Who is this?

Where was it taken?

When was it taken?

it looks like out the front of G.E.C. on winterbottom avenue

Thats me playing hockey in india and forgot me stick frank

Serious thou could of been on the trading estate at west view as i know it to well probs not thou ,ill have a go at johnson and be miles away

Looks to me like that be Michael John Buckley in the summer of 1983 on the tradey

not only that spot the crap cars in the background mk4 cortina morris marina beetle and possibly a mk3 escort

Here, Beetles are NOT crap cars; Beetles are special

I used to have one that wouldn't let anyone but me drive her! If my other half ever went out in it, he would get stranded in the middle of nowhere, or else end up storming up the garden path with a gear stick in his hand. He just couldn't accept the idea that you had to put exactly the right pressure on the controls and no more


She had a great souped-up engine, tho. You could see other motorists at junctions thinking, oh, it's just a Beetle, I'll nip in here in front.....then the look of horror on their faces as we bore down on them!

Death traps.

I remember a certain bunker member who had an orange one. With one black door. Some of it was at the kerb and the rest of it was in the garage.

More recently I borrowed another orange one to go to work. I got in and cranked the seat back, she being 5'1" and me being 6'0" and the bloody thing propelled me into the back seat.

Lovely vehicles though, air cooled you know........

But, yeah, why were so many of them orange? You don't get other orange cars.
Actually, mine had been metallic turquoise when young, but had faded a little over the years (and I know all about that)
Thinking about it, am really missing her now tho.....wish I'd thought twice about leaving her darn sarf, but I thought she probably wouldn't survive a Northern winter

i thought it was billy horners datsun

Easy got that jacket me!

If it's on the tradey isn't it more likely to be at the railway end where Athletic used to play?
The fields next to AEI/RWI/the Canteen were accidents just waiting to happen.
Ferreting land!

I know a lad who backed his beetle into a parked Reliant three wheeler...he said it sort of sprang back and 'twatted' his beetle after he hit it . Result, unmarked Reliant (he said the fibre glass 'flexed') and a beetle with a seriously dented engine cover.

how do you get rid of a reliant
park it next to another one

at least that is what happened to our kid a reliant man himself woke up and found one parked next to it
note saying keep it
but he does live in blackaaalll like

My beetle was a more tasteful shade of orange called "Clemantine"