Akku's Cotswold day trip

[akku]

I decided to pop down to Stow on The Wolds as the Cotswold Vintage Bus Rally was taking place there. I'm getting weirdly into vintage buses

So it was a nice drive down, I went in the Town Car for "economy"

It also fits in just lovely in the English countryside...



Seems every 3rd pub is called "The Coach and Horses" and the remainder are split into "Horse & Groom" "The Old Stables" and so on...








Wierdest thing was I passed through a village, the pub there the car park was absolutely rammed with identical ASBO-orange late model Fiestas. So I turned round, came back to get a photo, there was literally like 20+ of them. And 5 minutes later when I got back, the car park was utterly empty.

All this and as well as the buses (which were cool, erm, something) there were a few cars and so on, so theres a small mix of pics of those,




















It was a "running day" so I also had quite a good run out on a 1967 Bristol single decker.






And a few fine spots of various things while driving around...












I did see some fine rude place names too...








So a jolly old day all round

[Paul Y]

Looks like a grand day out sir.

This....


...looks like the one that had a slight 'mishap' at Goodwood.

P.

[MiataMark]

Had my honeymoon in Lower Slaughter...

[MiataMark]

Aug 22, 2022 11:09:43 GMT Paul Y said:

...looks like the one that had a slight 'mishap' at Goodwood.

P.

[pedalcarjoe]

Aug 22, 2022 11:12:06 GMT MiataMark said:

Aug 22, 2022 11:09:43 GMT Paul Y said:

...looks like the one that had a slight 'mishap' at Goodwood.

P.

ouch !

a great pic of the "mishap"

thanks for sharing

[braaap]

Well spotted, Paul and Mark!

[akku]

Well, that solved that mystery

[HoTWire]

I have a strange nostalgia for this type of coach:


I'm not sure I ever really went in one, maybe on a school trip once? but something about them is so era specific.

Also I tend to associate them with being race car transporters for a certain breed of race car in the late 80's/early 90's. Those that had enough money they could afford something more than a trailer, but not enough that they could get a proper custom race car transporter. So they chopped up a second hand coach.

[akku]

The green double decker was my favourite for actually being a camper conversion...

[HoTWire]

That green double-decker has definitely been to Glastonbury, but way back when, before it had a fence

[akku]

Aug 22, 2022 15:58:36 GMT HoTWire said:

That green double-decker has definitely been to Glastonbury, but way back when, before it had a fence

Its is not a recent conversion. If it is then they have done the details so brilliantly

[maf260]

I know very little about old buses. The one thing I do know is the registration numbers of routemasters back in the day for West London Transport began WLT - that Morgan is therefore sporting the registration number of a former routemaster bus; I think the numbers were sold off when somebody realised they had a value.


EDIT....

londonbusesbyadam.zenfolio.com/p395355646/h6493ce77#h6493ce77

DOUBLE EDIT....
Looks like it spent some time on a Sategcoach coach also....

www.flickr.com/photos/57727182@N08/50059322832

[PHUQ]

Aug 22, 2022 14:23:21 GMT HoTWire said:

I have a strange nostalgia for this type of coach:

I'm not sure I ever really went in one, maybe on a school trip once? but something about them is so era specific.

Also I tend to associate them with being race car transporters for a certain breed of race car in the late 80's/early 90's. Those that had enough money they could afford something more than a trailer, but not enough that they could get a proper custom race car transporter. So they chopped up a second hand coach.

Funny enough I was wandering around the busses at a steam rally the other weekend saying something very similar. With cars (and lorries and railways for that matter) my interest is in stuff that was already "classic" when I was a kid, or at least was very rare in regular use. Although I appreciate seeing a Montego or Cavalier in the wild I don't have the same pang of nostalgia I get from a coach or bus of the mid 70s- early 80s era, generally just about hanging on in there as school transport fodder- school swimming lessons definitely involved a trip out on something similar to that into town, and at secondary school there was still a pair of battered Bristol VR deckers on the school run.

Should have pulled my finger out and gone up the hill to this- looks like a good day, and in a nice part of the world (even the Slaughters are nice...).

Edit, oh and that AEC camper conversion is ACE!

[fogey]

Yet another excellent thread from akku.

[akku]

Aug 22, 2022 21:36:20 GMT fogey said:

Yet another excellent thread from akku.

You'll make me blush...

[tonycocacola]

Nice pics.
Old coaches and busses have been on my radar for quite a while now, but I don't have the space, funds or bravery to own one.

😁

[redfirecracker]

The A35 was AC/DC singer Brian Johnson at the Silverstone Classic