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It's only a guess, but I reckon that's a 1938 Triumph Vitesse.
What causes me to think that?
'Cos it says so on the info board at the front of the car!

Tigdlo wrote:It's only a guess, but I reckon that's a 1938 Triumph Vitesse.
What causes me to think that?
'Cos it says so on the info board at the front of the car!

There's always one..

In my defence, when I use the browser on my TV, the 43" screen makes it perfectly clear, but I was looking at the thread on the 5" screen of the smaller of my Android toys, so that board was so small that I didn't even see that it was written on!

GHT, what's your excuse for not noticing that crucial info on your own photo?

Car show at Locomotion - The National Railway Museum at Shildon.

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Ryhope Start of Season Show

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JPB wrote:GHT, what's your excuse for not noticing that crucial info on your own photo?

P*ss poor eyesight.

Mitsuru wrote:Car show at Locomotion - The National Railway Museum at Shildon.

https://www.facebook.com/aron.bacon/med ... 552&type=3

Seems it may only work for facebook victims as the rest of the world gets this message:

The link you followed may have expired, or the Page may only be visible to an audience that you aren't in.

Same message for the Ryhope link..

Never mind John, here's another car from yesterday's vintage show. This one is called: An Oven.



An oven? Maybe not, but when you want to keep your bacon baguettes warm, the exhaust manifold is next best thing to a microwave.

Oof! I love these beautifully engineered 1930s jalopies. One Shot lubrication, built in jacking and a preselector gearbox. Would that the gadgets on modern motors were as interesting.

One of my older uncles owned an Armstrong that was very similar to that lovely, lovely thing. He had bought it from a bombsite horse trader in Glasgow just after the end of the forties, when such a car could be bought for very little cash as long as that buyer didn't expect a warranty or mats 'n' flaps to be included in the deal. The car was still under his custodianship in the mid eighties, by which time he'd brought it up to a very fine condition and was doing a roaring trade in wedding hire. Then the old boy turned his toes up and the car was mothballed in a dry but draughty steading where it may still be for all I know.

I haven't seen one for decades.

I have however seen a very tidy MG of the ADO16 variety. It appeared to be finished in Connaught Green and sounded absolutely lovely as it overtook me on the A68. I would have tried to keep up and get some dashcam footage, but am too fond of my licence.

As you have mentioned MG's here's a few, I kept away from showing them previously, trying not show bias.
When I was in my late teens, I longed for the small MG sports car, not the new MG Midget, but the one that you always see a Spitfire pilot driving in WW2 films. I didn't know that there were four models TA/B/C/D, having heard one of them referred to as a TC, I presumed that they were all TC's. Now I know the difference as well as the difference between a lot of similar looking MG models probably makes an automotive equivalent of a sad train spotter.






Here's a really well cared for, original Lagonda. It looked just magnificent, glinting in the sunlight.





You expressed delight in the lovely, original Dolomite, in the background you might have seen a ragtop version, here, for your delectation is a closer view:



It occurred to me that although History doesn't post much these days, I hope that he still looks in. It would be remiss of me not to include a lovely old Roller. Perhaps he might even elaborate on the model. To me, a Roller is a Roller. This one is an absolute beauty.

w reg black triumph spitfire with white viper stripes oh dear.howard road sothampton