1958 Car Buyer's Guide

[trigger]

I don't know if this it of interest on here, I've just scanned this from a 1958 Car Mechanics supplement i had.

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (1) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (2) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (3) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (4) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (5) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (6) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (7) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 ( by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Car Mechanics Used Car Buyers Guide 1958 (9) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Guest]

Mine's the '34 Ford V8 for a 'fair price' of £20 please. 'I once knew Clyde when he was honest, and upright, and clean'.

[warren t claim]

The garage advertising on the back page is still trading as Ballards of Finchley, a SAAB specialist.

[wuvvum]

Fugg me that is brilliant. Seems to be a mahoosive price gap between pre-war and post-war stuff, even for what are ostensibly the same cars. Must have been a psychological cut-off in the 1958 mind?

[dollywobbler]

Oh dear. On the Citroen Traction Avant. "Don't worry about spares as Citroen has a factory in Slough." Yeah, it lasted all of another seven years after this feature...

 

Mind you, maybe no-one expected their second-hand Traction to last that long?

[scaryoldcortina]

Fake.

 

Look at that "1947 Morgan", that's a 2011 model!

 

Lol! No, they faired the headlights into the wings, and revised the grille in about 1962. Apart from that though....

[flat4alfa]

^^

 

 

Once again, excellent scannage, Trigger!

[tonedepear]

Slit here

 

[scooters]

I am beginning to get the urge to own an Austin 7...

 

When I get sorted with a decent workspace I'll start to save up for a rolling project if I can find one.

 

This is a brilliant scan trig, love that Jowlett Jupiter - I was left one in my Grandfather's will in 1975 - but I was 4 and the evil auld which (my granny) gave it and a Riley RM (also left to me) to a Motor Museum in Dorset - I found out last month that the museum was sold in the 1980's and both cars were scrapped....

[trigger]

Thanks guys, I also have two more, one from 1959 and one from 1960 but both by Practical Motorist, I started scanning them last night but then realised that a few pages was missing, I'll finish then in the next few days and post them on here.

[Negative Creep]

Mine's the '34 Ford V8 for a 'fair price' of £20 please. 'I once knew Clyde when he was honest, and upright, and clean'.

 

£354.60 on today's money, or the equivalent of £5998.80 when it was new. Pretty good value...........

[yes oui si]

I'll have the satanic Sunbeam Talbot 90 please...

 

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