With the successful installation of the window seal, we started driving the Minx farther afield. There was a car show in Brooks at the Vintage Car and Motorcycle Museum where the Laverda is for the summer, so we took the minx there. I was delighted to see this 1946 Hillman Minx with the suicide
doors.
You can just see the bottom of a Studebaker sign on the wall above many lovely old cars, and the blue hood-like thing over the top of the Minx hood is on a Leyland tractor. Who knew? Not me.
I heard a nice putt-putt sound as this 1914 Buick Touring Car drove up and parked a Corvette and a Cougar away from our 1960 Minx. (See the Minx below with it's hood up just past the little red Corvette? Yes, the red bits are what you can see of a 1958 Corvette convertible.)
This Corvair Corsa would have my Corvair brother drooling, but he didn't come down to Brooks, so didn't see it. That blue flash in back is HH's Laverda. (I get a thrill just seeing it.)
HH covets this 1940 Triumph Speed Twin, which spent the war years (WWII) and some years after leaning up against a tree out in the weather.
Here's the Best in Show bike from the LaMay Museum.
And here are a couple more bikes from the Northwest Vintage Car and Motorcycle Museum display.
After the show weekend, we went to Nashville in the Hillman, where it met an Irishman who was thrilled to see it, and his son-in-law, also delighted, who went home to get his wife's '57 Chevy.
2 comments:
Your Minx looks immaculate.The tops of the wings, either side of the hood, used to rust through from underneath where there is a "shelf" which holds the crud. Is yours sound or has it had work done on it there? Although I guess in your dry climate you did not have the problems we did in wet and muddy Britain.
In passing I thought I'd let you know that I have resurrected my blog - missed writing it and I had been away for just over a year. I have recently bought a 1992 Honda CD250U in perfect, original condition - will do my next post about it. - it's good to be back!
Hooray! It's you! Good looking little Honda! Hooray for your little corner of the earth! So pleased to hear all this.
Thanks. Our Minx has had a very good life. Didn't hang out in soggy barns or sheds. We believe the original owners were Canadian, and they were very good to it. As far as we know it's always been on the western side of the mountains where it used to rain a lot, before all the rain started falling elsewhere and all at once, but it must have been kept inside during the worst of the weather. We're 10 inches below normal rainfall, which means more days to drive the Minx.
HH said to tell you there's a little bit of rattle can paint touch up on the rear fenders, but no rust. It's our only car right now, until the Chevy comes back from the repair shop, where it went after it sprang a leak. Minx didn't have very many miles on it, so it must have spent years in lovely dry retirement. We think it's happy to be used again.
Everything is, at least until something else breaks, running beautifully. HH is pretty diligent about taking all his motorcycles for a ride, and he always comes back saying "it runs like a brand new bike," or "better than brand new."
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