My rear end is complete!

Mick Rae

Mick Rae

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Some paint correction, some secondhand overriders, some electrical fixes and a polish. Bumper quite pitted but shines up well enough to lift the brown. All in, rear end done. Exhaust now full stainless, new bump stops (again), new rear discs and pads, all under sealed, fresh differential oil. What started as trying to polish out a scratch then suffered mission creep!IMG_20260306_170047231_MP.jpg
 
Looks very smart - I like the old Esso advertisement in the rear window. Have you got one of those old stripy fur attachments for the filler cap? That was a pretty outlandish, but successful advertising campaign...that and Bom Bom Bom Bom...Esso Blue.

Happy Motoring - Munro. :)
 
I never knew about the tiger tails, just googled. I imagine they became pretty sorry looking things after a few rainy drives! I do have a vague memory of minis with big ariel's and some sort of tails tied to them. My Maine coon cat is looking at me nervously now
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My dad was a Shell fuel guy, but in the sixties I hounded him to get a tiger tail, in the end we had two of them !

They were about 6 or 7 inches long with a red ribbon to tie them to your fuel cap as I recall.
 
Just been looking at them on eBay, you are spot on, red ribbon to tie on. These, Feu Orange air fresheners etc seem to command high prices for what they are. I think I'll manage to live without either . My memory is collecting the coins, my dad did a lot of mileage as a salesman, so always had cards filled. No idea what became if them, a shame really, probably chucked away in the 70s.
 
Yes we had the coins, they pressed into a card, I remember the moon landing set, would have been '69.

Life seemed carefree and simpler then. It was then that I fell for the Rover P6 and told my dad I would have one when I grew up, bear in mind you needed to be on bank manager or doctor money, he scoffed at that and told me I had to work harder at school !
Well it only took me 47 years to get one, sadly he never saw it.
 
cobraboy said:
Yes we had the coins, they pressed into a card, I remember the moon landing set, would have been '69.

It was then that I fell for the Rover P6 and told my dad I would have one when I grew up, bear in mind you needed to be on bank manager or doctor money, he scoffed at that and told me I had to work harder at school !
Well it only took me 47 years to get one, sadly he never saw it.
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Are you trying to tell me that you've grown up???????
 
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