Sepia Saturday's prompt photograph for this week features a vintage cars, with a woman at the wheel. Cars have been a popular topic on the site and below are some mages from past posts - and some new.
My cousin's first ever car - a 1932 Morris Minors and the only car he ever had where he made a profit when he sold it. He bought it in 1958 for £20 and sold it a year later for £30! The photograph is taken near Inverary in the west of Scotland on the Rest and Be Thankful road, - notorious for landslips, snow and road closed warnings
The Baker's van in the village of Earlston in the Scottish Borders. Date unknown. Photograph courtesy of Auld Earlston
My Father. John Weston (on the left) with his brother Charles. I was delighted to get this photograph from my cousin, as it is one of the few photographs I have of my father prior to his marriage in 1938 to my mother, and means a lot to me. John and Charles were close as brothers and often went on motoring trips together; here looking very suave in a smart casual style of the day. c.1936. My father was the first on either side of the family to drive a car.
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As for women at the wheel:
Yes,I know - I'm showing off my mini skirt in 1970!
1972 and we graduated to a bronze Ford Cortina in anticipation of the birth of our daughter, so a larger car was called for with room for the pram and all the baby paraphernalia etc. as we did the rounds of visiting both sets of parents and relations.
The car daughter and I hired on our trip to New England in 1996 - my first visit there since I had spent a year working in Cambridge, Mass. 1965-66. This was in Falmouth, Cape Cod where we stayed in this cottage and made a magical trip on a beautiful Autumn day sailing across to Martha's Vineyard. Happy memories!
Beginning young:
Christmas Day - and Granddaughter at the wheel of her new toy tractor - we live in a rural area and she loved seeing all the different coloured tractors pass on the road.
Yay women drivers! And you can drive either Brit or American! I'm impressed. Loved the first old car and especially the road name... Rest and Be Thankful! On the Baker's van, I couldn't make out the middle line of writing...??
ReplyDeleteA nice mix of cars & drivers - male & female. In that one showing off your mini skirt, what I really zeroed in on were your sandals! So cute. I've always been a 'shoe' person. My husband couldn't believe it when we were newly married and I was moving all my clothes to his house. I had a box of 22 pairs of shoes - mostly high heels. But in my defense, I'd been working in the city (San Francisco) and needed shoes to match my different outfits. Same went for purses. But when you marry a forester & live in the woods and mountains, you don't need high heels & a dozen purses so it wasn't long before I'd whittled the number down a bit. :)
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