Show me a nice old car

[Dralowid]

A friend had a fuel injected TR6 that had a nasty habit of filling the boot with petrol...

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

To be fair my 1972 BMW 2002 tii did that a lot too, just slowly from the fuel sender gasket. Fortunately for me, we discovered in removing the bootlining that it could have been far worse - the amateur who did the restoration used self-tapping woodscrews to hold the floor in place, and one was millimeters from the fuel pipe!

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I dissent a bit - it was a cutting edge design in so many ways, but let down by a pretty uninspiring engine (the TR8 changed that), jacked up suspension (the curse of relying on the US market at the time) and British Leyland build quality.

That’s a lot of letting down, and you left out the appearance.🙂

I’d still, even now,, take a nice, unrefined TR3 or TR4 any day, having experienced all three, as the TR7, improved dynamics aside, always seemed to me as being utterly charmless, even the driving, quicker or not. I could be “misremembering” as politicians like to say, but as I recall, when it was introduced the design was met more with befuddlement than ecstasy.

In all fairness, though, the mid-70s won’t generally be remembered as the high point in automotive design for any company, with very few exceptions. (Due, as you generously downplayed, to poorly thought through ideas which seeped out of the fevered minds of U.S. Congresscritters at the time, ideas which had not yet been expensively engineered around.)

 

[rolfe]

Dodge that time forgot...


Car that time forgot... by
Rolfe Tessem, on Flickr

 

[besk]

Can't remember the sequence but the TR7 reminded me of the Alpine and even the old Daimler. You are correct the TR3 was unrefined. I owned a Ford Falcon at the same time as a TR3a to compare - they were about equal.

That’s a lot of letting down, and you left out the appearance.🙂

I’d still, even now,, take a nice, unrefined TR3 or TR4 any day, having experienced all three, as the TR7, improved dynamics aside, always seemed to me as being utterly charmless, even the driving, quicker or not. I could be “misremembering” as politicians like to say, but as I recall, when it was introduced the design was met more with befuddlement than ecstasy.

In all fairness, though, the mid-70s won’t generally be remembered as the high point in automotive design for any company, with very few exceptions. (Due, as you generously downplayed, to poorly thought through ideas which seeped out of the fevered minds of U.S. Congresscritters at the time, ideas which had not yet been expensively engineered around.)

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Can't remember the sequence but the TR7 reminded me of the Alpine and even the old Daimler. You are correct the TR3 was unrefined. I owned a Ford Falcon at the same time as a TR3a to compare - they were about equal.

Yeah, but you can sit in a TR3, keeping one hand on the steering wheel, and rest your other hand on the ground outside the car. Can't do that in a Falcon!🙂

 

[Doug]

1956 Chevrolet

Leica M240, 50mm f/2 Heliar Classic

 

[Michael Markey]

 

[Michael Markey]

 

[Michael Markey]

I was driving across a field in my Defender when I was overtaken by this . Not an obvious choice for off road but it passed me 🙂

 

[Dralowid]

Practice Day at Goodwood in the '60s. Its a Shelby something methinks. Overcoats were the uniform for all. In them days my processing was somewhat hit and miss. My memory tells me it was the weekend Stirling Moss crashed but I think I must be wrong, surely this is later?

img054 by dralowid, on Flickr

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Stirling Moss crashed in 1962. If this is a Shelby Daytona coupe (which it looks like) it didn't appear before 1964. Obviously the last meeting there before it closed was in 1966.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Bit of T cut and it will be like new!

I don't have that Benz, but I have a W114 from the same era. If you can see visible rust in those areas, what the nooks and crannies in the body are hiding is going to be 10 times worse.

I went back and took a picture of the other side.

X-Pro3, Fujinon XF 56mm f1.2 R lens
Astia film simulation
Yokosuka, Japan - May 2020

All the best,
Mike

 

[Dralowid]

Stirling Moss crashed in 1962. If this is a Shelby Daytona coupe (which it looks like) it didn't appear before 1964. Obviously the last meeting there before it closed was in 1966.

Which fits. I got my first Leica in '65.

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

I went back and took a picture of the other side.

X-Pro3, Fujinon XF 56mm f1.2 R lens
Astia film simulation
Yokosuka, Japan - May 2020

All the best,
Mike

All told a bit of a mess. However, it does have a velour interior which has to be my favourite Benz upholstery!

 

[Dralowid]

Again from the early '60s. Chain gang F-N in a local hillclimb event.

This one displays my excellent negative storage abilities.

Well, at least I still have it and it was roughly where I expected to be. Who will be able to find a nearly 60 year old file on their system in years to come?


Scan-130330-0038 by dralowid, on Flickr

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Wonderful - love the FN chain driven cars, just a bit out of reach of my pocket!

I'm struggling finding files from a year ago...but found this of an FN undergoing field repairs to the chain drive at the VSCC January trials at Brooklands 2017. Just need a few shovels to be leaning on and a lot of mugs of tea and it could be any work scene...

 

[lynnb]

Not all that old, but this was parked at the beach today when I went out with my wife for a coffee.

Instax SQ6

 

[Larry Cloetta]

This one displays my excellent negative storage abilities.

Well, at least I still have it and it was roughly where I expected to be. Who will be able to find a nearly 60 year old file on their system in years to come?

If we’re honest, and we often aren’t, nobody.

And, I don’t know what an F-N is. Fraser-Nash?

 

[Moto-Uno]

Seen this past weekend at Horseshoe Bay , B.C