The Family Car

[amateur51]

This is the car [and colour] I always wanted (styling wise not necessarily performance).... http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/uploa...mg/3788161.jpg....a friend had silver version for summer 1977

My favourite aunt had one of these, an MG Magnette ZB, sadly in black rather than that lovely red in the pic. It wasn't as nippy as it looks but it was very comfy and there was lots of leather and walnut trim. I can still remember the smell you got when the doors were opened

[amateur51]

Always good to encounter another Integrale owner. This was mine on a trip over the Brecon Beacons about 10 years ago. No matter what BMW say about their "driving machines" this was the best IMHO.
(But maybe we have strayed fom the "Family cars" in the thread title?)

Not at all, anotherbob - families come in all shapes, sizes and needs where their cars are concerned, I reckon

[amateur51]

...whereas I've been able to react the other way including a couple of classic Citroëns (inc a 1973 DS23, another of my dream cars from the 70s and the first car I bought!), a Lancia Integrale and an Audi RS6....

Everything evens out in the end!

Is that a quote from Gurdjieff, Caliban?

[eighthobstruction]

Ooooyes my real proper first car was a Triumph Vitesse Estate, really nippy for day and you could control it in corners by toe and heeling....did spend a lot of time reclosing bonnet when it came open when driving along....It was in that car my false memory ref Sunsets occurred ....

Caliban....my dad always craved Cit DS19....those 1940's ones that looked a bit like a Riley were a great shape....

[Nick Armstrong]

Is that a quote from Gurdjieff, Caliban?

I'd never heard of him until I just looked him up, so any similarity is entirely coincidental!

Always good to encounter another Integrale owner. This was mine on a trip over the Brecon Beacons about 10 years ago. No matter what BMW say about their "driving machines" this was the best IMHO.
(But maybe we have strayed fom the "Family cars" in the thread title?)

I don't think so bob! I scared the you-know-what out of a few family members in mine!

I didn't know you had one as well! Absolute cracker wasn't it! I loved that car.

Here's mine parked in rather cavalier fashion by the steps of Perugia Cathedral ...and more conventionally in Gubbio.

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban....my dad always craved Cit DS19...

Mine too 8tho. I have an early memory of him eyeing one at a petrol station and commenting on how wonderful it was. That would have been the 1960s, and actually it was the 60s version I preferred... but I plumped for a 70s one being more modern with better gears etc. Still had the old pump-up hydraulic suspension (a great moment in mine was arriving at a flooded junction with everyone queued up either side not daring to drive across - I set my DS suspension to "high" and then tip-toed across with an extra foot of clearance! Got a few grins and claps!)

Unlike the early DS19 with single frog-eye headlights, the later ones had the party-trick inner headlights which turned with the steering.

Ooooyes my real proper first car was a Triumph Vitesse Estate, really nippy for day and you could control it in corners by toe and heeling

Lovely !

did spend a lot of time reclosing bonnet when it came open when driving along....It was in that car my false memory ref Sunsets occurred ....

[eighthobstruction]

In the exact copy of this car http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2180/2...0d68f626_o.jpg

....I did the opposite of you (one of the stupidest things i have ever done)....getting off the Santander Ferry I forgot to give time for the suspension to rise, drove off ripping my exhaust system off...

....in usual circumstances really good acceleration, and road holding, lovely floaty smooth feeling too....

[Stillhomewardbound]

Here are two of the family busily washing the two family cars while the third supervised from on high with a camera.

Great picture, Mangerton ... but change was just around the corner!

[Richard Tarleton]

My great aunt (the doctor, extreme right in the 1922 wedding photo) with her car and dog outside her flat at no 46, Redcliffe Road, SW10, in 1946. I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me what make the car is.



For a while her upstairs neighbours included two flat-sharing Conservative MPs, one of whom was the late Humphrey Berkeley, the other of whom is still very much with us . She had the entry level and basement, and used to sublet a basement room. One of her tenants was Robert Rowland, Panorama producer 1962-9 and editor 1972-3.

[Serial_Apologist]

My great aunt (the doctor, extreme right in the 1922 wedding photo) with her car and dog outside her flat at no 46, Redcliffe Road, SW10, in 1946. I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me what make the car is.



For a while her upstairs neighbours included two flat-sharing Conservative MPs, one of whom was the late Humphrey Berkeley, the other of whom is still very much with us . She had the entry level and basement, and used to sublet a basement room. One of her tenants was Robert Rowland, Panorama producer 1962-9 and editor 1972-3.

Morris 8 by the looks of it.

We lived just around the corner until 1958!

[Richard Tarleton]

Good grief!

Thanks!