JimmyMac
Well-known member
As most on here will know, Davy DL84 originates from Paisley that well known Buckfast town to the west of Glasgow.
I have never been there for years but today I had to go there at short notice and it crossed my mind that I might bump into the big fella. As I approached it from the east I saw a bike flying along the M8 and I thought it might be the Laird of Paisley himself, however seeing the following group of Scotlands finest traffic officers in their shiny 4x4s flashing their Christmas lights and travelling at warp speed behind it, I was glad it wasn't Davy. I was still laughing about what I saw when I got in the town centre and approached a railway bridge that straddles the main road, I remember going under it as a child and it had the advertisement for Talbot cars on it.
Lo and behold when I got to it, it STILL has the slogan visible "Talbot Sunbeam, home of the Avenger" painted across the length of the bridge.
I had to stop and ask a local what year it was because I suspected the traffic cars must have been doing 88 MPH and somehow transported me back to 1985 like some crazy stunt involving Marty McFly in a DeLorean.
Does any one else have any old signs still visible, it really made me smile that, mostly cause I had a romantic interlude in a Sunbeam, lol.
You got any photos of it Davy?
The bridge no my interlude.
Jimmymac
I have never been there for years but today I had to go there at short notice and it crossed my mind that I might bump into the big fella. As I approached it from the east I saw a bike flying along the M8 and I thought it might be the Laird of Paisley himself, however seeing the following group of Scotlands finest traffic officers in their shiny 4x4s flashing their Christmas lights and travelling at warp speed behind it, I was glad it wasn't Davy. I was still laughing about what I saw when I got in the town centre and approached a railway bridge that straddles the main road, I remember going under it as a child and it had the advertisement for Talbot cars on it.
Lo and behold when I got to it, it STILL has the slogan visible "Talbot Sunbeam, home of the Avenger" painted across the length of the bridge.
I had to stop and ask a local what year it was because I suspected the traffic cars must have been doing 88 MPH and somehow transported me back to 1985 like some crazy stunt involving Marty McFly in a DeLorean.
Does any one else have any old signs still visible, it really made me smile that, mostly cause I had a romantic interlude in a Sunbeam, lol.
You got any photos of it Davy?
The bridge no my interlude.
Jimmymac