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And Chris Emmerson is hoping to make the run out and if not he will meet us for lunch. 😁

@Jakejmagee is planning on coming!!

@ianaliyou need to buy this guy a new calendar!!! WINTER league 🥶 Father Christmas is on his 3rd summer holiday , the Easter bunny now has grand kids , what’s this guy taking 🤪

Busy elsewhere, have a great run all.

@AndrewBClarkeI've just created a Facebook event for you 👍 https://www.facebook.com/share/VZWJLaSsexstzytx/

Sadly I can't make this one, I'm at the rolling road Saturday morning with Iain due to his recent engine swap

Yeah that's probably not a way to get a pay upgrade... Even today the DS still looks like a space ship, I don't think the SM really ever caught peoples imagination as the DS had once done though?.

Yes, If I were to do anything to it , the brakes would be the area, fortunately the system from either the GT6 or Vitesse are a straight swap albeit with an upright and stub axle upgrade. Been here before 30 years ago with a Spitfire.

My boss at the time (1974) had a DS Estate top of the range with swivelling headlights. He's now a KC in the £multi million salary class as a corporate tax barrister. I have travel sickness and declined to be driven in it as vomiting in one's boss's personal car is not a guaranteed route to promotion!

I have no memories of the Jowett - far too young, I do just about recall the DS which was sold in 1970 upon my fathers death, mum got a Beetle instead - and I do remember that.

Couldn't agree more there, I do hope the Gov withdraw that legislation.

I love the Jowett! My sister's husband (my BiL) had a Bradford van and it, like many of its kin, broke its crankshaft. He also had a Brough Superior which does still exist in a motorcycle museum in Norfolk somewhere. I had two Capri 2.8i on my employer - a 1983 and a 1985. I could have bought either from the company but they had each recorded >78,000 miles by that time and I had really had my fill of them by then too. I know, I know, worth a packet now etc...

We've a Capri that has been in my wife's family since new (1984). We've had an external restoration done as otherwise it was going to fall to pieces. So yes we've lost some of the originality but at least we still have the car and should continue to do so for years to come. The other thing for us, was that my mother-in-law (serial Capri owner) got to enjoy the car again in her final years, she couldn't drive it, but loved being taken out in it. Internally we have kept it fairly untouched, there's even stuff like some ancient sweet wrappers and a (IIRC) Blockbuster Video membership card in the ashtrays. The car has been "MOT exempt" since April this year. It's still had an MOT - absolute no-brainer. Why would we want to risk the safety of the entire family by pretending that old cars don't decay?

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I think that it looks great just the way it is. I'd just do maintenance to keep it running (and stopping) well, and sort any bad rust spots. I'm actually jealous looking at it. David

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Last one on the Jowett, but here it is sat in my dads back garden awaiting sale in 1965, was replaced with a Citroen DS.

ZK Wide Body Scuttle in black. Good condition. There are a couple of very small marks on it that would buff out. SOLD

What a touching story, wow. Yes the owner of the Jowett said he had it's history as well, another reason that helped prove my association to it. Not sure if any signatures existed though. He was open to selling it when I made contact the first time, and if I recall selling this house was the only way I could get that cash together, strangely, almost mirroring my own old car experiences the Jowett enters car rallies and events now, there is even Youtube footage of it at a sprint event. The price will have only risen since then, so I doubt very much that car will be sat in my garage any time soon - sadly. ETA Found it...

I used to sit down with a cuppa at work and open all the yellow triumph stags up on ebay in separate windows. Of all my dad's old cars the stag was the one most likely to have survived. It had, and was just a few miles down the road according to the ebay advert, I had almsot been driving past it every day on my commute. The owner offered me and my mum a drive in it for old times' sake .. then the killer blow .. the owner brought out all the old paperwork including going back to when my dad owned it .. and his signature. Well .. I was in tears and my mum (God bless her) gifted me the money to buy it .. so it is now back in the family and will be as long as I can drive .. It even still has the hole in the hardtop headlining I did when I was 10 ... that's 47 years ago now. If you ever get the chance to buy these former family owned cars again please take it

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Some years ago, I tried to see if my fathers car was still around from the year I was born, it was a two seater, so with 3 in the family now the car had to go. It took me some time but eventually I did find it, I ended up on the owners forum with phots to prove my claims, and he offered me a drive in it, at the time transport to the South was not possible , but these days it is, so I may just see if his offer still stands. Car has been repainted from bright red to this maroon colour. ETA I have tried to find all the other cars from my childhood, but sadly they are most likely sat in a house now posing as a fridge

It wasn't simply for the number plate Richard, I'd still have that now probably on my Z3, it was a sentimental value of the car which I'd known since my teens. Apart from the usual outrigger rust which was the main deterrent to trying to MoT it, it was in pretty good nick, and a sub-80,000 mileage. The whole burden of dealing with Dad's estate (he was widowed in 1974) in conjunction with my sister who lived on the south coast was overwhelming when I was working long hours anyway. As you say Richard, we've all done similar things no doubt.

Yes, the more I think about this the more I will resist my OCD and leave as is. There is no way I would ever embark on another full restoration, health is the main reason but cash isn't far behind, lol ( I know full well that budgets go way out of the window very quickly) Regarding the MOT, I agree with "some" owners just playing the game as it were, and using this as simply a way to either save money or ( more increasingly ) to make money, classics have been rising in price steadily for quite some time now, these scoundrels have cottoned on to that and now just dragging them out of anywhere and getting them going, selling and walking away to buy another one and so it goes on. I would like to know what the governments rational was when they decided this was a good idea?.

Well needless to say the reg did indeed end up on the obvious marque, although it's not on an old a car ( 1996) the last time it was MOT'd (2010) . A two tone 1200 very smart, we have all parted with cars , that we wished we hadn't...