How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
Discussion
cat220 said:
john2443 said:
My grandad in his dad's Wilys Overland, in Paisley, pre 1925, but beyond that I can't be sure.
Brilliant, can you tell me whereabouts in Paisley that is?
It isn't at one of the addresses I've visited.Great Grandad was involved in the Barr Street Mission (church), it could be outside there - maybe the building in the background could be a church building? As far as I know, Barr Street was demolished a long time ago and has disappeared completely.
If you work out where it was I'd be interested to know.
Cheers
been scanning a load of old slides...
my grandads Jensen 541R in about 1970, just after my dad had repainted it. note the Austin A40 headlamp surrounds - the only 541r ive ever seen to have them fitted. this was a brute of a car, my grandad drove it as it should be driven - i lusted after this car when i was little, and still do, one day it will be back on the road (been in storage for years!)
my grandads DS in the late 1960's on holiday in the check republic (i think)
what could possibly go wrong when lifting it onto a boat?
thats right.....the car lifter ripped both rear wings off........
the rest of the european tour was done with the wings strapped onto the roof rack.....
here is it getting some attention at home
my grandad loved this car, eventually it was so rotten it had to be broken up - he replaced it with the Jensen. i still own the roof rack and use it now!
this is his Riley RMA, he loved rileys and owned many prewar ones, this one was run late 1950's / early 1960's it was eventually replaced by the DS
after the DS died, and before the Jensen he was 'in between' cars, so he had to borrow my dads MG to go on holiday with my granmother
this car was infamous, as once my dad jammed the brakes on at a set of lights and the passenger seat broke and my grandmother slid under the dash and broke her nose - i think my dad had to sell it very shortly after!
heres a picture of my dads motorbike, its a triumph cub (i think)
more soon
my grandads Jensen 541R in about 1970, just after my dad had repainted it. note the Austin A40 headlamp surrounds - the only 541r ive ever seen to have them fitted. this was a brute of a car, my grandad drove it as it should be driven - i lusted after this car when i was little, and still do, one day it will be back on the road (been in storage for years!)
my grandads DS in the late 1960's on holiday in the check republic (i think)
what could possibly go wrong when lifting it onto a boat?
thats right.....the car lifter ripped both rear wings off........
the rest of the european tour was done with the wings strapped onto the roof rack.....
here is it getting some attention at home
my grandad loved this car, eventually it was so rotten it had to be broken up - he replaced it with the Jensen. i still own the roof rack and use it now!
this is his Riley RMA, he loved rileys and owned many prewar ones, this one was run late 1950's / early 1960's it was eventually replaced by the DS
after the DS died, and before the Jensen he was 'in between' cars, so he had to borrow my dads MG to go on holiday with my granmother
this car was infamous, as once my dad jammed the brakes on at a set of lights and the passenger seat broke and my grandmother slid under the dash and broke her nose - i think my dad had to sell it very shortly after!
heres a picture of my dads motorbike, its a triumph cub (i think)
more soon
Edited by guru_1071 on Friday 20th January 13:41
vixen1700 said:
The 541 does look better with those headlamps I must admit. 
it does, doesnt it, it also lost the little pre-war style side lights that most of them seem to have had - we always suspected that this one had lost its bonnet then it was faiy new, so when it was repaired the A40 surrounds where grafted in.it also gained a set of wheels from an Alvis TD as the spokes in the std wheels kept breaking, My Grandad went to Norway on holiday in it and used it hard, it eventually shed a wheel at fairly high speed on a motorway, he had it repaired but never really trusted it again, only recently i discovered that one of the repairs the garage did was to stick weld the bit of the hub that holds the brake caliper on back to the hub!!!.
guru_1071 said:
my grandads Jensen 541R in about 1970, just after my dad had repainted it. note the Austin A40 headlamp surrounds - the only 541r ive ever seen to have them fitted.
I love the Jensen 541, love all Jensens but I'm not a fan of those chrome headlamp surrounds. IMO they draw too much attention away from the other design features of the car. few more
keeping the theme of going backwards
my grandads Riley Trinity, he bought this in 1956, and fully rebuilt it, this is it on holiday in 1957 in scotland.
we still own this car today, its a little shabby now, but still goes well (if a little slow).
it has an interesting history in that its owner during the war was a munitions factory inspector, he spent the whole war driving the riley from site to site, springing surprise inspections on the factorys, as he was a retired major he would stay (for free) on army camps and get the army to service and fuel the Riley. its done circa 350,000 miles and at the end of the war he had saved up so much money by been frugal that he was able to buy a armstrong siddley. i bet that hasnt survived though!
here it is recently, my dad uses it loads
ive never driven it as i cant get my legs behind the steering wheel!
before he owned the Trinity my grandad owned (amongst others) this one
strangely i bought a box of motorsports the other month and found this advert in the back....
how weird is that?. he sold this one to fund the purchase of the Trinity.
another car he owned was this 1934 Riley nine, he paid £6 for it in the early 1960's for spares, it was pretty shabby then and he used it and abused it, teaching my dad and my aunt to drive in it, it still had traces of the war paint on it when he bought it. the original owner was killed in the war and his widow didnt drive, so left it, eventually it ended up dumped round the back of a garage, which is where he saw it.
(photo is small, dont know why)
amazingly this car still survives in one piece, its been in storage since about 1970, slumbering under a sheet - i doubt we will ever sell it as it would just get chopped for a special. one day it might get sorted for an mot.
ive got hundreds more photos.........
keeping the theme of going backwards
my grandads Riley Trinity, he bought this in 1956, and fully rebuilt it, this is it on holiday in 1957 in scotland.
we still own this car today, its a little shabby now, but still goes well (if a little slow).
it has an interesting history in that its owner during the war was a munitions factory inspector, he spent the whole war driving the riley from site to site, springing surprise inspections on the factorys, as he was a retired major he would stay (for free) on army camps and get the army to service and fuel the Riley. its done circa 350,000 miles and at the end of the war he had saved up so much money by been frugal that he was able to buy a armstrong siddley. i bet that hasnt survived though!
here it is recently, my dad uses it loads
ive never driven it as i cant get my legs behind the steering wheel!
before he owned the Trinity my grandad owned (amongst others) this one
strangely i bought a box of motorsports the other month and found this advert in the back....
how weird is that?. he sold this one to fund the purchase of the Trinity.
another car he owned was this 1934 Riley nine, he paid £6 for it in the early 1960's for spares, it was pretty shabby then and he used it and abused it, teaching my dad and my aunt to drive in it, it still had traces of the war paint on it when he bought it. the original owner was killed in the war and his widow didnt drive, so left it, eventually it ended up dumped round the back of a garage, which is where he saw it.
(photo is small, dont know why)
amazingly this car still survives in one piece, its been in storage since about 1970, slumbering under a sheet - i doubt we will ever sell it as it would just get chopped for a special. one day it might get sorted for an mot.
ive got hundreds more photos.........
RichB said:
I love the Jensen 541, love all Jensens but I'm not a fan of those chrome headlamp surrounds. IMO they draw too much attention away from the other design features of the car.
richive always thought it looked a little 'cv8'ish.
in the flesh it does look better than the standard ones - promise!!
we would never change it now, they are part of the car
guru_1071 said:
few more
keeping the theme of going backwards
my grandads Riley Trinity, he bought this in 1956, and fully rebuilt it, this is it on holiday in 1957 in scotland.
we still own this car today, its a little shabby now, but still goes well (if a little slow).
it has an interesting history in that its owner during the war was a munitions factory inspector, he spent the whole war driving the riley from site to site, springing surprise inspections on the factorys, as he was a retired major he would stay (for free) on army camps and get the army to service and fuel the Riley. its done circa 350,000 miles and at the end of the war he had saved up so much money by been frugal that he was able to buy a armstrong siddley. i bet that hasnt survived though!
here it is recently, my dad uses it loads
ive never driven it as i cant get my legs behind the steering wheel!
before he owned the Trinity my grandad owned (amongst others) this one
strangely i bought a box of motorsports the other month and found this advert in the back....
how weird is that?. he sold this one to fund the purchase of the Trinity.
another car he owned was this 1934 Riley nine, he paid £6 for it in the early 1960's for spares, it was pretty shabby then and he used it and abused it, teaching my dad and my aunt to drive in it, it still had traces of the war paint on it when he bought it. the original owner was killed in the war and his widow didnt drive, so left it, eventually it ended up dumped round the back of a garage, which is where he saw it.
(photo is small, dont know why)
amazingly this car still survives in one piece, its been in storage since about 1970, slumbering under a sheet - i doubt we will ever sell it as it would just get chopped for a special. one day it might get sorted for an mot.
ive got hundreds more photos.........
Does anyone in the VSCC know about this lot?keeping the theme of going backwards
my grandads Riley Trinity, he bought this in 1956, and fully rebuilt it, this is it on holiday in 1957 in scotland.
we still own this car today, its a little shabby now, but still goes well (if a little slow).
it has an interesting history in that its owner during the war was a munitions factory inspector, he spent the whole war driving the riley from site to site, springing surprise inspections on the factorys, as he was a retired major he would stay (for free) on army camps and get the army to service and fuel the Riley. its done circa 350,000 miles and at the end of the war he had saved up so much money by been frugal that he was able to buy a armstrong siddley. i bet that hasnt survived though!
here it is recently, my dad uses it loads
ive never driven it as i cant get my legs behind the steering wheel!
before he owned the Trinity my grandad owned (amongst others) this one
strangely i bought a box of motorsports the other month and found this advert in the back....
how weird is that?. he sold this one to fund the purchase of the Trinity.
another car he owned was this 1934 Riley nine, he paid £6 for it in the early 1960's for spares, it was pretty shabby then and he used it and abused it, teaching my dad and my aunt to drive in it, it still had traces of the war paint on it when he bought it. the original owner was killed in the war and his widow didnt drive, so left it, eventually it ended up dumped round the back of a garage, which is where he saw it.
(photo is small, dont know why)
amazingly this car still survives in one piece, its been in storage since about 1970, slumbering under a sheet - i doubt we will ever sell it as it would just get chopped for a special. one day it might get sorted for an mot.
ive got hundreds more photos.........
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