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General Category => Microcar News => Topic started by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on October 20, 2011, 06:01:49 PM

Title: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on October 20, 2011, 06:01:49 PM
Rumcars in the news

http://uk.autoblog.com/2011/10/20/grandma-is-microcar-mad/ (http://uk.autoblog.com/2011/10/20/grandma-is-microcar-mad/)
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: richard on October 20, 2011, 08:59:04 PM
a nice article from a very proud grandson  ;)
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Jonathan Poll on October 20, 2011, 09:08:09 PM
Thought you meant this at first! 91 year old!

(http://cdn.blogautomobile.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Mamika20.jpg)
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Big Al on October 21, 2011, 07:28:08 AM
Nice pictures too.
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Jean on October 21, 2011, 11:10:13 AM
Quote from: lightweight dickie on October 20, 2011, 08:59:04 PM
a nice article from a very proud grandson  ;)
This item was not posted by any of my grandsons, they would not have mentioned my age!
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Bob Purton on October 21, 2011, 12:26:25 PM
Well quite! What happened to the age of chivalry?

I think as usual the journalists got there facts wrong, as far as I know Wayne Lee has the largest microcar collection in the UK with over sixty cars, unless anyone knows different.
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Jean on October 21, 2011, 01:15:40 PM
Precisely Bob, I did make a point of saying that I thought I had the largest collection of UNUSUAL cars.  Jean
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Bob Purton on October 21, 2011, 02:22:37 PM
Well, I think you are probably right there Jean, most of the other uk collectors I know have lots of the same cars eg multiple Heinkels etc. and not so many of the unusual ones.
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: richard on October 21, 2011, 03:21:34 PM
come on then bob . spill the beans to us ignorants who the heck is wayne lee sounds like a chinese laundry not a micronaut  :D
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Big Al on October 21, 2011, 06:42:52 PM
Quote from: lightweight dickie on October 21, 2011, 03:21:34 PM
come on then bob . spill the beans to us ignorants who the heck is wayne lee sounds like a chinese laundry not a micronaut  :D

He also appears on an old thread, as seen through the Perry oldScope of the Heinkel submarine.

I would put in a claim myself but I agree a collection implies differing cars not lots of similar ones. The only way that could count is if one was attempting to have every version of a marque. I am not doing that but attempting a reasonable reflection of the differing models over a whole range.
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: Bob Purton on October 21, 2011, 07:16:41 PM


Richard, Wayne is a collector who keeps himself to himself. Not a bad policy really.

Al will not be interested because Wayne is an Essex lad like myself, as we are all villains, best stay away! ;) ;)
Title: Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
Post by: richard on October 21, 2011, 07:19:05 PM
wish someone had warned me about you years ago - but they didn't  :)