My 100th post topic-Working in a muddy puddle

[bobins]

5 points if you can spot the starter motor in the picture I think that's what he's replacing, not a clutch slave cylinder.

[CitroJim]

Wow! What a find Neil! That's solid gold! How on earth did you find it?

Never trust a photo on Facebook

Sorry Jim it had to be done!

Yes, you totally correct Mick! As said, I fell for it good and proper... lesson learned

Well I got a whole lot of that way wrong. This picture is way clearer.

I thought you got a good deal if it pretty much right Dave, date certainty.. Bloke's shoes are as you said but the wings on the Marina show no sign of filler and the girl in the foreground is wearing sandals. Other cars appear in the photo now and the wheels on her trike are no earlier that the 80s...

Wonder how much longer the Marina lived?

[CitroJim]

5 points if you can spot the starter motor in the picture I think that's what he's replacing, not a clutch slave cylinder.

By the tool box?

[Dormouse]

First pictures were taken 1983 - book collated by 1990. So 80's is the time span. The Chopper style trike was late 70's to early 80's. Got the lamp number way wrong as also the shoes. The poor state of the front wings is way more obvious. The black and white filtering has robbed a lot of definition.

[CitroJim]

According to DVLA the Marina lived until well into 1989...

[bobins]

5 points if you can spot the starter motor in the picture I think that's what he's replacing, not a clutch slave cylinder.

By the tool box?

Indeed, between the front wheel of the trike and the tool box. I've just noticed there's another bloke in the picture under the car as well.

[CitroJim]

I've just noticed there's another bloke in the picture under the car as well.

Gosh yes, talk about hiding in plain sight! Almost invisible in the fuzzy monochrome picture...

[Dormouse]

The two cars behind look like a Mini Clubman then a Maxi. All adding to the 70's feel.

[CitroJim]

The two cars behind look like a Mini Clubman then a Maxi. All adding to the 70's feel.

Yes, a Maxi is a good call... Lots of oil spilt on the road and pavement... Earlier work on the Marina perhaps?

Oily rags might suggest the same day and the car moved so he didn't have to lie in an oily rather than a muddy puddle

That picture just keeps on giving The more you look at it the more you see... It's full to the brim with all sorts of interest.

As are the three others on the website where Neil found it...

[NewcastleFalcon]

There is a two hour video of him talking about his career and pics. In the too long didn't view it all category but I start the vid at the Marina moment. You will see in some of his other pics that at least one of the family had a pair of adidas Sambas! The book was published in 1991, but the photography was from a few years before in the late 1980's.

Wow! What a find Neil! That's solid gold! How on earth did you find it?

We could say artificial intelligence on bing, but as it turns out a simple "search the web for an image" slapped the colour one up on "related Content". Well justified for the joy it has brought when it was revealed in glorious colour!

Regards Neil

[Dormouse]

In the black and white photo I couldn't even guess the first car and was veering to MkI Fiesta for the second. The colour photo makes it so much clearer.

[CitroJim]

Well justified for the joy it has brought when it was revealed in glorious colour!

It's certainly done that Neil

[MattBLancs]

The two cars behind look like a Mini Clubman then a Maxi. All adding to the 70's feel.

It's funny, I don't see maxi, the one at the back (given its now a much later picture)

Instead I see

Spoiler: show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Polo_Mk2

P.s. talk about a car that used to be everywhere then just disappeared - used to see the mk2 Polo quite commonly

[bobins]

I'm reckoning a Vauxhall, possibly Viva due to it having squarer headlights.

[Jay-Bruce]

Does colour help, and the photographer and the book it appeared in help

Found using the dark arts, you are welcome to peek if you want. Looks like he's working on a decent day as opposed to the muddy puddle The marina is that sort of sandy beige and not in its first flush of youth.

https://theface.com/culture/nick-waplin ... hotographs

Regards Neil

It took me less time to do a reverse image search than it did to type this, let alone read the 3 pages of comments attempting to glean information out of the photo... However, the 3 pages of comments felt very much like a night in the pub with a now-defunct classic car club that I used to be a member of. However, I've got to point out a certain poetic irony in the way this thread started with one of your posts from way back when, like so long ago that my children were cute rather than stroppy, and it meandered into a photo analysis of a similarly nostalgic pic, so it seems most fitting that you should post the definitive search results.

@Dormouse Dave, sorry for the tragic loss of your son, I didn't know what to say to it, but CitroJim's comment expressed the same sentiments I was looking for were my mildly autistic brain not so derailed by the magnitude of what you had shared.

@CitorJim - very well said WRT Dave's son, I literally couldn't have said it any better.