Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - November 2024

[A G Wood]

I have to admit they did rot at a frightening rate and what’s more I was always banging my knee on the windscreen pillar getting in…I thinks it’s easier getting into a Ruby!

You can thank 'Detroit' for that little stylistic touch, Ivor. '55 Chevs have the same dogleg A pillar and take a similar toll of unwary  knees. My real-world experience indicates the same feature on the PA series caused significantly more pain, especially to an non-GM mechanic who would just try to slide across the seat to get behind the wheel like it was a MK2/3 Zephyr he was getting into.

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As an impressionable youth in the 1950s I thought the exhaust pipe coming out of a hole in the F's back bumper was really cool! That, and the valve radio in my Dad's Mk2 Consul...

To me the exhaust coming out from the hole in the F's back bumper was impressive. Did we say 'cool' in the fifties?

But it's sad to see the modern photo of the street with white painted walls, garish red splattered about, and more of the highway given over to cars and narrower pavements.

Also what I presume is a burial ground on the right hand side of the original (behind the crenellated gate posts and the wrought iron gates) seems to have been turned into a green space?
Judging by difference in ground level, relative to the footpath, the remains have been exhumed. Nice touch though that  the original stone wall has been reduced in height to match, and the original capping stones have been retained and refitted to the now-reduced wall.

I do like the Hillman convertible (?cabriolet) in the bottom of the frame, just in front of what looks to be a Thames 300 van