But the two of you and Moo are the real 'keepers'. A man of taste (if not discretion), your Mr Q

 

Thanks Shisky. My life is consumed with looking for photo ops, I love it, one notices so much more when looking at the world with a togger’s eye. It might interest you that I took the pic of the couple with my 100mm prime macro lens.

I agree about gloves, I think they are sexy in a restrained way. Mr Q loves them. He took a posh girl (a real lady) to the premiere of Around The World In Eighty Days in 1956, she wore white gloves. As an aside, I eventually met her at a dinner party and was explaining that he had wooed me with a cucumber. Evidently he had tried to do the same with her when she was fresh out of finishing school. Unbeknown to him at the time her father was one of the most successful cucumber producers in the country.

Moo is a bit like me Mikey, an old girl who doesn’t bear too close inspection but retains a capacity for fun. Saz and I have some jaunts planned with her.

Mr Q keeps everything arsie, we’ve got sheds full of rusting stuff. Luckily we have brought Moo back from the brink.

We have just returned from Meldreth in the TR where we went to get some locally made cider that Mr Q had sampled on a gig. We were overtaken on the A10 by a gorgeous, mid blue, boat-tailed classic car with big round headlights and the number six emblazoned on its grille. A Bentley maybe? Lovely to receive an expansive wave and a huge grin from the young driver.

 

Stop Press!

I have just heard that Moo was chosen as the best classic car at the Panshanger Revival. Think the eighty-year-old, one owner that is my jazz playing husband must have swung it. Or maybe people felt sorry for me because of the number of women he wrapped up in his mohair rug in the TR before I came along. Maybe they just liked my story? Dodgy panel gaps etc. pale into insignificance now.

 

 

So so happy for you MQ, congratulations on Moo's first 'proper' outing. I bet Saz is gutted (as you would be) that she couldn't be there to share it and the memories with you.

I'm looking forward to seeing the old cow in all her glory at some point soon - hopefully we can introduce her to some concrete moos soon!

 

Well that was a great read, so nice to see a car brought back to life and given the love it deserves. Don't drop in too often these days, but that was a real treat, well done MQ!

 

I don't usually have any truck with 'gongs' but given MOO's interesting and exciting background, congratulations!

Seems fitting, somehow. And never mind the panel gaps - they were rubbish when they left the factory and times have changed since then.

BTW, NSU were mostly bike-makers, including several TT victories. The Prinz cars were a spin-off from their 500 bikes, including the odd conrod-driven OHC system.

The Ro80 was a joint-effort wonderful madness with Citroen, and the K70 meant they were bought by VW, in order to give VW a stopgap they could actually sell in the 1970s.