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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

Possibly the Mk1 Consul if I needed a roomy car (plus I remember our next-door neighbour owning one). I've owned a couple of Standard Tens, and really like them, but for the "small car" choice I think I'd go for the Minx out of the above list to try something different.

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47Jag · Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 10:29 pm Post subject:

I’m with MikeC. While cycling to work each morning I passed the local chain work. The boss there had a Sunbeam Talbot 90 Supreme and Oh how I lusted after that car ( I still fancy them today). Those beautiful lines and the little teardrop door hinges. Gorgeous.

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

I think I could join this nostalgia session too. There were two Sunbeam Talbots near to my parents' house when I was a kid and I also thought they were lovely. One was owned by a nice gentleman who lived down the road from us and the other by the owner of Mackay's coaches who lived across the field at the back of our house.

The romance of successes in the Monte Carlo Rally was a big plus and later Peter Harper's book "Destination Monte" was a significant factor in my interest in Rootes cars.

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oldboy · Joined: 20 Mar 2018 Posts: 10 Location: Retford

It's quite a tight time frame but if I could stretch it to cover all of the fifties then I would choose a mk2 Ford Zephyr as I learned to drive in one and secondly a Triumph TR2 as I owned one when I was at Uni. I have fond memories of both of these cars.

consul 57 · Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 487 Location: somerset

as a consul mk2 owner i would have to go for the consul mk1.

alanb · Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 516 Location: Berkshire.

Providing it was the OHV engine I would have the Hillman Minx, as the last of the model range it was well built and well equipped and had good performance and economy for the time, the fact that my father had the earlier side valve version and I learned to drive in his later series III may have some influence.
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