Austin Healey and Matching Benroy in Front of Half Dome 1960

[john]

My family has been digitizing old slides; some were posted over in "Trips, Pics and Hiway Tales".

This one was taken in 1960 judging from another pic that caught my Grandfather's license plate which was in the same batch of Yosemite pics.

[jerry101jlh]

That is great! I want one, the AH or a Triumph would also do lol OK, MG maybe ok as well lol

[Woodbutcher]

Cool Picture. I always had the TR series Triumphs. But I would have never considered driving across country with it. And never never would I pull a trailer with it. English sports cars require you to drive with a wrench in one hand and an oil can in the other. Try to steer like that!

[jerry101jlh]

Cool Picture. I always had the TR series Triumphs. But I would have never considered driving across country with it. And never never would I pull a trailer with it. English sports cars require you to drive with a wrench in one hand and an oil can in the other. Try to steer like that!

OK rain on my parade will ya lol All too true though

[M B Hamilton]

We currently have this '66 GT6 Triumph with an early '70s Spitfire body (one car out of three junkers). It's our third Triumph, although the other two were when we were considerably younger.

What Woodbutcher wrote about the wrench and oil can, yup. And the electrical was by Lucas - the lords of darkness. The currently favored designation for the vintage British cars is: LBC (Little British Car or even Lousy British Car, depending on if anything significant fell off recently). Still, ya' gotta' love 'em.

[Woodbutcher]

I did not mean to be a downer I had a 73 TR6 and a 67 TR4A. I truly loved them. I drove them for 12 plus years. Someday I will get another TR4A. But the English built cars by looking at how everyone else made them and then did it differently. Oh, I also had a 1967 XKE. What a MONEYPIT! Beautiful car, very fast, cornered poorly, electrical nightmare. But even a 10 year old boy walking past it would stop and say "what a cool car!" One of my best days, was the day I saw it's tail lights going away from my house for the last time!

Sorry to get off topic!

[BrwBier]

Lucas has 3 settings. Off, Dim and Flicker.

[john]

My dad had a 69 MG, wire wheels, knock off hub, chrome bumpers. It was a joy to ride in the "back seat" and watch the stars through the motion of the branches above. I was around ten at the time.

However Lucas revealed a 4th setting on a beach trip ... smolder. We limped into Fayettville NC.

It was all part of the joy.

[Alfred]

This one was taken in 1960

Thanks for posting these, I really dig the old pictures!

AL

[Creamcracker]

Here's mine in matching Welsh Flag colors (Red, white and green) 1975 Anniversary Edition MGB Roadster.

[pete42]

back in 1964-68 MG-TC, MG-TD and a Austin Healy 3000.
all better cars in my memory than when I owned them
I only remember the good times.
I doubt if I could do the "getting In" dance anymore;
right arm outstreached hand going onto the center hump followed by my head and upper torso then my behind all the while bending my legs and sitting down.

I remember you had to unscrew the side windows and stow them behind the seat.

very bad drive-in movie cars no makeout room......now there's a memory for you.

thanks for the pictures and the refreshing of my memory.

pete

[jerry101jlh]

You folks are killing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Creamcracker]

You folks are killing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do spill the beans???????????????

[angib]

English sports cars require you to drive with a wrench in one hand and an oil can in the other.

This is utterly incorrect - oil only needs to be poured in at gas stops (and usually in about the same amount) - the correct driver equipment is wrench in one hand and multimeter in the other.

And the electrical was by Lucas - the lords of darkness.

Please show some respect for other peoples' religions - Joseph Lucas was the one and only Prince of Darkness.

Some folk claim Joseph Lucas invented darkness - this is not just incorrect, but clearly stupid. However what he did invent was "sudden, unexpected darkness".

......depending on if anything significant fell off recently

Pointless comment ... this would only would happen if nothing significant was fixed on to start with.

very bad drive-in movie cars no makeout room......now there's a memory for you.

I have a cousin who in his 70s still claims he was 'successful' in a Frog-Eye/Bug-Eye Sprite:
1) Persuade passenger that a rear light has failed and that to test it you need her to reach her feet into the boot/trunk (which had no opening lid, but was open to the cabin if the seat backrests were folded forwards) and press on the offending light.
2) While checking the light this way, exclaim that "oh, now the other one is doing the same thing" and so driver has to climb in to press his foot against the other light.
3) Now that you're both in there and comfy......

[campmaster-k]

That was the funniest segment I have read in a long time. You guys need to get together and do teardrop stand up.