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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

Hi,

Having assisted Father Christmas on a couple of occasions now with his transport arrangements, had me wondering what famous people the OCC-ers have had in their cars?

RJ
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Keith D · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:22 pm Post subject:

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
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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4231 Location: South Cheshire

Ryan Shawcross once sat in the MGA but we didn't drive anywhere.

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

mikeC · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 5:12 pm Post subject:

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).
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UmTumTiddly · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 8:45 pm Post subject:

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

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

Love the S-T, if we're including people prior to our actual ownership, then Stirling Moss once stood on the step of my truck, berating the latter's owner following a "racing incident" - too tenuous? Smile

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Peter_L · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:23 am Post subject:

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 Sad

As for actually carried in the car, the late Duchess of Devonshire on two occasions when doing work at Chatsworth.

misterbridger · Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Posts: 46

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?

RogerB

My answer is no.....BUT my Standard 8 did feature in a TV program called 'Rock and Chips' with Nicholas Lyndhurst....

mikeC · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:45 pm Post subject:

...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!
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RogerB · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 5:08 pm Post subject:

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.....?

Rogerb

Peter_L · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:40 pm Post subject:

It was the whiff of strange perfume that got me in to trouble in the first place. Wink

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RogerB · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:35 pm Post subject:

And he is.........?