Stuart
You could still claim it was from a car. Tell your friend with the metal detector that the Backroom confirms it to be from a 1937 Armitage Shanks, a delightful little four seat tourer with a twin overhead cam engine and all aluminium bodywork. You might get away with it.
Ian
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Ian
Surely the Armitage Shanks was a watercooled, open top, one seater with porcelain bodywork if my memory serves me right...... ;-)
as ever
mark
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Hm, I think I know the one you mean, Mark. Flush fitting panel, wooden upholstery, but no reclining seat?
Ian
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Ian
yep thats the one, usually supplied with bright chrome trim and most have a "starting handle" though I believe more modern ones have a push button start.
Easy to spot with a bloody big exhaust out the back.
Consumption is not that good, mine uses a full tank each time I "start it up".
In fact I feel the need to take it for a spin
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Mark
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Are these the ones that mostly come in white (although I believe some people like them in pink?
The wipers are useless, you always need a shammy to get rid of the bugs;
The filler cap, despite being huge always gets spillages around it;
No one likes to spend a sunday afternoon cleaning them;
They feel like they are screwed to the floor (except the ones in Spain);
Any why does everyone read newspapers when driving one?
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This thread's made my day, chaps. As Wallace would say - "Cracking, Gromet".
Ian
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Ian Cook wrote:
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> Stuart
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> You could still claim it was from a car. Tell your friend
> with the metal detector that the Backroom confirms it to be
> from a 1937 Armitage Shanks, a delightful little four seat
> tourer with a twin overhead cam engine and all aluminium
> bodywork. You might get away with it.
And tell him the last, and priceless one, disappeared, and if it's down there.............
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