An Eye For a Hawk
Dec. 2nd, 2008 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI saw a Humber Hawk this morning. Didn't have my camera with me, and it was dark, so you will have to accept a rather poor camera phone version.
I was interested because the Humber Super Snipe was one of the cars that my father drove circa 1958 to 1963, and I always had a soft spot for it. I travelled in a large number of cars in my very young days - Rolls Royces, the big old Princesses (not the Austin remake), Bentleys, plus sports cars and other intersting diversions (such as pink cadillacs). One of the benefits of being in a chauffeur-driven family (although it would have been even better if it had not been your father who was the chauffeur).
The height of surrealism was the camping holiday in Swanage in a Rolls Royce.
By comparison, the Humber was modest.
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I was interested because the Humber Super Snipe was one of the cars that my father drove circa 1958 to 1963, and I always had a soft spot for it. I travelled in a large number of cars in my very young days - Rolls Royces, the big old Princesses (not the Austin remake), Bentleys, plus sports cars and other intersting diversions (such as pink cadillacs). One of the benefits of being in a chauffeur-driven family (although it would have been even better if it had not been your father who was the chauffeur).
The height of surrealism was the camping holiday in Swanage in a Rolls Royce.
By comparison, the Humber was modest.
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