Do you keep a car scrap book?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I've been obsessed with cars for as long as I can remember. (Favourite toy models as a nipper my Lotus Elan and Commer TV camera van )

I've kept a scrap book of my motoring since 1977. Am I alone?

Here's a few random excerpts:

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[threespires]

In a way I do, but not a physical one. All my pix are in a file on my pc.
Right back to my first car, seen here at Mallory Park.


This car was racing that day. Robin Sturgess Jaguar E Type 2 BBC.
He replaced this car with a drophead which was the car wrecked in the "Italian Job"

https://www.dhrofgo.com/sold/1962-jaguar-e-type-th...

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Wow! That must have been an old car even when the pic was taken

[mcflurry]

4 months road tax?

[randomeddy]

I have got one, with a list of all the cars I have had over the years. Not photos of every one unfortunately but plenty of them.

Kick myself that I never got round to doing one for my car mad son.

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mcflurry said:

4 months road tax?

Them were the days. £14.65 was a week's wages!

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randomeddy said:

I have got one, with a list of all the cars I have had over the years. Not photos of every one unfortunately but plenty of them.

Kick myself that I never got round to doing one for my car mad son.

I've also got my dad's scrap book of random photos of cars from newspapers in the '40s

[threespires]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Wow! That must have been an old car even when the pic was taken

Ha! 1947 car [it cost me £8/10/00, two week wages] photo was 1962.

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threespires said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Wow! That must have been an old car even when the pic was taken

Ha! 1947 car [it cost me £8/10/00, two week wages] photo was 1962.

Awesome. That Mini parked next to you must have been very new!

[randomeddy]

Looking through the album it brings back memories as there are a few cutouts of adverts of cars bought/sold in Auto Trader.

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randomeddy said:

randomeddy said:

I have got one, with a list of all the cars I have had over the years. Not photos of every one unfortunately but plenty of them.

Kick myself that I never got round to doing one for my car mad son.

Looking through the album it brings back memories as there are a few cutouts of adverts of cars bought/sold in Auto Trader.

Nice. Other than a hiatus in the '80s I've also got a record of every petrol fill up. Must be into the thousands!

[Bill]

Wish I had! I do have a small collection of Haynes manuals gathered over the years.

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Bill said:

Wish I had! I do have a small collection of Haynes manuals gathered over the years.

I've traded maybe 20,000 Haynes manuals....but I can't part with those with my own oily prints inside

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Not a scrap book, but for no real reason at all I still have all the old V5 sections, change of owner confirmations and brochures, as well as a few hand-written receipts and my last ever tax disc.

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CT05 Nose Cone said:

Not a scrap book, but for no real reason at all I still have all the old V5 sections, change of owner confirmations and brochures, as well as a few hand-written receipts and my last ever tax disc.

That's pretty much a scrap book.

[Bill]

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I've traded maybe 20,000 Haynes manuals....but I can't part with those with my own oily prints inside

My wife recently asked why I still had them on the shelf the other day. I had the give her the look!

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Bill said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I've traded maybe 20,000 Haynes manuals....but I can't part with those with my own oily prints inside

My wife recently asked why I still had them on the shelf the other day. I had the give her the look!

If you have to ask the question you'll never understand the answer!

[Draxindustries1]

Not a scrap book per se but we keep a book of all the cars we've scrapped...

[anonymous-user]

Got a list...and a list of those I still want!!