COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
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dartissimus said:
I saw this in the car park at Hull Uni, then someone came out, cranked it over, climbed aboard and puttered off.
Made my day
TR4man said:
dartissimus said:
I saw this in the car park at Hull Uni, then someone came out, cranked it over, climbed aboard and puttered off.
Made my day
Strangely, despite the novelty of seeing a Frazer Nash in the wild in February, I can't remember where I saw it. I have a feeling it was near Hermitage on the B4009 Newbury to Dunstable road.
Doofus said:
DickyC said:
the Newbury to Dunstable road.
I can honestly say I've never heard it called that before..It's an ancient trading route built to relieve traffic along the Ridgeway during peak periods in the third Century BC.
Oh, I have no doubt that it does actually go to Dunstable, it's just that because of the distance between the two, and because of the places it passes through, I'm sure I've only ever referred to it, or heard it referred to as the "somewhere local to somewhere else fairly local road". 'The Wallingford Road', or 'The back way to Streatley', frinstance.
I'm sure it's just like 'The Great York Road', or somesuch, it just tickled me to hear it called the Newbury to Dunstable road. It would never have occurred to me that the two places could be connected.
I'm sure it's just like 'The Great York Road', or somesuch, it just tickled me to hear it called the Newbury to Dunstable road. It would never have occurred to me that the two places could be connected.
DickyC said:
Doofus said:
DickyC said:
the Newbury to Dunstable road.
I can honestly say I've never heard it called that before..It's an ancient trading route built to relieve traffic along the Ridgeway during peak periods in the third Century BC.
Trevatanus said:
Not seen one of these since the one I was in that a mate wrote off many years ago!
Triumph by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr
Is that the one I see regularly on the Aldershot/Badshot Lea road? Usually in company with a Morris Oxford (I think). It's been a while since I drove that way...Triumph by Jim Pritchard, on FlickrTR4man said:
Seen at Tesco in Newcastle under Lyme this afternoon
I learned to drive in my Dad's one of these, 42 years ago! Same colour, countryman, etc. except his was an Austin. TGN ***F. He managed to total it two months after passing my test - and earn himself a drink/drive ban in the process! As a result, he funded the purchace of a Snowberry White Austin 1100, CGC 637H for £300 for me. Guess it's long gone now. 300 quid for a 6 year old car wasn't bad in 1975. This one hadn't gone back to its maker either. Kept it for 2.5 years, brilliant car. Moved on to an MGB Roadster in 1977. Sorry, rambling, wrong thread. Nice 1100 spot though. 
yellowjack said:
Trevatanus said:
Not seen one of these since the one I was in that a mate wrote off many years ago!
Triumph by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr
Is that the one I see regularly on the Aldershot/Badshot Lea road? Usually in company with a Morris Oxford (I think). It's been a while since I drove that way...Triumph by Jim Pritchard, on Flickrv8250 said:
All, very good, especially the C3rd BC excess Ridgeway traffic...there's even the Robin Hood roundabout in Newbury. As one of the local'ish Hermitage residents I can confirm it is known simply as the Hermitage Road.
Well, yes, but in Hermitage itself it's the Newbury Road. The garage where I work in Hermitage is on the B4009 and its address is Newbury Road.A garage anecdote for you. We recently sold an X-type Jaguar estate to a lovely older couple - a wee bit older than me I mean - and it came back a couple of times for bits and bobs. Last Saturday the husband came in to collect it wearing an AC sweatshirt. "Which AC do you have?" I asked. "Which would you think?" he asked, testing me. When I said, "I can see you driving an Ace," he was pleased and surprised. He said, "Yes, I do have an Ace," then his eyes narrowed and he asked slyly, "Which one?" Ah-ha, I thought, it has to be a rare one or he wouldn't have phrased it like that. "A Zephyr engine?" His face was a study. "How did you know? There were only thirty seven* of them built!" The guvnor said he was still going on about it twenty minutes later. He was probably afraid his car had a stalker.
*I think he said 37, it was something like that.
Roy C said:
...and here are two of the 37.
A 1962 car on the left and Simon Taylor's 1961 on the right.
The ACOC say that the factory built 36 cars in 1961 and 62.
There was the “high nosed” prototype (chassis AE 1191) and one other car assembled by Ken Rudd.
Two were apparently written off in accidents (one has since been “recreated”) so 35 genuine cars are still running – one of them lives with me.
DickyC said:
You haven't just bought an X-type estate in Hermitage, have you?
Not me (Though I have been told the X Type estate is a nice car...)
My late father placed an advert in the "wanted" section of Motorsport in 1976 (I think) for either a Cobra, Ace or Frazer Nash.
Rod Leach (of Nostalgia) offered a 427 Cobra - but it was not cheap!
A nice chap from somewhere in the SE had the Ruddspeed - the sale was agreed on the basis of a coupe of grainy Polaroid snaps and my father popped down with a trailer and collected it.
He passed it on to me in 1989.
Plinth said:
Not me
(Though I have been told the X Type estate is a nice car...)
My late father placed an advert in the "wanted" section of Motorsport in 1976 (I think) for either a Cobra, Ace or Frazer Nash.
Rod Leach (of Nostalgia) offered a 427 Cobra - but it was not cheap!
A nice chap from somewhere in the SE had the Ruddspeed - the sale was agreed on the basis of a coupe of grainy Polaroid snaps and my father popped down with a trailer and collected it.
He passed it on to me in 1989.
Yes the 2.6 had the prettier front cowl. I remember when Amschel Rothschld came to view my Aceca, which was up for sale at the time,he rolled up in his 2.6 which was a very dark blue. This was back in the early 70's, sadly he died as a young man many years ago.
(Though I have been told the X Type estate is a nice car...)
My late father placed an advert in the "wanted" section of Motorsport in 1976 (I think) for either a Cobra, Ace or Frazer Nash.
Rod Leach (of Nostalgia) offered a 427 Cobra - but it was not cheap!
A nice chap from somewhere in the SE had the Ruddspeed - the sale was agreed on the basis of a coupe of grainy Polaroid snaps and my father popped down with a trailer and collected it.
He passed it on to me in 1989.
Yes the 2.6 had the prettier front cowl. I remember when Amschel Rothschld came to view my Aceca, which was up for sale at the time,he rolled up in his 2.6 which was a very dark blue. This was back in the early 70's, sadly he died as a young man many years ago.
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