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Hi All, I'm having trouble choosing a car for the San Franciscan's Garage.. I've been trolling around on ebay and other sites all morning.. wasting time searching. So I'm hoping you can help me choose. As you may or may not know the back story on the San Franciscan is that a young couple live there.. they inherited it from her spinster Aunty. So with that in mind, I've been looking at the kind of cars I think a spinster Aunty might have stashed away under a dust cover in the Garage. I feel a pull to this Morris Minor as my Dad's Secretary in the 1970's had this exact car (even the same colour) and I have vivid memories of her driving into the yard of my Dad's office when I was very young. She was a spinster who lived with her mother, as you did if you were a spinster back then. Her name was Deirdre and she was tall and slim with Mrs Doubtfire hair and glasses. She wore tweed below the knee pleated skirts with matching jackets, thick hose and utilitarian lace up shoes. She was an old school Secretary. She took dictation using shorthand and typed so fast it was like rapid fire on that old manual typewriter. I loved her, she was no-nonsense and stern but also kind and very nice to me. When I saw this car I immediately thought of her... maybe she will be my inspiration for my imaginary San Franciscan Spinster Aunt. My next choice is this BMW Isetta.. because.. well.. it's just so cool! I feel like the San Franciscan needs a cool retro car and this little Euro number fits the bill entirely. Plus it's petite, meaning it's good for parking in busy San Francisco. My only concern is that it will be overwhelmed in the garage which has quite a high ceiling height. It also comes in this great retro pale green My husband is voting for this Porsche (of course he is ), however I fear my back story would have to change to my young couple working in the tech industry.. or perhaps the savvy spinster Aunt was an early investor in Apple. Fortunately, I think this car might be too long for the garage. I haven't been able to find the dimensions of this model but this vintage model (which I quite like) is 14 inches long and the garage is only 13.5. Of course I could always get a Combi which I think is very San Francisco.. but again, slightly too long.. maybe I could park it in the driveway. or a maybe a Beetle... Or a Mini.. a retro Morris one not the new BMW version. These come in endless colour combinations so there's a lot of scope there to fit into my overall scheme. Though I do like this green one. Or should the spinster Aunt have had a secret wild side and kept a corvette or mustang under covers in the garage all these years. So what do you think? Which car should I go for.
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From the album: My Mall
I have a Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari California, Lamborghini Aventador and Bentley GT Continental.© Lene Pieters 2016
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From the album: My Mall
I have a Toyota Prado, Toyota FJ Cruiser and an Audi Q7.© Lene Pieters 2016
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I bought this car about 4 years ago: And then I started buying 1:12 houses this year. I always thought that I'd have to stick to 1:12 scale cars too, but the houses really do look a bit on the small side next to a proper 1:12 size car (as I look at them in the toyshops). So this morning I saw THIS pretty one at the shop: Such a rarity, to find collectible vintage cars here in Dubai. Everything is mostly plastic radio-controlled imports from the East. These two are from Maisto, and they are beautifully detailed. The Mercedes is currently sitting on my shelf, having a conversation with the Pink Cadillac. I'm going to park my pretty cars outside my houses and enjoy them. I guess as long as I don't put any dolls next to the cars, they won't be too obviously different in scale.