Probably related to the season, but it's been nice seeing so many
classics on the road over the last few weeks, including:
Daimler 2.5 V8
Rover P4 (not sure about the sand over orangey-mud colour scheme)
Herald
E-type
TR6
TR3
Rover P4 "Cyclops"
Volvo Amazon (going like hell on A55 past Conwy!)
Various Minors and Beetles
Riley RM

What's been brightening up your scenery this summer?

Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
Probably related to the season, but it's been nice seeing so many
classics on the road over the last few weeks, including:
Daimler 2.5 V8
Rover P4 (not sure about the sand over orangey-mud colour scheme)
Herald
E-type
TR6
TR3
Rover P4 "Cyclops"
Volvo Amazon (going like hell on A55 past Conwy!)
Various Minors and Beetles
Riley RM

What's been brightening up your scenery this summer?


At the weekend driving down the M4 I saw three
Anglia 105E vans and a collection of the old
Classic/Capri models. Several Mk.1 and Mk.2
Consul/Zephyrs too. Also what looked like a
Ford V8 pilot "woodie" estate-car towing a
caravan, and three Reliant Scimitars, two of
which were towing.

Finally, a 'sixties Bristol towing a trailered
Lotus-7-style kit-car, and a Standard Vanguard
pick-up-truck.

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:53:40 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke
wrote:

Probably related to the season, but it's been nice seeing so many
classics on the road over the last few weeks, including:
Daimler 2.5 V8
Rover P4 (not sure about the sand over orangey-mud colour scheme)
Herald
E-type
TR6
TR3
Rover P4 "Cyclops"
Volvo Amazon (going like hell on A55 past Conwy!)
Various Minors and Beetles
Riley RM

What's been brightening up your scenery this summer?

My TR7V8 :-)

Also Reliant Sabre Six. The other day on the way to work in Selborne
(Hampshire). First time I've ever seen one.


Best Regards
John McCabe

To reply by email replace 'nospam' with 'assen'

Oh, and my own Spitfire, of course. I'm driving to work in it every day
I can.

It'll be a great summer, I'm told. Temperatures over 30'C next week!

Damn, I'll have to get the electric fan fixed and remove those flipping
Waxstats.

Chris
1500 Spit.

PJML wrote:

It was heading West past Bracknell - maybe towing
said Seven-clone to some sort of event at Castle
Combe race circuit?

I've just had a nice weekend watching similar races at the Anglesey
Circuit. Most entertaining.

Incidentally, I was pleasantly surprised when someone asked if my
Vitesse was a two litre or 1600. I get so used to people thinking it's a
Herald. It turned out the chap was into Triumphs and was in the throws
of finishing restoration of his 26,000 mile (!) Stag.

Then this morning, while getting a couple of new tyres fitted, I was
gobsmacked when an elderly Frenchman asked exactly the same question!
It transpired that a relative of his used to be chief transmission
mechanic at Triumph and often appeared with prototype cars, one of which
this gentleman later bought. A most enjoyable chat ensued, covering the
Renault Dauphine (similar spec, but 20% lighter than the Herald) and the
3 cylinder, 2 stroke Saab. Apparently there was communication between
Saab and Triumph long before the Dolomite engine found its way into the 99.

The message
from Willy Eckerslyke contains these words:

Renault Dauphine (similar spec, but 20% lighter than the Herald)

Known to some of my generation at least as the 'roll-over Renault' due
to propensity for inversion. I thought it was rear engined.

--
Roger
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Roger Chapman wrote:

The message
from Willy Eckerslyke contains these words:


Renault Dauphine (similar spec, but 20% lighter than the Herald)


Known to some of my generation at least as the 'roll-over Renault' due
to propensity for inversion. I thought it was rear engined.

They were. Swing-axles! Oooer!

I think the reason why they were so light was
that they rusted at a truly-astounding rate,
which accounts for them becoming all-but extinct
within a few years.

[My mother had one in the early-1960s; my first
car-related memory was burning my hand on the
exhaust. Perhaps this early experiment in
aversion-therapy is the reason for my lifelong
loathing fro Renaults?]

PJML wrote:
Roger Chapman wrote:
The message
from Willy Eckerslyke contains these words:

Renault Dauphine (similar spec, but 20% lighter than the Herald)

Known to some of my generation at least as the 'roll-over Renault' due
to propensity for inversion. I thought it was rear engined.

They were. Swing-axles! Oooer!

I think the reason why they were so light was
that they rusted at a truly-astounding rate,
which accounts for them becoming all-but extinct
within a few years.

It's a shame I didn't know those little details this morning when I was
being told how Renault were engineers, but Triumph were blacksmiths!
Still, I was quite pleased with myself for knowing that the Dauphine was
the rear engined, curvy one.

"Willy Eckerslyke" wrote in message
...
It's a shame I didn't know those little details this morning when I was
being told how Renault were engineers, but Triumph were blacksmiths!

By who? Tell me where he lives and I'll go round and give him a good
kicking...:-)
The only thing Renault have ever engineered was how to remain nationalised
and survive year on year while making no money.
Jonners