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Choosing a small estate car in March 1967
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Ellis



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:26 pm    Post subject: Choosing a small estate car in March 1967 Reply with quote

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1967. Fifty years ago and among the notable events in Britain was the introduction of the Breathalyser test, the QE 2 was launched, Barclays Bank open the first cash machine and "The Prisoner" was first shown on TV and, oh yes, Radio One started .

In March 1967 you needed a new small estate car.

Morris Minor Traveller, Austin/Morris 1100 Estate, Ford Anglia 105E, Hillman Husky, Austin A40, Vauxhall HB or Mini Traveller.
If any of you can think of a small foreign estate car then please name it, be it a Renault 4 or otherwise.

I would have chosen the Vauxhall Viva HB because the HB Viva was a good car and in my opinion the most handsome and practical of those I have listed.

Which would you have bought in March 1967?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
I wonder if the E D Abbott estate conversion would have still been available in '67.
http://www.anglia-models.co.uk/estate-conversion.htm
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Penman"]Hi
I wonder if the E D Abbott estate conversion would have still been available in '67.
http://www.anglia-models.co.uk/estate-conversion.htm[/quote

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Interesting point Penman and I have to admit that I had never heard of the Abbott 105E estate conversion until I read your post. In the link you posted there was reference to availability from 1962 when they took over the 105E conversion from Farnhams. Presumably it must have been available prior to 1962.

Ford introduced their own 105E estate in September 1961 but whether the Abbott version would still have been available in March 1967 I'm afraid that I don't know.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Triumph Herald for me - or maybe I can have a Park Royal conversion on the Vitesse?


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Ellis,

I was born in April 1967, so it was difficult for me, probably let my Mum decide I guess.... Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



The Skoda Octavia Combi was a good seller amongst those motorists who would have bought at the cheaper end of the market?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FIAT 124 estate just about makes 1967 too... Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I lived in Germany from '65 to '67. You could hardly move for VW Type 3 Variants, they were everywhere!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In 1967 I was either driving a Series II Minor or a Hillmam Minx saloon which cost £50 and £80 respectively. I never spent much money on cars (well I didn't have much to spend). My father had a succession of Hillman Huskies from his work (which I did like and got me into Rootes cars) but when the Husky turned into an Imp my father chose a Moggy Estate. It was a lot better than my Series II but still had horribly uncomfortable upright seats and was noisy.

Ten years later when our daughter had outgrown her carry cot and my Ginetta was no longer an option I sought out a Rebel Estate (£70) as I was fed up with rusting bodies from my experience with the Alpine and wasn't prepared to shell out for a Scimitar.



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simca 1100, 67-82, 3&5 door hatchback, 5 door estate, better performance and more room than BMC 1100.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Triumph herald for me, although I had an Austin A40 as my first car around 1974, before that I had motorbikes. I liked the look of the imp but not that estate version. My third car was a Fiat 124 special T, not the ideal car for a lunatic in his early twenties.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My 2nd -ever car was a Morris Minor Traveller [first one was a Minor saloon]....£25 each, as I recall! Well into the banger-bracket.

By altering the way the rear seat folded, I turned the Traveller into a car I could sleep in, spent 4 weeks wandering around the West Country whilst on leave...[with a girlfriend, of course].

My favourite estate car is outside the 1967 time frame being a 100E Ford Escort estate. [late '50's model, owned around 1971]...very rugged, quirky when cold, but a lot more of a handy size than the saloons...[shorter rear end]...quite an appealing, tactile car.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This Motoring Which? mag published half a year later should make it easier for you to choose Very Happy






























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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the mid '60s my dad pottered about in a 1958 Morris Minor Traveller, a black split screen with red interior. When he was posted to BAOR in 1965 we (the whole family) travelled to Germany in it: dad, mum, me aged 14 and my twin nine year old sisters (plus dog).

Five-up (plus dog) there wasn't much room for luggage so dad had fitted a roof rack and loaded it so much that as we bounced over Belgium's rough roads the bars of the roof rack constantly thudded on the roof - it was not the most pleasant of journeys but at least I, in the front navigating, had a bit of room. My mum and sisters (plus dog) in the rear were somewhat cramped.

A year or two later, when I was coming up to driving age, my dad decided to buy a new car and give me the MM, something I was really looking forward to but on arriving home one holiday (I was at a forces boarding school during term time) I noticed the car was nowhere to be seen but on the worktop in the kitchen was a Colston dishwasher - dad had forgotten his 'promise' to me and P/X'd the MM for a dishwasher... a bl**dy dishwasher...!

BTW - the new car turned out to be a Hillman Super Minx Estate, in green. I've hated green cars ever since.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In 1966 I "made" my own station wagon. I bought a 1959 Commer panel van. (The van version of the Hillman Minx) I visited my local wrecker and bought the rear windows and rear seats from a 1957 Minx Wagon and a panel saw and fitted the windows in the Commer.

The rear seat base from the Minx fitted straight onto the floor pressing, from memory. I had to build a steel frame to hold the back of the seat firmly in place.

A friend worked for the Customs and he checked out if purchase tax was applicable and as the car was valued at very little, it wasn't.

I used that car extensively until I left the UK for good in 1967. It was incredibly reliable.

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