Nowadays, thanks to the passing of time, a Classic car can now be a design horror like a 1980s Austin Maestro Van den Plas in excrement brown. You'd have maybe taken such a car if it was a prize on 3-2-1 but you wouldn't want to buy one.
However, there were some beautiful MGs, E types and Triumph Spitfires. My stepfather had one of the latter when I first knew him.
He drove us to Scotland with me on the non-existent back seat with my two gerbils.
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Love classic cars.
ReplyDeleteRemember many of them from my youth.
I had a boyfriend with a bubble car.
It wasn't a pleasant ride but fun :) Not sure it would be now. Ha!!
I'm not a car person, really - though I do drive of course! Sometimes you'll find me in a corner swearing that the internal combustion engine is the devil's own invention! All the same, nice photos!
ReplyDeleteFunny how those cars that were common models just disappeared without our noticing - I saw a beautifully restored Hillman Imp the other day and was immediately transported back a few decades!
ReplyDelete800,000 Austin Allegros made, about 800 still running. They didn't last in our climate. Unlike France, where there's still gazillions of 40 year old Renaults and Peugeots gadding about.
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