Christmas has come early

[Milkyway]

My daughter informed me that she has found a few items of mine, that was left in the loft...Her mother & I split in 2006.

I have been reunited with 35 issues of Car & car conversions from 1972.... can’t even remember where I got them from.
Plenty of interesting articles to plough through.

Lots of ad’s though... crazy prices;
Fibreglass fronts... from £11.50
Ally wheels: from £4.50

These, amongst some other fine reading material makes me a very Happy Bunny... for quite a while anyway.

Wish I had kept all my ‘Motor’ mag’s too now.

Edited by Milkyway on Friday 17th December 16:33

[Milkyway]

Not from my mag... but must be early 70’s;

[texaxile]

Interesting ad, and although I’m a product of the 70’s, I’d be curious to know the average wage at the time and how hard it would have been for the average family to buy a new or second hand car of around £400 - £600. There wasn’t any pcp or hp back then, and my dad told me that for a mortgage you needed an appointment with the bank manager!.

[Milkyway]

texaxile said:

Interesting ad, and although I’m a product of the 70’s, I’d be curious to know the average wage at the time and how hard it would have been for the average family to buy a new or second hand car of around £400 - £600. There wasn’t any pcp or hp back then, and my dad told me that for a mortgage you needed an appointment with the bank manager!.

Using a money calculator....
New Wolseley Six auto:
1970: £1750
Today: £28,500 (approx)

How about the Anglia Estate.... bargain @ £1600 today.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 19th December 12:20

[pingu393]

OP, did you have a quick panic and then a sense of relief when she'd only found your motor mags?


That Ford Anglia would have seemed a lot older then than a 10 year old car does now.

Cars aged very quickly back then.

[Milkyway]

pingu393 said:

OP, did you have a quick panic and then a sense of relief when she'd only found your motor mags?


That Ford Anglia would have seemed a lot older then than a 10 year old car does now.

Cars aged very quickly back then.

...perhaps some are still in a dark corner of the loft.
It’s not only the cars that have changed.
NB: Bloke at work always seemed to have a very interesting Fork lift... or it was unreliable, as the seat was always up.

[v8250]

Milkyway said:

Using a money calculator....
New Wolseley Six auto:
1970: £1750
Today: £28,500 (approx)

How about the Anglia Estate.... bargain @ £1600 today.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 19th December 12:20

You don't want to use that money calculator. Here's a fine looking Wolseley Six for £14,995. Accounting for inflation, it's a bargain !

https://www.bradleyjamesclassics.co.uk/vehicle/wol...

[Milkyway]

v8250 said:

Milkyway said:

Using a money calculator....
New Wolseley Six auto:
1970: £1750
Today: £28,500 (approx)

How about the Anglia Estate.... bargain @ £1600 today.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 19th December 12:20

You don't want to use that money calculator. Here's a fine looking Wolseley Six for £14,995. Accounting for inflation, it's a bargain !

https://www.bradleyjamesclassics.co.uk/vehicle/wol...

Cheers.... Bit of fun.
Very nice... & only 48K miles too.
Not bad depreciation... 50% over 50years...
( NB: A Marina... yours for £16,500 today)

Fibreglass front: £160
Those wheels £70 each now.
(Seems cheap)

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 19th December 13:44

[texaxile]

Milkyway said:

Using a money calculator....
New Wolseley Six auto:
1970: £1750
Today: £28,500 (approx)

How about the Anglia Estate.... bargain @ £1600 today.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 19th December 12:20

Cheer for that!. I’m quite surprised, that’s a lot of cash for a car which would have been rusted or fairly well knackered after 100k miles, or less.

[TarquinMX5]

Main dealer advert and two of their used cars have already had reconditioned engines.

[Milkyway]

TarquinMX5 said:

Main dealer advert and two of their used cars have already had reconditioned engines.

Well... the cars were a few years old.
Missed the Victor...
Morris 1300: Smoke grey.... is that a really good choice of words.

Engine rebuilds ( or parts thereof), just seemed an accepted way of life then, & for many years to come.
(Well... seemed to be, Dad was always burning the midnight oil)

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 19th December 15:32

[grumpy52]

TarquinMX5 said:

Main dealer advert and two of their used cars have already had reconditioned engines.

50,000 miles on mechanical components if you were lucky .
Many owners were much more hands on with maintenance, engine de-cokeing was routine, setting points and plug gaps was almost a weekly job on some cars along with tappet and timing adjustments.

[Milkyway]

Re home maintenance: The days when you could change a headlight bulb before the kettle had boiled.

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 20th December 06:17

[nicanary]

Milkyway said:

Re home maintenance: The days when you could change a headlight bulb before the kettle had boiled.

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 20th December 06:17

Oh yes. A couple of clips behind the holder, replace bulb and then the holder. No need to jack up, remove wheelarch liner and then fumble in the dark.

My dad was a mechanic in the 1930s/40s and he was baffled by the under-bonnet of a modern car. All pipes and plastic covers. Where's the block, he would ask ?

[Milkyway]

nicanary said:

Oh yes. A couple of clips behind the holder, replace bulb and then the holder. No need to jack up, remove wheelarch liner and then fumble in the dark.

My dad was a mechanic in the 1930s/40s and he was baffled by the under-bonnet of a modern car. All pipes and plastic covers. Where's the block, he would ask ?

My Dad was OK up to about 1980.
He looked at my ‘86 Maestro EFI... LIfted the bonnet. looked & then just slammed it shut again.
‘ 93, 205.... Days work took a week, & almost had to admit defeat.
( That was it then really).

The strange thing is... he has never figured out how to program a TV.

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 20th December 11:10