Car nostalgia

They certainly had some really handsome designs in the '40's he is an exceptional car ,  down by the big 3:-

Tucker. rear wheel drive, rear engined, 4 wheel independent suspension,moving center, light, built crash and roll bars, padded dashboard. Fuel injection, tubeless tyres were also to made for this vehicle. 

Slightly ahead of it's time?

Story of my life Paul - champagne taste with a beer budget! 

Thats a classic saying. My grannie used to say champagne taste and a port purse

Actually that makes a better comparison, as they are on opposite ends of the same vintner processing!

Just shows, always listen to your grannie, the old folks know a thing or two

Re: Tucker

What may not be obvious in the photos above is the relative low profile of the Tucker. I have seen a couple in real life and the comparatively low height surprises. They sit more like a late 50's American car than one from ten years earlier.

The first car i ever owned, complete with sliding windows.

Car cost me £50 and ran for a couple of years, then i traded the entire car for a set of minilite wheels for the escort

My first love. No not Jenny! A Triumph Dolomite 1850. Up on a N Yorkshire moor in 1984.

Same colour as a Dolly Sprint, but they was well unreliable! 

My first love. No not Jenny! A Triumph Dolomite 1850. Up on a N Yorkshire moor in 1984.

hat wouldn't be around the time of the ripper would it?

Ripper, no. Tripper, well maybe. 

:/

I was a big Get Smart fan (still am - the TV show, NOT the movie), and of the 3 cars secret agent 86 drove, there was no question which was the coolest!

A friend used to own this actual car, strangely never managed to blag a ride in it 

One of the most famous and desirable of all AC Cobras .

Known the world over by its registration number (39 PH), it was entered by the factory for the 1963 Le Mans 24 Hour race, where it duly won the GT III category and finished 7th overall in the hands of Ninian Sanderson and Peter Bolton. It was then procured by John Willment for ‘Gentleman Jack’ Sears to drive, at which time its pale metallic green paint was replaced with the distinctive red body and white stripes of the Willment team - the livery it has retained to this day.

Not sure whether the new owner(s) have kept this colour scheme though.

DrM,

It's amazing what memories are rekindled from this thread. I had totally forgot about get smart, but now you mention it, the car looks familiar.

Was it james coburn who was the smart agent?

It was a total spoof of bond? or am I mixing things up?

My second sports car, a Wedgwood-blue TR4A. SAH tuned with twin Dellorto carbs. The IRS was a bit soggy so I got some uprated lever-arm shocks which made it a pretty bumpy ride. the wires were swines to clean :-

Ah.  As a teen I owner a black / red frogeye KPE 356. Worked on the engine, putting in A40 Devon flat top pistons to up the compression ratio. The starter could barely turn the engine over. Also got conned into putting some "continental" tyres on it which turned out to be Bulgarian cross plys! Great fun on roundabouts in the rain. Scared following drivers witless as I power slid at 20mph....

Roll on 25 years and I had a fun Porsche 944 Turbo (250). Could get a Marshall amp and Les Paul in the boot no problem. Could still lose it in the wet, but at more than 20mph.

Great thread.

Tony,

 Reminds me of he 4a I nearly bought. I recall the steering wheel on the one I tried was like a huge tractor steering wheel, a great big wire spoked type of a Thing

H,

    The cobra looks really nice. It's good to get a bit of biog with the image as well. Always fancied the idea of building a Dax cobra ( as I could never afford an AC)

Basel,

   Crossply's on a frog.

OMG, must have been terrifying, maybe you were the inventor of modern day drifting !

Yup. I'd also replaced the roting bonnet / front end with a fibreglass replica. Kinda upset the balance.

Just in the poor starting thing ( due to compression), I had that on my escort with the twin cam lotus engine. The trick we did ( the rally scene) was to use 2 batteries and have a 24v starting system. The engine whizzed round

Neat solution. Think it would have flipped the Frog though.....

Not sure If you saw an old episode of top gear had the frog competing against a modern souped up jap car on a hill climb circuit. The frog was way quicker. Just stuck like glue round all the bends