RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted April 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2021 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 ? 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2021 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. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 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... 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2021 (edited) 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 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 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 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jol Wilkinson Posted April 18, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 18, 2021 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. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 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 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted April 18, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 18, 2021 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 , 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 20, 2021 Found this on You-Tube. The Ford model Y roadster for £10 yes please. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 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 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 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..... 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Ten camels and a Kia Rio.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 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. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 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. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 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...... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2021 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. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 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. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 (edited) 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 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: That's as maybe, but you can't buy experience! Mike. Erm, not strictly true........ 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 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. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 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.] 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 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. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 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. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 I still want that Ford Y roadster for £10, even with the cycle front wings (1950's boy racer?) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 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 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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