How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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HQB said:
The Bedford van holds fond memories for me. Friend of my father used to have a small business that made batteries; he had a couple of these to make deliveries. As 8-year olds we used to love going on deliveries as he used to let us ride up front with the doors open. To think, how did we ever survive such dangerous shenanigans? What were our parents thinking to allow it? Someone call social services now!
AH the shared memories of those wild times! I survived thousands of miles riding with my father in his South Western Electricity Board 1952 Ford 10 van (OHU 144) and 1953 Ford 8 van PHT 13 neither of which had passenger seats actually bolted to the floor..just loose. Dad was already with his arm out though to stop me hitting the dash' as I slid across the floor! Never hit a thing!
The other abiding memory of it was on a hot day we'd have both doors and every vent open and quite often the trans tunnel cover as well...
GNman said:
We were having a family picnic at Bradgate Park having motored up in Dads scruffy old Phantom II. Mum took this snap of me nestling between the dumb irons with her sun specs on! 1964... 
SNAP!here is my sister, in about 1980, stood in front of my dads scruffy old phantom II
guru_1071 said:
GNman said:
We were having a family picnic at Bradgate Park having motored up in Dads scruffy old Phantom II. Mum took this snap of me nestling between the dumb irons with her sun specs on! 1964...
SNAP!here is my sister, in about 1980, stood in front of my dads scruffy old phantom II
I learned to love the sound of a V8 engine from my father’s Jensen.
Sadly when I checked with the owners club they had no knowledge of this car. The factory had been bombed during the war, resulting in the loss of the production records. As a result the owners club didn’t know of this one’s existence.
Unfortunately the car doesn’t seem to have survived. If only Dad had kept it. It seems only 5 survive worldwide and £60k seems to be the starting price when they do come to market.
The Jensen Owners Club has no knowledge of this car after my father part exchanged it. If you can fill in any more details then they would love to hear from you. We’re praying that someone still has it in a barn, waiting to be found.
By a curious coincidence I included the photo with one of my father drifting an MG TA that I sent to the archivist at the MG car club. He recognised the other car in the photo as one he had bought from my father’s friend.
Small world.
Edit for typo
Sadly when I checked with the owners club they had no knowledge of this car. The factory had been bombed during the war, resulting in the loss of the production records. As a result the owners club didn’t know of this one’s existence.
Unfortunately the car doesn’t seem to have survived. If only Dad had kept it. It seems only 5 survive worldwide and £60k seems to be the starting price when they do come to market.
The Jensen Owners Club has no knowledge of this car after my father part exchanged it. If you can fill in any more details then they would love to hear from you. We’re praying that someone still has it in a barn, waiting to be found.
By a curious coincidence I included the photo with one of my father drifting an MG TA that I sent to the archivist at the MG car club. He recognised the other car in the photo as one he had bought from my father’s friend.
Small world.
Edit for typo
Edited by Uncle Fester on Friday 2nd March 18:08
Roy C said:
The car on the right in the pic is a Dellow.
[pickymode] It's Jensen, not Jenson (John Button's lad). [pickymodeoff]
I’ve fixed the typo for you, although you missed the fact that it was correctly known as the Jensen-Ford.[pickymode] It's Jensen, not Jenson (John Button's lad). [pickymodeoff]
It is indeed a Dellow. It belonged to a friend of my father. When I included a these photo’s amongst some of Dad’s MG TA we were mystified when the MG T series archivist came back correctly identifying the location.
These two photos were taken outside the friend’s house and the archivist had bought that very car from Dad’s friend. He sent me another photo of the same Dellow racing; sadly I don’t still have that picture.
My Mum remembered a random fact that upset the archivist. Dad’s friend used to work for Rolex watches. He always had a few for sale ‘privately’ and this financed his motorsport. These were usually stashed in the Dellow. After he sold the Dellow he thought a couple might still be stashed in the car. The archivist said he hadn’t found a Rolex stashed. Perhaps some subsequent lucky owner found them.
The Jensen had a 4 litre Ford V8 engine. It also had a two-speed back axle, doubling the number of ratios in the gearbox. The JOC thought that the two-speed axle hadn’t been fitted until the subsequent year. Either the JOC had it wrong, or someone had retro-fitted the two-speed axle.
For anyone familiar with the model, the JOC inform me that the boot are has been modified to have a bigger luggage space.
Here's Dad in his MG TA.
Found these while at my mum's house today
This is my Great Grandfather - worked as a chauffeur
This one is my Grandad - who I never met as he died exactly 1 year before I was born.
Below on left my Grandad again. He and a friend bought this Austin 7 and used it to tour all the roads we still love in Scotland. Took to John o Groats, Applecross, the works
Another of the same car
This is my Great Grandfather - worked as a chauffeur
This one is my Grandad - who I never met as he died exactly 1 year before I was born.
Below on left my Grandad again. He and a friend bought this Austin 7 and used it to tour all the roads we still love in Scotland. Took to John o Groats, Applecross, the works
Another of the same car
Spitfire2 said:
Below on left my Grandad again. He and a friend bought this Austin 7 and used it to tour all the roads we still love in Scotland. Took to John o Groats, Applecross, the works
What's always so noticeable is how smart chaps were in those days. Just two chaps out for a drive yet in suits, ties, pocket hankies, hats etc. These days the same picture would show old jeans and t-shirts... bit of a shame I always think.
Johnspex said:
Hoygo said:
Sorry guys anyone can identify what car is this? Photo is from late 30's.
Looking more like 60's+ picture.
RichB said:
What's always so noticeable is how smart chaps were in those days. Just two chaps out for a drive yet in suits, ties, pocket hankies, hats etc. These days the same picture would show old jeans and t-shirts... bit of a shame I always think.
Speak for yourself, I wear newish jeans and a shirt I have driven my car (spitfire) in a suit, and as far as I'm concerned I looked dapper and awesome. Probably looked like a tit, but it felt cool :P
Aar0sc said:
Speak for yourself, I wear newish jeans and a shirt
I have driven my car (spitfire) in a suit, and as far as I'm concerned I looked dapper and awesome. Probably looked like a tit, but it felt cool :P
When I ran a Discovery and a Niva, jeans didn't look out of place in either. Wearing a suit in the Discovery didn't stand out either, however wearing a suit in the Niva did seem to confuse people.I have driven my car (spitfire) in a suit, and as far as I'm concerned I looked dapper and awesome. Probably looked like a tit, but it felt cool :P
Aar0sc said:
Speak for yourself, I wear newish jeans and a shirt
I have driven my car (spitfire) in a suit, and as far as I'm concerned I looked dapper and awesome. Probably looked like a tit, but it felt cool :P
I have taken my Spitfire to work in a Suit a few times too. I have driven my car (spitfire) in a suit, and as far as I'm concerned I looked dapper and awesome. Probably looked like a tit, but it felt cool :P
PS Hi Aaron - Doug from TSSC here
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