The strawberry stand and the green car
Here we have a photo I took from our kitchen window by leaning out a little bit to the left. The produce stand appeared a couple of weeks ago with strawberries. It's self-service, and there's a box in which to deposit the money. I'm hoping for cherries soon.
Oh, the car resides in a converted garage across from us, behind the house with the rose garden I showed previously. Someone please tell me what make and model it is -- I'll update the post tomorrow. I've put up a shot of it being parked over at the overflow site.
Addendum: According to some of the readers, the car is an MG A, a sports car produced by the MG division of the British Motor Corporation from 1955 to 1962.
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15 comments:
What a lovely trusting vendor to just leave a box for the money!
Love the idea. And I really love strawberries.
My PAD and
Guelph Daily Photo
Good idea this way to sell strawberries. Only for honnest people ! And about the green car I think it is a english model. May be Rover ???
The car looks like an Austin Healey. But not a Sprite.
I think its a MG-A (1955 to 1962).
ben is right, it's an MGA, forerunner of the MGB funnily enough. Nice original British Racing green and wire wheels but the roll bar and the seats spoil it a bit. MAybe it's a copy. This and the Austin Healey 3000 were the cars of my boyhood dreams in the 50's and 60's. Nice photo - I've copied it to my archive ;;)
thinking about it the roll bar may be required by Swiss regulations. Modern soft tops have various builtin protection mechanisms, but if that's an original MGA windscreen it isn't going to help if you roll it.
Here's an original-ish
http://www.shanes-british-classics.com/1962_mga.jpg
I was going to say an MG but then I haven't seen one for a long time so would not be sure. I see others have said an MG too.
Nice photography.
Abraham Lincoln
Remember "The World's Ugliest Cat?" He got a haircut!
Brookville Daily Photo
"It's self-service, and there's a box in which to deposit the money" : I seriously we could do that in France nowadays, and that's a shame.
And that's a really nice car!
I think the honor-system works partly because there are houses with lots of apartments all around the stand (with snoops like me :-), so it would take a lot of gall to make off with the cashbox.
So, a(n) MGA it is. There's at least another cool steed in that stable. Maybe one nice Sunday I'll get a shot of that to show.
lovely car....saw the other pic of it too and the rose garden too...what a charming place...
Hi Z,
I'd love some delicious strawberries right now.
Thanks for passing along the message re Richard. He should be able to post on my blog if he posts as Anonymous - he could type his name then and I'd know it was Richard. And yes, that's really just a fake e-mail address.
I like the green car which others says is an MG. I thought it might be an older jaguar. Whichever, it's quite nice.
Maybe it's a MG, but it looks pretty updated for the old version of the 60s & 70s. Anyhow, on March 27, 2007, the first Chinese-built MG (Modern Gentleman, they name it have rolled off the production line in the city of Nanjing. The manufacturer plans to produce 200,000 new cars every year and hopes to sell them all around the world. Maybe also in Switzerland...
We had a black MG, just like that one. Didn't work well in Minnesota winters!
Yes..it's an MG A came out before the MG....wait for it B..!!! So that makes it mid 60s.
BTW...How's your wheat ripening? Nicely I hope.
I like the "kitchen window" scaffold. I like the light and shade and the angle of scaffold + roofs...must go, time lacks!!!!
Had one of those - 1957 in rust and white. Then an MGB. Then an MGB GT. Then I got married...
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