Time traveller
I wondered what was going on here. Then I looked up Le Perthus on a map to find out where it was and realised that what we see in the postcard is the border checkpoint between France and Spain. I … Continue reading Time traveller
I wondered what was going on here. Then I looked up Le Perthus on a map to find out where it was and realised that what we see in the postcard is the border checkpoint between France and Spain. I … Continue reading Time traveller
The blurred image of the convertibles without windscreens in the blog post Driverless Cars Pass Selfridges produced some interesting comments. The general consensus seemed to be that the cars were MG Midgets so I posted onto some MG Facebook groups. … Continue reading More on that transporter…
The end of another year and I was looking over the stats of this blog… The first ever post was on 1 April 2013 and wasn’t about a postcard but a photograph I’d come across on the web. A Grey … Continue reading Postcards for Petrolheads – A Review
Postcard showing an Austin Healey Sprite or MG Midget parked in the middle of some quintessentially French cars – a Renault R8 0r 10), Citroen Ami 6, Renault 4 and Citroën 2CV outside the Tour du Tournoer in Toulouse. Continue reading The Midget and the Tower
Lurking in this courtyard outside the Old White Hart Hotel in Henley-on-Thames, which dates back to 1490, between the Wolseley/Riley 1500 and the Morris Minor is a very rare Jensen 541 Coupe. Nice! A little Midget/Sprite looks on. Continue reading Fifties’ Jensen at Fifteenth Century Inn
No Waiting in Lynmouth, unless of course you have a Bentley. Love the couple with the dog, and on the wall is that a scantily clan young woman? But back to the Bentley… a 1939 4 ¼Park Ward Sports Saloon? … Continue reading Waiting for a Jaguar not a Bentley
Not exactly a car on a street but here we have a little MG Midget, registration KEK186, crossing a ford at Lorna Doone Farm, Malmsmead, Exmoor. The postcard was posted from Taunton on 24 August 1969 and the car is … Continue reading MG and a Ford
This postcard was posted in 1938 from Dieppe and shows British cars queueing up to board the ferry to get home. Only one more summer left before Europe was at war and continental motoring holidays were just a distant memory. … Continue reading Dieppe before the storm.
MG M-Type Midget and friend. Continue reading MG enjoys the sea air.