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Rick Site Admin
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gillberry
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Norwich
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Have got them for all the cars we have had and even better if the same colour as yours is on the front _________________ 1968 Volvo Amazon estate (Gracie)
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Rick Site Admin
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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I am also a sad collector of any factory brochures of any car I own.
Before the internet came up you had to find these at auto jumbles and so on. Now of course it has become much easier to get something but the fun of hunting, and seeing something new you did not knew existed, is missing. _________________ a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment |
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gillberry
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Norwich
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Have also got loads of old magazines that give reviews as well _________________ 1968 Volvo Amazon estate (Gracie)
1967 Cheltenham Nyala caravan |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2470 Location: South Cheshire
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I've tried to collect as much as I can for mine - fortunately being a limited build car, there isn't a massive amount, but it is sometimes surprising just how much was "nearly" published. I don't have to worry about whether the brochure car is the same colour, as they were only made in one colour. But I've got the two brochures, the range brochures that feature the car, an incomplete copy of the dealer information pack, and some contact prints of photos of a press car taken by someone who must have been reviewing it.
I gave up on my quest to have the most complete collection for my car when I read about a fellow Vauxhall fanatic in C&SC a few years back - not only does he have some press photos that were never released, and a 1/4-scale model of the car used in some wind tunnel experiments (found in a skip during clear-out at Luton, where his father worked), he keeps his brochures in a filing cabinet that was scrapped from Vauxhall's design department back then. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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Ellis
Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 1382 Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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I still have the 1992 Ford Sapphire RS Cosworth brochure from when I bought mine in 1993 as an ex management car.
I remember asking for a brochure at the time and was offered as many as I liked from a pile before they were thrown into the skip outside!
Near the same pile were brochures for the 1992 model year Ford Escort RS Cosworth which were also due for the skip. _________________ Starting Handle Expert
1964 Jaguar Mark 2 3.4 litre
1962 Land Rover Series 2a 88"
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 6:48 am Post subject: |
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I was going through a pile of old Autocars from the 50s and came across this tucked inside of one of them:-
This I've had about 30 years I guess, and I have the complete collection (except the Gucci Eventer) of all the Lynx brochures. Here are a couple:-
Very few Gucci ones were printed, but if you ever saw the car, of which only one exists, you'd feel ill. Green marquetry in the dashboard as an example.
In addition, I have a few press launch brochures including the XJS, XJ6, XK8, and strangely the NSX and most important of all the Maclaren F1. That is a pure work of art, including tracing paper with a cutaway in it.
Just got to love the truck and van covers above; they are so evocative, like railway posters. |
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norustplease
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 779 Location: Lancashire
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 11:29 am Post subject: |
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I have a few Volvo PV ads. Brochures seem to be in the form of A4 flyers and are very factual, only the US versions are a little more fanciful (and are in English). Here is a Swedish 'brochure' for a 544, similar in vintage to my own.
By the early sixties, when this dates from, probably the merits or otherwise of the PV series, which had been in production since 1947, were well enough known not to need any excessive schmoozing from the Volvo PR dept. _________________ 1953 Citroen Traction
1964 Volvo PV544
1957 Austin A55 Mk 1
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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Rick Site Admin
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Is there much love/fondness/nostalgia for the old Marina in these parts?
As a nipper I'd often pop into Reads in Cheadle, the (then) local BL garage and dealer. After a look around I'd usually leave with a few brochures under my arm. I'm not sure that I've ever travelled in a Marina. A neighbour over the road had a Marina 2 that was disintegrating at a rapid rate. On the flip side, a gent up the road had a green example, it was always garaged and he doted upon it. It was in amazing condition, I think he had it until the late 1980s possibly a little later, and I don't recall it ever even being dirty. Maybe it survives.
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Rick Site Admin
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norustplease
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 779 Location: Lancashire
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: | Is there much love/fondness/nostalgia for the old Marina in these parts?
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I had a 1.3 Marina in the early part of my career. It was a white four door and I recall that it went extremely well considering that it had the old 1275 cc BMC unit. Its quite fashionable to scoff at Marinas today, but they were as good as most other smaller family saloons of the day. _________________ 1953 Citroen Traction
1964 Volvo PV544
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