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That's true about the rust ! Remember it was second MOT for front suspension top plates to get welded in, third MOT for new sills and fourth MOT for the bin ! I worked for Fairbairns Fiat in Irvine in the early eighties and remember the fiasco with undersealing Fiats when they were sold. There was n...

Here's an image of my Flying Scot taken just after I'd ridden the Anjou Velo Vintage event in June 2013. It attracted a lot of favourable attention. Most questions were about the Sturmey Archer hub, derailleurs being the commonest gear change in France at the time. The other questions were about the...

Re the Motor Trade in the Seventies. You know, it's no surprise to me , and probably not to you either, Moonbeam, that there are so many Lost Car Dealerships in Glasgow. They really did get away with murder, didn't they ? Trefoil Cars did their own finance and had the nerve to call it Safeway Financ...

That was them exactly, Moonbeam ! The camel coat would have been Gerry. He didn't have the shades on at the time did he ? And was he not smoking a big cigar ? Aye, that was him. At least he had the decency to look like a dodgy bastard. Probably the only genuine thing in the place was the relationshi...

I worked as a mechanic for Trefoil Cars for nearly four years at the end of the 1970's At that time it was “The Genuine Father and Son” business. Old Pop, the father, had made his money as an illegal bookie and probably a moneylender in the Gorbals, before and during the war. Gerry made a packet as ...

Has anybody been through the big gates at 91(?) Union St ? This is the entrance between the shops called G Force on the left and Games Workshop on the right. It used to be a delivery entrance for parcels in the late sixties. I worked as a porter with British Rail for a while then and I remember the ...