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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK
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Keith D
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 1164 Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Back in about 1984 I carried the leader of the West Australian Government Opposition Party and the Lord Mayor of Perth in the back of my Austin A40 at a fundraiser for deaf children. The Mayor made some very rude remarks about sitting in the back of an A40 and my reply about his ignorance didn't help!
A few years later I carried the mayor and his wife of Belmont (a suburb of Perth) in the A40 during the official opening of a new freeway and tunnel. He was the exact opposite of the other mayor! A very pleasant man and his wife.
Keith _________________ 1926 Chrysler 60 tourer
1932 Austin Seven RN long wheelbase box sedan
1950 Austin A40 tourer
1999 BMW Z3
Its weird being the same age as old people.
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4231 Location: South Cheshire
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Ryan Shawcross once sat in the MGA but we didn't drive anywhere. |
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK
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mikeC

Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1808 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Does the wife of someone famous count?
At the 1972 Austin Seven Golden Jubilee celebrations at Longbridge, we had a parade round the streets of Birmingham, and my passenger was Stanley Edge's wife (Stanley was the draughtsman that drew up the original designs for the Austin Seven).
A few years earlier my father gave Georges Roesch a lift in his 1933 Talbot at an STD rally in Kensington (Georges was the Talbot designer). _________________ 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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UmTumTiddly
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 35 Location: Ringwood, New Forest.
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I have one that may be hard to trump.
HM The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh...
I owned this very car, a ST MkIIa, after it was brought back to the UK from Bermuda. It was utilised as the official car for her visit to Bermuda on her Commonwealth Tour after the coronation.
http://www.bermuda-online.org/Royalvisit1953b.JPG |
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Rick Site Admin

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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:23 am Post subject: |
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Tenuous is good. I had a Mini Van that was previously owned by Arthur Rowe. He was a track and field athlete, who represented Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. He won the gold medal in the men's shot at the 1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm, Sweden.
Although not actually a passenger in the same Mini van, but nearly was the late Sir Gerald Nabaro, (MP for Worcestershire) who hit ran into the back of me at the Robin Hood traffic lights on the Stratford Rd, Solihull. He gave me his card and a signed note promising to pay for all damages. I was about 19.
The repair garage sent him the bill, received a cheque and I got the van back.
Unfortunately the paper work got lost over the years
As for actually carried in the car, the late Duchess of Devonshire on two occasions when doing work at Chatsworth. |
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misterbridger
Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Posts: 46
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About 25-30 years ago Roger Daltry crashed his black Audi into the back of my Vauxhall Chevette van. I say crashed - was more of a nudge really. Too tenuous? |
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RogerB
Joined: 18 Dec 2014 Posts: 177 Location: Suffolk Coastal. U.K.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:14 pm Post subject: Ever carry someone famous in your car? |
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My answer is no.....BUT my Standard 8 did feature in a TV program called 'Rock and Chips' with Nicholas Lyndhurst.... |
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mikeC

Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1808 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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...and I once had an Austin Seven which appeared in two episodes of the children's TV show "Titch & Quackers" (Ray Allen)! I got a £25 fee - at the time I was trying to sell it for £40! _________________ 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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RogerB
Joined: 18 Dec 2014 Posts: 177 Location: Suffolk Coastal. U.K.
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How about taking the idea of having someone famous (or otherwise) in your car a step further?
How about having someone in your car without you knowing it?
Suppose,in a previous life, before you owned your Classic there had been a fatality involving the car and its occupants, would the car still have a residue of that persons presence in it?
When you go out in the car, is there a faint trace of long forgotten perfume or a whiff of old cigarette smoke drifting around.......
Does the door suddenly click, the temperature drop and you get the feeling you are not alone anymore?
If you go into the garage at night and not turn the lights on, do you get the impression that there is someone in the car/
Finally,does the the car always seem clean coming out of your garage and rarely needs dusting.....?
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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It was the whiff of strange perfume that got me in to trouble in the first place.  |
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 2:33 am Post subject: |
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RogerB wrote: | How about taking the idea of having someone famous (or otherwise) in your car a step further?
How about having someone in your car without you knowing it?
Suppose,in a previous life, before you owned your Classic there had been a fatality involving the car and its occupants, would the car still have a residue of that persons presence in it?
When you go out in the car, is there a faint trace of long forgotten perfume or a whiff of old cigarette smoke drifting around.......
Does the door suddenly click, the temperature drop and you get the feeling you are not alone anymore?
If you go into the garage at night and not turn the lights on, do you get the impression that there is someone in the car/
Finally,does the the car always seem clean coming out of your garage and rarely needs dusting.....?
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I can relate to some of the above, but not all of it.
I have owned this car since the winter 1999/2000, but I still dont feel its my car.
I see myself as a custodian, that preserves it for the future.
My car still has its original carpet´s and all its original Connolly leather.
The only thing I needed to change was the Wool of England headlining, becourse some one had fitted one of them 80ies Halford glass sunroofs.
The old headlining did endeed smell of the original owner, as she was a heavy smoker.
I have never washed the carpets, only vacuum cleaned them, but the leather get some grease from time to time.
http://www.pool-mag.net/international/content1.html?id=501&iid=22
One of their friends, who visited them in Denmark, and stayed with them.
My cars first owner is the other person.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kxH7kuqBrkE/UgqEbPvlzoI/AAAAAAAAANg/o_YW1ih1AI8/s1600/_VEK4496.jpg
Jens Christian _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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RogerB
Joined: 18 Dec 2014 Posts: 177 Location: Suffolk Coastal. U.K.
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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And he is.........? |
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