Pictures of old or rare vehicles

[stuvy]

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My first car...

marty mcfly!

 

[Olderisbetter]

This was a Audi 100 badged as an A6 2.5tdi 6 speed avant that was so reliable and good on fuel it had the S6 interior in a few years i will regret selling it and want another lol

 

[seriesonewelder]

Here's my old 'un - 1957, in the background is the garage near Lichfield where I bought it 30 years ago.

 

[malcolm]

Another one - Renault 4 estate (just a van with windows and rear seats but quite rare and I can take it to the tip because it's not a van). And look what is sat beside it. New bit in the crate that will fix most of the rust in an instant without the trouble of any of that messy welding.

 

[rtcosic]

My first car 1971. I always claimed it was a Sunbeam-Talbot 90, but really it was a Sunbeam Mk III

Then a 1962 MG1100 which I can't find a photograph of. Then in 1973 a 1951 Alvis TA21 - as acquired from a scrap yard:

Stretching the 'old' rather more in 1976 a Lotus 7 - as an exercise for the student, where was it registered?

After that we are into uninteresting 1960's and onwards fodder

Edit: found Dad's first car 1954 Mk VII Minx. The chump is me. This would be 1957 at Aunt Mary's 120 Cranleigh Road, Feltham:

The Sunbeam is a Perth registration, the Alvis Wigan, the Minx Carlisle. We await a student to identify the Lotus.

Edit the Edit: to help you out it originally carried a TCO plate then a TJ one before the ND one. If I make it any easier, I'd have to tell you which mine I worked at when I bought it!

 

[sako243]

Guess it's moderately old (1982) and is pretty rare these days:

 

[Cuthy246]

Guess it's moderately old (1982) and is pretty rare these days:
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How many different landies are in that one?

 

[octo0072000]

How many different landies are in that one?

it's called a Sandringham 6 by Hotspur cars sakos looks to be a stage one V8 one one below details are in the Bonhams link
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20144/lot/577/

 

[Cuthy246]

it's called a Sandringham 6 by Hotspur cars sakos looks to be a stage one V8 one one below details are in the Bonhams link
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20144/lot/577/

Know it's a Sandringham, was making a tongue in cheek comment on the colour scheme

 

[octo0072000]

Know it's a Sandringham, was making a tongue in cheek comment on the colour scheme

the blue was based up your way on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides owned by MOD

 

[sako243]

Know it's a Sandringham, was making a tongue in cheek comment on the colour scheme

Gets worse than that. V5 lists it as a 5.7l twin axle 109 Land Rover. One of those facts is obviously wrong, the engine is currently an asthmatic 2.8l LD28 with a turbo bolted on the side. There might be a plan underway to get the engine capacity slightly closer to the V5...


Afraid it's as I acquired it in February and been put straight to work so haven't had a chance to deal with anything on it. Thing I'll sort out the engine and associated stuff first - possibly add a tipper (or 3-way tipper) and then get the chassis galved and then sort out the bodywork and interior afterwards. Had a brand new interior thrown in when I got the vehicle - also a less dented roof.

 

[Olderisbetter]

This is a car owned by my dad uncle or great uncle the was a bit of a lad to say the least from what we have been told, He had the nick name Tiger, we have no idea who the ladies are

 

[MBB]

This was on Ebay a while back Hispano Suiza.

 

[nickk]

A favourite single of mine,bought from holmfirth,from a nice man,who assured me,” ee ya can mek it go well”
However riding it the 150 miles home it consumed a fair drop of oil,so I fitted a new liner,from a supplier in Beckermet,can’t reme their name.Its an ES2 .

 

[Rannsachair]

A few other bikes from my past (have posted pics previously in other posts):

Tatty and gutless BSA Bantam D7:

1978 CB550 (rat bike) purchased from one of Satan's Slaves for when I was a student living in a rough area of Dundee (Beetle my dad was rebuilding in the background)

1978 BMW R100RS ran it for 6 years, did big mileages, modified over the years:

Bitsa AJS M18 1957 Frame, earlier engine:

1949 Ariel 350 Red Hunter

The 56 Matchless I am currently rebuilding:

Sad, cannot find any pics of my old Escort Mexico, !984 Saab 900 16v turbo S, AJS 31CSR, CZ 360 Scrambler or my dad's BSA B32.

 

[rtcosic]

This is a car owned by my dad uncle or great uncle the was a bit of a lad to say the least from what we have been told, He had the nick name Tiger, we have no idea who the ladies are

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Have we had an identification of it? With that rather Hispano looking stork it's confusing me. A white car in wartime must have rare. Owner wasn't the 'bloke next door', no matter who te ladies were!

 

[chunkolini]

My Mum and Dad off to Scotland on his Golden Flash many many years go.
He passed away a couple of months back; Mum is not far off joining him; but they had very full lives.

 

[Feet 'n Inches]

Tatty and gutless BSA Bantam D7

Never a truer word spoken. I had a 1953 Bantam 125 with plunger suspension. That bike did more mileage with me trying to bump start it than with the engine running.

Have we had an identification of it? With that rather Hispano looking stork it's confusing me.

If it's a Hispano I'd say it's very late 20s or early 30s. I don't think it's a J12 or K6 series as most of those have vertical louvres on the sides of the bonnet. The pic above shows a model with horizontal louvres.

 

[MBB]

It was on Ebay with a starting price of 69 thousand pounds with one bid. Reserve not met. I think it was a 1932 but cant be sure of that. Rolls Royce used some of its braking and suspension system under licence from them. I read somewhere that it did 100 MPH at 1000 revs I put two extra lines on the loootery that day to see if I could win enough to buy it. Ps see last picture it has vertical louvres. [/ATTACH]

 

[Olderisbetter]

Have we had an identification of it? With that rather Hispano looking stork it's confusing me. A white car in wartime must have rare. Owner wasn't the 'bloke next door', no matter who te ladies were!

We have rumours in the family he worked for the MOD but knowing my family he could have also have worked for MFI, But he was a character much like my dad and his dad, i think the car was some kind of jaguar or before jaguar before they were called jags