Fictional Hearses

Austin Allegro estate.

Imagine this with a V shaped engine up front powering the rear wheels too.

Chevrolet El Camino

Great car and photograph to start with, I just tinkered with it.  Credit for the original is still on the photograph.

Austin FX4

I wonder why there isn't a taxi hearse out there, surely there's enough cabbies would want to hire it for that last fare?

It's October, I've been tinkering with some digital photographs while I convalesce following surgery (boo).

Three Wheeled Retro Racing

Back in the eighties and nineties Dad would take us all out to various race meets.  Early on he had a Goldwing bike and sidecar so we went to see those.  Later it would be rallying at Clumber Park.  I found these pictures the other day entirely by accident, a happy little window into the past on what looks like a crisp Autumn morning.

Wirksworth

This weekend just gone, the parents and I went to Wirksworth for the art festival there.  The festival is not really of any interest to this blog, but some of the spots were.

This made us chuckle, mobility scooter with a Motorway Maintenance sticker on the back and a high visibility jacket on the seat.  I believe the women in purple skirts were part of a performing arts thing... or maybe it was just a strange coincidence.

Dad and I spotted this bike at about the same time.  The bike is a make I'm unfamiliar with, it being the first one I'd ever seen, but Dad was au fait being a bike riding type way back when.

Twingo!  Don't see these too often in the UK, they were primarily sold in France as rental cars.

Nissan Figaro.  One of the more successful attempts at a retro styled modern car which is itself now considered a retro vehicle due to its age.  Hard to believe this little 2 seater coupé is a Nissan Micra underneath it all.

Sooty Van, aka Bedford Rascal.  I believe these sleep one and a half people, are a little more unstable than the miniature van counterpart and quite rare now.  Perfect for wending your way around the narrow streets of Wirksworth though.

Moving House

When you move house almost entirely with a tiny car and a roof rack and your friends have Photoshop, this is what happens.

BAM! Hillman Imp

Garage find Imp, used regularly and restored just enough to preserve it.  Love this sort of thing.

Awesome Van

I've moved out of Sheffield now, but I still hope to continue making the regular RR meets there on the Meadowhall Retail Park.  September the 5th of September was the most recent meet and something really very special indeed appeared.  Unfortunately, my photographs don't contain the soundtrack that this thing entered with and more's the pity.  Believe it or not, what you're about to witness started life as a bay window panel van but is now a fully custom, non air ride, multi-windowed, T-topped, suicide doored masterpiece on Porsche alloys.  The owner is a legend for driving this on Sheffield's treacherous roads.

Unlikely Bedfellows

The Standard Atlas is a clumsy looking old thing, and quite rare now.  Most Standard Atlas' have rotted away or are found seemingly solid only to have rotted away in all the important places so that they turn into a pile of old British tin at the mere tug of a door handle.

The Bosozoku movement of Japan creates clumsy looking things.

I like both, for reasons I don't yet fully understand, so when the challenge for a Bosozoku themed vehicle came up over on Retro Rides I couldn't help myself really.

I HAVE NO REGRETS!