Early family cars

[Keith Webb]

Here are a couple of pics showing the crucial relationship of our Pontiac and MVs...

The Singer was my $25 first car, and the GMC the first MV I drove, before I had my licence.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

and the GMC the first MV I drove, before I had my licence.

Looks like it has had a RHD conversion .. it's got early 60's plates on it .. the background cars date it don't they !

[Les Freathy]

My first vehicle was a Bedford 15cwt van i had to carry our group around in it. it was a 1959 model which i purchased in 1962 for £150. As can be observed i was still a learner when this photo was taken i had it for a couple of years then changed for a bigger Austin J2, what a load of c--p that was kept it for 12 months then decided someone else could provide the band transport for a while, sold it to buy my first car this 1957 Hillman Minx. Geoff i also had a Frog eye Sprite it was my pride and joy it had a straight through exhaust and could it roar as a motor it was fast on acceleration but i found at about 80mph you hung in there for dear life, one twitch and you would lose it. mine was all original 1959 with a steel bonnet worth around £7 to8000 now if it was still around biggest problem the floor attracted rust i did a few mods to it but kept all the old parts. When i can locate the photos i will put them up
cheers
Les

[Keith Webb]

Love the period shot of the band with the Bedford. What a classic!

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Love the period shot of the band with the Bedford. What a classic!

Smashing picture...What instrument did you play....??
Skin Flute..???
LOL

[Phil Waterman]

Pictures below are of my fathers first new Post War car (I believe it was the first New car he had ever bought) it was a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Coupe powered by a 337cu.in. flat head V8 (same engine as F-8 Ford Truck, with a different cam). This picture was probably taken winter of 51 or 52 that’s me in the back seat. The second picture is of the first car I bought a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Town Sedan which I bought in 1969 while in college, I was still driving the families Coupe but the salt on the roads of northern climes had taken a toll on the frame. So when the Town Sedan with only 25,000 miles came along I bought it. The car had been used as a “Summer” car on an estate in New Hampshire. The picture shown was taken in the spring of 1972 at a friends wedding.

I still have the engine out of the Lincoln my father bought in 1949 which has been extensively hot rodded. But what’s probably more important I still have the Town Sedan I bought, it is has been sitting in the back corner of the garage since 1975. Now that I have all three of my CMPs on the road, I hope to move the Lincoln into my restoration bay and start working on it this winter.

[Mike K]

Is the miniature Hoppalong Cassidy you Phil ? Talking of Lincolns .. In the early 80's a crazy KIWI friend of mine had to move his 1946 Lincoln continental convertible down to Port Melbourne for shipping to NZ .. He had bought it in 1967 . The car was original.. with its V12 side valve motor still fitted. I drove him down to Seaford where it sat in somebody's back yard.. it was unregistered . This was a real HOLLYWOOD movie star flashy car .. maroon colour with a cover on the spare wheel in the boot lid... He got in it and I followed him to Bentleigh . The looks at the traffic lights I cannot describe.. as it was tatty looking with a dirty white top on it. It was running on about 8 cylinders and the brakes had gone west too. We squeezed it onto a tandem trailer .... hooked it behind his rusty AP5 Valiant ute ! The Valiant was almost scraping the ground. We made a midnight dash to the docks and managed to unload it ....never again.

[Howard]

Originally Posted by Alex Blair

Smashing picture...What instrument did you play....??
Skin Flute..???
LOL

Oooohhhh! Rough!