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Title: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: Nickbat on 14 February 2008, 18:55:18
Rummaging around in my cupboards today and I found these. Forgot I had them! Genuine Motor Show brochures (well leaflets, anyway) from yesteryear. Reckon they're worth something?

Well that Victor got to the Arc de Triomphe without the crank sensor going:  ;)
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/vauxhallrange.gif)

Sorry about the flash reflection on this one:
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/veloxcresta.gif)

Ah, yes, the motorway age! Doesn't look like the M25 to me...
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/vxmotorwayage.gif)

Take a minivan, add glass and wood and hey presto...a Countryman!
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/countryman.gif)

What a range! Was the A40 the first hatchback?
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/austin.gif)

Last, but not least, one for Hotel21. Probably better than the Beamer tractors they use now  ;D ;D ;)
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/v6nick/humberplod.gif)
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: miggy on 14 February 2008, 18:58:14
1961, my birth year, vx cresta what a car, my old man had one, big leather bench seat and full of chrome.all standard in those days.

 :y
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: zippo on 14 February 2008, 19:09:26
ive got got a lot of car sales brochures that ive been told are worth a few bob cant seeit my self but id thought yours may be
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: shyboy on 14 February 2008, 19:17:34
I can remember being taken to the Motor Show in the early fifties from an uncle's house in Swiss Cottage in his Humber Super Snipe when I was a young man lodging with them when working in London. Felt like a million dollars.
My car was a 1932 side valve 8HP Ford Popular, (in black, of course) which ended its days when a half-shaft broke. My father cut the bodywork up with a lever type can opener wedged in a piece of copper pipe, and took it to a tip bit by bit,to save the cost of having it taken away. (Really!).
Don't know about the monetary value of these items, but they're priceless as mementoes of the era.
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Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: Bo Bo on 14 February 2008, 19:25:05
I've been clearing out my old room at my Mum & Dad's recently & found all kinds of stuff I didn't know I had, like going back in time....
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: Nickbat on 14 February 2008, 19:36:00
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I've been clearing out my old room at my Mum & Dad's recently & found all kinds of stuff I didn't know I had, like going back in time....

Yes, I think I've got a shed load of Tiger, Jag and Wizard comics up in the loft somewhere. Remember Roy of the [Melchester] Rovers? If he's still around we need him now in the England squad.  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: The Elite on 14 February 2008, 20:55:16
Wot no anglebox?...
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: Bo Bo on 14 February 2008, 21:04:27
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Wot no anglebox?...
Does he play for England  :D
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: Ken T on 14 February 2008, 21:30:18
Austin A40, great, we had one once. I set it on fire welding underneath, I forgot to move the trim inside  ;D ;D. And a half shaft went, I managed to get one from a scrappy, but it was chucking it down when I had to refit. The car was needed the next day, so there was I, lying on my back under the car, with a river of water running down my boiler suit. All good fun!.

Ken
Title: Re: A trip down memory lane...
Post by: albitz on 14 February 2008, 21:40:23
i,ve still got some old car mags from the 60s/70s in the loft,one of them is an autosport from 1977(i think)which has an interview with the late great gilles villeneuve...a proper racing driver.