Wolseley

It was a while ago now that I snapped this photo of a visitor to our garden, but I only got around to downloading it to my computer today:

Most of the Sikhs around here drive buses.

But American cars of that era did not make very efficient use of space, so there may have not been much more room inside.

I have a 1962 Wolseley 15/60. The headlamps have the old style bulbs in them, rather than being sealed beams, and they are, by comparison, rather dim compared to a modern car's lights. One night I started the car and there was hardly any light at all. The filament for the low beam light had gone in one of the bulbs. I put the lights on high beam so I could see and be seen and no-one flashed their lights at me - but then the lights are on high beam they are only just approaching the intensity of a modern low beam light.

At first sight it seems a slightly overpriced Hornby coach. But the postage is considerably higher than I would expect: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-RAILWAYS-MODEL-R-468-LMS-3rd-CLASS-ex-CALEDONIAN-4-WHEEL-COACHVN-MIB-/301909191294?hash=item464b30aa7e:g:vCMAAOxyQyJRjOvh

And my latest:

And rubber (or plastic) door protector strips.

Interesting..... The one I saw had been fitted with alloy wheels but was otherwise unmolested.

And I was in Richmond (Richmond in Sydney, Australia that is) today and was walking down the main street when a 1950/51 Studebaker Commander drove past. Unfortunately it took me by surprise and I don't have a photograph to prove it.

Spotted this in a local supermarket car park:

Given that we have been talking about caravans, I went looking for a photo I seem to remember taking a few years ago of an small and unusual caravan at a classic car show. I didn't find the one I was thinking of, but I did find a few other photos I have taken with caravans in them:

If you hot it up rather than just warm it up, you would have to rethink the suspension. The original set-up uses lever arm dampers.

But the paint finish on this Somerset aside from being particularly good is also particularly new, which makes me wonder about the metal beneath.

My guess is that mechanical spares are reasonably easy to get (the BMC B Series engine for one thing was shared across a large range of cars and in use for many years) but body spares would be like hen's teeth so, if you're interested, check it out thoroughly for rust. I'm just going off my memory here, but I'm pretty sure that the A40 Devon, Dorset and Somerset had a separate chassis, unlike their replacements. At first sight it looks in pretty good condition, but after zooming into the photographs, I think the sills might have a fair bit of bodyfiller in them - I could be wrong, but the surface looks rather uneven to me and, as it has been very recently resprayed (look at the tell-tale mark on the front tyre on the driver's side), so who knows what's hiding under the fresh paint.

Every time I see a car like that in traffic, I just think to myself that I wouldn't want to drive something worth that much money on a public road (not that I'm ever likely to have such an opportunity).

They look more like they were buried six feet under. I can't understand why there is so much interest in this lot. Maybe they're all after the three rail shunter chassis - it's the only thing that might be worth saving.

And, speaking of Imps:

I was wondering how long it would be before someone noticed it.

Things you see when you're walking down the street #5. OK, so we’ve had some Falcons and some Holdens, I suppose we need to have some Valiants as well:

It looks more like a Goggomobil Dart than an E Type Jaguar:

Canguro? Is it a car with clutch problems?

Things you see when you're walking down the street #4 - seeing as how I posted some photos of Ford Falcons, here are some Holdens to balance things up:

I see that the vendor has just had the full set striped, cleaned, rebuilt including all motor parts ,serviced and tested on a track. SaveSave

Rootes/Chrysler mucked about with the Hillmans and the smaller Humbers (as in, for example, the Hillman Gazelle and the Humber Vogue Sports, which both had Sunbeam Rapier engines) but, as far as I'm aware, the larger Humbers (this one was a Super Snipe) were the same specifications as the UK ones.

Things you see when you're walking down the street #3 - this time some Ford Falcons seeing as how we've been talking about them: The second photo is the odd one out - I took it in San Remo in Victoria - the rest are in NSW - the first one is in Kiama and the others in various parts of Sydney.