Stamford Classic Car Rally 2010 plus my Dad's 1962 Wolseley 1500

My dad bought his Wolseley 1500 secondhand in the late '70's and for a while it was used as the family car. It was garaged for some time, then in the 1990's he completely dismantled it and restored it to its original condition. Ever since, he has driven many miles in it attending classic car shows.

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• Wolseley
• 1500
• classic
• cars
• UK
• Stamford
• rally
• 2010
• 1962
• Lincolnshire
• Mini
• 1968
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• Classic
• Car

[bagheadbaby]

had a Wolseley 1500 in the garage for 30 odd years and im starting doing it up lol, do you know any decent websites for parts etc? :)

[RobNorthampton]

@bagheadbaby Hi. I was asked this by an American collector, and I asked my dad if he knew of any. Unfortunately, he found most of his parts from a second car that he'd bought and dismantled. I've sent a couple of links to your inbox, if they're any use...

[fehquig]

I enjoy car shows when I can get to them, and what I liked about this one is that a lot of the cars are unfamiliar models since they were never sold in this country... Your dad put a labor of love into his old car, and that's something to enjoy and be proud of.

Nice wheels, Rob!

[RobNorthampton]

@fehquig Thanks Andy. Yes, Dad's certainly spent a lot of time and money on the car in the past, but it's his pride and joy and continues to give him pleasure when he gets to chat about cars to people at these rallies. Somebody offered to give him £2000 for it, but naturally he refused. Still, not bad for a car he paid just £30 for!

[tonightwefly]

Very nice video!!!! I too was there and really enjoyed it!!

[RobNorthampton]

@tonightwefly Thanks very much. I took more video, but it can soon get a bit boring to people who aren't fans :-)

[Marcomanseckisax]

for 1,000 years of Stamford history this has been a water meadow. Now they allow dozens of smelly oily cars all over it, can't think that the ducks in the Welland will survive

[TeenTwinkTween]

@RobNorthampton It's all politics, Rob. I live not more than 20 miles from the 11th highest producing oil refineries in the country, however, nearly 85% of the fuels they refine is exported to Canada. So we have to import our petrol from other countries, which is more expensive and highly taxed. It's been this way since George W. Bush changed our energy policy, following 9/11. Even though the prices have gone down some, people are too complacent to do anything to change it.

[RobNorthampton]

@TeenTwinkTween You made me curious, so I looked at current prices in both countries. I was surprised how much US gas prices have gone up in comparison to ours. We used to pay nearly twice as much, but as of today, average prices seem to only be about 40c cheaper over there.

[RobNorthampton]

@genmama1955 I like to look at them, but I guess I probably would never have visited a show before if my dad didn't have a passion for them. He can strip an engine to pieces and put it back together. I can just about remember to put petrol in and check the windscreen washer bottle once in a while :-)