Fancy a "Classic" Car?

I remember dad having a standard vangard estate the same as the blue one in the list, when I was young, bizarrely I still remember its registration 74 RME. He eventually scrapped it when I was about 11.

Some nice cars there....think the Rover Coupe would do me, failing that one of the MG metro’s.....great little cars when new 😊

One classic motor that I've always liked was the Daimler Dart. I've not seen one for years, maybe they have all gone to rust!

Wasn’t that a Sunbeam Tiger ? 

Yes.. fibreglass body on the Daimler Dart SP250 👍🏻

Hi Bob - it was the engine that always attracted me, 2.5L V8, very understressed.  I guess where they fail is in the chassis structure, but having run Land Rovers for 20 years it would be an interesting challenge.  Not desperately keen on a fibreglass body, particularly of that vintage, but the technology in that area has changed as well making repairs much stronger and more durable than the original.  Does anyone remember the Reliant Schimitar?  That became a bit of a cult, with mostly Ford running gear and a fibreglass body.  There was one very interesting variant - the Schimitar GTS.  The "GTS" stood for Glazing Test Special and was an early experiment in the use of adhesively fixed glass to add rigidity ( and probably some style? ) to a car. Only one was ever produced and it was given to the Duke of Edinburgh for his use.  I only saw it when it was returned to Triplex Safety Glass when he'd finished with it.  It was in immaculate condition.  The way the side windows curved into the roof were, to me, a very elegant design which lifted the original above the mundane.  I don't know what sort of adhesive was used in those days, but I suspect that there was a degree of technology transfer from the aircraft windscreen side of the business  ( not that they were adhesively glazed, certainly in those days! )

Charlie's interest in the Sunbeam Tiger awakened another memory.  Wasn't it essentially a Sunbeam Alpine with a V8 engine?.  I've only worked on a Alpine once, that was a chassis repair on the big "X" section that formed the centre of structure. The days before computers allowed some unusual design concepts to reach the market.

The batmobile my brother had that given to him as a birthday present. We used to fight over it during the summer Holidays.
We had it for years and it was starting to get a bit rough and just left in the shed for years. We had some work done to the house in the mid 90’s and dad threw it in the skip. Could’ve been worth a bit now.
At the same time I had a Raleigh Chopper and my younger brother had the Raleigh Grifter that wore thrown in the skip at the same time. It’s one of those ones “ I wish I’d kept it now” the Raleigh Choppers have recently sold for very silly money.
Anything now I doubt is worth even saying as there’s so much out there now. Will I regret saying that when I look back in 20 years time? 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️