RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 16 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 16 (edited) 2 hours ago, phil_sutters said: 'London' to signify that they started at Brooklands, as many of the vehicles would not have been ULEZ-compliant. The correct term is 'Travellers Brougham' not van. Edited May 16 by PhilJ W 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 16 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16 6 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The correct term is 'Travellers Brougham' not van. I was relying on the HCVS programme information. Perhaps we had better ask the driver. The note says "Entered by Roger Bishop". He is probably more interested in how it runs. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 2 hours ago, phil_sutters said: I was relying on the HCVS programme information. Perhaps we had better ask the driver. The note says "Entered by Roger Bishop". He is probably more interested in how it runs. Looks like the great, great grandad of the current crew cab pick-up. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 16 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 16 1 hour ago, RANGERS said: Looks like the great, great grandad of the current crew cab pick-up. It only seats two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 16 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16 3 hours ago, PhilJ W said: It only seats two. Higher productivity in them days! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cuttle Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 On 12/05/2024 at 22:21, jcredfer said: ignoring the real concerns that people have Yes absolutely agree with everything you mention, look at pharmacists they are on their knees and for disabled people the situation just gets more dire and sinister in the way they are treated. We know that first hand having an autistic son. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 Random old cars from the local car show fundraiser for the local primary school on the weekend 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 @monkeysarefun whats the car in the second picture? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 Is the car behind the Cit-roen a Holden? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 20 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20 3 hours ago, Erichill16 said: @monkeysarefun whats the car in the second picture? There's a close match via Google Images/Lens - Holden Monaro GTS 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 20 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20 2 hours ago, alastairq said: Is the car behind the Cit-roen a Holden? 2 hours ago, alastairq said: Is the car behind the Cit-roen a Holden? From the styling of the front it looks something like https://www.streetmachine.com.au/features/daniel-armstrong-blown-ls-hr-holden-special 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 20 minutes ago, phil_sutters said: There's a close match via Google Images/Lens - Holden Monaro GTS Think you are right, you can almost see the GTS badge on the grill and I known the Holden Monaro is one of @monkeysarefun ‘s favourite cars so no surprise he’s posted a picture. Must admit it does look good and probably sounds even better. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 5 hours ago, Erichill16 said: @monkeysarefun whats the car in the second picture? Its a Holden HQ Monaro, from the early 70's. They came with a variety of motors from a 6 cylinder through to a 5.7L V8 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 4 hours ago, alastairq said: Is the car behind the Cit-roen a Holden? Yes, either a Holden HD or HR model. (I'm not up on the finer point of telling them apart! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 I passed through Colne this afternoon and spotted an A60 Farina and a Citroen Traction Avant parked amongst the more mundane motors an a small car park just off the road to Keighley. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 On 11/05/2024 at 05:02, Sidecar Racer said: Further to the replies above I will go with this , a 1920 Morgan Grand Prix , https://www.hagerty.com/media/member-stories/this-1920-grand-prix-three-wheeler-is-as-morgan-as-it-gets/ What interests me on Dave's photo one is the rear tyre compared to the front ones , it looks like one that would be called Town and Country in my apprenticeship years in the mid 60's , completely different to the ones on the machine in the fact page . Did Grandma perhaps go trialling in her spare time? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 5 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: Yes, either a Holden HD or HR model. (I'm not up on the finer point of telling them apart! It's mostly down to the grille/headlamps/front edge of the front wings, none of which are really visible in the pic. HRs seem more common, so I'd go with that, just on grounds of probability. As a former Pom I still think of them as 6-pot FC Victors 😜. But then, there was a bloke I used to know through work who I used to annoy by referring to his prized (modern) Monaro as "One of those 2-door Commodores". 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 4 hours ago, RANGERS said: I passed through Colne this afternoon and spotted an A60 Farina and a Citroen Traction Avant parked amongst the more mundane motors an a small car park just off the road to Keighley. Having, in my childhood and youth, had a Morris Oxford Series VI as family transport for almost 20 years, plus assorted others as spares mules, I have some difficulty believing that anything in the world could possibly be more mundane than an A60 Farina. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted May 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21 (edited) 9 hours ago, PatB said: Did Grandma perhaps go trialling in her spare time? That was another thought of mine , if so I hope she didn't wear her Sunday best clothes when so doing . 😎 Edited May 21 by Sidecar Racer 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 59 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said: That was another thought of mine , if so I hope she didn't wears her Sunday best clothes when so doing . 😎 Being a trials enthusiast [ but too short of cash to still compete]....and a member of the Motorcycling Club [ MCC...UK's oldest...almost, beaten I believe by a few weeks for incorporation, by the Midland Automobile Club {MAC} but we are talking about the 1902 period!} I get to see a lot of what are now really old trials photos. The really noticeable changes are the sheer numbers of spectators in the past....and the way they dress. Drivers and passengers, who will have been 'competing' for 10 or 12 hours before the photos might have been taken [long distance classic reliability trials...Land's End, Exeter, & Edinburgh trials, still being run today, by the MCC]..yet the dress code still prevails, of a shirt and tie, jacket or suit, and maybe some sort of hat! Even noticeable amongst nearly all the crowds of spectators.....long macks as well....and wellies if muddy! Ladies dress to a similar standard too....hats, coats, etc. and long macks.... Motorcyclists seemed to favour long, heavy, no doubt water proof, coats.. The roads & tracks used for the observed sections [only rallies have 'stages'.....] are today, perhaps a lot rougher in nature.....but a lot of the vehicles seen competing, do not seem to have 'changed' much over the course of time... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21 8 hours ago, PatB said: Did Grandma perhaps go trialling in her spare time? Easy to drive, no *reverse gear, in fact no gearbox. Just two drive chains with different sized sprockets each engaged/disengaged by a dog clutch. *To reverse just lift the rear up and walk it round. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26 Smallwood vintage rally today 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26 Paignton on Tuesday. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 13 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Paignton on Tuesday. That’s a rare one! steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27 4 minutes ago, steve1 said: That’s a rare one! I was never sure whether that version of Minx was the same shell as the Hunter, which appeared first. My schoolfriend Michael's parents bought a used one, RLF120E, in grey. [Rhoda - a big-boned Yorkshire woman with smashing legs in an era when hems above the knee were acceptable for ladies of a certain age, and who often wore heels - and I set off for Heathrow to meet Michael, back from a spell in Eindhoven with Philips Electrologica. We got as far as Esher when the clutch gave out. Taxi to Heathrow and 777 Greenline back to Gatwick where husband Bert picked us up. Michael confided later that his mum would often rest her foot on the clutch pedal, and those heels may have been part of that. Certainly, a car domiciled in rural Surrey did not spend much time in traffic, where clutch-wear is higher.] 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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