1896 Panhard

The average age of my fleet is 74 years old!

Genesii, I think like hippomapotusii .

You are right, and that was some impressive interwebbing!

I was rather hoping someone might make the tenuous connection, as it would allow me to veer even further away from the original question and bring one off hand built Farina bodied BMC vehicles into the mix.

1948–1989: The country became a Marxist-Leninist state under Soviet domination with a command economy. In 1960, the country officially became a socialist republic, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It was a satellite state of the Soviet Union.

I shall miss you, who else even what a Tatra 614 is?

Far be it for mere mortals to disagree with the gods of middle aged cardom,

I fell the practicality of storing the enormous roof somewhat comprises then both.

It is more successful than Lady Penelope’s Rolls from Thunderbirds,

I do not know who was responsible for this XJS hatchback but it works quite well, this Jaguar 420 coupe by Bertone I am less convinced,

I forgot to mention that he had a fondness for London taxis, or Hackney carriages as the are officially known so he had a modern Hackney carriage built.

It was very definitely not a factory design, the work was carried out by Chapron in Paris at the behest of Nubar Gulbenkian in 1966/7. Gulbenkian already had a number of cars, including a Silver Wraith with a panoramic glass roof, and having been taken for a ride in John Lennon’s 600 thought it would be nice to have…

I think this SWB 600 might just have it,

Well, someone had too I suppose, yes and here is the other crib sheet,

Easy, drive an old Unimog for ten years or so and all becomes clear.

The shorter of the two levers at the front, bottom left in the picture, is the forward/ reverse lever. It has twenty gears in each direction!

Oh yes!

Just get a manual car,

There are regularly stories in various places about people discovering cars abandoned for years in weird locations.