A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)
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My mum's first car; a Frogeye with an Ashley front. Around 1967 if I remember correctly. Soon after it was bought dad had it resprayed Tartan red. Most of it. The maroon interior was a bit at odds with the bodywork after that. If mum took my brother and me out in it, Pete sat in the front with the dog in the footwell and I sat facing backwards with my legs in the boot and my back to the seat backs, rear gunner style. Not a seat belt to be seen. After having a couple of cars under the age of seventeen which I "did up and sold" at a substantial loss needless to say, the Sprite became my first car in 1971. I paid mum £150, I think. Wrapped it up, on a Provisional Licence, on the sharp lefthander on the Ridges in Crowthorne. The car survived, without the Ashley front, and the chap who bought it put a glassfibre frogeye front on it. The press studs along the top of the windscreen reveal it be an early car. The rain came straight in.
Mum died recently and we're going through huge amounts of stuff and one slide of the car has turned up. More pics if and when I find any.
garyfrogeye - PM on its way.
P5BNij said:
Can't have been many Khamsin's around in London back then.....so could be the one belonging to the Dad of one of my school classmates, who I remember getting picked up from school in it circa 78/79? Not sure if the colour translates to that shade in b/w though, his Dad's car was a metallic coppery-brown colour from memory.
aeropilot said:
P5BNij said:
Can't have been many Khamsin's around in London back then.....so could be the one belonging to the Dad of one of my school classmates, who I remember getting picked up from school in it circa 78/79? Not sure if the colour translates to that shade in b/w though, his Dad's car was a metallic coppery-brown colour from memory.
Another bit of casual exotica, a pair of unlucky Espadas, I wonder if they were repaired... the plates look Swiss to me but I could be wrong...
Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 16th June 20:22
Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 16th June 20:23
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