How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[Duesey]

DickyC said:

Can we have a narrative please, Duesey? There's a story and a half here.

Here goes;

set 1

My grandfather, we dont have that bentley anymore. The daimler double six 50 corsica with my grandfather at some local event - the car won pebble beach concours d'elegance a few years back with its new owner, row of a few cars my grandfather had.

set 2

Coys event a good few years back and I got invited to sit in the car, my mum and dad in a few of my dads cars around 1965.


set 3

grandfathers stuff again, delage on a family holiday with friends - again no longer have this delage, speed six bentley - still have this, we will be putting a new body on it.

set 4

a couple of holidays - still got the s3 bentley in retoration at moment,1931 dailmer double six again.

set 5

bentley again and my parents cars on drive.



All a bit vague I am afraid as i can't remember half the cars - too young.

[DickyC]

Duesey said:

...delage on a family holiday with friends...

Brilliant, thanks very much for that.

It reads like a John Betjeman poem

[Duesey]

DickyC said:

Duesey said:

...delage on a family holiday with friends...

Brilliant, thanks very much for that.

It reads like a John Betjeman poem

LMAO - thats why i didn't put captions - think the Delage was a D8S, may have had figoni and falaschi body.

[RW774]

Hi Duesey, do you have anymore pics of the Double six?. I wonder this car is now in Jay Lenos collection ?

[Duesey]

I have loads of pictures of this car as we had it for around 50 years.

Did you see this

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

As far as I am aware the car still belongs to Mr Lee the winner of Pebble Beach.

I was with Rob Myers of RM last month and he did not mention it had been sold.

Claire

Edited by Duesey on Saturday 4th July 10:36

Edited by Duesey on Saturday 4th July 10:42

[RW774]

Thanks for the link Duesey,lovely story. I have been considering building/costing a replica double six for some while, but cannot find one to measure.!If you look on the internet you will see the car listed under Jay lenos` garage, I`m sure it is the same car. All I have so far are pics on the net, which there are very few, hence the request.

[Duesey]

RW774 said:

Thanks for the link Duesey,lovely story. I have been considering building/costing a replica double six for some while, but cannot find one to measure.!If you look on the internet you will see the car listed under Jay lenos` garage, I`m sure it is the same car. All I have so far are pics on the net, which there are very few, hence the request.

Yes thats the car - it's just in the gallery on Leno's site as far as I can see - not in the garage section.

Claire

[Captain Cadillac]

Crosswise said:

These are pictures taken by my Great Grandad in the early 60s, I have only scanned a small selection of them so far so there are probably a lot more.

3 Window PA!!! I have one of the only PAs in America, I'd kill to get my hands on a LHD 3-Window!

[barchetta_boy]

My older brother, an art student at the time, with his treasured Dyane. (He retained a love of cars and now drives a W124 estate).

Joel

[bigiain]

what a magic thread this is

I'm going to dig out some old pics

[E31Shrew]

Pic of yours truly in 1959 sitting in my Dads Beetle in Aden. Nice ears.

Edited by E31Shrew on Sunday 12th July 17:56

Edited by E31Shrew on Sunday 12th July 17:57

[Pat H]

E31Shrew said:

Pic of yours truly in 1959 sitting in my Dads Beetle in Aden. Nice ears.

Snap.

Here's me in 1969 in my Dad's Vauxhall Ventora.

[John Laverick]

My Dads old Mk2 fitted with a Lotus Twin Cam [it was black and later repainted white].

[That's me inside ]


[My dad in this one]



[My mum in these two]

Edited by John Laverick on Sunday 12th July 21:34

[John Laverick]

My Dads RS Turbo taken in 1986:

[Again me inside]

Edited by John Laverick on Sunday 12th July 21:36

[dockertrigger]

What a good thread!, Love stuff like this.

This is me with my dad in 1983 fixing the rear brake on this Vauxhall with his Marina/Ital works van in the distance.

Edited by dockertrigger on Monday 13th July 12:55

[john2443]

My dad and his cousin, probably in or near Glasgow, late 1930s.

No idea what the car is though!

[Groovydale]

Dads facelift Capri, outside Handbridge service station,Chester,1978(he was probably in the launderette,which is still there,at the time)
Remember the cost of fuel is in gallons!!

[garyfrogeye]

And that was probably 5 star leaded. I paid 1.44 euro per litre for 98 ron on the way back from Le Mans this year!

[DickyC]

garyfrogeye said:

And that was probably 5 star leaded.

One of my ambitions around then was to put ten quids' worth of petrol in a car so I could feel like a big shot.

Twit.

Edited by DickyC on Tuesday 14th July 09:16

[Jalopnik]

john2443 said:

My dad and his cousin, probably in or near Glasgow, late 1930s.

No idea what the car is though!

Looks like a Ford Model C or CX (the Deluxe version) to me. Pretty rare beast now!