Heres the last few pics from the 81 show, dont know much about the zephyr, the engine i think was in a mustang?, the athenian warrior mural was on an xj6 type jag boot, then theres the beetle & that cuty y again.
this site has had over 12,000 hits, anyone out there got any more southend or similar area related stuff, or is it just me!!
enjoy....
that looks like the screamin' yellow zonker,morris 8?.....not a Y
damn keyboard, slip of the finger........well spotted, there is someone paying attention!Originally Posted by toetag
that looks like the screamin' yellow zonker,morris 8?.....not a y
Hi Ken & Marty!!
Plus anyone else who may remember me from:
Eastern Cruisers
Evil McNasties
Chelmsford Drug & Sausage Roll Club
&
The Essex Popular Front!!
I must have some Essex related photos around somewhere......
I recall seing one of Humphrey (Chris Monk) dressed as a Bunny Girl, in one of my shoe boxes!!
Cheers
Ron
(Pop 922 FVW)
Quick Mopar get the any one for tennis photo on of Humpry.
Hi Ron. Be good to see some of your pics on here. I know Mopar has a good picture on Chris. LOL.
do you mean this one?, & heres some essex pops for the hell of it, john hockleys wild ride, geoff caves 'sit up & beg & vanilla o lay.
Cheers marty babb for the pics.
Hi Ron, good to hear from you, the number of old codgers who've been in touch since Ive posted on here is amazing. Soon we'll have to have a rod run where it wont matter on the age of the machinery, but all the people'll have to be 55+ !
redmads got a big red bus we could use??hi ron, good to hear from you, the number of old codgers who've been in touch since ive posted on here is amazing. Soon we'll have to have a rod run where it wont matter on the age of the machinery, but all the people'll have to be 55+ !
Thanks Ken, but I already have a coach - This is my 1947 Bedford OB
Very, very nice Marty - when living out 'in the sticks' as a very young kid I can remember going to school in something like this - except it had a dorsal fin on the roof.
Oh dear, this means I have to go into anorack mode.... My Bedford has a Duple body, built at Hendon. The dorsal fin bodywork was built by Harringtons in Brighton, normally on Leylands or AECs, very few now survive, and they command a huge price nowadays.
I remember you in a blue anorack Marty. What fasinates me is the quality these coaches are built with - the chrome and brocade unholstery - wonderful - what engine is in yours?
28hp in line six bedford, designed in mid 30s, (which developed into the Vauxhall 6 series used through 50s/60s), 4 speed crash gearbox.
Is that the 2.2 or 2.6 series Wyvern/Cresta type 6 pot? I think the 3.3 would be too late an engine (although I thought it was sourced from across 'the pond') strange that such a 'small' engine can do service both in a car and a heavy coach?
The wyvern had a 1450cc engine derived from the pre war vx 12. The velox had a new 6 cylinder engine at 2275cc, which looked similar to the 28hp but was smaller and there was little crossover of parts, with further engineered developments, such as improved bearings. The 28hp engine worked out at 217cu in, near as dammit 3.5li. The chev stovebolt" straight 6 was designed in the late 20s , and was fitted in the first few Bedfords. The engineers at Bedford thought they could do better, with an improved oil system for a start, and they also developed the engine as a lean burn engine(something we all think of as a new idea) and this and other things were adopted later by chev. and in the same way both sets of engineers both sides of the Atlantic continued to develop their Engines for their differing conditions. The 28 hp engine continued to be made in limited numbers almost up to the end of Bedford production in 1986, such was its reliability, and elements of the 28hp continued to be found in many of both Vauxhall and Bedford 6 cylinder engines right up into the 80s, and even the larger engines Bedford offered had an obvious resemblance (up to 300cu in gasoline(such as used in the green godess fire tenders), and 330 diesel(later TKs).
Sorry to have got off topic, Boss,but once an anorack, always ...
oF Topic again - we had a couple of the Cresta PB 3.3's, great reliable engines (is it the same as the 28hp?)
Can we try & wake this thread!!,
anyone got any more southend cruise piccys please, i remember a mk1 escort estate called the grabber, it was black & silver & was about 4 foot in the air at the back!, loved that, anyone got any pics? Think i got a pic somewhere but its to dark.
Were you there the night the seafront was shut off to normal cars, (that includes you mr robbins!) for the filming of cruisin?
I was actually down there with my parents, all unaware of the impending rod invasion, i was filling the slot machines when i was shouted at by father to come outside, i didnt even know what a custom car was then, but i eventually let go of the one armed bandit, went out & it was wall to wall rods & customs, i dont remember to much of which cars were there but the one that has always stuck in my head was warp 8 as shown in the piccys below.
The footage was not only used for cruisin but was also used for the pop video to hank c burnettes spinning rock boogie, & no its not on u tube, (well it is, good video with clips from american graffitti etc but not the southend one), i remember seeing it on telly, but videos were out of my reach back then, if invented atall!!.
i think it was late 76/early 77 , as soon after i started buying custom car & hot car, my first issues were aprill 77 with moulin rouge on the front of cc & a rover p6 with a bloke with a cowboy hat on the front of hot car!!
i have never seen the film cruisin, one of my lifretime ambitions, who knows one day it may turn up!!
That night changed my life & i have been hooked ever since, do you have any memories of that evening?, any cruise pics etc etc..............
pics are courtesy of ian walker & keith smith, bisley 77 & cc show 76, in the last piccy of the indoor show see if you can spot the bullit mustang, ray christophers happy hooker, mick kemps silver surfer, andy fenns that mini, & a white t bucket that i cant identify enjoy....
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Yes I remember that film night well. We(Eastern cruisers club c'tee) had a number of meetings beforehand with Curtis Clarke the director to set the deal up, get the council and local police on side(yeah, really), to invite car owners etc but not to promote the evening (because we really didn't want the d*ckheads in "fieldcars" that even back then would act like pillocks and generally cause problems). It was arranged that the carpark opposite the Kursaal was to be used exclusively by the cruisers, who would layover there between takes( with two of the local feds to control entry). The feds were out in some force, and I can say with some delight they were there to ensure the seafront road was available just to cruisers! When the cameras were ready to roll the Police would step into the Highway by the carpark and stop all ordinary traffic,(the same at the pier roundabout), and out we'de go and cruise, maybe 15 minutes, and then park up again. And some of those memories: such as a big superbird pulling up at a pedestrian crossing to allow 2 old dears to cross and while 2 policeman looked on put the linelock on and produced a burnout that whited out the seafront; the faces of people who had never seen anything like this before; and did we feel cool... you bet. And we were able to continue to enjoy that evening many times as the Club later recieved a copy of the film in 16mm format( the club had had its own projector for some while)as well as a copy of the Spinning rock boogie promo.
But there is one unanswered question, no-one I know from those days has any idea where that film went... so where is it now?
cheers 4 that marty, nice to hear from someone else who was there as my memories are vague, im sure there must be others on here that were there? Have you got any pics?
Glad you confirmed about the spinning rock boogie video as although i was pretty sure that was the record i have often wondered if i had dreamt that bit up!! & for gods sake find them films, you could retire on the proceeds!!!
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