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29th June 2017, 17:26 | #21 |
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Never meet your heroes, as the saying goes.
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Reducing the size of my Rover fleet by adding a 75 to it. |
29th June 2017, 19:23 | #22 |
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The car in question is in blue. I've always loved his documentaries, I think he was a touch out of step even in his own time but a legend non the less and a great loss to the heritage movement.
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29th June 2017, 21:48 | #24 |
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This thread was about Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain - Featuring a Rover 75.
https://the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/s...ht=Fred+dibnah Looks like it was a gold 75. Dave T |
30th June 2017, 09:35 | #25 | |
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30th June 2017, 18:09 | #26 |
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Ok, didn't want to start a Dibnah bashing thread, I was curious about the car since it is effectively a celebrity having been featured on the TV but people sadly seem to be focussing on the negative as happens all to often.
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30th June 2017, 19:43 | #27 |
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Does anyone remember the 75 I sold last year? Have a look at the pictures. There is another one with a similar reg here in Wigan, chances are they all came from the same place. In my experiences of Fred, he was a nice man when sober but, very tight with money and a lousy drunk a lot of the time. He never knew who he wanted to be when he grew up.
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30th June 2017, 20:11 | #28 |
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Well, celebrity has its pressures.
Whether he was doing easy jobs or difficult ones it wasn't easy to turn those jobs into a tv show that made him very wealthy and well known (or else those doing the difficult jobs would have done better). Fair play to him |
30th June 2017, 22:13 | #29 |
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Fred came to Tees Cottage Pumping Station just down the road from me (in Darlington) and my mate George (who'll drive anything steam) was there. George said "...mind you, it's all about Fred".
Great TV series though. I liked the one where he took his wife on holiday to Blackpool and she ended up helping him pull ladders up a chimney in a downpour. |
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One of Fred' s wives was the sister of a neighbour of mine when I was a kid. As my mum and dad were friends with the neighbours, when Fred came over to see them one time with his then wife who was visiting her sister, they all came across to our house for a drink or twelve. I met him and was fairly nonplussed as it was just a neighbours relative and I was a kid who didn't know who he was nor what he did. And then I went to bed.
Turns out that they were up until really late talking and laughing, and with fag packets, pipes, lighters and ashtrays, he demonstrated to my mum and dad how to ladder a chimney and burn it so it falls where he wanted it. They say he was a lovely guy and fascinating, and my dad being a steam train lover spent ages talking about how steam engines worked and how to drive a train etc.. Thoroughly lovely night, which I missed as I was too young and in bed. Unfortunately, this pre-dated the Rover 75's birth, so he wasn't driving one. They did discuss the British car industry though, because at the time, there was the teeny tiny remnants of one. See? This WAS thread related! |
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