Practically Classics Forum

For Christmas I was given a jigsaw puzzle of ‘classic cars’ The box contained four puzzles of the following;

1) A red Mini Cooper
2) A silver E-type roadster
3) A Blue Morris 1000
4) A MG YA/B along with a MG TC

So question is would you agree this is a good cross section representation? If not what would you include/substitute?

Your answer's obvious there: Buy the larger version of the puzzle; that has seven cars on it if it's the same one that I didn't buy for my current (keeps her on her toes...) other half's car-mad son as it was far too expensive for a cardboard box full of very finely chopped kindling.

Or maybe build it, then attach a ready-printed, self-adhesive photograph over the top of the thing and cut each piece to suit, this way, you decide what you want to see on there; your own cars, Anna Friel in her Solomons, Martina Laird covered in stage blood or even the bridge of the USS Enterprise - owt ye like really. Job done.

Maybe swapped the Y Type for an MGB, given that for many, the MGB is the face of classic cars (The Y Type also ran alongside the TC until the TD replaced the TC) and I might have put in a P Type Midget , instead of the TC, to represent the pre war period. On the whole it represents British cars through family motoring, to budget sports cars/sports saloons and finally the "Exotic".

I suppose other, significant British cars, would be the Austin 7, the Land Rover, Jaguar XK 120, Triumph TR2/3, one of the vintage Bentleys (Perhaps a 4 1/2 blown version), Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Sunbeam Talbot, something from Ford........but the puzzle would be getting very big.

The final questions are have you finished the puzzle and if so, how about a picture of it

id add a micra...

I thought of saying that in my first post to this thread, but decided to write the sensible stuff instead!

no split screen van ? they're everywhere else

Commercially representative, I'd have used a Mini, 2CV, Beetle, & Moggie...

Hmm, but surely the Deuche wasn't sold in large numbers over in the UK until around 1974? So, earlier, nobody would have known what it was if they saw one at all.