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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: tunnie on 03 August 2013, 10:40:47
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Spotted this in Tesco car park near work, never heard of "Humber" before, had to Google it. Defunct in 1931!
Nice to see its still in regular use!
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Spotted this in Tesco car park near work, never heard of "Humber" before, had to Google it. ....
Part of the Rootes Group
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Defunct in 1931!
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Humber itself might have gone in 1931, but the Humber/Hilman cars were built up to the 70's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_(car)
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Ah so it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre)
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Ah so it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre)
and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe
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Ah so it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre)
and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe
Humber Imperial was one up again :y :y
http://www.transport-museum.com/about/HumberImperial5Series.aspx
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Ah so it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre)
and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe
Humber Imperial was one up again :y :y
http://www.transport-museum.com/about/HumberImperial5Series.aspx
Yes of course it was! There used to an Imperial near us, that was YELLOW!!!! with blacked out windows! :o :o
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Ah so it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre)
and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe
Humber Imperial was one up again :y :y
http://www.transport-museum.com/about/HumberImperial5Series.aspx
Yes of course it was! There used to an Imperial near us, that was YELLOW!!!! with blacked out windows! :o :o
I used to drive one around some fields when I was in my teens,quite a car in its day and rare as rocking horse poo now
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and rare as rocking horse poo now
Tin worm was the biggest enemy of most cars of that era :(
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My father had one of these an auto, reverse didn't work so when required we used to push it back! Lovely shade of handpainted grey it was..
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The last Humber Sceptre was little more than a 'tarted up' Hillman Minx/Hunter.
The glory days had were long gone by then. :'( :'(
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All this talk of Humber's will make Lizzie come over all nostalgic. :y
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The Car in Mr Tunnie's picture is a rare 'A' reg.
By my reckoning that makes it a 1963 model.
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The Car in Mr Tunnie's picture is a rare 'A' reg.
By my reckoning that makes it a 1963 model.
The reg is certainly 1963 :y :y :y
As you say, suffix A reg's aren't common because not every local council used the new A reg plates & continued to use the old style formats.
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My Dad used to have a Humber Imperial, the first car I could remember as a kid. Bench seats front & rear - 6 seater, leather everywhere. Had the selecta-ride thingamy too, picnic tables, privacy electric glass to separate front from rear. Was the loveliest most comfortable car with a big 3.0 straight 6 engine that would pull anything & was so simple to work on. It was built like a tank too, I remember once dad reversing into a concrete bollard and crushing it, there was hardly a scratch on the car :o :D
I also remember it pulling a huge horsebox out of a ditch, thinking Nah........ it'll never drag that out, but it did and made it look easy too.
I cried when it finally went to the scrapyard in the sky :'( :'( :'(
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I cried when it finally went to the scrapyard in the sky :'( :'( :'(
Awww! ;)
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All this talk of Humber's will make Lizzie come over all nostalgic. :y
Nah she's got the mintest omega on the planet now ::) ;D
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Awww!
I was about 7 at the time.
Then we got a Mk1 3.0L Ford Granada estate ::)
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The Car in Mr Tunnie's picture is a rare 'A' reg.
By my reckoning that makes it a 1963 model.
My Dad had one of that shape sceptre's,1600 I think,he traded it in on a Vitesse 2.0 Mk2
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I had a Mk1 Sceptre[a B reg]back in the early eighties.Mk1s were-I think-1500s,a slight restyle brought the Mk2 with a 1725 motor and the Mk3 was a badge engineered Hunter.Dad had Super Snipes from the late fifties through to '67 when production had finished,8 kids, dad and mum used to go on holiday in them[and they were all saloons]if we'd had an accident it'd have been carnage!!
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them and austin cambridge's and westminsters along with triumph PI made excellent banger racers.
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them and austin cambridge's and westminsters along with triumph PI made excellent banger racers.
And older friend of mine still has a A110 Westminster in his garage,1964 car which he has had since it was 3 years old,sadly beyond reasonable help now I fear although the interior is still excellent :y
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I used to drive a farmer friend around in his Super Snipe, a lovely comfortable car, but handled like a marshmallow tank. I was running a Mk1 Consul at the time, which handled so much better. 8)
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I had a Mk1 Sceptre[a B reg]back in the early eighties.Mk1s were-I think-1500s,a slight restyle brought the Mk2 with a 1725 motor and the Mk3 was a badge engineered Hunter.Dad had Super Snipes from the late fifties through to '67 when production had finished,8 kids, dad and mum used to go on holiday in them[and they were all saloons]if we'd had an accident it'd have been carnage!!
Correct..... :y :y
I had a 65 model in the late 70's as a yoof, fitted a merc Grill on it that, like the Merc lifted with the bonnet, looked like a Roller at the time........ :D :D
Managed to blow the big ends on it though, 4th gear with overdrive, pushing it as hard as I could, just hit the red line and 'tinkle tinkle' replaced the shells myself too, aged about 19 iirc............ :y :y