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A solution to urban blight - a car to match your house?


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Out house is of an undetermined age, we think the oldest part is 1800s, but it’s a hotch potch of additions and extensions.  However, the deeds said it was 70 years old when we bought it last year (I don’t think anyone really knows) so in 1949 I’ll take a Jowett Javelin please. 
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1935 Austin 7 for me.

Years ago I went to view an ex council house which was probably a similar age.

Of course I had my priorities. It was a shit house on a crappy estate which some old lady had probably died in and it hadn't seen a paintbrush since the coronation but it had a drive and a garage, so it was on the list.

Standing outside I thought, that driveway looks short. A quick tape measure showed it to be 12ft!The gates opened inwards and the garage doors opened outwards, they almost met in the middle.

An Austin 7 is about all that would fit.

 

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On 09/10/2020 at 16:09, loserone said:

Tricky for me, here's our house in 1870, with the ivy on.

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Here it is again about 1910, in the foreground on the left.

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Spot the difference?

Anyway, here it is from the front around the same time.

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Hardly suits having a car outside at all, does it?

Perhaps one of these

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Definitely not these

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What's this outside my house? Is this a question for @barrett?

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All are too old for powered transport so that is no good.

As a sort of an aside architecture and transport seldom meshes in time. I love New Modern architecture but although there are those that claim Cords and Voisins are art deco it was only when the Citroen DS turned up that we had a car that could hold its own parked somewhere in Frinton on Sea. 

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14 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Whoever designed the Bond Minicar wasn't fussy about aesthetics or even proportions....

It was Lawrance 'Lawrie' Bonds fault. Before 'designing' cars he was an aeronautical designer at Blackburns, another company not noted for it's aesthetically pleasing products (except the Buccaneer but that was years after our Lawrie left). I'll leave you with this, Lawrie in his Type B 'Doodlebug', words fail me.

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1964 boring flat, but after nine years here I've finally got the right car.

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Garage en-bloc, to use estate agent speak.  Tucked up against that wall on the right there was enough room to do brake work recently.  Being inside and dry made a nice change, but it also meant I could leave the car up on stands and come back to it later, as inevitably things didnt go to plan.

Biggest car I've had in there was the S2 Daimler Sovereign.  With about 5mm spare each end.

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17 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That looks like a child's pedal car

A pedal car with a 499cc Rudge Whitworth engine! It did better than it ought to in it's class (National 500cc Formula), driven by Lawrie, he actually won in the Jersey heat. He pranged the Doodlebug, and replaced it with the 'Type C', another eyesore, this one had a 497cc JAP speedway engine in it.

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With a 30s built council house in a not so affluent area of a city and originally with a front garden rather than a driveway I'm not convinced there'd be a car here.

My folks with a small semi from I think 1993 probably were doing it right at the time with either an early 90s Sunny or a P10 Primera, and either a brand new Samara or the Polonez that replaced it when it got written off.

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On 08/10/2020 at 07:04, Spottedlaurel said:

Hmmm. The original bit of ours dates from the early 1800s so it looks like I need a horse and cart.

Clutching at straws, the combined age of the various cars I have takes me back to that age, there or thereabouts.

The rubbish 1970s flat roof extension at the back is probably about the same age as the Datsun 1200.

I didn't realise I had commented here last time, I was going to say the same thing about the little Datsun and flat roof extension. But all that's history now, as we sold that house in 2021 and I had to move the 1200 on.

New place is from about 2001 and of indeterminate, vaguely-country-but-quite-plain style - don't have anything quite that age but the Avensis SR and Yaris would both have been current when it was built.

1990s Toyota/Lexus family

The Accord Type V we had a few years ago would have been perfect for it.

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