Post by threelitre on Apr 15, 2011 0:23:29 GMT
Well, it's been some time since I signed up for this group - time to show off a little 
While I was a little boy, I was ferried around in this car:
In fact it is with us since 1973, and when it came to the decision to either bin or restore it in the late 80s, my father bought loads of tools and learned to weld. Not economical, but rather sentimental values. It is funny for me to take this car out to repeat holiday trips I've already done as a child - i.e. seeing Yorkshire dales.
When I was 16 I dreamt of buying an Austin Maxi - it took about 4 years to actually find one. This was 1989 when I bought this:
It is still with me and in almost the same (unrestored) condition more than 15 years after this picture was taken. Being my first car (and my dream car
), it will be the last to go if it ever comes to this. Now in retirement and sadly not being used as much as it should be.
While stuck with preparations for my thesis at university, the gearbox of the Maxi developed a fault. Buying another one very cheap was the solution to keep me mobile
A small welding job for a retest went a bit into perfection and ended in a respray. Mechanically it's the most reliable car I ever had - in all the 18 or so years it hardly needed any work at all.
1998 and 1999 saw me acquiring a pair of even larger Austins.
After this red one was part of a picture story in AutoBild, I received a phone call which lead to my purchase of what seems to be the only LHD 3litre left. It's unrestored, far from perfect, but mechanically more or less like new, having covered less than 50k kms (10k since I have it). Here seen at the parade of Austin cars at the centenary celebrations at Longbridge:
There's more - like my better half owning this little beauty
or my second crab waiting for some finishing touches:
My latest acquistion is deviating from the main theme of my collection a bit:
Regards,
Alexander
While I was a little boy, I was ferried around in this car:
In fact it is with us since 1973, and when it came to the decision to either bin or restore it in the late 80s, my father bought loads of tools and learned to weld. Not economical, but rather sentimental values. It is funny for me to take this car out to repeat holiday trips I've already done as a child - i.e. seeing Yorkshire dales.
When I was 16 I dreamt of buying an Austin Maxi - it took about 4 years to actually find one. This was 1989 when I bought this:
It is still with me and in almost the same (unrestored) condition more than 15 years after this picture was taken. Being my first car (and my dream car
), it will be the last to go if it ever comes to this. Now in retirement and sadly not being used as much as it should be.While stuck with preparations for my thesis at university, the gearbox of the Maxi developed a fault. Buying another one very cheap was the solution to keep me mobile
A small welding job for a retest went a bit into perfection and ended in a respray. Mechanically it's the most reliable car I ever had - in all the 18 or so years it hardly needed any work at all.
1998 and 1999 saw me acquiring a pair of even larger Austins.
After this red one was part of a picture story in AutoBild, I received a phone call which lead to my purchase of what seems to be the only LHD 3litre left. It's unrestored, far from perfect, but mechanically more or less like new, having covered less than 50k kms (10k since I have it). Here seen at the parade of Austin cars at the centenary celebrations at Longbridge:
There's more - like my better half owning this little beauty
or my second crab waiting for some finishing touches:
My latest acquistion is deviating from the main theme of my collection a bit:
Regards,
Alexander
