w124bob Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 View the car side on and there are very strong hints of what was to come with the W126SEC, mind you I always liked the much neglected SLC from the same era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 View the car side on and there are very strong hints of what was to come with the W126SEC.... That's what I said! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted July 3, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2017 4317UR.JPG ABW392M.JPG AFD646J.JPG BLJ499K.JPG BMC513H.JPG CDE235H.JPG D632PDM.JPG E84NAC.JPG Amazingly, the rarest car in that group is probably the Maestro. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted July 3, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2017 Not very exotic, or exclusive. They are Peugeot 504 Coupés. Not many left now. Believe it or not, Peugeot 504s were a Pininfarina design. I think the later 405 was as well. The 405 is another car that you used to see all the time, but they've almost all gone - supposedly had the best-handling FWD floorpan of its contemporaries, and I'm sure everyone remembers the massive telly advert campaign with soundtrack by "Berlin". I don't think the 504 saloon and estate were Pininfarina, just the coupe, As of course was the 406 coupe which is still on my "bucket list" just for its looks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 The 'squarer' 308GT4 design originally came from Marcello Gandini of Bertone,... As you say they're currently the cheapest way into Ferrari ownership, for some reason, possibly because they're from the Bertone stable instead of Pininfarina, they've long been looked on as 'not a real Ferrari'. I've always liked them and given half a chance and sufficient funds I'd bag one asap. Cheapest I've seen at present is around £45k, although decent examples are usually somewhere around the £50k to £55k mark. The later Pinifarina 308s are often twice or three times that amount today! This is the car in its current state. I thought he said it was a V8 I think son had to get a lot sorted as it had never been a reliable runner, principally around fuel supply and ignition. The original ex Agnelli 1970 Fiat V6 Dino we traced to a High Wycombe lock up in 1990 is below. It sat under a cover in our garage for years while son finished his studies. Other (Byker biker) son sorted its fuel starvation and generally dodgy Iti electrics. It has twin fuel pumps pressurising a fuel gallery around the 3 Webbers within the V. I was charged with blowing the cobwebs out every few months and delighted in its extraordinary cam chain noise as I exercised it over the north west Durham moors. It is still my favourite though I reckon it lost a lot of its hairy character in a restoration a few years back. dh 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rugd1022 Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 This is the car in its current state. I thought he said it was a V8 yellow ferrari.jpg I think son had to get a lot sorted as it had never been a reliable runner, principally around fuel supply and ignition. The original ex Agnelli 1970 Fiat V6 Dino we traced to a High Wycombe lock up in 1990 is below. Fiat dino.jpg It sat under a cover in our garage for years while son finished his studies. Other (Byker biker) son sorted its fuel starvation and generally dodgy Iti electrics. It has twin fuel pumps pressurising a fuel gallery around the 3 Webbers within the V. I was charged with blowing the cobwebs out every few months and delighted in its extraordinary cam chain noise as I exercised it over the north west Durham moors. It is still my favourite though I reckon it lost a lot of its hairy character in a restoration a few years back. dh Lovely Giallo Fly colour on the 308GT4, very nice and a change from the usual Rosso! As for the Dino Spider, well words are surely not enough, what a beauty. I've just finished reading the Brooklands Road Test book on Dino Spiders and Coupes, high levels of 'want' are now naturally occurring round these parts! The blue 1970 Dino Coupe as featured on Wheeler Dealers is currently for sale, along with another in red, both LHD though - I don't think any where built in RHD but I could be wrong. That Dino V6 must have one of the most musical soundtracks to any small engine, equal parts mechanical thrash, induction and exhaust note blending perfectly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 I don't think the 504 saloon and estate were Pininfarina, just the coupe, ... Seems the 504 range was all Pininfarina's work, not just the coupe. The designer was stated to be Aldo Brovarone of Pininfarina. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 The orange Miura garage find I posted earlier, here it is being liberated on 'Chasing Classic Cars'... https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+lamborghini+MIURA&&view=detail&mid=FB663AA9B4382EB2D7F5FB663AA9B4382EB2D7F5&FORM=VRDGAR 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolseley Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 KDF741.JPG NED457G.JPG Some memories for me there. My father used to have a 1949 Jowett Javelin, which was the first car I ever drove although, as I wasn't old enough at the time, it wasn't on a public road. And I learnt to drive on an 1800, but it was a Mark I Austin rather than the Mark II Morris in the photograph. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Some memories for me there. My father used to have a 1949 Jowett Javelin, which was the first car I ever drove although, as I wasn't old enough at the time... I agree about the Javelin. In post war Britain it had little to rival it - the one model Standard Vanguard, the Singer 1500, the A40 Devon/A70 Hereford and the split screen Morris Oxford/Wolseley 4/40 - then you got into the much more expensive likes of Alvis etc. Rover hadn't yet introduced the cyclops P4; they still had their interesting free wheel knob. I remember my dad in our 1947 Hillman Minx (firm's car) pointing out a Bristol in front, saying it cost twice as much as our house. The red Jupiter is the interesting Jowett. With the same flat 4 engine as the Javelin, it always looked to me overbodied compared to say, the XK 120, but they were clearly high speed smooth tourers. Javelins did well on the winter Monte and the Liege-Rome-Liege; also Jowett had the 1500 class to themselves at Le Mans until the first VW Porsches arrived. dh 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 The red Jupiter is the interesting Jowett. With the same flat 4 engine as the Javelin, it always looked to me overbodied compared to say, the XK 120, but they were clearly high speed smooth tourers. Javelins did well on the winter Monte and the Liege-Rome-Liege; also Jowett had the 1500 class to themselves at Le Mans until the first VW Porsches arrived. I was surprised to see six Jowetts (an owners' club) on show there. Not seen many at all in the last few years. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolseley Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 (edited) The All British Display Day at Parramatta usually has a couple of Javelins, two or three Jupiters and one or two Bradfords, sometimes a handful of earlier models too. Incidentally, a couple of years ago I got talking to one of the Jowett Car Club members there and found out that my father's old Jowett (aside from being one of the earliest ones imported to Australia, it also had a number of non-standard features, so it was relatively easy to identify) was still in existence and in a shed a couple of miles from where we used to live, awaiting restoration. Here are a few photos from the event in 2015: There were also a few of these, which you would be lucky to see outside Australia, although I think a few might have made it to New Zealand: Edited July 4, 2017 by Wolseley 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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runs as required Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 You've never watched Flight of the Pheonix? Works on the same principle as a model aircraft glow-plug engine. Now you armchair video watchers - sit back and enjoy these two on # 4415 I recommend watching the 'Starting a Bolinder engine' first, I have a dim recollection of watching an ancient Bean lorry being started in like manner on the quayside at Peel IoM a year or so after the war dh 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MinZaPint Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Went to a local pub for their informal car meet and came across these which I don't think I've posted before, it was the first meet this year as the previous to were victims of the weather! First a lovely AC 16/80 1938 An Alvis TC21/100 Mulliner Body 1955 A Bugatti Type 40 1929 MK2 Jaguar 1964 A Morgan +4 1953 and to finish this batch a Wolsley Hornet 1933 More to follow, it' time for a couple of pre supper beers! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 (edited) Talking of Morgans, I passed by one these as I drove home from work. Never seen one before. https://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/aero8/ Yes, I know it's not exactly old but it is a Morgan. steve Edited July 7, 2017 by steve1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Talking of Morgans, I passed by one these as I drove home from work. Never seen one before. https://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/aero8/ Yes, I know it's not exactly old but it is a Morgan. steve My friend in Switzerland owns one. Plug ugly car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 1 It seems we are also about to see an (electric) update of the classic Morgan 3 wheeler.on the road. It ought to have sparks crackling around it in true spartan Malvern style 2 A lot of Wolsely Hornets (#5367) used to have very purposeful cycle type mudguards that turned with the front wheels. Were Hornets pre-Nuffield Wolselys ? dh 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 1 It seems we are also about to see an (electric) update of the classic Morgan 3 wheeler.on the road. It ought to have sparks crackling around it in true spartan Malvern style dh I want one! I want one! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolseley Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 A lot of Wolsely Hornets (#5367) used to have very purposeful cycle type mudguards that turned with the front wheels. Were Hornets pre-Nuffield Wolselys ? dh The Hornet was a post-Nuffield Wolseley. At the time William Morris bought Wolseley in 1927, work started on a new 8hp car, code named the Wolseley B4 which, in 1928, was released as the Morris Minor. The Hornet was introduced in April of 1930 and had a six cylinder (1271cc) version of the Minor's four. The chassis of the Hornet also was based on that of the Minor, albeit with deeper side members and the bodywork resembled that on the Minor. If you can get your hands on a copy of Andrew Clausager's book, "Wolseley, a Very British Car" you will find everything you will probably ever want to know about the Hornet and the Wasp in chapter 11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolseley Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Well, maybe these cars weren’t too old when these photos were taken, but they would be now if they are still around, so they might be of interest. Here are a few photographs my father took in 1958 or 1959, not long after we arrived in Australia: Circular Quay East in Sydney A Shop fire in Norton Street, Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner west Wynyard Station George Street entrance, Sydney CBD Corner of Oxford Street and Wentworth Avenue, East Sydney Chatswood station on Sydney’s North Shore (the slightly out of focus figure on the seat is me!) 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Fascinating shots, Wolseley. Nice red Vagabond in the last shot, opposite Wollies. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 I want one! I want one! You can have mine, I don't...!! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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