Subaru 360 Van

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3 Subaru's in one lot! Ok, on the down side these are in Oz, but I have never seen this particular Van model before: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SUBARU-MICRO-360cc-COUPES-and-VAN-RARE-ROCKING-HORSE-droppings-/190582429584?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item2c5f991790#ht_1113wt_1141

[marcus]

Very pretty little cars, but I always think the back and front ends look like they are not a matching pair. The "van" seems more like an Estate or Station wagon to me, but would be a very useful micro, I reckon I could get a drum kit in it. I suppose the price relates to the rarity, understandable, but for that reason I'm out! 

[Jonathan Poll]

Very pretty little cars, but I always think the back and front ends look like they are not a matching pair. The "van" seems more like an Estate or Station wagon to me, but would be a very useful micro, I reckon I could get a drum kit in it. I suppose the price relates to the rarity, understandable, but for that reason I'm out! 

Last time we went to the UK we saw a Subaru 360 overtake a D-type jag! No idea who owned it. It was white (like most of them)

My dad saisd they are very rare in the UK, not really suprised.

[marcus]

^ Of course, the D Type (one of my favourite cars!) might have been going slow for a reason and could normally trounce a Sub, but fun to see anyway!

[Jonathan Poll]

^ Of course, the D Type (one of my favourite cars!) might have been going slow for a reason and could normally trounce a Sub, but fun to see anyway!

We where going to a car show, nothing to do with micros for once, and happened to see one! We also saw a Brough Superoor I htink the next day... We think it was our old neighbor.

Must have been weird... a guy who lived near us in UK had a Bentley 8 litre... He told my dad one day he wwill have one... My dad has a 3 itre (bargain basement model as my dad calls it )
Then our neighbour had a load of Brough Superiors. My dad has one.
My uncle had an Isetta and my dad has one...
My great uncle had a goggo, my dad has one (my dad has a coupe not saloon)

Wonder if there are any Nobels to trace down

[marcus]

The Imperial War Museum just up the road from me has a special cabinet containing T.E Lawrence ("of Arabia")'s Brough Superior. Magnificent machines, and in my opinion the only motorcycle  which outclasses the Vincent Black Shadow, Lightning and Prince.

Your Dad and his friend and relatives seemed to have covered quite a few bases, from Micro to Bentley to Brough, so why no Morgan 3 wheelers?!

[Jonathan Poll]

The Imperial War Museum just up the road from me has a special cabinet containing T.E Lawrence ("of Arabia")'s Brough Superior. Magnificent machines, and in my opinion the only motorcycle  which outclasses the Vincent Black Shadow, Lightning and Prince.

Your Dad and his friend and relatives seemed to have covered quite a few bases, from Micro to Bentley to Brough, so why no Morgan 3 wheelers?!

Forgot to say that one! We have a 1933 Morgan Super Sports (jap V twin of course!)

[Big Al]

My next door neighbour has a Skoda and a dead Lada. The other one walks everywhere. Peer pressures nil, sophistication of microcars in street 10.

[richard]

dont follow your thread " the other one walks everywhere" is that the skoda or the lada 

[Big Al]

Neighbour. Basing a car collection on my neighbours would not be greatly rewarding.
Indeed I tend not to base my collecting on anything other than what I find and like. It tends to be more interesting to own and find rather than always lusting after a machine of alleged or illusory value. Invariably by the time you get one it is disappointing but having made a fuss it can be difficult to sell it off without looking a charley. It really comes down to if you give a stuff about what other people think. Case in point MGA v MG Magnette ZB Varitone - sorry the ZB is a far better car. The A is fragile, out of date and flatters to deceive. However a Wolseley 4/44 modified is better than both and a fifth the price. Bargain but no fashion or smarty points while you burn them off.