One For Classic Car Fans.....

[MarkF]

That Lancia is

Wow, Lancia made some beautiful cars in the 60's.

 

[Biff600]

Spotted in Madeira last week

 

[Jenkins]

I've been passed by a few classics while on the commute over the past week - a very nice Austin 3 litre, a higly customised & flame painted fifties Chevy stepside pick-up, a scruffy late 60s/early 70s Chevy El Camino and an even scruffier Ford Galaxie 500. I've not seen any of these around town before or since. so whether they were being given a test run in advance of the next Bank Holliday run & show on the seafront I don't know.

There was also a convoy of BL classics heading north on the A12 this morning, in the middle of which was a bright red Austin Maestro!

 

[booze and cake]

@Jenkins I must have missed the news story reporting long tail backs on the A12 due to huge numbers of cars breaking down

 

[Deleted member 26715]

@booze and cake you beat me too it I was going to suggest followed by a fleet of AA vans

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I must be sad, I would have the Citroen over the Lancia

 

[roadrash]

nowt sad about it, if we all liked the same things , it would be a boring world, given the choice I have an original mini cooper S

 

[Illaveago]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-X19...297678?hash=item3b300e0d0e:g:45gAAOSwOmBcv2OV

IIRC they were styled by Bertone.
Does the price reflect it's rarity ?

 

[Illaveago]

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MGA's are very pretty cars .

 

[Deleted member 26715]

IIRC they were styled by Bertone.
Does the price reflect it's rarity ?

They were, as to rarity, 4.3K registered, only 262 with VED, so 6% still on the road (more than I would have expected), with another 1K supposedly SORN, which is 25% still around, not sure if that's good or not. https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/family/fiat_x1_9

Edit:- Just looking at another car & it was more obvious, but ging back to the Fiat it's there, how many cars only have VED in the better months of the year, each year there is a little hump.

 

[screenman]

IIRC they were styled by Bertone.
Does the price reflect it's rarity ?

I think the value is in the mileage. You can buy a banger one for not a lot of money.

 

[biggs682]

Spotted in Madeira last week View attachment 464355

A friend of mine has just imported one of the 124 Spiders from California

 

[Illaveago]

I think the value is in the mileage. You can buy a banger one for not a lot of money.

I miss read that as 162,000.

 

[nickyboy]

I can remember my parents taking me for a picnic on the river at Ilkley in an Anglia, pale blue just like in the pic. When my father opened the boot, no picnic, just a rusty hole!

There is a same shaped Aston nearby, it's been outside, but under a canopy, for at least a decade, pale gold and utterly gorgeous.

My parents had a maroon Ford Anglia when I was very young. Dad finally decided it was beyond repair. We lived close to a stock car track (Carnforth/Warton for those who know such things)...close enough to hear the cars with the wind in the right direction

There was a chap who lived on our road who raced there so Dad gave/sold the Anglia to him to race and we went down to watch

Off went the race, flying around the slag tips, bashing into each other....half a lap in he took a shunt and the entire floor fell out of the Anglia and that was that

 

[Deleted member 26715]

My parents had a maroon Ford Anglia when I was very young.

Me too, although ours was somewhat different, only a few years old when my father bought it, it had been owned by an elderly couple who would sit in the back seats & be driven around by the gardener/handyman/chauffeur/etc. after each journey he had to wash the car including the engine. My father claimed that you could have eaten your dinner off the engine when he bought it.