Post by irish on Aug 18, 2009 21:09:11 GMT 1
hens teeth rockin horse poo, ive heared about these, but there rare as hell. any wey the pic tell a story along with the e-mails,, here we go check it out!!! the check out heinz 57 crayfords! this is the dogs!
Richard,
Thanks so much for sending through the pictures of Nemo. It was a real thrill to hear that he is still alive and well after all these years, and looks just the same after all these years.
I really like the whitewalls....very swinging sixties and just right.
The other highlight of the day for me, was when I was quietly sitting in the background away from prize giving ceremony, when someone came over to grab me, because my tatty Hornet not only won a cup for the best Crayford car, but even better, it won a first for the car that the public would most want to take home.....beating all those Fords and sexy E Types! Completely mad, but just goes to show that the old girl can still pull aged 44!
I did the Brighton minirun a long time ago, and it was great fun, and am definitiely planning to do it next year, so perhaps we can reunite the two after twenty years, and go down as a pair.
I told my wife about Nemo and she also remembers her well. As I said yesterday, there were three in the club, mine, Nemo, and a third. The old lady's best friend, a rich local spinster called "Miss Wright", a rather fierce women who ran a large local ironmongers, and she had also bought her very late H reg Riley Elf automatic in special order Snowberry White (including the roof). Your owner and Miss Wright both battled with their sensible families, when they tried to get them to get rid of them and have more modern cars.....but both vowed to keep them until they died, and they both did.
I knew Nemo and her owner from the mid-seventies until about the mid-nineties, and Nemo's owner was a rather grand but very tiny lady who lived in a village called Peasemore, on the Berkshire Downs between Newbury and Wantage. It was a regular sight, and strangely immune from usually being illegaly parked around the Square in Wantage. The colour was changed very early on in it's life to Bronze, because the owner of the local Ford garage had one of the first Mk3 Cortinas in the colour, and she liked it. Strangely enough, that same Cortina is still around Wantage, and in mint condition, now belonging to a very elderly guy who does the petrol pumps for the same garage.
Folklore is quite accurate, and Nemo was never seen without two pugdogs on board, lambswool seat covers to protect the leather, and the small chrome pug mascot standing on a rectangular plinth on the bonnet. She had always had pugdogs, and the mascot had always adorned her cars since the thirties, and I seem to remember she said that she had done some racing at Brooklands before the war....quite a girl in her day I think!
I do remember as time went on, that Nemo succumbed to the usual rot problem, and she was briefly in two minds whether to spend a fortune on a full renovation, or spend the same amount of money on a new car, but mainly because her family was advising her strongly to have a new one, she decided she couldn't bear to part with Nemo, and had him rebuilt and resprayed the same colour.
She would be so pleased to know that Nemo lives on, as it has been a very lucky and cherished car all it's life. I think it would be great if you could track down a member of her family and get them to donate the mascot, to complete him. If not, however, I have had a browse around the internet, and there is a company who is still making replicas of 1930's car mascots, and unbelievably they are offering the exact one as I remember it. Sadly it's £139, but what the hell, you must have a special birthday coming up soon!
Have a look at www.louislejeune.com and the company is called Louis LeJeune Ltd,
Wilburton, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3RA, and you can request a brochure.
Anyway, I really enjoyed meeting you yesterday, so keep in touch, and hopefully we can reunite the two on the mini run to Brighton next year....with mascot?
Regards,
and he won top prize at at the nationals, boy were the cortona boys wee wee off ! lol, mini stole it!!!!!!!!!!! and made a goog mini pal,,, lol, and he knows nemo!!!!!
cool or what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Richard,
Thanks so much for sending through the pictures of Nemo. It was a real thrill to hear that he is still alive and well after all these years, and looks just the same after all these years.
I really like the whitewalls....very swinging sixties and just right.
The other highlight of the day for me, was when I was quietly sitting in the background away from prize giving ceremony, when someone came over to grab me, because my tatty Hornet not only won a cup for the best Crayford car, but even better, it won a first for the car that the public would most want to take home.....beating all those Fords and sexy E Types! Completely mad, but just goes to show that the old girl can still pull aged 44!
I did the Brighton minirun a long time ago, and it was great fun, and am definitiely planning to do it next year, so perhaps we can reunite the two after twenty years, and go down as a pair.
I told my wife about Nemo and she also remembers her well. As I said yesterday, there were three in the club, mine, Nemo, and a third. The old lady's best friend, a rich local spinster called "Miss Wright", a rather fierce women who ran a large local ironmongers, and she had also bought her very late H reg Riley Elf automatic in special order Snowberry White (including the roof). Your owner and Miss Wright both battled with their sensible families, when they tried to get them to get rid of them and have more modern cars.....but both vowed to keep them until they died, and they both did.
I knew Nemo and her owner from the mid-seventies until about the mid-nineties, and Nemo's owner was a rather grand but very tiny lady who lived in a village called Peasemore, on the Berkshire Downs between Newbury and Wantage. It was a regular sight, and strangely immune from usually being illegaly parked around the Square in Wantage. The colour was changed very early on in it's life to Bronze, because the owner of the local Ford garage had one of the first Mk3 Cortinas in the colour, and she liked it. Strangely enough, that same Cortina is still around Wantage, and in mint condition, now belonging to a very elderly guy who does the petrol pumps for the same garage.
Folklore is quite accurate, and Nemo was never seen without two pugdogs on board, lambswool seat covers to protect the leather, and the small chrome pug mascot standing on a rectangular plinth on the bonnet. She had always had pugdogs, and the mascot had always adorned her cars since the thirties, and I seem to remember she said that she had done some racing at Brooklands before the war....quite a girl in her day I think!
I do remember as time went on, that Nemo succumbed to the usual rot problem, and she was briefly in two minds whether to spend a fortune on a full renovation, or spend the same amount of money on a new car, but mainly because her family was advising her strongly to have a new one, she decided she couldn't bear to part with Nemo, and had him rebuilt and resprayed the same colour.
She would be so pleased to know that Nemo lives on, as it has been a very lucky and cherished car all it's life. I think it would be great if you could track down a member of her family and get them to donate the mascot, to complete him. If not, however, I have had a browse around the internet, and there is a company who is still making replicas of 1930's car mascots, and unbelievably they are offering the exact one as I remember it. Sadly it's £139, but what the hell, you must have a special birthday coming up soon!
Have a look at www.louislejeune.com and the company is called Louis LeJeune Ltd,
Wilburton, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3RA, and you can request a brochure.
Anyway, I really enjoyed meeting you yesterday, so keep in touch, and hopefully we can reunite the two on the mini run to Brighton next year....with mascot?
Regards,
and he won top prize at at the nationals, boy were the cortona boys wee wee off ! lol, mini stole it!!!!!!!!!!! and made a goog mini pal,,, lol, and he knows nemo!!!!!
cool or what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
how was the hols? is hollie ok now??? jess says she ok..
what a find! then it turns out he knew nemo in the early 70,,, 
