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This is my dad in the very early 80's in his 4.3 Alvis

And me in my TR3a last month.

both at curborough and nearly in the same place !

A bit of history repeating itself !!

H

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Nice but what happened to the Alvis?

Unfortunately it was sold ???? Many years ago and has been through a few hands since Dad's

http://aston.co.uk/cars-for-sale/alvis/-/car1033

I think it went to Australia and latterly prepared for Paris -Peking

That is one car that I would buy back but way out of my league now ????

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Ah Hamish

 

Now there's a car!

Back in 1958 I went with a friend from north London to Weymouth in an Alvis Speed 20, that was before the motorways etc. obviously.

My friend has since sold that car and has recently totally rebuilt another Speed 20, but I have yet to see it let alone ride in it, plenty of pics. of it though.

 

Dave

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On 6/9/2017 at 3:14 PM, Hamish said:

This is my dad in the very early 80's in his 4.3 Alvis

And me in my TR3a last month.

both at curborough and nearly in the same place !

A bit of history repeating itself !!

H

I'd love to see your dad's Alvis, Hamish, lovely motor, but there's no photo.

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1 hour ago, DavidBee said:

I'd love to see your dad's Alvis, Hamish, lovely motor, but there's no photo.

Re done the pics for you david

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44 minutes ago, Hamish said:

Re done the pics for you david

a message tells me emojis are not allowed... if they were, you would see a smiley + a handshake + another smiley

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On 6/9/2017 at 3:14 PM, Hamish said:

This is my dad in the very early 80's in his 4.3 Alvis

And me in my TR3a last month.

both at curborough and nearly in the same place !

A bit of history repeating itself !!

H

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C8EBE6A0-1985-40C8-B42E-98ED73D523C6.jpeg

Telescopic front shockers n all!

Veery nice..

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12 minutes ago, DavidBee said:

Telescopic front shockers n all!

Veery nice..

Couple more for you. 

thanks for your interest dad would have been chuffed. 

 

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Well, you know, Hamish, it's part of British motoring history, after all.

"Proper order", as an Irish expression has it, meaning: as it should be.

On this point, and the period —  late 1950- early 1960s? — fits in perfectly with my point, half of every single issue of Motorsport was about vintage cars and vintage racing. Motorsport had started 30 years earlier and, although it always was a modern car magazine, not a vintage/classic car publication, at the time, in the 1950s, it had a huge interest and comitment to vintage cars. I think Motorsport went on in this way right up to the 1970s.

[NB. The (only) reason I happen to know this, is that I'm doing an anorakish exercise at the moment, skimming 1950s issues up to 1961, looking for TR rally reports, photos, and ads. I also think a list of names of drivers might be helpful to our Registrar, but perhaps not. Might help to trace early competition histories].

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Oh, I missed the second one! Car's coming into a left hander.

Tonneau, huge exhaust, looks more than a 2-inch TR2 pipe, and taped lights! Quite the biz!!

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47 minutes ago, iain said:

Very nice Hamish......you know you just have to have that back in the family again one day :D.

Dad bought it for £16k in the 70’s I think, a lot then I know.

but worth more than my house now so little chance I’m sorry it say Iain.

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