Awesome particularly the texas ad. The go to DIY store back when I was a kid.I remember these arriving to school and the halions leaving if not thru the rear door they broke and got out one of the rear windowsView attachment 339775
Actually see a slightly cleaner & older one before this one but it was passed before my passenger could get a picture
, it had a wedding type ribbon on the front 
I was absolutely wrecking my brain the other week trying to remember what Texas was called because Texas didn’t sound right in my head
never got as far as googling it either 
Theres a couple of preservation groups that look after these and run them for weddings and the like. I saw one yesterday parked up beside a barn near Eglinton and I really wanted to save it! Think it would overhang the driveway though. Bristol RE LL (Rear Engine Low floor Long Frame 36') with Alexander Type X body, Gardiner engine with pre selector gearbox. Only NI and New Zealand got them after 1976.Actually see a slightly cleaner & older one before this one but it was passed before my passenger could get a picture
Grandad and Uncle both coachbuilders, so thats who I blameSounds like you and a cousin of mine would get along great, lol, he's all into coaches and trains
sent pic to a mate who knows off it, said belongs to boys from Ards that got the old ads etc remade for it. Stunnung!I remember these arriving to school and the halions leaving if not thru the rear door they broke and got out one of the rear windows
Other way round, fleet number is taken off the reg with a depot identifier the first number and loads of newer buses have old 3 digit OI plates reassigned.
Forced on me by the poor taste in cars of some of my brosAs bad as you are for oul British scrap
have only had one British car and technically it was the Mrs' 
I'm the black sheep that liked Vws lolThere's two red ones bangor direction, seem them both almost daily coming into Ards.
I worked with a boy a few years back had a red one from new, last I was speaking to him he still had it. I see a red one parked at Queens Parade in Bangor all the time, 18t one, very tidy, most probably the same one as you see. Ever get that bootlid changed?There's two red ones bangor direction, seem them both almost daily coming into Ards.
One is the ANZ 1000 reg with the black grill who works in North Down motors. The other appears to be pretty lowered and looks very clean.
Haven't seen any black ones in a while
Big stevie taylor/flush road motors has a red 1.8t anni also, he mot'd it last year for the first time in about 10yrs
Yes, Stevies must be the tidiest one anywhere, well, mostly cos it's spent most of its life in bits
I remember these arriving to school and the halions leaving if not thru the rear door they broke and got out one of the rear windows
