One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Gillstay]

No pics as it was in traffic, but I was overtaken by a Citroen GSA on the way into Ipswich this afternoon. Not so much a classic, but unusual as I've not seen one in a long time. Also in the same style, there's a (reatively) good condition Lada Riva Estate seen occasionally in Felixstowe, but again only spotted while on the move.

Yes, a GSA is a very rare beast. Such a good car and such rotten Russian steel.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Gillstay

Wasn't it the GSA that was advertised on TV, speeding towards 2 trucks, then a front tyre was blown, on 'final approach'?

 

[curzons246]

I thought that was the BX?

 

[curzons246]

I thought that was the BX?

I bow to your superior memory sir, it was indeed the GS that blew the tyre passing between the two lorries

 

[mistyoptic]

I remember one advert at the edge of a cliff. Can’t remember which model that was?

 

[mistyoptic]

Ah, ok, that was GSA too


View: https://youtu.be/O6Kfd1Um4YI

 

[BrumJim]

@Gillstay

Wasn't it the GSA that was advertised on TV, speeding towards 2 trucks, then a front tyre was blown, on 'final approach'?

I'm glad someone else remembers that advert. Strangely it is seared on my brain.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'm glad someone else remembers that advert. Strangely it is seared on my brain.

Regarding tyre adverts, so is the Dunlop Denovo(?) where it was a low-angle camera, showing water being jettisoned through side-sipes
And running over a glass-tray & filmed from underneath
On a Mini 1275GT?

Doubtless, there were adverts about its run-flat capabilities instead

 

[mistyoptic]

Regarding tyre adverts, so is the Dunlop Denovo(?) where it was a low-angle camera, showing water being jettisoned through side-sipes
And running over a glass-tray & filmed from underneath
On a Mini 1275GT?

Doubtless, there were adverts about its run-flat capabilities instead

Wasn't it the SP Sport with "Aquajet"? As you say, Denovo was a "run-flat"

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@mistyoptic

You're right, I'm wrong


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS8Gx0R_D3g


Still available too!!
But pricey!!
https://www.vintagetyres.com/shop/tyres/dunlop

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files

Piece Hall Land Rover Gathering
Halifax

Sunday 7th October 2007

Phil, one of our (now retired) Urology Consultants also had one
(pictured May 2005)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files

Piece Hall Land Rover Gathering
Halifax

Sunday 7th October 2007

My 110 'Heritage' is in there somewhere
As is my friend Normans 90, directly behind the red Range Rover

I still have my exhibitors plaques

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files

26th July 2004

Harrogate Horseless Carriages
Skipton Road/A59
Harrogate
Just a couple of hundred yards from where the A61, up to Ripon, intersects it

They generally had a couple of Lotus Cortinas in there too, & were always happy to have admirers of the marque wander in to have a drool

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files

Market Street
Wakefield
27th April 2009

And, the building was the; United Free Methodist Chapel

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files
December 2003

The 'Nitrous Manifold' for the Theatres (the old, now demolished, Hospital)
Too big for a car, & damned heavy!!