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Post by cyf on May 22, 2012 21:17:20 GMT
Hi, Why not put here the pictures of our cars token during a drive? Here's mine in front of the cathedral of Laon
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Post by Warwick on May 23, 2012 5:10:57 GMT
Nice shot Cyf. Has the photo been compressed? The car looks shortened. Here's mine near the Parkes radio telescope where the Apollo 11 television pictures were received in 1969. It beats me how the conspiracy theorists think that NASA was able to get the TV signal from the Nevada desert halfway around the world and into an Australian radio telescope pointing at the moon. Incidentally, in the visitors' centre there is a very nice, very large photo of the telescope during its construction. Near the dish is the farmer from whom the CSIRO bought the land. He's standing beside his P4. Perhaps that is really the first Lunar Rover, not that funny looking buggy with the chicken-wire wheels.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2012 9:49:05 GMT
Warwick,looks very nice and the tyres look very much like the original Xplies by the way they correctly fill the wheelarches. The profile looks as original.
What size are they?
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Post by cyf on May 23, 2012 20:14:01 GMT
Warwick, my P5 looks shortened because of the shadow that "cuts" the rear end It has the standard length! Your car is very nice. Is it the original colour scheme?
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Post by Warwick on May 24, 2012 1:15:44 GMT
Warwick,looks very nice and the tyres look very much like the original Xplies by the way they correctly fill the wheelarches. The profile looks as original. What size are they? Thanks Crossplies. The tyres are actually too big. They're Ohtsu 7.50R15 light truck radials and they do nothing for the handling of the car, and a bit scary on a wet road. They have a very primitive tread pattern. They're nearly 1" bigger in diameter than the original Avons. Several years ago Miguel and Smallfry kindly measured their original crossplies for me, as did Bruce Duncan in Sydney, who had just fitted new Avons to the Panelcraft. Between all measurements I was able to get a pretty good idea of the dimensions of the original tyres both new and worn. The Ohtsus are so big that the inside tyre on a hard lock turn rubs on the subframe. Cyf, the car was repainted by the previous owner to the 2-tone pattern of a 3-litre. The original colours were the same as yours, but reversed. The body was Burnt Grey and the roof was Silver Birch. I can see the rear of the car under the shadow, but it still looked shortened so I thought perhaps the photo had been compressed slightly from side to side. It's funny how the eye plays tricks on you. That's a nice photo beside the canola flowers. It looks like a Rover sales poster.
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Post by cyf on May 24, 2012 19:51:48 GMT
Driving on the Champs Elysées
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Post by cyf on May 28, 2012 11:39:33 GMT
On a touristic rallye This one is for Warwick: no computer trick, just the old fashion way: turn the zoom quickly while the shutter is open
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2012 13:36:31 GMT
Cyf, Had you polished it first?!
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Post by cyf on May 28, 2012 18:17:53 GMT
No, sponge wash, why?
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Post by bebopdeluxe on May 28, 2012 21:28:53 GMT
Great photo's
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Post by Warwick on May 29, 2012 3:33:51 GMT
This one is for Warwick: no computer trick, just the old fashion way: turn the zoom quickly while the shutter is open. You shouldn't have spoiled things by explaining it Cyf. I thought that you'd rebuilt your engine so well that the old Rover could now achieve warp speed.
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Post by bebopdeluxe on May 29, 2012 10:14:36 GMT
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Post by cyf on May 29, 2012 10:59:34 GMT
Warwick, when the engine would be rebuild, I won't have a shutter speed short enough to get the car!!!
Thank you Glenn, but I'm sure other members have also great pictures of their car in intersting landscapes: Put them here!!!
I cant' see the video.
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Post by bebopdeluxe on May 29, 2012 13:15:13 GMT
Try this
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Post by cyf on May 29, 2012 18:27:48 GMT
May the force be with me
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 12:06:02 GMT
Cyf, I thought that you had been following Admin's polishing advice! The car just is radiating something. Now I know it's the force...
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Post by cyf on May 30, 2012 20:42:52 GMT
Well, don't be fooled by the pictures, it's not that beautiful in real life
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Post by cyf on Jun 2, 2012 7:34:02 GMT
In Belgium Don't you have pictures of your car?
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Post by cyf on Jun 4, 2012 11:18:59 GMT
With this link, you 'll see pictures token during the "circuit historique de Laon" a two days event each May in Northern France. You can see my P5 (and my kids having lunch in the boot) and a lot of other classic cars www.pbase.com/laurenan/laon_2012
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 11:16:19 GMT
Sorry cyf I sold mine when I moved from the Netherlands to Germany. But I'm now moving to Yorkshire so who knows what happens next!
Meanwhile I'm enjoying your pictures. Thanks for the link. There were many classic English cars in Laon that day. Looks like a great day out...even if the children have to eat in the boot. Hope they came out again for the trip home!
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Post by cyf on Jun 6, 2012 12:08:24 GMT
So I'll wait for pictures of PeterYorkshire's P5 then
There's a lot of English people in Laon each year, but not many Rovers. There was one P5 saloon last year and a SD1 3500 MkI this year. It's a nice meeting with a touristic Rallye on Saturday and a "circuit" in the town of Laon on Sunday (the town is completly close to modern traffic in the afternoon, only the classic cars are allowed to drive in a one way circuit around the town). And it's only one hour from my home!
The kids are happy in the boot, it's not that often that they go out of the cellar ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2012 11:40:39 GMT
Presumably a different cellar to that for the wine!
Moving in with my beloved and there is no room for parking so I have a problem. Will be able to get to some shows finally so that the good news.
How come your registration number ends with two letters? Does France have a separate numbering system for perfect English cars?
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Post by cyf on Jun 7, 2012 12:01:36 GMT
Peter, France has a new registration system for about three years now. It's Two letters-Three numbers-Two letters. And as in GB and other country, the car keep this plate all along it's life. Before, it was numbers-letters and the number of the departement you live (111 FG 60 by example, 60 is the number of the depatement OISE where I live). Each time the car was sold, the new owner got another number for it. By example, if I sold my Rover registered 111 FG 60 to a man who lived in Paris, the car would have get a new registration ending by 75 (222 GF 75 by example)
When I bought my P5 from a man in Paris, it was registered 549 JER 75 (old system). I had to registered it at my name in the new system and it became AJ-253-JA. It will keep this number 'till the scrapyard
If you see in France cars with the old system it's because their owner bought them more than 2 and a half years ago. So therefore, there is two system cohabitating 'till all the cars with old registration would be sold or destroy
Am I clear?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2012 12:04:57 GMT
Perfectly clear thanks cyf. Good number plate though. Only 252 would have improved it then its the same backwards as forwards!
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Post by cyf on Jun 7, 2012 12:59:22 GMT
You don't know how I regret it
What I also regret it's that with the old system you knew where the car come from with the departement number. You can still put this number on your new plate in a blue square on the right, but you can also put an other departement number. I mean if you live in northern France and you like Corse, you can put the corsican number on your plate.... logical,no?
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