raleighnut
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- One of the 'Elite'
What were they thinking?
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
They're still making these, this one is a 1948 build
I'd walk past that to get my hands on one of these.
Same maker, infinitely sassier.
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Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
The old man on our street where I was born had a three-wheeled Morgan... it sounded fantastic..
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
A Morgan three wheeler on 'full chat' makes a glorious sound. I regret turning down the chance to purchase a tatty one thirty years ago. I didn't have the time or the wherewithal to fettle it and I fantasise about spending my pension lump sum on one but the prospect of simultaneous bachelorhood is a disincentive.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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- You want hills? We got hills
I have no idea what any of that means but I feel strangely aroused reading it
raleighnut
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- One of the 'Elite'
You and me both, I've spent many a happy day watching them race against the sidecars in vintage race meetings, Bill Tuer and his wife Maggie used to be the ones to watch.
raleighnut
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This is them around Mallory park, I love how he waves the sidecar outfit back past so he's got someone to race against. They are well known for this, but once Hamish gets by Bill is after blood.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1_XDt5ai5c&feature=player_detailpage
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1_XDt5ai5c&feature=player_detailpage
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swee'pea99
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You remind me of my 'one that got away' - an old soft-top Triumph Vitesse that came up cheap due to rust. A friend and & agreed to go halves on it if his brother would agree to do the welding, but by the time he had the following day, someone had snapped it up.
Piemaster
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- UK City of Culture
That Austin Atlantic shows how much catching up the British car industry had to do post-war. Most cars looked like they were just the pre-war designs dusted off, whereas the Americans never stopped development and their production tended to change a lot more often. The Morris Minor appeared in 1948, this is Cadillacs offering for 1949
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Over The Hill
Guru
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- Ridden off into the sunset
I do agree the Atlantic was a bad car, a rake round the parts bin and a oversize body on a basic pre war car.
But remember at that time our definition of sports car was far different to Americans. We want it to go round a corner fast, Americans seem happy to not have this attribute.
Looks like someone described an American car down the phone to a man at Austin and they made what they imagined.
They kept on with the idea into the 50s with the Austin Nash Metropolitan
But remember at that time our definition of sports car was far different to Americans. We want it to go round a corner fast, Americans seem happy to not have this attribute.
Looks like someone described an American car down the phone to a man at Austin and they made what they imagined.
They kept on with the idea into the 50s with the Austin Nash Metropolitan
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That is quite hideous. it looks like it might be meant to float.I do agree the Atlantic was a bad car, a rake round the parts bin and a oversize body on a basic pre war car.
But remember at that time our definition of sports car was far different to Americans. We want it to go round a corner fast, Americans seem happy to not have this attribute.
Looks like someone described an American car down the phone to a man at Austin and they made what they imagined.
They kept on with the idea into the 50s with the Austin Nash Metropolitan
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swee'pea99
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It looks like an East German take on a decadent western sports car. As for the Atlantic, according to the programme it was designed not for the ladies but very avowedly for the American market, MG having demonstrated the potential with many export sales following up on returning GIs' souvenir MG Midgets. Unfortunately it was sluggish, overpriced, and packed with gadgets which, being British, rapidly fell to pieces. As well as being ugly as sin, of course.
