My, how life has changed.......

Sorry, just a phase I was goin' thru. Not making them now.

 

Aww @Jenny namaste never mind. Id have loved to have bought one. would love to be able to knit

 

Cars I have loved.


This is exactly the same as my first car I bought when I was seventeen in the late fifties.



A 1937 Austin Seven Ruby convertible. It was in excellent condition having had an engine re-build and new seat covers and hood. It cost me £35. The same amount as my friend's father paid for some naff looking tartan plastic seat covers for his new Morris Oxford.

It didn't have side windows, it had side screens that fitted into slots in the tops of the doors and the side of the body in the back. You folded them back to "open" them.
The windscreen could be swung upwards as it was hinged at the top. You could use it as a picnic table as I and my girlfriend at the time, often did on runs out from South London to the South Coast. You sat on the bonnet and dangled your legs through. I swopped the semophore turn indicators for those new-fangled flashing ones. I kept it for a year, it cost me a new set of tyres and 5p for a bearing for the dynamo. The single windscreen wiper worked off the engine induction, a rubber pipe went from the inlet manifold to the mechanism at the top of the windscreen. If it was raining and you were going uphill, it would stop working. You had to take your foot off the throttle momentarily, to let it wipe a few times so you could see where you were going.


This is a 1958 Vauxhall Victor. I bought one in the mid sixties. Ours was two-tone, grey above the "flash" on the side and white below. Bench seats and three-speed column change. Our two young boys loved it.




Not as much as all three kids by then the Ford Cortina Mk3 GXL, exactly like the one in "Life on Mars" I bought in 1974. Metalic bronze and black vinyl roof.

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Followed by an Alfa Romeo Guilietta 2lt. In the early eighties.



It'd see off those biscuit tin bodied Ford XR 3s, despite being 300lb heavier.



After that my choices got boring.

 

@Jenny namaste , it's a shame you don't make them anymore, they are amazing! Quite time consuming too I should imagine though

What a good idea to re name the thread

 

I'm retired now.
Cash poor, but time rich