Bigmet wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:47 am
Mountain wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:31 pm
Looks are odd like that. Some cars from 70 years ago look futuristic as if they have not come out yet if one didn't know what they were.
One of my Dutch uncles had a Tatra T87 in the 1960s (look it up) which was clearly something out of science fiction, 'exteremely' fast, and also
EXTREMELY NOISY if you were consigned to the back seats with your cousins. How we loved that car. It met its end in a sluit: from an icy winter road where it ended up going backwards: tail heavy like a Porsche, only much more so...
Reliant were pretty noisy. I can vaguely remember Tatra. Didn't they make the Rancho before Talbot made them? I LOVED the look of the Rancho and a few of them were 4WD. But I will look up the Tatra. I remember something about a long sloping back if I recall what I saw as child.
A really seriously surprising car (Though was made around the late 80's onwards) was the Mk1 Renault Espace which had a fibre glass body and was incredibly quick for a people carrier. My brother had one for a while. He tipped his as he had to swerve early one morning when a car came at speed round the corner on the wrong side of the road coming the other way. Not long after the bin men came and saw him and helped him turn it back over. Just a few scratches on the mirror! No other damage despite it having tipped onto its side.
Right. The Tatra!
I know where I have seen one! My aunty had a book of cars in the back of their car when I was travelling in it with my Mum and brother, and in the book was this car which stood out to me as it had three lights. I was pretty young when I read the book and I would not read the words, as I am a visual thinker so when young, it took some convincing to get me to read words! (Even today I do what my Dad did and only measure if I really have to when making things like my little waggons. Though my Dad would measure, I rarely ever saw him write anything down unless he had to work out angles of roof trusses etc. (He was a carpenter). Everything was head knowledge from designs to formula to make polish (When he began the trade, furniture polish was not a commercially available product, and it was a case that carpenters had to learn how to make it to give it away with the furniture that they made. The formula was always a secret they would ONLY ever pass down to their apprentices. Even I never was given the formula though I know the main ingredients used. He had a great memory and a brilliant picture design memory, so would invent things he wanted to make. My Grandad on the other side of the family got on well with my Dad, as he was a designer by trade and so was his Dad).
Why I mention that is how my mind remembered the car. Visual pictures I saw I can recall even from an early age, from the time when I was taken down the hospital corridor to wait for my Mum to be picked up after I was born onwards. While I can only recall snippets, I can go back to recall things of an early age. My youngest brother can also do this and he remembers the recovery room my Mum went in after having had a C-section after she had him. Was the only time she went into that room, and the only time my brother ever went in, and my Mum was stunned when my brother was 18 and recalled that room in detail right down to the design of the clock on the wall! She was only in there for a few hours after she was operated on to have him! I remember when I first saw him as my Dad took me and my other brother up, and I said "He is looking. He can see!" and I was told by my Mum and medical staff "They can't see at that age". Yes he could!
