One owner from new?

[bigstraight6]

I spotted this superb Standard pickup in Callington today, it's elderly retainer Farmer owner looked even more tatty than his vehicle sporting a moth eaten tweed jacket, trousers held up with bailer twine and crumbling brogues. With the Standard being locally registered and it obviously still being a working vehicle I mused whether the old boy had owned it from new.....

[Ross_K]

Awesome spot. The only thing missing is a pair of dirty sheepdogs in the back...

[Albert Ross]

Awesome spot. The only thing missing is a pair of dirty slaves in the back...

[vulgalour]

You can't fake that patina.

Farmer-look ftw!

 

et cetera.... Fantastic little thing and looks, for all the dirt and dings, in pretty fine fettle.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Awesome spot. The only thing missing is a pair of dirty slaves in the back...

 

Totally the wrong period, the old triangular trade was long gone by that time this was built

[Morgan84]

Thats almost 'Columbo spec'

[stuboy]

dont think hes a regular user of wash n wax

[vulgalour]

Thats almost 'Columbo spec'

 

That just made my evening!

[M'coli]

It makes you think the only reason it's on radial tyres is because the last set of remould crossplies wore out!

[Morgan84]

It makes you think the only reason it's on radial tyres is because the last set of remould crossplies wore out!

 

It's not that at all;they just so happened to be dumped in one of his field gateways,and were a suitable size !!

[Angrydicky]

Wow!

[Negative Creep]

We do seem to get a lot of these in this part of the country. Not GR8 for getting to meets, GR8 for tat collection

[pocket.calculator]

That is quite something

[Skizzer]

That's just brilliant, I love it.

 

The really astonishing thing is that those hub caps have survived, more or less undented...

[eggy]

That is amazing. I can only dream to own such a wonderful machine .

[trigger]

According to the ebay selling page it's a 1956 model and it's number of previous owners is 0!

[Morgan84]

Sometimes,previous owners have been 'lost' when the log books kept getting changed for newer styles,and if a vehicle had layed dormant for a few years,and the rocords lost,they were put as 0 - I 'think' about 1977 is the time when many older vehicles records were 'filed away' - though I might be incorrect

[Angrydicky]

That is correct Morgan, the logbook for my Austin A35 has me listed as the 2nd owner, and the owner before me as buying it new (25/6/1958). However I know she purchased it in 1977, and there were at least two owners before her!

 

The car was off the road from 1979 to 2010.

[trigger]

My Cortina is the same, I'm listed as the 4th owner but the guy who owned it from new for it's first year isn't logged on the dvla records, i only know about him as i sent a V888 form off.

[vulgalour]

According to the ebay selling page it's a 1956 model and it's number of previous owners is 0!

 

If the guy driving it now is the first owner then that would be correct, regardless of the Doovla's unique method of filing, as nobody would have owned it before him.

 

Edited to add: I'm not great with numbers, on the assumption he acquired the car new at age 14 (possible but unlikely) he'd now be 70. Not impossible, but certainly implausible.

[skoda_fan]

Awesome spot. Love it! I just love old commercials

[eddyramrod]

+1! They lead a hard life then get scrapped... survivors like this are to be treasured. One look at this Standard and it's 1975 all over again...