Not sure if any of the many I have ownd over the years would be considerd a "classic" but some have surviving brethren that might be seen at vehicle rallies now.
Of these:
Sharps Commercials, Bond "Minicar". (Three-wheeler, its single front wheel driven by a modified motorcycle, 250cc, 2-stroke engine + gearbox. The gear-change pedal shaft was linked to a column-change lever. Aluminium and fibre-glass body on lightweight steel chassis).
Early-ish Reliant 'Robin' (Three-wheeler with its own make but conventional design of, aluminium-block, 4-stroke-engine, 4-speed gearbox and rear-wheel drive. Fibreglass body on steel chassis)
Two Series Two Landrovers (one petrol, the other diesel.
Morris Commercials-built, ex-ambulance (2.2l petrol engine)
Three GM / Vauxhall- Bedford CA vans (1600cc petrol engine; 4-speed gearbox with column change. One was a genuine "Dormobile", the caravanette brand by, if I remember aright, Devon Conversions.)
Bond "Minicar" ( slightly different from my edition) at a vehicle preservationists' rally:
'Dormobile' conversion of Bedford CA van - mine had the standard, rigid roof; and was of the later van form with deeper windscreen: Despite appearances the vehicle was not front-wheel drive. The engine and gearbox werwe mounted longitudically to drive the rear axle, but placed partly in a casing extending back between the footwells, giving that foreshortened nose.
Both my current ones are. 1992 diesel 80 series LandCruiser and 1992 Saab c900 2.1 sedan. Beautiful things in different ways. Both 5 speed manual gearbox vehicles. LC is at nearly 720 K km on original motor. Saab just over 200 K genuine km's.
When we were in high school, my wife and her brother drove a 1932 Model A Ford with the rumble seat. I sat in the rumble seat unless it rained, and then Lynn sat on my lap on the way to school.
@rinkydinkydoink I’ve talked about it a few times. The summer after I went away to college, while my family was away camping, someone broke into our house, took various items. My parents had taken their camper, so only mine and my mother’s cars were left.
Mom’s Bobcat apparently wasn’t cool enough, so they took my Toyota—which, loaded up with the things they’d stolen—promptly went dead on 280, where the police caught them. 😅
Back in '62 I remember in the back near the garage at Queenston Chev/Olds a sight (forever burned in my memory) of a dark blue Impala convertible that had the front end smashed to smithereens. I found out a guy had this car with the 409 on order and waited 6 weeks for delivery. The day he got it he was involved in the accident that did in his cherished car.
My 245 was a 1976 2 litre. The most reliable car I have ever owned.
Forgot to mention that before the 245 I had an Amazon estate which had done about 350 000 miles and was in perfect running order when I sold it before buying the 245.
Whoa! I remember reading a road test of a late '60s KG that was more than favorably compared to a late '50s Porsche Speedster. Wish I had that issue now (either Road & Track or Car & Driver)
EDIT - here it is! (Actually not - but it was a review of that road test)
