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« on: October 20, 2011, 05:01:49 PM »
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http://uk.autoblog.com/2011/10/20/grandma-is-microcar-mad/
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2011, 07:59:04 PM »
a nice article from a very proud grandson  Wink
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2011, 08:08:09 PM »
Thought you meant this at first! 91 year old!
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 06:28:08 AM »
Nice pictures too.
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 10:10:13 AM »
Quote from: lightweight dickie on October 20, 2011, 07:59:04 PM
a nice article from a very proud grandson  Wink
This item was not posted by any of my grandsons, they would not have mentioned my age!
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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2011, 11:26:25 AM »
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.
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2011, 12:15:40 PM »
Precisely Bob, I did make a point of saying that I thought I had the largest collection of UNUSUAL cars.  Jean
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2011, 01:22:37 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.
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2011, 02:21:34 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  Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2011, 05:42:52 PM »
Quote from: lightweight dickie on October 21, 2011, 02:21:34 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  Cheesy

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.
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2011, 06:16:41 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! Wink Wink
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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2011, 06:19:05 PM »
wish someone had warned me about you years ago - but they didn't  Smiley
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