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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on October 10, 2012, 08:45:19 AM
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Any guesses what happened to my gordon ukr 696 there and then - and because of what occurred what inevitably happenned on 31dec 1963
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Your Gordon broke down in Bournemouth on September 2nd and you managed to push it all the way home, arriving hungry, thirsty, cold and tired on 31/12/63. But what we REALLY want to know is about all those rumours of what you did while pushing Gordon through Milton Keynes!
Seriously though: how about, er, "fun" and/or engagement in Sept and marriage in dec?
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Well I was a lad of 6 and gordon was 8
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Birthdays/anniversaries?
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Nope think of gordon in the buff
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It got a speeding ticket from Father Christmas
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Nope think of gordon in the buff
Brown?
Ramsey?
Bennett?
No thanks!
OK so the body fell off in Bournemouth and got mangled, or got hit by a low flying plane at Hurn airport. New body ordered and finally fitted on Dec 31st
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Hadn't realised that the question was so taxing
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Sept you returned from the continent in a Bristol Type 170 Freighter, landing at Hurn with Gordon packed to the gunwhales with Duty Free Hooch for your New Year's Eve Party?*
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I have a jazz CD and at the end of one song two of the band have this little chat:
"Say, Byron old Buddy, let me aks you a question: where were you on the night of August the 15th?"
"Well Ian old pal, I was coming home. From a New Year's Eve Party."
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It was a really tough conundrum. Here is my guess:
In 1963 sales of bubble cars like the Isetta declined and sales of bigger cars like the Mini picked up, not least of all for reasons related to shall we say 'politics'? In 1964 the production of the Isetta in Brighton was discontinued as it made less sense to buy one. Right?
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Was the 31st Dec 1963 the last time your Gordon UKR 696 was allowed unrestrained outdoor exercise before being condemned to a period of hibernation?
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Was the 31st Dec 1963 the last time your Gordon UKR 696 was allowed unrestrained outdoor exercise before being condemned to a period of hibernation?
Far too sensible! Yup could be this.
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Your Gordon is a three-wheeler, isn't it?
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Spot on wilksie the gordon 3 wheeler came off the road no later than dec 1st 1963 - just over 49 years ago ! It will definetly be back within the next few months - gordon has left home and I am working on him at evening classes !just dug out the old buff logbook and v5 its never been sorned.sorry marcus that it wasn't more interesting but the clues were there - a period of 4 months,buff and tax
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Oh well! A pack of Tunnocks Tea Cakes to Wilksie as a prize then?!
Glad to hear it's on its way back to life.
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The owner on 2nd sept 63 was a mr. Frederick glascodine - unusual name he later sold it to malcolm thomas who I don't believe ever had it running . Does anyone know fred glascodine ?
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Never heard that name before, sounds like a restaurant in a Scottish city!
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Or a proprietary medicine along the lines of pepto bismol
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Pept abysmal?!
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;D Yep you get him the tunnocks and I will get him a card. Now wait until nov 18th before presenting the old v5 at local dvla to register it on the road (pre 1960 no mot req ) - whois best for insurance nowadays ?
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I bought the Tunnocks today and made sure that all of them were fresh and up to standard!
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hard to tell i always find - always a little more " sampling " to be done ;)
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;D Yep you get him the tunnocks and I will get him a card. Now wait until nov 18th before presenting the old v5 at local dvla to register it on the road (pre 1960 no mot req ) - whois best for insurance nowadays ?
I will be interested to see if it is as simple as that. So the Gordon becomes the lab rat of the new system.
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Yes, I was wondering that, I also have a 59 vehicle with the latest type V5 which hasnt been on the road since the sixties, will I be able to just insure and tax it? No one appears to know the answer yet.
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thats what i am finding . swansea girl said take papers ,mot n insurance to local office . i mentioned waiting until 18 nov changes on mot and she went away and " conferred " came back with a half hearted y-e-e-s try then - very unsure :-\
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There was mention that in fact the only way of doing this for free without loads of paperwork and an MOT test is to use the Fair Isle LVO (open 4 days a year except in leap years) where you need to arrive in person with your car. I should note that those days are ones when the ferry does not stop at Fair Isle. But as in all new Government policy, to see fair play, you do have the choice.