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Found your interesting forum recently and it's great to read and hear about our good old classics from such an interesting American perspective, as it also brought back many late 50's and 60's memories. My first car in fact was a 1949 Riley Pathfinder without a floor that cost me ÂŁ5 and lasted less than 24 hours. This was soon followed by a wonderful looking supercharged A40 Farina with go faster stripes and wire wheels (a la John Sprinzel) that turned out to be so clapped out the garage told me never to remove the supercharger. Reality again set in with a Mini Traveller which must have had woodworm as it always creaked going downhill, followed by a rusted chassis together with Herald estate, until at last I found a great little cheap frogeye which served me well, followed eventually by a really enjoyable Mk II Sprite.
By the early Seventies I finally reached motoring heaven with a 3000 Squealey with sliding sidescreens (Mk 1?) in which I did the odd Club rally, hillclimb and circuit event in, however what I most remember of that great car was the enormous fun taking on quiet, empty roundabouts in the wet at 2 or 3 am. And usually losing ! It was a great Sunday lunchtime pub car too with the club's regular pub car park often full of muddy rally Healeys, TRs, Cortinas, Rapiers, Minis, Spridgets (some with spotlights on the roof), and all reeking of pungent farms from the previous night's rally !
Whilst I'm not driving anything of British interest at the moment I'd just like to quickly mention my dream favourite car of all time, which is the beautiful British AC 428 Frua built from about 1967 until 1972. Incredibly rare, only 80 or so made, they were in fact built on the original AC Cobra racebred chassis of the time together with a 7 litre Ford Galaxie 428 engine, yet few people even over here seem to have ever heard of them.
Perhaps some members might find this of interest as well....?
Found your interesting forum recently and it's great to read and hear about our good old classics from such an interesting American perspective, as it also brought back many late 50's and 60's memories. My first car in fact was a 1949 Riley Pathfinder without a floor that cost me ÂŁ5 and lasted less than 24 hours. This was soon followed by a wonderful looking supercharged A40 Farina with go faster stripes and wire wheels (a la John Sprinzel) that turned out to be so clapped out the garage told me never to remove the supercharger. Reality again set in with a Mini Traveller which must have had woodworm as it always creaked going downhill, followed by a rusted chassis together with Herald estate, until at last I found a great little cheap frogeye which served me well, followed eventually by a really enjoyable Mk II Sprite.
By the early Seventies I finally reached motoring heaven with a 3000 Squealey with sliding sidescreens (Mk 1?) in which I did the odd Club rally, hillclimb and circuit event in, however what I most remember of that great car was the enormous fun taking on quiet, empty roundabouts in the wet at 2 or 3 am. And usually losing !
It was a great Sunday lunchtime pub car too with the club's regular pub car park often full of muddy rally Healeys, TRs, Cortinas, Rapiers, Minis, Spridgets (some with spotlights on the roof), and all reeking of pungent farms from the previous night's rally !Whilst I'm not driving anything of British interest at the moment I'd just like to quickly mention my dream favourite car of all time, which is the beautiful British AC 428 Frua built from about 1967 until 1972. Incredibly rare, only 80 or so made, they were in fact built on the original AC Cobra racebred chassis of the time together with a 7 litre Ford Galaxie 428 engine, yet few people even over here seem to have ever heard of them.
Perhaps some members might find this of interest as well....?
