Thread: Lost in the 50's Car Museum.

Wow !!!!

Didn't even know that existed. There's some real classics in there. Would love to get the chance to see that sometime.

A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to spend a day at the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum in Germany. Auto & Technik MUSEUM SINSHEIM | Car & Technology Museum Sinsheim | South Germany

Amongst other things, they also have a large collection of classic American and European cars.

Love spending time in places like this ....................... half your luck.

Looks very interesting Jim, but I don't recall too many flash cars like that when I was a keen, young car spotter in the sixties. I do recall a couple of derelict cars parked behind a servo, a Hudson and a Mercury, that a mate and I spent hours sitting in with our imaginations taking us to all sorts of places.
Most of the cars we saw back then were economy Pommie cars such as Morris Minor/Major/1100, Standard Vangard/8/10, Ford Prefect/Cortina/Consul/Zephyr and Hillmans various. Of course offerings from the "Big Three" were always about along with the occassional Chrysler Royal and Tank Fairlane.
Mr Walker was a regular in his ancient Chev 4 ute.
When I was in grade five, I was strongly attracted to a Vauxhall Wyvern, in a car yard close to my school. Its main draw being the cheapest car on the yard at the heady sum of ten quid ($20). I had all sorts of plans to raise such a vast amount.



Was it just my backwater upbringing that deprived me of all those flash cars?
Uncle Ho, do you remember Dirty Dianne and her flash red VW Beetle?

Ian, most of those cars are imported from USA. As I live not far from the museum I have seen some of these cars on the road and wondered where they come from. They are left hand drive. Yep, a visit is definitely on my bucket list, Mrs Aus has said she would love to visit also as there is a lot of memorabilia there by the looks of it!!

Like you, my only memory of cars of that era is similiar to what you have already mentioned!!

ps. I have also seen an impeccably restored black 1962 Dodge Phoenix running around here and I use to drool over these Dodges when I was a young bloke!!

Vauxhall Wyverns weren't around in the 1930's Ian .....

Originally Posted by jerryd

Vauxhall Wyverns weren't around in the 1930's Ian .....

Nor were Hillman Vouges.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Nor were Hillman Vouges.

Nor were English teachers

There might be some Hillman Vogues at the all british day, are you going ??

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Nor were Hillman Vouges.

Nor Humber Vogues!

Originally Posted by jerryd

There might be some Hillman Vogues at the all british day, are you going ??

Hillman Minxes, Humber and Singer Vogues. (My first personal email address was Hillman@bigpond.com when I used to host and run the Hillman Owners Club of Australia website - I was a Hillman owner.)

I think there was a Hillman Vogue in South Africa.

We had Singer Vogues in the uk. The Vogue was also produced in Australia, by Rootes Australia, and was marketed as the "Humber Vogue". It was introduced in 1963 and was followed by the Vogue Sports which was fitted with a Sunbeam Rapier engine that provided a 35 percent increase in power to 85.5 hp (64 kW; 87 PS)


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