Voitures Anciennes

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Sparkle
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#131 Post by Sparkle »

OH really liked the Lotus Europa - I didn't! I liked the Lotus Elan until someone I worked with was picked up one evening by her new boyfriend who arrived in a dark blue Jensen Interceptor - wow I fell in instant love with it (the car not the driver ;) ) and still love them. That was far more impressive IMHO than the Rolls driven by Richard Beckinsale who used to pick his mum up. We worked at Jessops (now John Lewis) Nottm and Saturday evening all the flash cars would pull up outside the staff entrance - a site to behold - at the time we had a moggie minor 😹. The nearest we got to a Jensen was a Lancia HPE and I loved that too not that it was ours we looked after it while OHs boss went off on his hols!
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#132 Post by curtis »

A difficult starter. What car is this and what circuit ? It's me driving but that won't help.
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#133 Post by curtis »

As there are really only two things you can see on the car through the windscreen, those are the clues.

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#134 Post by Hotrodder »

CT and insurance sticker?

I don't recognise the linked wiper arms or the chrome thing on the bonnet. Either a tank cap or an air filter.
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#135 Post by Spardo »

No idea as to the car, but location, Le Mans?

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#136 Post by curtis »

Hotrodder wrote: Tue Nov 02, 2021 10:07 am CT and insurance sticker?

I don't recognise the linked wiper arms or the chrome thing on the bonnet. Either a tank cap or an air filter.
The linked wipers are one clue. It's a 1966 Fiat Abarth 850TC. The other is the chrome petrol tank filler.

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#137 Post by curtis »

A clue for the circuit coming later.

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#138 Post by Char »

I like that car curtis, it's really cute. 8-)

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#139 Post by curtis »

It is very noisy both inside and out (lovely). As you can see the engine cover stays open all the time.

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#140 Post by RobertArthur »

Family archives, from the depths of a shoebox, somewhere on the isle of Java around 1929:

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