GeorgeCochrane1 @georgecochrane1

Was a very good year... apparently.

#Geo3Doodles #64 #Roundel #Redbubble

16.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Back to the board...

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17.09.2025 15:05 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty sure that's Apricot.

16.09.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Factoid: The classic ‘hockey stick’ Hillman Avenger taillights & your quick reminder that while all saloons had these lights, the DL base model lacked bulbs for the reversing lights…
(Btw, I think this vibrant shade was called Wardance - let me know if correct, ta👍)
(📸:IG a/c classicsbychance)

14.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 0

Factoid: I’d like to say the Sunbeam & 924 shared something in common but, of course, as everyone knows, the 924 had a frame for its glass tailgate whereas the Sunbeam’s glass tailgate was just that - glass…

16.09.2025 04:02 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Factoid: Chrysler made much of their cars having electronic ignition when it was a novelty but industrial action around the time of the Sunbeam’s launched meant some early cars were made without it…

16.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Factoid: The glass tailgate in the Chrysler Sunbeam might’ve been criticised for its high sill though it have a neat rear wash/wipe though being the late ‘70s such luxury was reserved for the top models…
(📸: Motor)

16.09.2025 12:54 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Nobody needs reminding that the Sunbeam Lotus turned out to be an effective & WRC winning rally car. Unfortunately for the car, the 1981 WRC manufacturer’s title for Talbot would come in the very year the Sunbeam’s Linwood plant would close & the car’s production would cease…(3)

16.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

With an eye-catching two-tone paint job (later cars had other colours), Amil alloy wheels & the clever use of Lotus’s icon badge, there was no doubt this was no ordinary Sunbeam & the ad copywriters knew exactly had to pitch it with attention for the engine & then the car…(2)

16.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0