Dave Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Photos from our wee trip to Myreton Motor museum in Mindy our MX5. We decided on a nice run to Dunbar via the coast road, so taking in Longniddry, Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick then Dunbar. This is a tiny wee museum based in East Lothian just outside Aberlady. The building(s) are basically in the middle of nowhere, but it is sign posted well! Lots of classic cars in various states of repair, some wearing original patina, some restored or part restored. Also lots and lots of interesting stuff including a history on Jim Clark. Also motorbikes, memorobilia and anything car related. Great wee place and well worth a look. Entry is just £7 for adults so quite reasonable, and you can be in there as long as you like. Excuse the photos, just took them with my phone! Customized 1980's Fiat X/19. The paintwork on this is amazing, multicoloured metal flake! Old Citroen is in beautiful condition. As was this wee beauty! Only done 1800 miles if I remember rightly! Always been a sucker for old Fords! Love this, so cool! And this wee pair were in stunning condition! Amazing how small both of these are compared to their modern counterparts. My favourite Rolls Royce, the Silver Shadow (series 2 I think?) Mini Innocenti replica Jowett Bradford van. I knew Jowett made the Jupiter and Javellin, but never knew they made a van. Unusual and very nice condition. Sunbeam Rapier. I used to love the shape of these when I was little, my uncle had one in metallic turquoise. Was a stunning car back then! Got a thing for old Humbers like this too.........look so much like a 57 Chevy or 57 Plymouth Volvo 340, used to be such a common sight on our roads. This ones a nice 1 owner low miler. Then on to upstairs! Lots of memorabellia, bicycles, pedal cars, toys, petrol ration books and so much more! Bugatti pedal car!! Would have loved this when I was a kid! Although I did have a Mini pedal car which was really cool! And Mindy, sitting relaxing in the sun before the second part of our run. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_broon Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Looks like a canny day out Dave. Some nice motors there We used to have a volvo 340 when I was a youngun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 Yeah, my bro had a 3 door Volvo 343 years ago......mind you it was a but of a shed that had been doctored (bodged) up to look good before he bought it. Pretty quick wee car though!! I always fancied a 340 GLT, or any of the GLT Volvos. Nice cars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gel Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Must of been a great day out for Mindy & Co. The big Humber and the Rapier are my favourites. I did wonder what this van is.....is it a Hillman Imp van ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Gel said: Must of been a great day out for Mindy & Co. The big Humber and the Rapier are my favourites. I did wonder what this van is.....is it a Hillman Imp van ? Correcto mundo Gerry. It's a Hillman Husky to be exact, which equates to an Imp van. Stunning condition this one and first one I've seen. Seen plenty of Imps (always had a soft spot for a metallic jade green Imp Californian) but never the van/estate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gel Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I'm kicking myself having to ask about the Husky because as a 4/5 year old I used to be fascinated by all the Hillman Imp's on display at our very local Hillman Dealer....they used to give me tea and biscuits and allow me to sit in the new cars once I had eaten the biccies. I never really took to Mini's but I do fancy the lovely blue Mini in the line-up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 Yeah, remember the Imps well, another uncle of mine had one. Remember when I was about 7yrs old, he was visiting and had the rear tailgate open. Asked me to close it as he carried something into the house and I pulled down on the tailgate and something went bang! Bloody pooped myself! Turns out you are supposed to lift it first which disengages it and then close it (much the same as the old 3 piece wardrobes we used to get in the 70's. The top cupboard doors on them worked the same way). He was ok about it and laughed it off. I was devastated I'd broke a car!! lol The wee Mini is a cracker Gerry. I've always loved the original Mini, had one years ago which I got for the grand price of £50 + a Ghetto blaster! It had 7 months MOT (which turned out to be a very, very dodgy MOT!) but had an engine fault so didn't run. Got it running though, and it had had a replacement engine, so no longer a 950 but a 1275GT engine fitted. It was all done up to the nines.......British racing green with the white roof and white bonnet stripes, big spot lights, red Cobra bucket seats, twin centre exit Peco exhaust, Mamba alloys (which I found out later were bloody rare at the time!). Looked really cool, but I soon found out it was rotten beyond repair with rust. There is a long long story involved with that car and it's MOT which I'll post up some time! Ended up scrapping it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougie Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Some Great pictures there..... See that Orange Rapier, that actual car was my Grandmothers, she had it from new and we gave it to the museum to display when she stopped driving in her late 80's. One day when I have a garage to do it in I'm going to ask for it back so I can restore it properly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiNK43 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Nice place that. Cool story about the rapier too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 2/23/2019 at 6:56 PM, Dougie said: Some Great pictures there..... See that Orange Rapier, that actual car was my Grandmothers, she had it from new and we gave it to the museum to display when she stopped driving in her late 80's. One day when I have a garage to do it in I'm going to ask for it back so I can restore it properly Seriously? Wow mate, that's been in there as long as I can remember! Always draws my attention. Didn't realize it was a one owner from new car either, makes it even rarer! Need to pop down sometime mate, we could take a wee run down there again to see it. The Jowett van had memories for Gayle as her first husband was a Jowett (and that was obviously Gayles previous married name). His great grandad founded the Jowett car company! They went bust due to Mr Henry Ford buying the supply place they got a lot of their mechanical parts from........then refusing to sell them the parts they needed to build the cars! Think the car industry was pretty cut throat back then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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