drama in people's daily lives... Modern equivalent would be a landing Jumbo I guess but you can't get a close-up of that.
Edited by Lud on 17/05/2009 at 01:53
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Would be great if you could take him to see the old Deltic Diesels. They look and sound amazing. There was a post about them not too far back.
I used to 'spot' them from a bridge at West Drayton, Near Heathrow on their way to Paddington I think, circa 1965.
Very best regards..............Martin.
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Today's kids don't know what they're missing...
Ain't that the truth.
MD
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Seems a more innocent time compared with what kids get up to these days, doesn't it...
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I'm sure you're right there. We had no telly until 1957. Went cycling, camping, hiking in the Peak District by steam from our village station, closed in 1968.
Summers spent in the field at the side of our house and within sight of parents.
Trainspotting across the field and at the end of the garden. Lying on your back in the warm grass trying to spot the skylark that you could hear Happy days indeed.
Still live with same rail line at the end of my present garden...disused since 1987 but work starting now to bring trams to us...at last !
Ted
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One of the great model makers, here
homepage.mac.com/gawingrove/Wingrove-Collection/Me...l
People with fantastic cars have a Wingrove model in the lounge to remind them of what they have in the garage ie Nick Mason et al.
Edited by Armitage Shanks {p} on 17/05/2009 at 20:29
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