@ Willy Eckerslyke; I love the look of the Hunter Estate and the Princess. What wonderful purchases they must have been.
I had a
far scruffier Hunter, CHH819L, that had very little in the way of steel around the rear shackle mounts, inner sills and much of the floor, but it went well and cost me £15 with 8 months of MOT remaining!
Among my various BMC Farina-bodied saloons, none was as big a bargain as your Princess.
Marvellous stuff.
I've very few pictures of anything from before this:
but shall attempt to scan and upload to flickR some more car pics as and when I find them.
Another image of LTF, giving a jump start to one of my other kittens some years ago, below that, my rare, black Rebel 600 saloon:
My last Rebel Estate, before someone took a steam cleaner to the body and washed off many years worth of polish
:
In this image, you can just about see my grey Volvo 144, FBY 346H, somewhere in that lot:
That was a very solid car which eventually got hit from behind by a stupid child in an uninsured, untested and generally unroadworthy Micra. I went round to his parents' house with a couple of friends to "negotiate" the payment for the new rear bumper trim and number plate lamp (you should've seen the state of the Micra
) but they had no money and we ended up having a cuppa with them and fixing their Montego's leaking sunroof. Just too soft, that's my trouble.
Another of my Rebels, GUS265L, alive, now in its original light blue and still providing reliable transport for its current owner:
My 1979 Renault 12TL Estate, with 17 Gordini engine, 5-speed Trafic van gearbox and front suspension converted to struts, using Fuégo parts. This was only a 6 year old car at the time, where did they all go since, eh?
My 1977 Vauxhall VX1800, fitted with a 2300cc engine from a CF van after the original died at around 300,000 miles from new, the car had been a taxi but the BL garage that sold it to me in 1987 didn't bother to worry me with that snippet of information:
It went well though, and was swapped later that year for 4388DG, my Almond Green with white roof Morris Oxford VI. I know there are old prints showing the Oxford, and some of the other 60+ cars not shown, that I've owned, those will need to wait for now.
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