One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Ian H]

Must admit, i never gor the VW thing. I remember 2 colleagues i the late 70s early 80s that had them, one was a very late model , rusted to buggery, the other an earlier one that was always breaking down. Perhaps had i driven one i might have thought different. TBF theyre getting rare now, i cant remember the last time i saw one.

I drove a friend's elderly Beetle back in the v early 70s. 6 volt electrics and cross-ply tyres made dark rainy evenings a challenge. He used it mainly for motorway bashes to London and back. Every so often it would throw a valve and we'd spend an hour or so swapping the engine for the reconditioned spare he kept under the sink in our student accommodation.

I've owned a bay-window type 2 and a fastback type 4 (last of the air-cools).

 

[Cerdic]

I drove a friend's elderly Beetle back in the v early 70s. 6 volt electrics and cross-ply tyres made dark rainy evenings a challenge. He used it mainly for motorway bashes to London and back. Every so often it would throw a valve and we'd spend an hour or so swapping the engine for the reconditioned spare he kept under the sink in our student accommodation.

I've owned a bay-window type 2 and a fastback type 4 (last of the air-cools).

I think this might be the key to the whole ‘Beetle thing’. Ease of maintenance.

In an age when all cars broke down, a lot, the Beetle was so mechanically simple it was easy to fix with minimal tools. Hence the reputation for reliability!

 

[Ian H]

Moggie alert.

 

[tyred]

A classic

camper with character and off-road credentials

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I keep forgetting about the few I pass on my way to work, as I see them so regularly
In a 300 yard stretch, at various houses there's;
House 1.
Range Rover ('F' plate, I think?), a 2-door, with TD badge on the tailgate (which by age signifies a VM diesel)
VW 'Bay' bus/camper
Lotus Eclat (I think??) 'B plated'??

House 2.
All In VGC!
2 x Suzuki SJ, possibly 413s, not 410?
VW Polo estate (mk2)

House 3.
SAAB 99 ('G plated') a daily driver!!

House 4.
All SORN/semi-derelict
Porch 924
Alfa-Romeo (not sure which one)
A 3rd car, which is hidden by the 924

There's another one on this same road now!
It may have always been there, but l saw the nose a couple of days ago, it might always be garaged (?), it looked like it might be a FIAT 124 ragtop
That's just a guess on a glimpse as l drove past
(then again, it might be a TR5/TR6?)


Oh! plus a 1980s PORCH 911 at a house near the junction too
That's been there 10 years+
(Sunday car?!)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A classic

View attachment 649943 camper with character and off-road credentials

Wonderful!!!!

 

[Ian H]

Type 2 fun...

 

[Ian H]

Old and new luxury (relatively speaking).

But look at the size difference

 

[Ian H]

A little MG waiting patiently in traffic.

 

[mistyoptic]

Old and new luxury (relatively speaking).
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But look at the size difference
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Yeah, and the Rover seemed like a big car BITD

edit: but then so did chocolate bars, wagon wheels yada yada yada…

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 19th

Daughter had told me about this pair, in York, that she passes when she uses the ‘Park & Ride’
She knew that it was a 2CV, as a friends mum has one
The Ami, threw her though

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 23rd

Along the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal access road

A ‘49?

EDIT; a '47, as it's the same as this one, but I guess it would depend on if the look was updated every year???

View: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3835231051561&set=a.3655812126200

(think; 55/56/57 Bel-Airs)

 

[Badger_Boom]

Sunday 19th

Daughter had told me about this pair, in York, that she passes when she uses the ‘Park & Ride’
She knew that it was a 2CV, as a friends mum has one
The Ami, threw her though


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I think they have other ones too.

 

[figbat]

Out for a bimble on my (motor)bike today and I stumbled across this lot at a pub steam and classic vehicle fete:

 

[Cerdic]

I was at the Bromley Pageant a couple of weeks ago. Came across this bad boy…