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Post by Alfaholic on Aug 11, 2023 22:19:05 GMT -5
A wonderful idea and fantastic photos from everyone. I'll need to trawl through my parent's photo albums to see if I can find some photos of our old cars. Julio, some of your photos look like they've come out of a magazine or a catalogue!! I really enjoyed Eduardos' photos - love the 2CV seats doubling as picnic furniture .
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Post by reeft1 on Aug 12, 2023 2:13:43 GMT -5
What a great thread
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 12, 2023 2:56:03 GMT -5
A wonderful idea and fantastic photos from everyone. I'll need to trawl through my parent's photo albums to see if I can find some photos of our old cars. Julio, some of your photos look like they've come out of a magazine or a catalogue!! I really enjoyed Eduardos' photos - love the 2CV seats doubling as picnic furniture . Haha… My dad was very good using his RolleiFlex!
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Post by oldirish33 on Aug 12, 2023 12:46:37 GMT -5
Loving this thread, some great pictures! Like Martin, I will need to trawl the family archives to find images of the vehicles we had growing up. There weren't many, or terribly exciting, but they were diverse. 😄
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Post by Tom on Aug 12, 2023 13:45:11 GMT -5
I performed a brief search of the old albums, but lacked the time for a more in-depth dig Labeled 1958, apparently a holiday in the UK where my dad spent a year studying. The car is a Hillman Minx or Sunbeam Rapier but the pictures are not sharp enough to identify anyone 1961, my dad on his moped. A year before my parents' marriage and five years before they bought their first car Huge jump ahead, 1977 and we're queueing for the ferry to the UK in our then brand new Golf 1980, the same Golf but with a different registration (my dad lost the papers) saying goodbye to our home for yet another holiday in the UK I took that picture with my ancient Agfa Click II, that's why it's so bad
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 12, 2023 14:47:45 GMT -5
Nice photos, Tom! I suspect that our parents are the same generation! Mine got married in 1961.
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Post by GBOAC002 on Aug 12, 2023 15:38:50 GMT -5
Paul. Interested to see the Morris. Might it be a 12? Circa 1954 my Dad bought a black 1939? Morris 10 Series IV from a family friend. In my dad's hands that car travelled the length and breadth of Britain before being succeeded by a used 1955 Ford Zephyr Six also black. Following that was a used turquoise 1957 Ford Consul. His last car was a black 1958(?) Morris Minor Traveller. His carpentry skills came into their own to replace one of the timber frame section. The other bits of wood were sanded down and revarnished. A used Surf Blue 1961 Morris Mini Minor de Luxe was bought in '63 and kept until 1967 when it was superseded by a used Smoke Blue Morris 1100.
Somewhere I might discover some garage receipts of the purchases to tell me more
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Post by Alfaholic on Aug 13, 2023 0:37:10 GMT -5
Nice photos, Tom! I suspect that our parents are the same generation! Mine got married in 1961. Same here, my folks were married in 1960.
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Post by MG Rocks On on Aug 13, 2023 1:13:17 GMT -5
I performed a brief search of the old albums, but lacked the time for a more in-depth dig Labeled 1958, apparently a holiday in the UK where my dad spent a year studying. The car is a Hillman Minx or Sunbeam Rapier but the pictures are not sharp enough to identify anyone Tom, the car is a Hillman Minx. Rapiers were two doors only. Singer Gazelles had the same body but with wide trim.
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Post by JSB33 on Aug 13, 2023 8:39:08 GMT -5
Great stuff! I have enjoyed them all. I will have to do some looking to see if there is much from my youth.
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Post by cmmf on Aug 13, 2023 11:27:18 GMT -5
Tom, I also liked a lot those small early Golfes... regardless of this thread, I already noticed that many of us here belong to mid 1960s harvest. It gives a familiar comforting feeling, yet I'm always available to learn from younger and older members.
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Post by 105epaul on Aug 13, 2023 12:30:34 GMT -5
Tom, your father's car is a Hillman Minx, the Rapier was a two door hardtop coupe. I saw such a Minx today at a classic car show I attended in my Anglia, photos to follow at some stage. I had a slightly later Minx, same bodyshell but different grille and rear wings and lights. I bought it for £7.50 in about 1973/4 to banger race, I haggled the price down from £12. I never did get to race and the forlorn Minx ended up being taken away by the council skip truck, my brother saw it hanging from the chains on its way to be disposed of.
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Post by alex on Aug 13, 2023 12:53:06 GMT -5
My first "car".
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Post by Alfaholic on Aug 13, 2023 20:45:14 GMT -5
Brilliant - what was it's 0-60 time .
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Post by cmmf on Aug 15, 2023 14:06:55 GMT -5
Here another two images: 10 year old me near the first Vauxhall Viva my father had, and near the Simca Aronde, with my mother.
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