Using the FHC

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#1 Using the FHC

Post by SEJohnson95 » Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:41 am

Richard sent me this picture which made me chuckle.

Squeezing the engine frames from his light aircraft in the back of the FHC - they've been off for welding and painting.

Couldn't do that with an OTS! :lol:

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#2 Re: Using the FHC

Post by Simon P » Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:42 am

You can get all sorts in the back of a FHC. Back in the days before Health & Safety went mad, that's where I regularly used to travel up until the age of about four :bigrin:
1969 S2 FHC - 1R20258
1993 Lancia Delta HF integrale Evo II

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#3 Re: Using the FHC

Post by Robbiee » Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:12 pm

I agree
I have managed to get 3 boxes (36 bottles in total of champagne in along with a weekends luggage for 2
The ultimate cool hatchback
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Robbie 1962 3.8 Coupe OSG 1962 OTS ODG

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#4 Re: Using the FHC

Post by Moeregaard » Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:33 pm

I used to haul all sorts of stuff in my FHC. There was plenty of room for all the stuff needed for a two-day camping trip to the vintages races at Laguna Seca, numerous model aircraft, and at one time I put two of my teenaged sister's friends back there. The E-Type is a lot more practical that most people would believe. BTW, that looks like an engine mount for a Van's Aircraft RV-7.
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Former owner '65FHC, #1E30036

Planning on getting E-Type No. 3 as soon as possible....

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#5 Re: Using the FHC

Post by SEJohnson95 » Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:38 pm

I'm loving some of the responses here. Two of your sister's best mats in the back? Enough said really :wink: :lol: And yes Mark, you'd be absolutely spot on, it is from an RV7
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#6 Re: Using the FHC

Post by Robbiee » Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:29 pm

My first Etype memory was being taken to the vintage car racing at Silverstone in Gordon Jackson’s (Ipcress file, great escape etc etc )red 2+2 probably in 1969. I was 8
Roddy my best mate (Gordon’s son) in front and THREE of us in the rear.
I still remember the smell of leather etc
I think we got up to 90 mph on the M1

I was hooked...it only took another 42 years to get my own!

Happy days

BTW I went to see Tarantino’s new film last night...based in 1969...some fab cars including an Etype coupe..possibly a 2+2 ..parked on the street
Robbie 1962 3.8 Coupe OSG 1962 OTS ODG

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#7 Re: Using the FHC

Post by dal2.0litrefrogeye » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:55 am

BTW I went to see Tarantino’s new film last night...based in 1969...some fab cars including an Etype coupe..possibly a 2+2 ..parked on the street
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No defiantly a coupe in the film and of the right vintage, not like the D reg series 2 in the Elton John tribute film :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: not that it bothered me
Its a way of life not a hobby
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