Team cars - new and old

I like that. Seems right.

Maybe more right if it is an estate.

Is that your car?

If the number is the year it looks like 87 on that plate…

Yep. Leading out some riders at 'pedal and plonk' tomorrow at Brentford if you wanna see it in the flesh.

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No the number is in the box at bottom left and is the number of that years Giro not the year. 87 on that plate refers to the drivers number. Here's mine from the '84 Giro which was the 67th one. Cost me an arm and a leg.

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What can I say, firstly why isn't this publicised, as I would want to take photos of the car and I'm no where near London atm.

Good luck and stay safe.

Gotcha.

Funny if it does turn out to be 87 tho…

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That Opel is an Ascona. The grille, the unpainted mirrors and the orange indicator lenses say it should be 84 -86. Can't be an estate - they didn't make one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Ascona#Ascona_C_(1981%E2%80%931988)

It's just a Vauxhall Cavalier. Identical, but with a different badge. I had a Cavalier 1.6L and bloody loved it, but at the time it was common as muck, a repmobile. You couldn't break it, but I tried very hard, it being a company car. I saw 126 on the clock once. The police timed me at 110 and took miles and miles to catch me in their Jag. They were very cross and I got a ban. I also drove it a bit too quick on a canal bridge, took off and landed in a field. All it needed after that was a new sump.

Can we talk about judges' cars, or do they have their own thread?

Edit: I'm completely wrong, it's a diesel Opel Rekord E2, 82-86. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Rekord_Series_E

I need to go to bed.

The bottom-left number on the opel looks like 72 to me. No idea which year that would make it though.

Yes you're right, kind of an anomorphic cyclist shaped like 72. That would be the '89 Giro. Case solved.

Love it, no Shimano allowed on the roof!

Your headlight bulbs need to be yellow to be authentically continental

No yellow lamps on this one, but that could be because it has been re registered,

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Pug and SD1 is a winner

I enjoy the suggestion of cornering speed in this photograph. Slight roll

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I know. Its not technically a team car

Took this grab of the Campagnolo neutral service car from a video of the '88 World champs in Belgium won by Maurizio Fondriest and made infamous for Steve Bauer elbowing 'Claudy' Criquielion to the ground in the final 100 metres forcing him to walk over the line carrying his bike with a face like thunder. I don't think the Campag car was close enough to offer assistance but as 'Claudy' rode Mavic that year, would they have given him assistance anyway I wonder?

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Would love to do a renenactment of this pic

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The Castorama dungarees kit is surely one of the best ever.

Bit of a dredge but I spotted you on the M40 this morning. Brightened my day no end!

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Fantastic. It does put a smile on people's faces, whether cyclists or not.
If you'd tooted your horn I'd have given you a blast of the FIAMM airhorns in reply.