British sports-cars of the 1950s - 1960s inc MG, Jaguar, Triumph, Aston Martin, TVR + 150 photos

[@oldclassiccarUK]

*Hi, thanks for watching, please see the other old-car videos now on this channel: **kzbin.info/door/KaTg9fPUvmUQi94FcnDbrg** RJ.*

[@gaufrid1956]

I was travelling on a bus in my suburb of Cardiff. New South Wales, Australia this afternoon, and was delighted to see a British Racing green MG TF drive by in the opposite direction. The driver appropriately had sunglasses and a cap! Thanks very much for your photo presentations.

[@raylarkin5004]

That was a great presentation! I'm a 67 yr old American and was able to name 70% of these cars. Reason being, they were common here into the 70s and i have alwys been a car spotter. 🤗👍🏼

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Hi Ray, thanks for watching

[@iansmeath8674]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, very nostalgic indeed!

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks for watching

[@jagvette1]

Yet again great video, I believe it was Esso that did the Tiger tail, and the slogan "Put a Tiger in Your Tank"

[@johntodd6081]

Yes it was

[@hughchamberlain5018]

I seem to remember a radio advert from the early seventies where a competitor of Esso advertised "We don't care where you get your tail, but buy your gas from us" , or something along those lines.

[@mickokeeffe105]

Great collection of cars - many thanks, Mick

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks Mick, glad it was of interest

[@bobspeller2225]

Very nice collection of sports cars. some from the late 50's onward was my introduction to sport's cars starting with a MK111 Austin Healey Sprite. (Reg 480 DAN) cheers Bob

[@jessiebrader2926]

@ 11.22 MGC, you have to own one to see it. Thank you for the photos, a walk down memory lane.

[@thisnicklldo]

I had a series 3 1967 Lotus 7. I had it in 1973 and was probably the 4th or 5th owner after the original kit builder. Mine had the Ford 1600 engine with a single twin choke Weber, and flared front wings, not the now more fashionable cycle wings. The engine didn't really fit in the alloted space, vertically, and the original builder had fitted a plate under the sump to prevent breakages - this lowered the ground clearance by a further 3/4" or so, and did mean that driving over cats-eyes gave a gentle tapping rhythm, and driveways with any sort of kerb were to be taken very slowly. No fuel gauge, used a length of wood as a dipstick, no indicators, I ruined several shirts sticking my hand out for hand signals and getting the road spray from the front wheel all over the cuffs (which of course were about 2" above the road surface, it was a very very low car. No room above the engine for an air filter, so a lot of banging in the rain. I was young and foolish - the insurance was equivalent to about 3 months of my wages and I used it as my daily driver, for which it was totally impractical of course. The rear axle came from a Morris 1000, and used an odd form of trailing arm suspension, with an asymmetric tubular bracket to the bottom of the diff - the assymetry, and play in the silent-bloc bushes meant that under acceleration (which was awesome, of course) the nose would twitch out to the right, and under deceleration would twitch back to the left, it was perfectly possible to overtake without ever turning the steering wheel. A financial burden at the time, but a source of many happy memories. Replaced it with a 68 Vitesse, much more practical car with a really sweet engine, and an overdrive that took about 1.5 seconds to cut in - a real surprise when you forgot to switch it off when stopping at lights, and once you hit 3rd accelerating away from the lights, suddenly the overdrive would kick in. Comfortable, but not a limpet on the road like the Lotus 7. Traded that for a mini and was very very happy with that.

[@miguelgarcia-vs1rv]

Maravillosos autos y bellas fotos gracias¡

[@alias1719]

Nice - thanks for posting. Lots of new makes for me.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Cool, thanks for checking it out, lots more where that came from!

[@henrychubbs2823]

Aside from the high pitched hum, a wonderful video.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks for watching

[@Pauley_in_GP]

Very nice selection. Lots of beauties, and some rare birds - especially here in the States. Thanks for posting.

[@lennyk.2161]

Thanks for letting us see more than one of the step child of Triumph, Spitfiremk3 most videos leave us out. 👉😎👈💯 your video put a smile 😃on my face. Keep driving them until the wheels fall off. Hello 👋FROM SAN JOSE CA

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks for watching Lenny, more Triumph content coming soon. There are a couple of vids on here about Mk2 and Mk3 Spitfire brochures already.

[@thomascarmichael6760]

You guys are making me drool. There were a few I’d never heard of before, and I owned 2 MGB’s and a MGB-GT. The UK sure was lucky to have had all those sport cars running around. Wish someone would produce an updated retro version of the Triumphs and MG’s. They’d sell like crazy over here in America.

[@northstar1950]

I knew someone, the late John Baker, who restored a Gordon-Keeble. He was service manager at Jensens and I think it was restored there. Unfortunately I never saw it, only photographs. I think they built just under 100 cars.

[@GooseDave]

Fantastic, nearly perfect, collection of photos. Perfection would have been including one of the best/prettiest (in my opinion) and very popular 1,172cc SV Ford specials, the Rochdale type GT. Thanks for sharing. Please do the Ford Specials vid - great idea. Let's see plenty of Aquaplane.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Glad you liked this collection of photos, I'll see what I can arrange re the Ford specials

[@davidcoleman6032]

Very good video!

[@robertlear2712]

In 1973 when I was 25 I owned. 1960 Triumph TR 3

[@jkajje2945]

Very nice Thank you

[@Vince_uk]

Cool video, you do put an awful amount of effort into creating these and it shows. From these I have owned a MK3 Spitfire, TR7 which was more trouble than you could mention. A friends wife had a MG V8 3500 and unfortunately had a fatal accident while driving it, it was one powerful machine. I still think that the Jaguar E Type is the most beautiful car every designed.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks for watching! I've had a few Mk3 Spitfires in the past too

[@darticulate8751]

The red Alvis with vertical stacked headlights was not a TD as you mentioned but a TDF

[@craigdickens791]

I enjoyed that one (and your others too 😉)

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks!

[@marchofstetter8313]

My version of heaven would be driving them , one at a time!

[@williamgregory6684]

Well done!!

[@MrGeeyess]

Any pics of Tornado Cars built in Rickmansworth?

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Possibly somewhere, I did wonder about focusing solely on Ford-based specials one day with these photo collections

[@jkajje2945]

Veery nice Thank you

[@raywest3834]

The red MGA is a 1600 twin-cam, far more grunt than the 1500, but not nearly as reliable.

[@dinoallbaugh2050]

I had a 1969 Triumph GT6

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Very nice!

[@derekantill3721]

You did very well with the car collection, but would prefer less repeats of the various models and more details of the cars.

[@jimcook5326]

The only time I've ever ridden in a Turner was in bellport Long Island. It belonged to the sister of a friend of mine and I don't know where at where the highest hormone concentration level that I had at the time was with the car or with the sister

[@robertscheinost179]

A friend bought a Turner for $400. It was on the side of the road on Route 6 in Andover, CT., a 2 lane busy road. The frame needed welding and the guy that sold it sure didn't know what he had. My friend advertised the Turner and he sold it for 10K within a week to some guy from New Jersey. The telephone didn't stop ringing for months after he sold it. This was in 1991 and he wishes he never sold it. I traveled that route 3 times a week and never saw the car or it would have been mine!

[@Eric06410]

If you ever get to the US you need to go to the Harkness Memorial State Park British by the Sea car show.

[@baryonyx3913]

currently here looking for the car my grandad used to race in cus i dont want to ask him since i recently asked him and forgot

[@objectiveobjective1948]

Great video but why do we always get feed on your videos, sorry but they become unwatchable as its painful.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

It's something I'm looking into at the mo, if it's annoying maybe just turn the volume down a little

[@jessiebrader2926]

A year later, no feedback.

[@donaldgrant9067]

And today most of these car companies are out of business. It's a shame.

[@glennmonrad7503]

airport piano

[@ScottTaylor-ru3hi]

You can't hear that feedback? What a waste.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Yes some of the earlier uploads did suffer a little