Monday 6 August 2018

"Classic" Car Rally

Before cricket yesterday, I took myself off down the park to have a look at the East Midlands Classic Car Rally. Now when I was a kid, "Classic Cars" were what I envisaged to be those boxy Bugsy Malone type cars with wind up handles and running boards and an animal on the bonnet.

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.

Si

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4 comments:

  1. Love classic cars.
    Remember 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!!

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  2. 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!

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  3. Funny 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!

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  4. 800,000 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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