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Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker)

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Grandma is Microcar mad
« on: October 20, 2011, 06:01:49 pm »
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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2011, 08:59:04 pm »
a nice article from a very proud grandson  ;)
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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2011, 09:08:09 pm »
Thought you meant this at first! 91 year old!

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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 07:28:08 am »
Nice pictures too.
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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 11:10:13 am »
a nice article from a very proud grandson  ;)
This item was not posted by any of my grandsons, they would not have mentioned my age!
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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2011, 12:26:25 pm »
Well quite! What happened to the age of chivalry?

I think as usual the journalists got there facts wrong, as far as I know Wayne Lee has the largest microcar collection in the UK with over sixty cars, unless anyone knows different.

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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2011, 01:15:40 pm »
Precisely Bob, I did make a point of saying that I thought I had the largest collection of UNUSUAL cars.  Jean
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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2011, 02:22:37 pm »
Well, I think you are probably right there Jean, most of the other uk collectors I know have lots of the same cars eg multiple Heinkels etc. and not so many of the unusual ones.

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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2011, 03:21:34 pm »
come on then bob . spill the beans to us ignorants who the heck is wayne lee sounds like a chinese laundry not a micronaut  :D
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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2011, 06:42:52 pm »
come on then bob . spill the beans to us ignorants who the heck is wayne lee sounds like a chinese laundry not a micronaut  :D

He also appears on an old thread, as seen through the Perry oldScope of the Heinkel submarine.

I would put in a claim myself but I agree a collection implies differing cars not lots of similar ones. The only way that could count is if one was attempting to have every version of a marque. I am not doing that but attempting a reasonable reflection of the differing models over a whole range.
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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2011, 07:16:41 pm »


Richard, Wayne is a collector who keeps himself to himself. Not a bad policy really.

Al will not be interested because Wayne is an Essex lad like myself, as we are all villains, best stay away! ;) ;)

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Re: Grandma is Microcar mad
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2011, 07:19:05 pm »
wish someone had warned me about you years ago - but they didn't  :)
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