Joey UK All posts by this member | 16 of 22 Wed 21st Feb 2018 12:18pm Member: Joined Jan 2018 Total posts:11 Wow how brilliant is that. Loving Broadgate with cars and vans. |
Standard 8 trip to town, 1963 | |
JohnnieWalker Bonny Hills, Australia All posts by this member | 17 of 22 Wed 21st Feb 2018 7:43pm Member: Joined Jul 2011 Total posts:339 Excellent find - lots of old memories there! Of course, the suitcases might have been full of spare parts - you never knew in those days when you'd need a new fan belt, carburettor, gearbox etc. True Blue Coventry Kid ![]() |
Standard 8 trip to town, 1963 | |
Davey Coventry All posts by this member | 18 of 22 Thu 22nd Feb 2018 1:42pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:71 No hubcaps or door trims on that model then.
I loved the special tool for mounting steering wheels, i.e. clenched fist, and the special method of connecting gearbox to engine, i.e. wobble it around until something happens. Brilliant!
Great old film of the city centre with the Broadgate pre-fab shops etc. and Hertford St. DavidT |
Standard 8 trip to town, 1963 | |
Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 19 of 22 Thu 22nd Feb 2018 2:23pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3791 A very lucky film as the weather was horrendous during 53. also shows we still had no moving track in those days and they seemed to have no time limits for assembling parts. |
Standard 8 trip to town, 1963 | |
Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 20 of 22 Thu 22nd Feb 2018 5:21pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3791 We were so proud building those cars that delegates and engineers were invited from Russia, France, Germany, and General Motors of USA and every other country, that they copied and improved things and more or less put Coventry out of business.
I would think the boys were looking at Lady Godiva.
They used to fit the windscreen with two pieces of string, can't remember now, but it was quick and easy. |
Standard 8 trip to town, 1963 | |
matchle55 Coventry All posts by this member | 21 of 22 Thu 22nd Feb 2018 7:53pm Member: Joined Feb 2014 Total posts:242 My brother has a Standard 8, he has owned it since he was 17, he's 65 this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Standard 8 trip to town, 1963 | |
Gas Centre Perth Scotland All posts by this member | 22 of 22 Fri 23rd Feb 2018 7:48am Member: Joined Dec 2014 Total posts:86 ![]() Alan H |
Standard 8 trip to town, 1963 |