Nostalgia

[Jcloughie]

Just found these in the loft, first our trip to Prague in 1999










The following year we went to the Jura.





The itineraries and routes made up booklets and I copied for each outfit, All pre sat nav. It worked well for most of the time. We had completely forgot about the snail holes in the page which happened on the banks of the Mohnesse dam reseviour.

Good days.

 

[toad a caravan]

Bet those have brought back memories 🙂,,I usually inform mountain rescue before I enter our loft 😁

 

[otherclive]

I have been transferring 126 and 35 mm negatives to the computer then into Photos. Have come across quite a lot that did not make it into our photo albums. Go back to mid 1960s. Here’s one of my second car when a student in Cardiff. In parallel I’ve virtually cleared the loft, and given the kids legacy rights over the iCloud storage. It’s quiet satisfying as well as being nostalgic.

 

[toad a caravan]

Is that a Humber hawk ?

 

[toad a caravan]

Snipe estate on opposite side

 

[otherclive]

Is that a Humber hawk ?

Yes it’s a Hawk. We used it for trips all over Wales and sometimes camped out and slept in the car.

 

[toad a caravan]

My cousin has a supersnipe estate he recently sold his hawk..they were both used for towing his ace ambassador statesman from the northwest to mevagissey in Cornwall 👌

 

[otherclive]

My cousin has a supersnipe estate he recently sold his hawk..they were both used for towing his ace ambassador statesman from the northwest to mevagissey in Cornwall 👌

At uni my lecturer had an Imperial complete with cocktail and drinks cabinet in the back. Lovely cars those Humbers.

 

[toad a caravan]

Very true...is that a rover 3.5 coupe ?

 

[otherclive]

Very true...is that a rover 3.5 coupe ?

Yes it is. Another student on our course lived in the same street and his dad had given him a Vanden Plas 4.0 litre Rolls. It’s been downhill ever since 😂

 

[toad a caravan]

Nice..after motor bikes.combo's bonds(Villiers engines) and reliants I passed my car test and bought a Pontiac Parisian 283ci.then a Jag mk11.followed by alsorts.the Pontiac had a lot more room in it than the reliant robin 🙂

 

[Jcloughie]

Yes it’s a Hawk. We used it for trips all over Wales and sometimes camped out and slept in the car.

My friends Dad had the Hawk around 1964. I remember going to a garage with my friend to get fuel. We were 20 mins with much help trying to find where the petrol cap was. Then someone came in and unscrewed the reflector in the rear light cluster.

John

 

[Jcloughie]

I have been transferring 126 and 35 mm negatives to the computer then into Photos. Have come across quite a lot that did not make it into our photo albums. Go back to mid 1960s. Here’s one of my second car when a student in Cardiff. In parallel I’ve virtually cleared the loft, and given the kids legacy rights over the iCloud storage. It’s quiet satisfying as well as being nostalgic.

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I know what you mean. When I was at work, I got the photography department to transfer some slides.

Then, about 8 years ago, I spent an about a month transferring videos. Old super 8 had already been transferred to VHS by my brother in the college he taught at. I then bought some digitising software and digitised the VHS and a couple of small video formats.

Then I processed it all using free editing software. I finished with about 60 separate films which equals about 5 hours.

Very satisfying and I am pleased that the family has easy access it all from a shared cloud.

John

 

[Buckman]

Nice..after motor bikes.combo's bonds(Villiers engines) and reliants I passed my car test and bought a Pontiac Parisian 283ci.then a Jag mk11.followed by alsorts.the Pontiac had a lot more room in it than the reliant robin 🙂

The few Pontiacs I drove all had great big V 8 engines and definitely nto a piddling 283cc engine. The Mk11 was a great big tank on wheels with fuel tanks either side. The Jag that my dad had came with a cocktail cabinet in the rear with decanter and glasses. Can't remember the designation.

Besides the Landrovers and horses we used these were our other company cars;

 

[otherclive]

Love the Moke, great for a Blues and Twos pursuit. 👍

 

[toad a caravan]

Hi Buckman I stated 283 ci not cc👌1ci is about 16 .4 cc .American vehicles at that time measured displacement in cubic inches..brother in law had an 60 Buick Riviera with a 454 ci.father in law Chevrolet 328 cu 😁

 

[toad a caravan]

Mini moke no use over here

 

[Buckman]

Mini moke no use over here

We used them mainly for bush work so not a town car. Most were allocated to rural stations. If you got stuck, you simply lifted it out. LOL!

 

[toad a caravan]

A bit to open for over here..having said that I did remove the roof and rear door of my series 2a for the hell of it..quite heavy the roof (safari) swb petrol 🙂

 

[Steve1962]

That Rover bought back some memories for me.....my uncle had one.....gorgeous car.

Steve

 

[Hutch]

That Rover bought back some memories for me.....my uncle had one.....gorgeous car.

Steve

I had three off them, a 3 litre saloon, then a 3.5 saloon and a 3.5 coupe. Lovely car but thirsty, on 5 star fuel. Hand book stated if cruising above 100mph " Increase tyre pressures" you could see the fuel gauge go down. 135 mph @ 5000 rpm. Not bad for a 2 ton car era 1975.

 

[RogerL]

I had three off them, a 3 litre saloon, then a 3.5 saloon and a 3.5 coupe. Lovely car but thirsty, on 5 star fuel. Hand book stated if cruising above 100mph " Increase tyre pressures" you could see the fuel gauge go down. 135 mph @ 5000 rpm. Not bad for a 2 ton car era 1975.

Big engines, by European standards, weren't designed with fuel economy in mind - for a while I had a '85 Vauxhall Senator 3.0 - towing fuel consumption was 14 mpg and the fuel gauge bars dropped with alarming speed on the digital display.

 

[otherclive]

I had three off them, a 3 litre saloon, then a 3.5 saloon and a 3.5 coupe. Lovely car but thirsty, on 5 star fuel. Hand book stated if cruising above 100mph " Increase tyre pressures" you could see the fuel gauge go down. 135 mph @ 5000 rpm. Not bad for a 2 ton car era 1975.

Four of us hired its successor, a P6 3.5 litre when it first came out. Took it on the M4 from Cardiff to London and back. The fuel costs hit our grants quite hard but a fabulous car.

 

[Buckman]

I had three off them, a 3 litre saloon, then a 3.5 saloon and a 3.5 coupe. Lovely car but thirsty, on 5 star fuel. Hand book stated if cruising above 100mph " Increase tyre pressures" you could see the fuel gauge go down. 135 mph @ 5000 rpm. Not bad for a 2 ton car era 1975.

Which Rover had the V8 engine? The Van Den Plas version had all the boys toys in it.

 

[Hutch]

Which Rover had the V8 engine? The Van Den Plas version had all the boys toys in it.

The 3 litre was a straight 6 cylinder, the 3.5 (P5) was a V8 and the 3500 (P6) was also a V8.