Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[JohnDale]

Hi this link may be of interest to coach minded readers. It came to me from my brother, who's partner's, daughter's, father-in-law(don't you just love family links?) is the compiler & involved in the restoration. His father was a driver for the company.

http://www.weydonian.net/comfycoaches/history.htm

Cheers,JD.
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1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
1976 Ford Granada Ghia.

[Greg]

Very interesting that,.....I love the pictures, the old Coaches were something else!.....such styling.
Lovely to see one of the company's original Coaches being tracked down and restored.
Thanks for posting

[D4B]

Hi JD,

Yes thanks for posting, Crossroads Garage was more recently known as Tourist Trophy, (provided I am thinking of the same site) and most recently they were a main dealer for Toyota. They were a customer of mine when I managed Brown Brothers at Farnham I am not quite old enough to remember it as Crossroads Garage though...

Steve

[Scotty]

Very interesting John - many thanks for sharing.

[welshrover]

them are what you call coaches, moquette seats that used to prickle your legs in summer ,when you wore shorts. great days them..

[JC T ONE]

Nice link made me think of an old Danish movie called "The Bus"

Here is link = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LggenJ8bC34

The bus was later sold to Germany, but is now back with the original owners family here in Denmark.
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http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html

[JohnDale]

I also drove buses in the late 60s - I had just started a garage business near to a bus operator & didn't have too many customers so plenty of time on hand. This one I drove on the service run from Sumburgh to Lerwick



& this one was for tours for the cruise ships which docked in Lerwick - one I remember was the New Amsterdam



Just came across these photos,cheers,JD.
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1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
1976 Ford Granada Ghia.

[JC T ONE]