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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6312 Location: Derby
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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If I may reminisce for a moment?...I remember when my Company car- a Lancia Beta - had a CV joint disintegrate right in the middle of Dunster. There were bits scattered all over the road! A kindly local farmer towed us behind his tractor to a garage. I recall he refused any payment for his trouble.
The spare part had to come from Italy so we had a prolonged holiday. Every cloud.... |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2470 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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I must try to find a way to clean these before scanning them. |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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Just found this old photo of my late Grandad on a day out in a
Charabang (?) he is the one in the white hat with the black band around....
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3814 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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We were given this photo recently by a family member. At the wheel of this lovely Austin 7 is my maternal Grandfather, its early post-war. The young girl is a living relative and he is wearing army battledress.
_________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1775 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Not such an old photo, this is my late friend's Singer Le Mans, taken on its maiden trip after a total restoration. The location is Crummock Water in the Lake District, in November 1968.
The car disappeared from view after Bruce sold it a few years later, and has been unknown to the Singer Club since, so it was a surprise to find it less than ten miles from me just as I last remembered it. I doubt if it has done a thousand miles in the last fifty years!
https://www.classicwise.co.uk/cars/1934-singer-le-mans-4-speed-manual-972cc/
_________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Looks in good shape.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3814 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Does look like a very good example. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6312 Location: Derby
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norustplease
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 779 Location: Lancashire
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Penman wrote: | Hi
#4 shows the Yarn Market at Dunster.
I feel I ought to know the Ship Inn and the parking among the rocks, but can't figure them out at the moment.
Edit.
The Ship Inn is Porlock Wier. |
The 'Rocks' look like Winnats Pass, near Castleton in the Peak District. _________________ 1953 Citroen Traction
1964 Volvo PV544
1957 Austin A55 Mk 1
Boring Tucson SUV |
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Da Tow'd
Joined: 16 Jun 2010 Posts: 349 Location: Bella Coma British Columbia Canada
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:54 am Post subject: |
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My folks traded in a 1949 Studebaker in on a New 1951 Studebaker and bought a huge trailer and towed it from Pennsylvania where we were living out to the land of opportunity California in 1951.
I remember laying in the shelf below the back window playing tail gunner
too bad my mom cut my dad's head off
cheers
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:04 am Post subject: |
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It looks like someone was a "ban the bomb" supporter.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
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emmerson
Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 1268 Location: South East Wales
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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I remember having a Dinky model of that car. Was it called the Hawk? |
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Da Tow'd
Joined: 16 Jun 2010 Posts: 349 Location: Bella Coma British Columbia Canada
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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peter scott wrote: | It looks like someone was a "ban the bomb" supporter.
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I think the ban the bomb on the side of the trailer is just some kind of reflection. My sergeant major father would not have any of that .
- Ban the bomb was more of a 60's thing
It was a Studebaker Champion flat head 6
Hank |
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