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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:42 am    Post subject: Time machine time! back to 1938... Reply with quote

Okedokee, just let says you had a time machine parked outside your house, all fuelled up and with room to bring back one car from this little bunch - which would you snap up, and why??

From a financial point of view I'd be wanting a close look at either of the BSAs (either £15 or £22) Smile, but for my own use here in 2008 the Standard 9 Swallow (£25) would be my choice (I think). The Opel looks interesting, but is a little on the £steep side Wink



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a little difficult because it would depend on your standpoint: If you want something for its value today it would be the Wolseley Hornets (not sure I have ever seen a saloon version).
If you want, what would have been, the most pleasent to drive and most reliable at the time of the advert I think I would plump for the Vauxhall: the six cylinder OHV with (I believe from 1934) Dubonnet independent front suspension put most cars in the shade.

But if you want something that has stood the test of time, is utterly reliable and still has spares available... it has to be the Austin Tens or Sevens.

Don.

Ps. I believe I used to pass this garage on the way to work back in the 50s.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me, it must be either one of the Austin 7's. I've always fancied onre of those, especially if it was a special, or, one of the BSA three wheelers...
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i've got to ring up HG and see about borrowing his "time machine"... and a few hundred quid....
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

Ford 8, Standard 9 or an opel, possibly one of the prewar minors?Depending on the amount of money I have.

Cheers

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what does a Raleigh Safety 7 Tourer look like?

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rick, its a three wheeler. It later became everyones favourite, or at least Delboys, Reliant



It had Austin 7 power....
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmmm wouldn't mind that!! has to be worth a tenner Wink

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree there, just the thing for a leisurely tour of Europe... Cool
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please excuse this rather OT ramble but Uncle Joe's comment on touring Europe in a three wheeler brings back a conversation I had with an interesting old gent who did this.



Some years back we moved house after living in our previous house for more than 20 years. Anyway, I decided to get rid a load of old electronic technology that I had accumulated so I donated it to the Museum of Communication
http://www.mocft.co.uk/ and thus got chatting to its founder, Harry Matthews.

On asking him about his life he was full of interesting stories. When he was young he travelled a lot and he explained that before the war you didn't really need a passport (something he never possessed). He used to work his passage on cargo ships, often shovelling hundreds of tons of coal into their boilers. I do believe he did this, but you would never have thought it to look at him. He must have been about 5' 4" and weighed about 8 stone.

Anyway, returning to cars, He also explained that he bought himself a BSA 3 wheeler in which he travelled across most of Russia and succeeded in financing this trip by betting on himself to win in car races with the BSA.

Peter


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peter, dont worry about drifting off topic, we do it all the time on here.

And nobody is going to object anyway when you have charming little stories like that. Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rick wrote:
what does a Raleigh Safety 7 Tourer look like?

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It looks like many things... But SAFETY is not a word that springs to mind. Confused


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just remembered where I last saw one of these monsters: A few years ago there was a series on tv going back the the youth of the 'Last of the Summer Wine ' characters. Foggy turned up for a date driving one of these Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Uncle Joe wrote:
Peter, dont worry about drifting off topic, we do it all the time on here.



Thanks Uncle Joe. This is a very nice relaxed forum.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was looking at the old televisions on your link Peter, they were still elegant, with a touch of 'Art Deco' about them; how different to the silver grey monstrosities that afflict our living space these days.
Like the magazine covers, they were designed by artists then.

Don.
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