Family snaps with your old cars in the background.

[eddyramrod]

If you want to print off that pic and take it in, then please do.  As long as I get the credit I'm happy.

[Asimo]

It's me.

[anonymous user]

Added for the background cars, taken probably 1988 or 89.

[tommotech]

Summer of 1971, the Cortina is my Dads Mk2 Lotus that he was sad to sell. He replaced it with a Rover 2000TC P6.

[tommotech]

From the same holiday as above, looks like Cornwall but I'm sure someone will recognise the place.

[RayMK]

2 hours ago, tommotech said:

From the same holiday as above, looks like Cornwall but I'm sure someone will recognise the place.

It looks to me to be at Port William/Trebarwith beach, looking out towards Gull Rock. 

[The Vicar]

Very well spotted RayMK!

[RayMK]

Just now, The Vicar said:

Very well spotted RayMK!

Thanks. It's an indication of how much time I've got on my hands ?.

 

[hairnet]

Taken in mayo

That's great great granddad me and sis

He was 94 then 80 or 81 I think - the cortina did good n reg i think it was hnf something so local to us car - coupla years after that kermit was hand painted by me and dad black - the hearse then did good for a while then sold for a mk2 granada

[hairnet]

On 3/26/2020 at 7:35 PM, strangeangel said:

Dad's Cresta in Cannes!

 

 

ZOMG!!!

respec

[hairnet]

On 3/27/2020 at 1:49 AM, Spiny Norman said:

When I started my first job after leaving school my boss reckoned London was about 4 hours away (from Glasgow) travelling through the night in his Fiat Supermirafiori TC,

Pre speed camera days, obviously.

the old gits used to drive to ireland every year for 20 years and there was no dual carriageway to holyhead back then  - 5-6 hours it used to take they said = 120 miles

ive done the same in less than an hour and twenty

also someone said to me once - london from here?? hours

i did here to ace cafe - hour 50 185 miles

something only did once - the holyhead gets done regular (spesh if late)

[hairnet]

On 4/3/2020 at 8:39 PM, eddyramrod said:

 

 

RAF 563 was my dad's Austin Devon van-conversion, mid-50s.  That's him in the middle of the pic but again, the rest are strangers.

 

 

This is my dad again, posing with a van I knew nothing about; it's likely this was one of his jobs when he returned to Dublin after the war.

 

Well there you are: 70 years covered in a few photos.

 

 

coolest pics evah

freynes in clondalkin (not 36 anymore) are still going

[hairnet]

On 4/4/2020 at 6:37 PM, Joey spud said:

 

 

my Manta 1900 (with 3 litre essex),]#

how did that happen

[brownnova]

Me as a bairn with the family’s Reliant Super Robin in the background... 

[Sudsprint]

Some of my fathers cars through the years. In the Morris Oxford photo I am asking him why he didn't buy that DB4 I had gurgled about at bedtime

 

 

[The Vicar]

I might be showing my age/ignorance here, but what's that thing above the windscreen on the Triumph?

[RayMK]

13 minutes ago, The Vicar said:

I might be showing my age/ignorance here, but what's that thing above the windscreen on the Triumph?

It's a rear view periscope to look through the caravan's front and rear windows to see the queue behind. Caravans used to be designed to have 'through visibility.'

 

[Volksy]

In no particular order:

Mother V, on their Honeymoon in Scotland. 

 

My Old CF in New Zealand.

 

Phoenix Festival, many years ago

 

Saab 9000 in welsh wales

 

VW Fastback in Newquay

 

Splitty at York Dragway

 

Clio Commercial in Meribel

 

Pink 1303s in Leeds

 

Fulvia in Dufftown

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Ohhhhhhhh, that Fulvia..... 

[Volksy]

Here's another one on Jura

[Dick Cheeseburger]

8 minutes ago, Volksy said:

Here's another one on Jura

Is/was it yours? Stunning. 

[Richard_FM]

42 minutes ago, RayMK said:

It's a rear view periscope to look through the caravan's front and rear windows to see the queue behind. Caravans used to be designed to have 'through visibility.'

 

I wondered how well it would work I remember a lot of caravan owners used to have a set of big mirrors that could be fitted when towing.

[Volksy]

I was bought through this forum by myself and Hillman Imp... Needed a huge amount of welding. 

[RayMK]

@Richard_FM

Dad managed to see through our Astral 12ft caravan quite adequately using the standard rear view mirror on his 1967 Taunus estate. I also managed perfectly well to see through my ancient Robin 14ft caravan when towing with my BMW 520 (E28), Hyundai Stellar or Sonata. A later Adria caravan had higher window lips and I could only see through it when an angry HGV driver scowled from inches behind. For that 'van, I used the extended door mirrors. The periscope things were very popular in the 1960s but then many caravans started to get higher set windows, making even periscope vision fairly useless.

Edited April 7, 2020 by RayMK
The quote function dropped off.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, Volksy said:

I was bought through this forum by myself and Hillman Imp... Needed a huge amount of welding. 

Huge amount of welding? Fulvia? Standard!

Is there a thread on it? 

[eddyramrod]

I found another one.  This must be after the move in August 59, because I recognise what can be seen of the front garden.  The van will be my dad's work van, he told stories of working for Tyresoles.

 

[Split_Pin]

First 2 are my eldest cousin David standing beside my Dad's Cortina in around 1982 and him waving from my Dad's T reg Chevette in about 1978. The latter was crashed into by a Maxi when only 2 weeks old and when my mum was expecting me. It was fixed but replaced shortly after by an early Cortina MK5 estate HMS 22V. That was my dad's first company car.

Going further back and this is my mum in about 1972 in her father-in-laws Singer Chamois.

This is me in my Dad's company Volvo 240GL F93SSF in about 1990.

Here is a gangly looking 19 year old me in 1999 getting a shotty of my Uncle Sam's Chevrolet truck on the back roads around his home in Canada.

And finally to 2018, here is me Woolarding my new 75 just bought from RML2345. It still survives in a field with Tam from here.

[anonymous user]

Not a family car, but the ice cream van that was driven by my cousin  as a summer job when he was a student. The van was old and basic  the freezer was plugged in overnight and gradually thawed out over the day. The aim was to sell all the stock before it melted and had to be thrown away. That summer we all got used to free melting ice cream at the end of the day, Nick the pony was quite keen.

 

[iainrcz]

My dad's old Landcruiser with my mum doing the posing, in better days

[Volksy]

Mama V kinda liked her cars... 

Bryan, we shall replace this terrible Sunbeam, (to be fair within their courtship Lrd Rootes; Chamois, Superminx, Alpine had made my old man late on most occasions)

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