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[Ellis]

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Two cars from the 1950s have interested me for many years namely the Wolseley 6/90 and the Riley Two Point Six. I remember the black Wolseley 6/90s of the Caernarvonshire Police which often used to stop outside my father's chemist shop and I have a vague memory of sitting inside one one fine morning in about 1958.

There was a Riley Two Point Six also in the area which belonged to a MANWEB (the local electricity board) area manager in the early 1960s who often called at the shop. From memory it was a two tone maroon and grey with a sumptuous red leather interior and I recall wondering why the gear lever was on the right hand side by the driver unlike being in the middle in my father's Yukon Grey Wolseley 1500 and the A55 Austin Cambridge in Lavender and black which followed it.

There was a Wolseley 6/90 in today's local classic car show, a Series 3, I think, with the larger rear window which you can see in the first photo. The owner busy talking to other admirers of his car unfortunately as I would have liked to have a chat with him. This example is the first one I have seen for years but an earlier 6/80 and a 4/44 I see quite often as both are locally owned.

I have always admired the fine lines on these handsome cars and I wondered are there any members here who either own one or have any recollections or experiences of them.

I would be very interested to read of them.
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[Penman]

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[Rusty]

I remember when I was a young bloke working at the BMC distributors here in Western Australia, there was a 6 90 owned by a lovely elderly gentleman that used to come into the workshop for servicing regularly, at the time it would have been about 15 years old, and he loved that car. All the workshop staff enjoyed working on it because of his attitude to his pride and joy and the fact he was a really pleasant person. He called it the "black lady" and he was still driving it when I left the workshop about 1980.

[peter scott]

[Ashley]

Didn't they used to call them Ditchfinders after the Pathfinder Riley. Apparently they were poor handling, which was a common mistake made by Brit car manfacturer's. our stuff lasted but didn't handle as nicely as Continental cars, jaguar excepted.