Show me a nice old car

Harsh sunlight and I'm on the wrong side of it - oh well, it is what it is. It's still a nice old car.

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Fujifilm X-Pro3
Fujinon XF 35mm f2 lens
Classic Chrome film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - April 2021

All the best,
Mike
 
Here's another distant relative for you Doug. Man, the Sun was bright yesterday.

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Fujifilm X-Pro3
Fujinon XF 35mm f2 lens
Classic Chrome film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - April 2021

All the best,
Mike
 
Sometime in the 1970's, before I had a drivers license, a Gentleman in our church gave me a ride in his Lotus Europa. Having grown up riding around in big old 1960's Detroit station wagons the Europa ride was quite an eye opener.


Thanks for bringing back that memory. Very Cool Car.


Joe
 
I note the 'Mini Traveller' is badged 'mini-minor' which would make it a Morris I think. Does anyone know please what is the blue-green colour called as some Austins (like the one the mother of a fellow pupil at junior school drove) were painted the same or very similar colour?

The blue-cone fitted spot and fog lights are very 1960s. I think they were made by Notek and called something like a 'blue spot'. One model was a 'Fairlite' and the other was a 'Nearlite' and each had different lenses for different purposes e.g. spotlight and fog light, but I'm not sure which was for which purpose. Does anyone know what purpose the blue cone served and how it worked please? My father used to fit these to his company car each year when it changed as we had very bad fogs in the early 1960s on the outskirts of London, but after the last part of the Clean Air Act came into effect he didn't need to do this anymore and after cluttering up the garage for some years they got passed on to another pupil studying A-level engineering with me and he fitted them to his Hillman Hunter.

Regards
Andrew More
 
andrewmore said:
I note the 'Mini Traveller' is badged 'mini-minor' which would make it a Morris I think. Does anyone know please what is the blue-green colour called as some Austins (like the one the mother of a fellow pupil at junior school drove) were painted the same or very similar colour?
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I can't help with the green, but that is a seriously rare little car - I remember reading in the early 90s that there might not be any Mini Travellers left on the UK's roads. There's only 440-odd Morris Mini-Minors registered at the moment, so how many are Travellers, I wonder?

Back when oi were a lad, I remember someone we used to see at goat shows had one, and they towed their goats behind it in a trailer made from another Traveller!
 
^^^Gordon Beuhreg Boattail Speedster, if I am not mistaken, and it is possible that I am.
The view from straight overhead is even more beautiful.
Amazing design.

Did you take those? They’re stunning. (They do put me in mind of the observation that the only difference between Art and pornography is the quality of the lighting. And these are art.)
 
Larry Cloetta said:
^^^Gordon Beuhreg Boattail Speedster, if I am not mistaken, and it is possible that I am.
The view from straight overhead is even more beautiful.
Amazing design.

Did you take those? They’re stunning. (They do put me in mind of the observation that the only difference between Art and pornography is the quality of the lighting. And these are art.)
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Thanks Larry and yes I did take these. I have a client that has an amazing American car collection. 70+ cars.

A real rare beast. 1933 Pierce Arrow

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I visited the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum 2 years ago and was blown away with their display of those automobiles. It is a design treasure. A little out of the way, but worth it.
 
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