On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:15:10 +0000, Mike Swift
<[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] writes
>>Who had the oldest first car then?
>>
>>I had a '51 Ford Taunus (HPB 801) in 1962. I can remember all of my old
>>style numbers but once the extra letter started it's blank.
>
>My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
>during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
>driver being in the car.
Dad had a Jowett of couse.
Then he went upmarket and got a Wolseley six eighty (ECP 209)
>
>My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
>2000 miles while on holiday.
Ford Anglia (7732 UM).
Cigi
--
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the
softness of the bread.
In message <[email protected]>, Mike Swift
<[email protected]> writes
>
>My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
>during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
>driver being in the car.
My first car was a 1949 Ford Anglia, registration number JOX 213.
>
>My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
>2000 miles while on holiday.
>
>Mike
>
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes
>Who had the oldest first car then?
>
>I had a '51 Ford Taunus (HPB 801) in 1962. I can remember all of my old
>style numbers but once the extra letter started it's blank.
My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
driver being in the car.
My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
2000 miles while on holiday.
Mike
--
Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange
'46 M Y++ L+ U KQ+ c B+ P99S P00S p+ Sh++ S(BAR) R(HD5)
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:15:10 +0000, Mike Swift
<[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] writes
>>Who had the oldest first car then?
>>
>>I had a '51 Ford Taunus (HPB 801) in 1962. I can remember all of my old
>>style numbers but once the extra letter started it's blank.
>
>My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
>during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
>driver being in the car.
Dad had a Jowett of couse.
Then he went upmarket and got a Wolseley six eighty (ECP 209)
>
>My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
>2000 miles while on holiday.
Ford Anglia (7732 UM).
Cigi
--
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the
softness of the bread.
In message <[email protected]>, Mike Swift
<[email protected]> writes
>
>My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
>during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
>driver being in the car.
My first car was a 1949 Ford Anglia, registration number JOX 213.
>
>My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
>2000 miles while on holiday.
>
>Mike
>
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes
>Who had the oldest first car then?
>
>I had a '51 Ford Taunus (HPB 801) in 1962. I can remember all of my old
>style numbers but once the extra letter started it's blank.
My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
driver being in the car.
My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
2000 miles while on holiday.
Mike
--
Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange
'46 M Y++ L+ U KQ+ c B+ P99S P00S p+ Sh++ S(BAR) R(HD5)
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:15:10 +0000, Mike Swift
<[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] writes
>>Who had the oldest first car then?
>>
>>I had a '51 Ford Taunus (HPB 801) in 1962. I can remember all of my old
>>style numbers but once the extra letter started it's blank.
>
>My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
>during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
>driver being in the car.
Dad had a Jowett of couse.
Then he went upmarket and got a Wolseley six eighty (ECP 209)
>
>My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
>2000 miles while on holiday.
Ford Anglia (7732 UM).
Cigi
--
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the
softness of the bread.
In message <[email protected]>, Mike Swift
<[email protected]> writes
>
>My dad had a 1949 Ford Prefect complete with running boards, he got it
>during the Suez crisis so could drive as a learner without a qualified
>driver being in the car.
My first car was a 1949 Ford Anglia, registration number JOX 213.
>
>My first was a 1974 Mini Auto, I learned to drive in Scotland covering
>2000 miles while on holiday.
>
>Mike
>
[email protected] come on down!
> Who had the oldest first car then?
A white 1960 Ford Pop 105E, reg. UMS 990, in 1986. Had that, then moved
on to a 1965 Austin Cambridge that died on me on the A45 outside Bury St.
Edmunds in the pissing rain. Haven't driven since.
Tez.
--
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
[email protected] come on down!
> I had a '51 Ford Taunus (HPB 801) in 1962.
A Taunus? In Britain?
AFAIK very few of these German Fords found their way over here. I
remember seeing a lot of these on the Continong in the 70s, the 12m and
14m looked very different to their British counterparts, but the 1970s
version was very similar to the Mark 3 Cortinas being produced in
Dagenham at the time.
Tez.
--
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
In message <[email protected]>, Tez Burke
<[email protected]> writes
>[email protected] come on down!
>
>> Who had the oldest first car then?
>
>A white 1960 Ford Pop 105E, reg. UMS 990, in 1986. Had that, then moved
>on to a 1965 Austin Cambridge that died on me on the A45 outside Bury St.
>Edmunds in the pissing rain. Haven't driven since.
>
>Tez.
>
I bought my 1949 Anglia in erm.........................................
1961, it cost me £50 I think. After a couple of years I part exchanged
it for a 1949 Prefect.
Luckily the garage giving me the part exchange didn't look closely at
the Anglia. Due to the door hinges and door pillar being very rusty I
had welded the driver's door shut. I had been using the passenger door
for access for quite a while.
--
Mike Clayton
To right the wrong is always right
<take out the plug to email me> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike_clayton
[email protected] come on down!
> Who had the oldest first car then?
A white 1960 Ford Pop 105E, reg. UMS 990, in 1986. Had that, then moved
on to a 1965 Austin Cambridge that died on me on the A45 outside Bury St.
Edmunds in the pissing rain. Haven't driven since.
Tez.
--
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
[email protected] come on down!
> I had a '51 Ford Taunus (HPB 801) in 1962.
A Taunus? In Britain?
AFAIK very few of these German Fords found their way over here. I
remember seeing a lot of these on the Continong in the 70s, the 12m and
14m looked very different to their British counterparts, but the 1970s
version was very similar to the Mark 3 Cortinas being produced in
Dagenham at the time.
Tez.
--
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
In message <[email protected]>, Tez Burke
<[email protected]> writes
>[email protected] come on down!
>
>> Who had the oldest first car then?
>
>A white 1960 Ford Pop 105E, reg. UMS 990, in 1986. Had that, then moved
>on to a 1965 Austin Cambridge that died on me on the A45 outside Bury St.
>Edmunds in the pissing rain. Haven't driven since.
>
>Tez.
>
I bought my 1949 Anglia in erm.........................................
1961, it cost me £50 I think. After a couple of years I part exchanged
it for a 1949 Prefect.
Luckily the garage giving me the part exchange didn't look closely at
the Anglia. Due to the door hinges and door pillar being very rusty I
had welded the driver's door shut. I had been using the passenger door
for access for quite a while.
--
Mike Clayton
To right the wrong is always right
<take out the plug to email me> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike_clayton
[email protected] come on down!
> Who had the oldest first car then?
A white 1960 Ford Pop 105E, reg. UMS 990, in 1986. Had that, then moved
on to a 1965 Austin Cambridge that died on me on the A45 outside Bury St.
Edmunds in the pissing rain. Haven't driven since.
Tez.
--
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
