For those interested in old cars.

[spamcan61]

On 16/04/2021 at 14:40, Captain Cuttle said:

And white vinyl roof, with Kathy on the bonnet 

I think there were nine coats of lacquer, a lot of rubbing and polishing.

 

Yes but what about the car ?

[Oldddudders]

It hath to be said that posing the young lady, in a minidress, on the bonnet of a Mini was one thing, while on the older classics she might have looked a trifle anachronistic. Glad you are still an item after 48 years. 

[MrWolf]

I remember one of my friends having a magnetic whip aerial on the bootlid of a Mk1 Cavalier. He drove it into a multi storey car park where it hit every sign, light and girder until it broke the top foot off.

He got a lot of ribbing about dodgems as I recall...

 

[PhilJ W]

I had an aerial on a Suzuki jeep mounted centrally on the roof. Not a whip aerial but one of those very rigid plastic coated coil ones about a foot to eighteen inches long. I went into an underground car park (clearing the height signs). As I drove through the car park there was a clink-clink-clink noise as I took out the fluorescent lights down the entrance passageway. No one came out to investigate the loss of the lights so I hightailed it out of there. Later I noticed that they had lowered the height restriction by four inches. The car park had been opened some years before the lights were installed and someone must have forgotten to alter the signs.

Edited April 18, 2021 by PhilJ W

[steve1]

14 hours ago, Jol Wilkinson said:

Other late 60's essentials included 5-1/2" rims and long range lamps to supplement the standard high beams.

 

 

For Rugd1022's information, the spire in the background is St Marks, Bilton.

 

Jol,

 

Is that a 2 door GT?

 

steve

[Jol Wilkinson]

4 hours ago, steve1 said:

 

Jol,

 

Is that a 2 door GT?

 

steve

Yes it was, Steve.

 

I modified the engine with the later cylinder head, pistons modified by Burton Engineering,  hotter road camshaft and straight though exhaust. The only mod to the suspension was to fit Spax shock absorbers to the rear axle. I wish I still had it.

 

It was preceded by a Special I had built from a racing car run by a friend. That was based on a Lotus 7 chassis which what I believe was a modified Diva bodyshell. I can't get at my photo albums at present but do have an image form some scanned slides taken when I was building it.

What we do when we are young. It was a good learning experience but wasn't much good for courting which is why the Cortina replaced it.

 

 

We took a walk along the sea front in Felixstowe this morning.  Spotted a very nice Mk1 Escort RS near the Spa Pavilion and a  pale blue 1960's Sunbeam Alpine drophead driving along the seafront.  I didn't get any photos as I was pre-occupied with an ice cream.

[rocor]

A YouTube channel that I have recently been viewing and found interesting, is Ivan's shed. It is about Ivan Dutton and the work that he carries out upon his collection of classic cars.

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/IvansShed/videos

 

 

[Sidecar Racer]

48 minutes ago, rocor said:

A YouTube channel that I have recently been viewing and found interesting, is Ivan's shed. It is about Ivan Dutton and the work that he carries out upon his collection of classic cars.

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/IvansShed/videos

 

 

 

That two cylinder A  series engine is something else , and he gets it running too ,

[PhilJ W]

Found this on You-Tube.

 

The Ford model Y roadster for £10 yes please.

[boxbrownie]

What I didn’t understand or make sense to me was “old cars are cheap because people cannot afford new cars”.....surely old cheap cars would be more in demand, obviously I am completely out of touch with 1950’s vehicle market conditions 

[alastairq]

Wear & tear, wear & tear , old chap.

 

That's why old knackered wives don't fetch quite so much at market compared to nubile young wives.....      

[MrWolf]

Ten camels and a Kia Rio....

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

What I didn’t understand or make sense to me was “old cars are cheap because people cannot afford new cars”.....surely old cheap cars would be more in demand, obviously I am completely out of touch with 1950’s vehicle market conditions 

A clue is the beginning of the next item at the end.  1956.....Suez crisis.....President Nasser.....petrol rationing. You couldn't even give a car away, especially older cars. The scrap dealers had as many as they could cope with resulting in a lot of abandoned cars.

[boxbrownie]

7 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

A clue is the beginning of the next item at the end.  1956.....Suez crisis.....President Nasser.....petrol rationing. You couldn't even give a car away, especially older cars. The scrap dealers had as many as they could cope with resulting in a lot of abandoned cars.

That’s what I thought, nothing to do with people not affording new cars affecting older car prices, but then Pathe News was ever so, ever so patriotic. 

[boxbrownie]

1 hour ago, alastairq said:

Wear & tear, wear & tear , old chap.

 

That's why old knackered wives don't fetch quite so much at market compared to nubile young wives.....      

and just try part exchanging one......

[Enterprisingwestern]

1 hour ago, alastairq said:

That's why old knackered wives don't fetch quite so much at market compared to nubile young wives.....      

 

That's as maybe, but you can't buy experience!

 

Mike.

[RJS1977]

2 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

What I didn’t understand or make sense to me was “old cars are cheap because people cannot afford new cars”.....surely old cheap cars would be more in demand, obviously I am completely out of touch with 1950’s vehicle market conditions 

 

But as manufacturers cut the price of the cars they have in order to try to shift them, this creates downwards pressure on secondhand prices.

[boxbrownie]

18 minutes ago, RJS1977 said:

 

But as manufacturers cut the price of the cars they have in order to try to shift them, this creates downwards pressure on secondhand prices.

Certainly on nearly new cars and the like, but after five or six years the new car prices make little difference on the market as the majority of the value of the vehicle has already gone.

 

I couldn’t see my first Mini at £50 would have been reduced much by a new one being reduced £20 from £650 

 

edit : actually I think even a £20 discount would have been tough to get back then, make it a tenner 

Edited April 21, 2021 by boxbrownie

[alastairq]

2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

That's as maybe, but you can't buy experience!

 

Mike.

  

Erm, not strictly true........   

[alastairq]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The scrap dealers had as many as they could cope with resulting in a lot of abandoned cars

 Previous to the  date alluded to, steel had also come off Govt' rationing, to manufacturers [of all sorts]....so scrap values plummeted as scrap was no longer a viable commodity.   

[alastairq]

22 minutes ago, alastairq said:

 Previous to the  date alluded to, steel had also come off Govt' rationing, to manufacturers [of all sorts]....so scrap values plummeted as scrap was no longer a viable commodity.   

 My Dellow [and Dellows as a whole] were 'victims' of the Govt's steel rationing policy, post Wawer2.

 

They couldn't get hold of new large diameter steel tube for the chassis. Which is how they came to purchase Govt' surplus stocks of RP3 rocket bodies.

These had 3 inch diameter chrome moly steel tubes...Dellow joined them together to get the tube length needed for their chassis.

 

https://www.dellowregister.co.uk/dellow-myths

 

Scroll down to last para?

 

[As an aside, my car is one of the four cars purchased by Fords of Bedford, from Dellow.  There is a photo published when it was new.  This is all recorded in a paragraph further up that page I linked to.]

[MrWolf]

3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

That's as maybe, but you can't buy experience!

 

Mike.

 

Maybe not, but you can teach an apprentice your way of doing things. 

[37114]

2 hours ago, alastairq said:

 My Dellow [and Dellows as a whole] were 'victims' of the Govt's steel rationing policy, post Wawer2.

 

They couldn't get hold of new large diameter steel tube for the chassis. Which is how they came to purchase Govt' surplus stocks of RP3 rocket bodies.

These had 3 inch diameter chrome moly steel tubes...Dellow joined them together to get the tube length needed for their chassis.

 

https://www.dellowregister.co.uk/dellow-myths

 

Scroll down to last para?

 

[As an aside, my car is one of the four cars purchased by Fords of Bedford, from Dellow.  There is a photo published when it was new.  This is all recorded in a paragraph further up that page I linked to.]

Very interesting link, I used to marshal at trials/hill climbs and used to see a few Dellows, great cars.

[PhilJ W]

I still want that Ford Y roadster for £10, even with the cycle front wings (1950's boy racer?)

[boxbrownie]

2 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

Maybe not, but you can teach an willing apprentice your way of doing things. 

Fixed that for you, just in case