Chrissaf Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hi I'm still collecting specifically 1973 models (as thats the year I got my first Pannier), thanks for advice on earlier posts. Has anybody ever seen BOB Winston Churchil or either 8P Coronation in the standard '73 box style, IE Grey lower with Red Lid and yellow plastic liner and Hornby Railways oval logo ?? I'm looking and can only seem to find these in earlier box styles ??I'm going to Warley next week to contune search but wondered if I'm looking for a unobtainable goal ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hey this is also the year that I was born!!! 😀 😉 I'm also going to the Warley show next Saturday 23rd!!! I'll be wearing my blue LNER T-shirt!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 It was the year I got married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulleidboy Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 I'd been married a year, but 1973 was the year we bought our first brand new car - a Ford Escort Mexico. I think the year after I bought a Hornby Sir Dinadan - I still have it. The seventies were memorable!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 We had also been married a year and I bought a brand new Renault 4. Well somebody had to. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new lad on block Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 I also had been married a year, only had a fiver after I had paid all the wedding costs.Could not afford to even buy a second hand pedal bike.So I bought myself a new pair of shoes and walked everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 1973 was the year my first son was born! I was modelling gauge O in that year, I had left my OO to my brothers, who went on to wreck it . I returned to OO when my son was old enough to play with it with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 It was the year I became a teenager - starting to feel relatively young again ... !!Not by that much. Nice choice the Essie Mexico - still the Mk.I ... VERY NICE! Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 See - 1973 was a good year!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rana Temporia Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 t was the year I moved from Infant to Junior school.I was still on Hornby and Playcraft clockwork locos then Plus Tri-ang Big Big trains. It may have been the year I got the Jouef set with a clockwork D6100, two french red coaches and the car transporter. That was a great set that I ended up swapping for some Mainline wagons later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 1973 I had been selected from a long list of non-applicants for a job as a Crew Chief on Victor tankers. Tirns out it was the best RAF job I ever had.I also had a fairly new 1973 VX Victor Estate - superbly comfortable motor with a 2.3 L petrol engine that went like a rocket. The thing fell apart from rust in the three years Imhad it. Traded it for a VX Cavalier Sports Hatch 1.6L 3-speed auto - very comfortable but totally gutless poser’s car. New fangled unleaded fuel killed that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Good job both types of Victor didn't fall to bits due rust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 73 I turn 2! dose that count Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Why not Fazy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 1973 I had been selected from a long list of non-applicants for a job as a Crew Chief on Victor tankers. Tirns out it was the best RAF job I ever had.I also had a fairly new 1973 VX Victor Estate - superbly comfortable motor with a 2.3 L petrol engine that went like a rocket. The thing fell apart from rust in the three years Imhad it. Traded it for a VX Cavalier Sports Hatch 1.6L 3-speed auto - very comfortable but totally gutless poser’s car. New fangled unleaded fuel killed that one.1973 I was in comprehensive school, then in 1977 I was selected from 350 applicants for one of 10 apprenticeships being offered by British Airways. I had applied to 27 different companies for an engineering / mechanical apprenticeship, and the rest is history.Now strangely enough, in 1979 I had a Magnum Estate with that same 2.3 Engine. That went like a rocket but OMG.. by far the most unreliable car that I ever went on to own until I bought a Dodge Durango in my Dubai years, but going back I also went to a Cavalier next, it was a 2.0L and turned out to be the most reliable car that I have ever owned. It managed 173,000 without any engine work, and I sold it to a neighbour at 199,000 miles. It eventually made it to the scrap yard due to rust of course, at 245,000 miles!I remember that I had a problem with the Propshaft on the Magnum, the centre bearing rubber support perished and Vauxhall's remedy was a complete new propshaft. Long story, but I eventually managed to get a new bearing assembly from GKN, who were making the propshafts for Vauxhall, but sold the car on before I ever got to change it, and then about 5 years ago I came across that bearing, still boxed and unused. I put it on ebay and within hours some guy was at the door buying it... he's retoring a Magnum and this was a key part that he simply couldn't get! - It was probably the most pleasurable day of ever owning that Magnum, seeing this guy so happy that he'd found his 'holy grail'.I'm now currenty restoring a 1977 VW Golf that I found in a field near Stavourouni Mountain!... but if a Magnum ever came along, I'd love to own one again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Handley Page Victor was my favourite aircraft when growing up as a lad - moreso than the Vulcan!That look from the front - windows, and the high tail ... rest is history - for the aircraft, not me. Dad had a HA Viva - nice car, rust bucket.20 years later I ran an early Cavalier Hatch 1.6SR FWD (front wheel drive).Only 4-speed, went like a rocket as had been a 'repmobile' and well serviced - until the cambelt snapped ... Appreciated Fords but never owned one until my next car - 2.8i 5-speed, 2-tone paint (grey / silver) - THAT was a car ... What's this thread about? Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 What’s this thread about ? 1973 model locos, but I think us oldies lost the plot before the bottom of page 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rana Temporia Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Something to do with 1973? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaguar_king Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Stop messing around chaps !! thread is about availability of BOB Winston Churchil or either 8P Coronation in the standard '73 box style, IE Grey lower with Red Lid and yellow plastic liner and Hornby Railways oval logo ?? I'm looking and can only seem to find these in earlier box styles so beginning to wonder if I'm looking for a unobtainable goal ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony57 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Hi JKYou are asking for info on a 46 year old style box, you may be lucky if someone was to find one in their attic and put it on ebay or other selling sites. You may be looking for a large needle in a medium size hay stack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellocoloco Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 @JK Have you looked on Hornby Guide ? A quick look shows that box style info is included. This may answer your questions as to if your search is obtainable..........! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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