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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 7:08 am Post subject: Other old cars on your street |
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There are quite a few oldies in the area around here, but on our road specifically (within say 1/4 mile each way) I can think of an MGB Roadster, a '70s Mini plus nearby a '60s Cooper S, several S1 XJ6s languishing (as far as I know they're still there anyway), and a Bentley that rarely sees light of day.
Do any of the neighbours in your street, road, lane, or crescent share your interest and own a classic car, motorcycle or similar?
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Brian M

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 783 Location: Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 7:46 am Post subject: |
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Within 1/4 mile of my home:
1950 Triumph Roadster
1934 Standard 10
MGB GT
Morris Minor Traveller
1960's Citroen 2CV
70's Morgan
and just last year a 1930's Ford Y type was pulled from the back of the garage of the house opposite mine. It had been there for the 25 years I have lived in my house! _________________ Brian
1970 Volvo Amazon and 1978 Safari 15-4 Caravan
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bob2
Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1728 Location: Malta
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Further down the road from my house there's an old bloke who owns a Zephyr, fitted with a 2 litre pinto and some goodies and a Zodiac fitted with a rover V8, his son has an escort mark 1 used for drag racing but that does not reside there. Further down from this guy, there is another guy with a mk 1 escort and anglia 105e. Just opposite this guy there is a mark 1 consul and usually parked on the streets there is also a white hillman hunter similar to mine that belongs to a retired chap who lives nearby too and uses it as his daily.
Then further up and round the corner there's a couple of brothers who are into air cooled vws and have a couple of beetles, a type 3 variant and a type 3 saloon.
A couple of metres further from these guys there's a whole family, father and 2 sons with lots of air cooled stuff, mainly type 2's split screens and non, and various beetles.
Just opposite my house in a rented garage there's a very nice mark 1 capri that sounds fast even when idling!
On the other side further up from my house there is a man who owns a very nice mark 2 cortina 1600e and just opposite this guy there's a nice mark 1 escort in a garage and a couple of doors up from this garage there's a custom convertible black morris minor.
Then further away there is a wood wholesaler who has a fantastic collection of classic cars and motor bikes, a few I can remember are MGA, Rover P5B coupe, Alfa Gt veloce, citroen 2cv, bsa's, triumphs, a norton and much more I cannot remember offhand!
Oh I forgot to mention that where the white hunter is usually parked there's a very big garage full of old buses which have been restored to their former glory, cause in the distant past the buses in Malta where different colours, each and every colour was attached to a particular locality therefore making it easier for people who could not read to distinguish the bus that would take them home!
There must be 4 or 5 buses in there and they are still used for tourist rides and the like!!
So I am surrounded by a lot of like minded people actually!! |
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Riley Blue
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 10:01 am Post subject: |
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I'm in a classics wilderness where I live (newish house, young families) with nothing of interest on my street though visitors have included a red '67 Mustang Coupe that rattles the window panes as it passes.
The chap opposite the lockup where I keep my Riley tinkers with classic bikes but his door is rarely open so I haven't discovered what's in there.
There are lots of cars in and around Chesterfield though; the annual evening meeting at Renishaw Hall produces hundreds of them every year. _________________ David
1963 Riley 1.5
1965 Riley 1.5 |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2704 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Well, there's my Dad's Morris in the garage, chap up the road has a 90s BMW 3-series, another has a Triumph Vitesse and a Mk1 Ford Sierra. There was a Mk3 Capri up the road but that's gone now. Round the back there's a Landcrab of some description, and in the other direction there's a Bentley Mulsanne Turbo. Further off there's a Triumph Spitfire, a Lotus Eclat and an Alfa GTV race car. Oh, and I can't forget the chap in the centre of the village with a Testarossa kit/replica which seems to come and go. Probably loads more. |
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JohnDale

Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 790 Location: Kelvin Valley,Scotland
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:03 am Post subject: |
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Hi Bob2, here is a bit of nostalgia for you - an ex Malta Ford Thames bus here in Glasgow - no longer has it's V8 petrol engine but a Perkins diesel:-
Cheers,JD. _________________ 1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
1976 Ford Granada Ghia. |
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D4B

Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:42 am Post subject: |
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There is a chap around the corner from me who I came accross welding / grinding a Triumph Spitfire chassis, but I have only seen him working on it that one day in over 2 years..... |
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Riley Blue
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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I lived in Malta in the early '50s and remember those buses very well - thanks for the pic. _________________ David
1963 Riley 1.5
1965 Riley 1.5 |
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PAUL BEAUMONT
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Excepting my drive, the only thing of interest that I know of close by are a couple of P&M Panthers but they rarely seem to see the light of day.
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Keith D
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 1165 Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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I live in a short cul-de-sac with only about eight houses.
The house opposite has a locked garage with an early Morris Minor convertible that the wife owned and drove back in the dark ages. She is trying to get her old man to restore it, but so far it's not seen the light of day in the fifteen years I've lived here!
The house at the end of the street boasts several nicely restored 1960's and early 70's Ford Falcons and Fairmont's (Australian models)
A house round the corner (200 metres away) has two very rough Mini Mokes abandoned in the rubbish filled front yard. They are in a terrible condition. They appeared there a couple of months ago and I'm telling myself to leave them there and not to talk to the owner about buying them!
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Jason

Joined: 12 Nov 2008 Posts: 623 Location: Todmorden, Lancs.
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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no other old cars on our street anymore
when I was a kid in the early eighties, there were only 3 cars on our street, an austin allegro, austin princess and my fathers rover p6.
my father was classed as being posh on our street because he had a v8 rover  _________________ "people with money buy a Rolls Royce, people with taste buy an Alvis". |
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badhuis

Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1468 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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I live in an old street where houses have no garages (except mine of course) so very little classics. A lady some houses further on had a really nice Peugeot 504 Ti, traded that for an equally nice Renault R4.
In a big house one street away lives a family, the father of which is heavily into cars: newish Aston Martin (DB9 I think), 70s bright yellow BMW 3.0 CSL coupe, early S1 Jag E-type conv, new Porsche 911. In the same street someone with a 70s S3 Land Rover SWB.
A couple of streets down there's someone with hippie-painted VW bus from the late 70s in very good order.
Oh, my neighbour opposite has a 67 Land Rover S2a LWB and his neighbour a Citroën 2CV which he restored himself (and keeps) in a tent in the garden!. _________________ a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment |
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peter scott

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7214 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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There was someone along the road from me with a Mayflower but I haven't seen it for a few years so I suspect it has "sailed".
Peter _________________ https://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
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smiffy220

Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 329 Location: Southminster, Essex
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:49 am Post subject: |
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There's a chap almost opposite me who leaves a blue Hillman Minx out on the front in all weathers, hardly ever seen it move though, but looks clean and tidy enough. I think he also has a Zodiac or something also in the garage, only seen it once. Round the corner further there used to be a Series 1 Lotus Esprit in someone's garage, but not seen it for a year or so, so don't know if it's still being worked upon. And the chap who owns the corner shop on the corner of my road has a Lancia Delta Integrale he's restoring, non-EVO variety.
I know of a couple of MGB's, a Corvette Stingray, a blue Vauxhall Victor and an old Winnebago also in my small village. I'm sure there's more tucked away. _________________ Born to rally, forced to work!
1980 Opel Manta 2.0 SR Berlinetta
1934 Morris Cowley Four (my late fathers) |
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Richard H
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2150 Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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Within 1 mile of my house:
Morris Minor x2
SII Land Rover
Austin Allegro estate
Triumph Stag
Austin Champ
Austin A40 Devon
Austin A60 Cambridge
Wolseley 1500 (owned by the same guy as the Cambridge)
Morris 8 x2
Land Rover lightweight
Splitscreen VW camper
Lotus Cortina
That I know of! _________________ Richard Hughes |
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