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Old 2 Jan 2017, 18:07 (Ref:3699720)   #76
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Old 2 Jan 2017, 18:41 (Ref:3699732)   #77
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Mike the 'C' Type is a nice looking car, but while purposeful is not really 'beautiful'. It not in the same class as many/most 1950's Ferraris, but each to his own.
Anyone who drives an Escort is seriously lacking in the finer points of aesthetics.

I suppose being from Norfolk does give one a somewhat agricultural view of machinery.


I didn't say the C was beautiful- just that I preferred it to the D, which to me isn't even close to the description. And IMHO the XKSS is worse! (Sorry JT)

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" ! How boring it would be if people didn't have different views on aesthetics......
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Old 2 Jan 2017, 20:10 (Ref:3699750)   #78
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C type, elegant.
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Old 2 Jan 2017, 21:23 (Ref:3699771)   #79
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We had better include one of these before JT, blows his top. Another well proportioned classic from the '50's. So unlike those .............
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Old 3 Jan 2017, 09:56 (Ref:3699864)   #80
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C type, elegant.
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XKSS, pug ugly. If I'm generous, of its time.
And that from a man that doesn't live in Norfolk OR own 3 Ford Escorts.....

Spot on, Colin!

Any more favourite images from 2016?
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Old 3 Jan 2017, 10:38 (Ref:3699876)   #81
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Well there is not a lot else to do at this time of year so ....... from GTS MG Live.
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Old 3 Jan 2017, 11:46 (Ref:3699888)   #82
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Can I have another picture please. This came in over the weekend. My life long dream came true last year thanks to our Colin McKay.
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Old 3 Jan 2017, 11:47 (Ref:3699889)   #83
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Old 3 Jan 2017, 14:17 (Ref:3699920)   #86
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2016 was big year for Croft when the marshals finally got to welcome the arrival of their new state-of-the-art fire tender.
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Old 3 Jan 2017, 17:40 (Ref:3699956)   #87
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Superb Gary. My favourite favourite........
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Agree . I used to drive something similar . Happy days .except going uphill. With 400 gallons of water on board
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Agree . I used to drive something similar . Happy days .except going uphill. With 400 gallons of water on board
(Sorry, no picture; you'll just have to build one in your own minds.)

Reminds me of stories that my father told me about his time as an Auxiliary Fireman during WW2, doing driving duties. They had the brilliant idea of towing a water tank on a trailer behind his pump machine. Only problem was that the trailer didn't have any brakes, and in the icy winters the only way that he, and other drivers, could stop the combo (especially down hills) was to use the curb stones to help decelerate.

Wasn't particularly successful, and didn't do the tyres much good either.

Another story was about a punishment that would be handed out by the Station Commander to the firemen. They would be made to empty the coal bunker/s and whitewash the walls and floor, and then put the coal back. If the Commander saw a speck of coal dust above the level of the returned coal, then they would have to repeat the exercise, except this time they would have to also coat each lump of coal in the whitewash.

Needless to say, they tried to be good boys and avoid punishment. And after a night fighting fires, he would go off to the day job running a business.
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I didn't say the C was beautiful- just that I preferred it to the D, which to me isn't even close to the description. And IMHO the XKSS is worse! (Sorry JT)

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" ! How boring it would be if people didn't have different views on aesthetics......
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Mike , that's the second time you have apologised to me recently and even less sure why this time! I have tried to avoid this argument as some of it's a generational thing and I actually appreciate cars from many periods (see my response to Bob, below).

Colin, I would tend to agree with that although perhaps a bit harsh to call the XKSS 'pug' ugly. I'm not struck by the beauty of the D type, but more by the impact that the car, especially in long nosed high tailfin form would have had - positively futuristic or other worldly at the time.

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We had better include one of these before JT, blows his top. Another well proportioned classic from the '50's. So unlike those .............
Well, yes, I've always said it was my favourite sports racer, just 5 built and would have achieved even more had it had a decent gearbox, a real irony given the manufacturer. Brilliant around the Nurburgring though which says it all really. Probably alongside that, I would put the 917, so I am able easily to move beyond the 50s. In fact, for sheer beauty, the Ferrari P4 and Chevron B16 take some beating but as Mike says, 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

All of this, however, has taken us away from the thread title a bit so I may have to alter it a bit to accommodate the change of direction although I haven't quite finished with my favourite images from 2016, yet.
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You know this lot John! Like a bunch of schoolkids who can't keep their minds on any subject for long, and go wandering off down innumerable side lines that have little or nothing to do with the matter in hand. Lack of concentration I'm afraid.

Have you seen the price of fish in Tescos recently...... scandalous.
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Skilfully combining both the original thread title and the hijacked thread ... here we have a 'Well proportioned Classic from the 50s', which just happens to be a favourite image of mine from 2016 ...
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Skilfully combining both the original thread title and the hijacked thread ... here we have a 'Well proportioned Classic from the 50s', which just happens to be a favourite image of mine from 2016 ...
The answer to a clue in the I (newspaper) crossword recently was 'No oil painting'

Now I wonder what made me think of that?
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Before we wander too far from the original intention, this is the car that as a lad I thought was the one I wanted 'when I grew up'. Sadly I never did so it remains a dream, but it still a great looking brute. Purposeful? In Spades!
Beautiful? Depends on the 'beholder'. Pug Ugly? Probably but who would care with a 5.0 litre Caddy under the hood. And yes it is a 2016 picture, Classic Media Day.
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