At 04:19 pm 23/12/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Robert Allen wrote:
>
>> Okay, gang, here is an LBC quiz. A friend of mine has a line on a car
>> that he is, inexplicably, attached to. The current owner sent some
>> really crummy Polariods to go by, but, go take a look at this baby and
>> tell me what it is and is worth (please):
>>
>> http://www.sky.net/~boballen/mg/lbc
>
>Those are indeed crummy polaroids. It clearly is a car, but a very fuzzy
>one. Since nobody else has come up with any guess, much less been sure,
>I will guess it is a Hillman Minx. Am I close?
>
> Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
>
Well, close in that it is British, but it is a 1938 Austin 8. You can tell
by the Austin wings badge on the grille. They were continued briefly after
WW2. I had a roadster version of that car as my first car. No ball of
fire and had a wooden frame (like the T series MG), which in mine was in a
bad state. Still it got me to and from University, even if I arrived at
most traffic lights with both feet pushed hard on the brake pedal in an
attempt to retard forward progress by the lights!!
regards,
Graham
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