interesting to note amid all the tributes to the late jazz musician and radio comic host Humphrey Littleton in today's newspapers, that he "maintained a dogged attachment to a battered Volvo estate in which he reputedly clocked up more than 250,000 miles".
A truly multi talented guy and so unpretentious, as his choice of aged vehicle shows.
Which car and how old, I wonder, would each of us like to own when "our time" comes?
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I'm sorry I haven't a clue !!
(He would have approved of that !)
Edited by Pugugly on 26/04/2008 at 12:54
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When the hubcap of life rolls off into the gutter of destiny, and there is no more oil on my dipstick, I don't mind what I'm driving as long as it was made in the twenty-second century.
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If I can still run for an hour or two after Samantha has cranked my handle in the morning then that'll be good enough for me.
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Great player and radio host he was....perhaps a Honda Jazz..trad or modern though?
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I still remember Humph introducing a live jazz programme many years ago just after a traffic report of an accident in Gloucestershire.
"Talking of Old Sodbury, it's Humphrey Lyttelton here....."
A great life, doing what he did best right up to the end. Like him, I'd like my last car to be one, whether new or old, that I'm happy with. Probably an Audi if I'm in a position to afford it - if not, as at present, a VW will do nicely.
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On a lovely day like today a 1965 Ford Galaxy 500 XL convertible (the one with the stacked headlamps). Any other day a Rover P5 - a relaxed drawing room on wheels.
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Ah, I remember Galaxie 500 too.
Whatever happened to them?
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Used to call them "star-cars" (people who know them will know why) when I was a liitle 'un. I think they were the first cars that I was concious of as being "different" and started a life long love of things automotive, looking back (I must have been under four, living where we did...) they were different to the rest of the "porridge" that was on the road then.
Edited by Pugugly on 27/04/2008 at 17:07
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I looked at buying a second hand Galaxy 4dr with a 406 engine with some friends when I was in my early twenties. Sadly there were too many problems and it would have absorbed endless money! I recall driving it and the massive surge of torque from that mighty engine. Why Ford re-used the name for a, usually diesel, school run MPV I will never know. If I win the lottery I would search out a 427 model for myself!
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