Motoring Books - including your bookshelf.

[Roger Dowding]

A card on the Austin Healey 100S was posted on a Fb page " Austin Healey 100S " some time ago by Paul O'Neill - Paul has the whole set of 24 cards which he recently got out and photographed;

Here is the entire set - the AH 100S was number 19.
Must have been a 1950's set ;









Close up of the Austin Healey and the details on the back.





Many of the cars pictured were seen in New Zealand in the 1950's / 60's ..

I remember and collected those Castrol Motorsport Year Booklets back in the 1960's - sadly all gone - with the number of house moves over the years [ around 12 ] and the " giving away " of a lot of stuff, I now have only two big boxes of books brochures etc, about 4 boxes of photo's 10 large boxes of Scale Models not forgetting the Seven Boxes of Magazines that I rescued for seaqnmac from his Uncle.
They need to be sorted mainly Classic and Sports car Vols 1 to 22 in 6 boxes and another box of a UK newspaper style motoring publication from the 1970's.
However as " ERC " and others have mentioned on TRS and elsewhere - you collect it, and no one else in the family is really interested where does it all go !! when you Go >> ..

[Trevor Sheffield]

[QUOTE=Roger Dowding;
However as " ERC " and others have mentioned on TRS and elsewhere - you collect it, and no one else in the family is really interested where does it all go !! when you Go >> ..[/QUOTE]

This applies to all the stuff collected by the late Ralph Watson, as I have previously mentioned without receiving any response. :-(

[Roger Dowding]

This applies to all the stuff collected by the late Ralph Watson, as I have previously mentioned without receiving any response. :-(

Trevor yes, It is hard to deal with - Ralph would have some fascinating things I am sure - photos etc are easy can be scanned, but other things take space and as we get older we downsize -
My own experience - 1994 - 25 years ago owned a large house with double garage a carport and had 3 to 4 cars at any one time.
The garage held a lot of tools and car spares,books magazines and other stuff - out of the way of family.
Now small house, single garage, two cars, one of which lives 200km away in Auckland and gets used every couple of months.

I daren't take on any more " stuff " really but do get the odd item - have to deal with all those boxes soon !!

** and today indicated would take some NZ Classic Car mags -
see how it goes !! storage is the issue for most of us !!

[Paul B]

Love the cards Roger.
Fantastic to see, thanks for posting them up.

It is a shame with a lot of the collections needing to be re homed, I usually collect by sight and it is hard sometimes to do this unseen.
And then there is the space issue, as Roger has said. I am also mindful of this. Don't have and answer for this sadly.
Cheers