The Dark Wob

slowanimals wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:47 pm That Gazelle estate in the photo was the last one I saw in the metal and that was twenty one years ago. There was a chap the other end of Essex to me (at that time) who had two,one of which being the only one I ever saw which wasn't two tone green. Another was raced at Hednesford pre-68 a few years back by one of the W.I. team and since they were an Essex team I'd wondered if it was the rougher of those two.

My Uncle Keith only owned 3 cars in his life. An Ashley Coupe he built himself in 1962, a Singer Gazelle estate like that green one but red when his oldest was born in 1965, then an Opel Ascona 19SR in about1980 which he kept until he died a couple of years ago. My dickhead cousin sold the Ashley for £100 and had the Ascona collected for scrap. I presume the Gazelle got traded and scrapped in 1980.
I remember thinking the Gazelle was really posh when I was a kid, but then my Dad had a S1Land Rover.

Oldsmobiles....1960, 1959 which I think are both Super 88s, the '59 being the flat top 4 door hardtop "Holiday Sedan" edition. Wagon is a 1969 Vista-Cruiser based on the midsize Cutlass despite its apparent length. That '55 (I think) Ford Ranch Wagon in the background of the middle pic is the one for me though and being still a newish car I reckon the colour split makes it a Custom Ranch Wagon, woo hoo! Don't know what that one is packing but they were available with the Thunderbird engine....

There have been one or two 2 door PA conversions, must be a bugger of a job. Maybe best to buy a '58 Belair or Studebaker Champion in the first place?! That Wolfie'd Jag reminds me of one that was in Custard Cart or similar back in the Seventies. Flared out like that one, I have an idea it was called the "Mulsanne" before of course the Bentley came out.