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Title: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Mister Rog on 04 December 2018, 16:26:07
 

Fords new compact "people carrier"    ::)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46442579



Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 04 December 2018, 16:55:01
Eleven people and the same number of sheep. :)
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: dave the builder on 04 December 2018, 16:56:55
Having one person in a POS focus is one too many  :-X
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: TheBoy on 04 December 2018, 17:08:12
Why are children always treated differently in the media? Surely its a tragedy if anyone is harmed?
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: STEMO on 04 December 2018, 17:20:15
Typical Wrectum behaviour.   ;D
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 04 December 2018, 17:26:34
People didn't bother much with health and safety when I was a kid.

As a nipper I'd be sitting on somebody's lap all the way to Cornwall. Nobody had or bothered with seat belts, so if you were 'launched through a 'toughened glass' windscreen it could be quite messy.

Character building they called it. ;)

Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: STEMO on 04 December 2018, 17:31:01
People didn't bother much with health and safety when I was a kid.

As a nipper I'd be sitting on somebody's lap all the way to Cornwall. Nobody had or bothered with seat belts, so if you were 'launched through a 'toughened glass' windscreen it could be quite messy.

Character building they called it. ;)
A pervy uncle?
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: scimmy_man on 04 December 2018, 18:50:22
how else would he get his pocket money?
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 04 December 2018, 19:01:38
People didn't bother much with health and safety when I was a kid.

As a nipper I'd be sitting on somebody's lap all the way to Cornwall. Nobody had or bothered with seat belts, so if you were 'launched through a 'toughened glass' windscreen it could be quite messy.

Character building they called it. ;)
A pervy uncle?


25 years of therapy but the dreams still come. :D ;D
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: BazaJT on 04 December 2018, 19:30:46
When I was a child family holidays meant 8 of us kids plus mum and dad piling into dads Humber Supersnipe saloon.No one thought anything of it as such things were a common occurrence back then.
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: ronnyd on 05 December 2018, 13:27:49
Three small kids in the well behind the rear seats of an old Beetle. Never thought of the consequences at the time. :-[
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Nick W on 05 December 2018, 17:44:24
I was brought home from the hospital in a carrycot on the backseat of mum's Herald.
Later when me and my sister were 4 and 3, all four of us and an alsatian went all over the place in an Austin 1100. That wasn't unusual!
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 05 December 2018, 17:51:12
I was brought home from the hospital in a carrycot on the backseat of mum's Herald.
Later when me and my sister were 4 and 3, all four of us and an alsatian went all over the place in an Austin 1100. That wasn't unusual!

Oh, the shame. ;)

The 1300 GT had a certain appeal though........especially in the lurid colours of the time.
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Entwood on 05 December 2018, 17:59:53
I was brought home from the hospital in a carrycot on the backseat of mum's Herald.
Later when me and my sister were 4 and 3, all four of us and an alsatian went all over the place in an Austin 1100. That wasn't unusual!

My son came home in a carrycot on the "shelf" behind the seats of an MGB soft-top, sharing said space with a Cocker Spaniel ... Top was up however as it was December ....  :)
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Nick W on 05 December 2018, 18:05:58
I was brought home from the hospital in a carrycot on the backseat of mum's Herald.
Later when me and my sister were 4 and 3, all four of us and an alsatian went all over the place in an Austin 1100. That wasn't unusual!

Oh, the shame. ;)



Yeah, best selling car of the sixties and up until they turned it into the Allegro. Which was a backwards step.
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: STEMO on 05 December 2018, 18:32:29
We didn't have a car. We got the bus.
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Shackeng on 05 December 2018, 18:40:21
I did get 9 in a '55 Ford Pop once, had to open the inside doors as a counter balance on corners to prevent rolling it.:-X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Popular
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 05 December 2018, 19:39:24
I did get 9 in a '55 Ford Pop once, had to open the inside doors as a counter balance on corners to prevent rolling it.:-X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Popular

I'm amazed they were made until 1962.

They look like a car from the thirties.
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Raeturbo on 05 December 2018, 20:17:11
My father had one, seemed a quick car on our shopping trips to Tesco over Aberdare mountain👀👀
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Andy B on 05 December 2018, 20:47:27
I was brought home from the hospital in a carrycot on the backseat of mum's Herald.
Later when me and my sister were 4 and 3, all four of us and an alsatian went all over the place in an Austin 1100. That wasn't unusual!

My son came home in a carrycot on the "shelf" behind the seats of an MGB soft-top, sharing said space with a Cocker Spaniel ... Top was up however as it was December ....  :)

and wind the clock on to 1988, the nurse at the hospital was a bit put out when we wanted to place our new born lad in a rear facing seat on the front seat (no air bags & no rear seat belts at the time) when she wanted to place him on SWMBO's lap
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Shackeng on 05 December 2018, 22:28:14
I did get 9 in a '55 Ford Pop once, had to open the inside doors as a counter balance on corners to prevent rolling it.:-X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Popular

I'm amazed they were made until 1962.

They look like a car from the thirties.

They were basically the same shape as the 39-4? Anglia. :y
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 06 December 2018, 01:19:23
I like this Ford Pop! (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1959-Ford-pop-hot-rod/264072796731)  8)
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: aaronjb on 06 December 2018, 01:23:33
That is nice, but seems like very strong money.. at least it has a 302 rather than a Chevy 350, mind :)
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: BazaJT on 06 December 2018, 08:07:15
My first born child was brought home from hospital in a 100E which was of course the follow on from the "sit up and beg" Pop.
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Shackeng on 06 December 2018, 17:34:45
My first born child was brought home from hospital in a 100E which was of course the follow on from the "sit up and beg" Pop.

My stepfather, who owned a large motor dealers, including heavy transport, drove a 100E Anglia, with overdrive on top gear (3rd?) for at least 10 years. He ran this after my mother took the side off his  - 1st in the UK - Austin Atlantic (A90) convertible, which was a beautiful car, cream with red leather. Everything electrically operated, most of which failed within 6 months! It had the first push button radio I had seen. :D
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 06 December 2018, 17:41:29
My first born child was brought home from hospital in a 100E which was of course the follow on from the "sit up and beg" Pop.

My stepfather, who owned a large motor dealers, including heavy transport, drove a 100E Anglia, with overdrive on top gear (3rd?) for at least 10 years. He ran this after my mother took the side off his  - 1st in the UK - Austin Atlantic (A90) convertible, which was a beautiful car, cream with red leather. Everything electrically operated, most of which failed within 6 months! It had the first push button radio I had seen. :D

Mr Shackeng must be the last person alive born during the Victorian era..... ;)

Just kidding. Edwardian era. :y
Title: Re: Fords new "people carrier"
Post by: TheBoy on 06 December 2018, 17:47:20
Don't let the millennial parents see this thread, there will be outrage that we weren't wrapped in bubble wrap, tightly strapped into a daft child seat.