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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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 Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:57 pm Post subject: New member with Fiat 500 and Austin 10 |
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I don't usually "waste" time joining forums (should it be "fora"?) although I love browsing other peoples' comments. This is an exceptional board for which I have "generously" made an exception.
I have the cars named above and in fact, I have a history going back to 1982 of owning several exanples of the same types of car.
I hope to contribute by giving opinions based on personal experience and I will also happily blow my own trumpet when talking about my own cars.
I will voraciously read anything relating to pre-war cars and Fiat 500's
Posts to follow shortly.
[img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterjthompson/3182443623/[/img]
[img]http://flic.kr/p/kjtZz[/img]
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Rick
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buzzy bee
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:55 am Post subject: |
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Welcome colwyn500
Look forward to seeing the Austin 10 too....
Your Screen name, are you from Colwyn? |
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chickenfarmer
Joined: 16 Oct 2012
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:28 am Post subject: |
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I'd guess that his Austin 10 is a Colwyn cabriolet. They used a lot of neat place names as model names way back when, and carried on with it after the war with the Counties Austins.
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D4B
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Hi & Welcome Colwyn500,
I would love to own a Fiat 500 (not a modern one tho!!!)
and might take one on as my next project.... |
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clan chieftain
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome Colwyn. Nice looking Fiat 500.............Larry.
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Rick
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| marina estate wrote: | | Welcome Colwyn. Nice looking Fiat 500.............Larry. |
Thanks for the kind comment about the Fiat; how a photo can lie! This was taken a few years ago straight after I had bought it. This photo is from a few months later. It is very rusty but also very original and low mileage. I have had to put restoration on hold whilst I renovate my house and build a new garage for it.
Fiat 500f by peterthompson, on Flickr[ |
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colwyn500
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| buzzy bee wrote: | Welcome colwyn500
Look forward to seeing the Austin 10 too....
Your Screen name, are you from Colwyn? |
Unfortunately, I am not from Colwyn but as has been guessed accurately; I own one. It is a four-seat, two-door , three-position cabriolet. I have owned it since 1992 and it underwent a body-pff restoration; everything done by me. Life intervened on the restoration and there are still things to do. It is, however, running and complete and has done the journey from Cannich (near Inverness) to Brighton (South coats of England!) and return, totally without a hiccup.
The engine has not been rebuilt in my ownership and is in at least the same configuration that it was when abandoned in the early 1960's; It sounds lovely.
chassis1 by peterthompson, on Flickr |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Rick wrote: | Welcome to the forum
Here's the Fiat pic
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Thanks Rick; now worked out how to post pictures. Here is a previous car that I owned. can anyone identify it?
hilldown by peterthompson, on Flickr
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colwyn500
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| Rick wrote: | Austin 10 Cambridge?
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Correct. I bought it in 1982, when I knew nothing about cars of any type. I built the engine from a box of bits that used to stay in my wardrobe. I had the satisfying achievement of it actually working, first time without hesitation, in front of an audience of four or five of my much more knowledgeable Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac-driving friends. I have been hooked on Tens ever since and have owned five of them, three of them being MOT'd and driveable at some stage.
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clan chieftain
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Nice Austin 10 Cambridge as well...Whats your favourite.?
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colwyn500
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| marina estate wrote: | | Nice Austin 10 Cambridge as well...Whats your favourite.? |
It's hard to have a favourite; it's like "who's your favourite son or daughter?"
The Austin Cabriolet is definitely the one that gives me a good fix of nostalgia. the Fiat 500 probably just pips it because it is a lot more useable. I wouldn't part with either of them.
kemmelcars by peterthompson, on Flickr |
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