General Murphio's Meanderings
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The traffic jams always seem to be behind me.
The NC 500 is the best coastal route I have ever been on. there are some amazing places in Greece, that I have enjoyed, but in the North of Scotland the awesomeness is just relentless.
I am currently selling my previous favorite classic car on Ebay.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Te...the-7-Pearl-/221845344072?hash=item33a7034f48
I am proud to say that I did 10.000 miles in the first few years after restoration. But that means only approximately 500 miles a year since then.
The Fiat is just in another league.
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Oh well it's one of those decisions you have to make a judgement call on I suppose if you aren't using the Austin then sadly it makes sense to sell it, especially if Murphio is getting all the attention.
I know the feeling on selling a classic you have put a lot of time and effort into to let it go, it's like it has become part of the family.
It's incredible to think that it is only worth about £7500.00 when you consider how old it is and its rarity. There can't be many left?
Do you have a reserve on it? As you are a fair bit short of what you would like for it with not a lot of time left.
I know the feeling on selling a classic you have put a lot of time and effort into to let it go, it's like it has become part of the family.
It's incredible to think that it is only worth about £7500.00 when you consider how old it is and its rarity. There can't be many left?
Do you have a reserve on it? As you are a fair bit short of what you would like for it with not a lot of time left.
I have just read through the whole Murhio's meanderings and was very impressed. Once I finish my engine rebuild I plan to do a lot more miles.
It was integrating seeing the Austin there as I have the little brother of the 10. A 1938 7 with Australian body ( was my dads first car and took me 8 years to get back on the road so not likely to part with it )
Thanks for keeping up the posts
Photo of dad following me home from a car show. The advantage of the 500 sunroof where you can quickly stick the camera out the roof and take a snap.
It was integrating seeing the Austin there as I have the little brother of the 10. A 1938 7 with Australian body ( was my dads first car and took me 8 years to get back on the road so not likely to part with it )
Thanks for keeping up the posts
Photo of dad following me home from a car show. The advantage of the 500 sunroof where you can quickly stick the camera out the roof and take a snap.
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You should pop in for a cuppa and look at this 238 of ours if you can on your next trip to Lancashire. We're just down the M65 from Preston in Rossendale.
Ps. Did I mention we made it back, with not much drama!!! Cue home movie: www.daddyisafilmmaker.com
Ps. Did I mention we made it back, with not much drama!!! Cue home movie: www.daddyisafilmmaker.com
Superb films Dan and one cute little daughter. I assume this is what you do for a living by the high quality and the name of the website?
Who chooses the music for them? It is a really good match up for each of the films and give them that little continental feeling shot in Super 8.
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Thanks Tony, very kind of you!
It is what I do for a living, although my missus is still waiting for me to get a 'proper' job
My actual work is over at danielburdett.com but I prefer making the home movies!!!
I'm very much in to my mid century stuff, hence the 500, oh and now the 238. I used to shoot a lot of super8 but unfortunately Kodak have finally stopped making the film and stock is so low it costs a small fortune to buy and process 2 and a half minutes of footage.
I choose the music myself, but it takes me ages as it has to be just right...so I'm glad you picked up on it!
A few years ago I flew to Italy to shoot a short film based around a 500, but Ryanair (the only airline that flew from UK to Ancona) lost all our equipment! The cameras did eventually make it back to us, but we'd lost too much time to shoot it properly and the footage got shelved
Ps. Sorry for hijacking your thread Peter!!!
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Brilliant stuff Daniel. I will have to try and find you sometime. Rossendale has all the landscape ingredients that the 500 thrives on.
Your movies are brilliant so the more the merrier.
My Dad filmed in 8mm from the time I was a baby until the dawn of video, used to contribute to the magazine, Amateur Cine World and won several competitions for short animations with Plasticine, long before Nick Park.
So I have particular affinity with the genre of Super 8 although the colour is much bettrr than peple think. My childhood is recorded on expensive 3 minute lengths of celluloid, even though we were possibly the poorest family on the street.
Your movies are brilliant so the more the merrier.
My Dad filmed in 8mm from the time I was a baby until the dawn of video, used to contribute to the magazine, Amateur Cine World and won several competitions for short animations with Plasticine, long before Nick Park.
So I have particular affinity with the genre of Super 8 although the colour is much bettrr than peple think. My childhood is recorded on expensive 3 minute lengths of celluloid, even though we were possibly the poorest family on the street.
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That's great! I usually save the real thing for special occasions these days as a roll&processing costs £65.
I completely agree, If you get enough light on 8mm it sings! I love an ektachrome sky me!
I'd love to see your super 8s if you ever digitise them. That said, I prefer to get the projector out and get them up on the kitchen wall.
I'm not a native to these parts so the landscape is a real treat. I had to drive a friend to his wedding in Clitheroe 2 weeks ago, they've got some great hills over there too.
I really want to film the 500 sprinting through these country parts but I'm the only person who drives it, so it's a bit tricky - Although I've seen you've had a good go at it!
Will hopefully have a UK reg for the 238 within a week or so, we want to make another trip in it before the summer ends (has it begun?). Haven't decided between Scotland, Cornwall or a ferry to France yet!
I completely agree, If you get enough light on 8mm it sings! I love an ektachrome sky me!
I'd love to see your super 8s if you ever digitise them. That said, I prefer to get the projector out and get them up on the kitchen wall.
I'm not a native to these parts so the landscape is a real treat. I had to drive a friend to his wedding in Clitheroe 2 weeks ago, they've got some great hills over there too.
I really want to film the 500 sprinting through these country parts but I'm the only person who drives it, so it's a bit tricky - Although I've seen you've had a good go at it!
Will hopefully have a UK reg for the 238 within a week or so, we want to make another trip in it before the summer ends (has it begun?). Haven't decided between Scotland, Cornwall or a ferry to France yet!
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I used to drive all around that area and made a regular run via back routes from Preston to Bury in a Fiat 500 to visit relatives. When you get beyond Clitheroe towards Longridge Fell and The Trough of Bowland then the landscape really does start getting Fiat 500 friendly.
My feeble efforts are just a prosaic attempt to show what me and the car have been up to. As you know, doing it as driver and videographer is really a non-starter If I had my Dad around we would come up with something very professional. His Super 8 movies used to enthrall my friends back in the day when it was unusual for anyone to have moving images from their childhood.
The trouble is that, as you clearly are also, my Dad is a perfectionist. I made him a really fast PC with twin hard-drives, super-fast Pinnacle video card and software, excellent graphics card, loads of input and output sockets including Firewire, which he specified and he didn't like it. He bought his own PC from a specialist in video-editing and he still doesn't use it. He's 80 this year, so I don't want him spending the rest of his life editing video, but he won't release anything until it's been themed for each of his children with personalised DVD/Blu-ray, converted to the widescreen format and given a soundtrack and all chopped about. All any of us want is copies of the raw footage, which we would pay to have done. One of the benefits of the fact that it was always expensive to have the film processed and tricky to get it edited is that it focused (pardon the pun) the film-maker into self-editing and carefully working out shots and continuity beforehand. Hence my Dad's stuff is very good.
If any of it ever even gets converted to digital I will be surprised but it would be interesting stuff if he did.
I don't think he has anything on Youtube but this is the nearest reference to him in this context I can find.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/georgedthompson/6424262193/
My feeble efforts are just a prosaic attempt to show what me and the car have been up to. As you know, doing it as driver and videographer is really a non-starter If I had my Dad around we would come up with something very professional. His Super 8 movies used to enthrall my friends back in the day when it was unusual for anyone to have moving images from their childhood.
The trouble is that, as you clearly are also, my Dad is a perfectionist. I made him a really fast PC with twin hard-drives, super-fast Pinnacle video card and software, excellent graphics card, loads of input and output sockets including Firewire, which he specified and he didn't like it. He bought his own PC from a specialist in video-editing and he still doesn't use it. He's 80 this year, so I don't want him spending the rest of his life editing video, but he won't release anything until it's been themed for each of his children with personalised DVD/Blu-ray, converted to the widescreen format and given a soundtrack and all chopped about. All any of us want is copies of the raw footage, which we would pay to have done. One of the benefits of the fact that it was always expensive to have the film processed and tricky to get it edited is that it focused (pardon the pun) the film-maker into self-editing and carefully working out shots and continuity beforehand. Hence my Dad's stuff is very good.
If any of it ever even gets converted to digital I will be surprised but it would be interesting stuff if he did.
I don't think he has anything on Youtube but this is the nearest reference to him in this context I can find.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/georgedthompson/6424262193/
On the way back from shops yesterday. My daughter was holding my phone then started videoing. The complete opposite of polished production.... Buts it's still a ride in a fiat 500. ?
[ame]http://youtu.be/qHAP6oyi5SA[/ame]
[ame]http://youtu.be/qHAP6oyi5SA[/ame]
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...your daughter's is is very good... I like that you were going to the shops...proper use.
Mine is really unpolished...a drive up quite a long hill. Overexposed and out of focus, but you get the idea of what it's like.
[ame]http://youtu.be/izZZ1Pf6CgM[/ame] (may take a while before it's loaded)
We went to the only car show that Murphio has ever been in. A laid-back, on-street display in Grantown on Spey. Two adults and two grandchildren, which is the greatest payload I have carried in the car. The car seemed to be meandering a bit too much on the way there, which I put down to the weight. When we returned to the car someone had put a note on it, helpfully pointing out that we had a flat tyre. Not really, just needed some air, but it explained why the car had been a bit unsteady; we were quickly sorted.
At the show I spotted a very appropriate plate for a 500.
COR_9988 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
My kids liked seeing the little feet in your video. I'm enjoying Murphios meanderings.
You might like a video I made a few years ago on the way to a fiat show in Melbourne. I have posted it in the 850T section
You might like a video I made a few years ago on the way to a fiat show in Melbourne. I have posted it in the 850T section
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Great videos..I am now particularly keen on anything 850/900T/E related.
The little feet in my video belong to my grand-daughter, Grace who is nearly two. She had fallen asleep. But when she's awake, being in the front of a car is such a novelty that her big eyes are darting around taking in all the lovely sights of Scotland.
Although biased, I have to say...she is the prettiest sight in the country.
COR_0014 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
The little feet in my video belong to my grand-daughter, Grace who is nearly two. She had fallen asleep. But when she's awake, being in the front of a car is such a novelty that her big eyes are darting around taking in all the lovely sights of Scotland.
Although biased, I have to say...she is the prettiest sight in the country.
COR_0014 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
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My girls said awwww cute.
If you and Murphio ever venture to Aberdeen be sure to pop in and visit my great great grandfather Alexander Hall who's resting in St Clements church yard near the docks.
My wife and I visited Scotland in 1999 and really enjoyed driving through the hills in the north pso seeing your short videos is great.
If you and Murphio ever venture to Aberdeen be sure to pop in and visit my great great grandfather Alexander Hall who's resting in St Clements church yard near the docks.
My wife and I visited Scotland in 1999 and really enjoyed driving through the hills in the north pso seeing your short videos is great.
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I rarely go near Aberdeen but will pass on your regards if the chance turns up. It's nice to have that connection with Scotland. Where we live is actually quite flat and we are surrounded by fields of barley and occasionally of oats. The weather is fabulous today and harvest is in full swing. Just waiting for them to clear this field in front of our house that you can see in the distance on the right. Once it's done we can get a new underground phone-line fitted.
COR_0203 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
COR_0203 by Peter Thompson, on Flickr
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My usual very amateurish video... a couple of clips stitched together from today. I will make a good one as soon as Sheila starts to drive the car.
[ame]https://youtu.be/P8SDGpaDtqE[/ame]
[ame]https://youtu.be/P8SDGpaDtqE[/ame]
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Not really a video of the 5 00. Just a silly conversation with my grandson in the car. He has suddenly replaced his ability to pronounce the letter "R" with a superskill at saying "Y" instead.:bang::bang::bang:
[ame]https://youtu.be/_oiveVWzFEw[/ame]
[ame]https://youtu.be/_oiveVWzFEw[/ame]