This page shows Teal Sports and Touring cars which have previously appeared on this website as TEAL OF THE WEEK. The plan is steadily to build up week by week a database of photos of every Teal we can find, in no particular order, to illustrate the range and depth of beauty of these lovely Teal cars, which give so much pleasure to driver and observer alike.
TEALS OF THE WEEK
TEAL OF THE WEEK - 1
Dot and Phil Massey's elegant and well-travelled Teal Type 35 two-seater boat tail. This fine Teal was built by Bob Jones for Dot and Phil in 1992/93, and they have taken it all over the UK on the Lands End to John O' Groats Run, the Triangle Run, led the Backbone Run twice, as well as numerous other rallies, and driven in this Teal to Angouleme, The Picos of Northern Spain and the Molsheim former Bugatti Factory and the Schlumpf classic car museum.
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - 2
Colin Andrews in his handsome Teal Type 35 two-seater boat tail 'Puddle Jumper'. Colin and Irene have been central to the Teal story for the past 20 years; here Colin is seen manoevering in front of a Tiger Moth in which he had just flown, the same type of aeroplane on which he learned how to recovery a spinning aircraft when he was a pilot in the RAF several moons ago... Colin has taken this Teal to John O'Groats, to France and to Spain, and completed rallies with Irene all over Britain, most recently leading the Chilterns Canter in Oxfordshire in September 2012.
Colin and Irené in Puddle Jumper near Lake Bala on the Teal Triangle Run
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - 3
Andy Dutton's powerful and beautiful Teal Type 35 two-seater boat-tail 'La Tecla' at the former Bugatti factory in Molsheim during a Teal run to the factory and to the Schlumpf Museum in eastern France. Andy built his Teal (Triumph 6C/2500) in 1994, and modified it since, and has taken it to Le Mans several times, and with June to Molsheim, Angouleme and the Spanish Picos, as well to numerous British rallies, including the epic Land's End to John O' Groats Spider Run.
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - 4
Suzi and Dave Rigby's 'Blue Beast' Teal Type 35 boat-tail. Suzi is the vivacious Editor of our Teal magazine Teal Spiel, and is the daughter of John Elwell, founder in 1988 of the Teal Owners' Club (TOC) and also of Pat Elwell our splendid TOC Chairman. John and Pat were pioneers in the early Teal world of the 1980s, and the photo below shows John enjoying Blue Beast some 25 years ago. It is fitting that Dave and Suzi are also at the heart of Tealing, taking up the reins for the next generation of Tealers...
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - 5
Glen and Maggie's 'Captain Sensible' fine four-seater Teal has led the way (with them) on numerous Teal runs and adventures, to France, to Germany, to Spain, to Cornwall, to Wales, to Shropshire to The Peaks, to Yorkshire (often), to the Lakes and to Scotland. This glorious Teal (Glen and Maggie's third) is full of character (like them - below), well patinated (like Glen), and is the source of constant public awe and interest every time we stop on a Teal rally, and also when we don't. Under the pseudonym Captain Sensible Glen writes informed, scurrilous and highly amusing articles for Teal Spiel, revealing a deep love of the Teal, and the many happy encounters which Teals bring us all both at home and abroad...
photo:martin quested
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - 6
This happy image shows our Neil Ramsay in his striking Teal Type 35 boat tail 'Vital Spark' taking Pardon Corner at speed at the Bugatti Owners' Club Prescott Hillclimb near Cheltenham. Neil and Vicky from Scotland are key members of our Teal Owners' Club, leading many adventurous Teal rallies from the Cheviots into the Borders, through the Highlands and onwards on different occasions to John O'Groats, to Mull and to Harris, as well as supporting the TOC with their excellent company on forays southwards to deepest Shropshire, Sussex, France and Spain. This must be one of the best sporting images we have of a Teal 35 in action. Thank you, Neil and Vicky.
TOW No 6 - Please read on for full history:
TEAL OF THE WEEK - NUMBER 6 (AGAIN)
Ben Trumble has been a major figure in the history of Teal Cars, and many will have admired his cracking Teal Dizzy II, build by him in 1991 and taken to France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain - see Teal of the Week No 58. But what came before Dizzy II ? Why Dizzy, of course; and here she is, built in 1986,Ben Trumble's first Teal, an early Bob Jones aluminium Teal Type 35 boat-tail, and most attractive.
Inside the first Dizzy's neat cockpit...recommended reading for the story of Teal Cars and developments under Bob Jones is Ben Trumble's page on this website at 'Thrilling Teals by Ben Trumble'.
Sharp-eyed Tealer David Ward points out that although I had this fine Teal down as Teal of the Week No 112, it is in fact now re-registered FIB 690, painted Porsche Red and has been enjoying life in Scotland and beyond with Neil Ramsay for many years - see our Teal of the Week No 6. Thanks, David, for re-reading Ben Trumble's happy memoire on this website, and spotting the link.
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TEALS OF THE WEEK - 7 and 8
Few people are lucky enough to have two Teals at the same time, but Rupert and Jean are the happy couple who own both 'Grasshopper' and 'Dragonfly' :
Grasshopper attracting feline interest in Spain this September
The Spider Run - Land's End to John O'Groats - Cheerful Rupert reverses Dragonfly at Aberystwyth
Rupert and Jean have been at the heart of the Teal Owners' Club since Rupert built Dragonfly nearly 20 years ago. This four-seater Teal actually has a large trunk fitted where the rear seat might be, making Dragonfly a most practical touring car, with room for extra clothes, weather equipment (there's a hood), cheese and wine,etc. Jean and Rupert have participated in all the major Teal runs, from Cornwall to Wales, The Peaks, Pennines,Yorkshire, the Lakes to Scotland, and have lead several innovative Teal rallies - including this year (2012) to Angouleme and Spain in their 'new', unique, delightful and powerful two-seater Teal Grasshopper, also shown below on this summer's Sussex and Hampshire Wander, researched and happily led by them...
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - 9
Bob Mills has rallied and toured his delightful Teal Type 35 four-seater (The Red Baron) for more than 20 years since he build the beauty in the early 90s. Bob was one of the early members of the Teal Owners' Club founded by John Elwell, and is an enthusiastic, warm, amusing and skilled member of the Club, building and refurbishing many Teals together with Keith Lidgerwood in Cheshire, and guiding technical suggestions and improvements. Bob calls himself the Bionic Tealer, after much metalwork has been installed in both hips, but he's still well able to swing his leg over ... early evidence of Bob's touring adventures with this same Teal are shown in this photo below of Bob and Tealers at the Tittisee Old Timers' Club in Germany in the black and white era, complete with shorts - just.
The Red Baron
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TEALS OF THE WEEK - 10 and 11
Keith Lidgerwood has owned, built and refurbished many Teals (seven at my last count), and still has several in his stable: two classic beauties are Le Mistral below (twice) and Silver Streak further below:
This is Le Mistral as she now is; the Teal, also called HKA for short, was the personal car built in 1984 by Ian Foster, the founder of Teal cars, initially with a GRP body, smaller 14" alloy wheels and racing screens (see below); but when Bob Jones bought the Teal company and started making all-aluminium bodied Teals, Ian Foster had HKA re-bodied in aluminium by Bob; over the years HKA acquired a windscreen, and Keith has now fitted the fine Motor Wheel Services 18" wire wheels with Blockley tires all round. She goes like the wind she is named after....
HKA 25 Years Ago....
Keith and colleague John Chalmers discovered the beautiful Teal Silver Streak (6C/2500 - below) in Scotland last year(2011); she's skillfully built using top-quality components, with a fine Triumph six-cylinder engine and very low mileage...many Tealers' dream...
Keith also has a couple of US/Dutch VW-engined replica Bugattis (the 'Tupperware Specials'). And he and John own a most unusual and rare Fergus Mosquito Replica of the 1935 Aston Martin Ulster, a significant and beautiful car shown below with Keith at the wheel...
Keith is a key member of the Teal Owners' Club, technically skilled, with delightful banter and terrible jokes, making him excellent company. Keith is in fact our Number One Australian (1OZ). Long may he enjoy his splendid cars.
TEAL OF THE WEEK - No 12
This handsome four-seater Teal is 'Phoenix', Neil Bridges' third Teal sports and touring car. Neil (also handsome) is a respected member of the Teal Owners' Club, due to his considerable technical knowledge, his long experience of the differing characteristics of a number of Teals, and his amusing company. Neil greatly enjoys his motoring, and can be seen on Teal rallies all over this country and also in France. Neil has also owned a lovely dark-green Teal four-seater (below) and a pale-blue early two-seater Teal (also below), as well as a Mike King Bugatti replica, and is therefore well versed in engine tuning, cross country navigation (with Pam) and, only if strictly necessary, socialising on Teal evenings. Neil and Pam are happy company, and leading members of our Teal Club.
Neil and Pam, with Ron, Sheila and Bob beyond
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - 13
photo: Iain Ramsay
Ron and Sheila Stamp's glorious Teal four-seater at speed in Scottish border country.
Ron and Sheila have been at the heart of the Tealing community for some 20 years, are regular attendees at nearly all Teal events, and are held in high regard and with great affection by Tealers, not least because of their warm, kind and generous personalities, their consistent gentle good humour despite all obstacles and their considerable seniority in years. Ron and Sheila are a terrific example to Club members, and their lovely Teal 'Hirondelle' is always immaculately maintained and turned out - more photos below.
Ron is greeted by Keith Lidgerwood while Phil embraces Sheila in the immaculate Teal 'Hirondelle' at the Welshpool Teal long weekend.
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TEALS OF THE WEEK - Number 14 and Number 15
The Teals this week belong to two Tealers with long links to Bob Jones, owner of Teal Cars,the designer and builder of delightful aluminium Teals from 1986-1998.
TEAL Number 14
Jeff and Mary Turner in their fine 6C/2500 Teal Type 35, especially built for them by Bob Jones, with special mudguards, raised cowlings and fittings of the highest quality throughout. In this photo they are ready to restart after the lunchbreak on the first Teal Backbone run, with Mike Astill also ready for the off as he re-fits his helmet beyond (See Teal No 15 below). Jeff and Bob Jones were teenage friends, then Jeff emigrated to South Africa and Australia, met Mary, they came back to UK, saw Teal Type 35s at the Stoneleigh Show, fell in love with them , and Bob Jones, his old chum built this car for him. Jeff is pictured below at the microphone singing in the group The Principles (with Bob on the guitar, right) in Sale, Cheshire in 1965, and (further below) pulling up outside The Rovers Return in his Teal while working with Granada TV...
Below: Jeff and Mary take a left-hander in the Pennines in style with their handsome Teal Type 35
TEAL Number 15
Mike and Joyce Astill in action in their lovely Teal Type 35 boat tail. Mike is one of the key figures in Teal history, an old friend of Bob Jones and long-standing Tealer; when things became tight financially for Teal Cars in the recession of 1992-93, Mike generously offered Bob Jones the use of the substantial stables/outbuildings at Grimsditch Hall to make Teal chassis and bodywork and assemble completed Type 35s and 59s (see below)
If it hadn't been for Mike Astill, many of the Teals created by Bob Jones between 1994 and 1998 would probably never have been made - thanks, Mike and Bob. Behind the Teal Type 59 there's a Type 35 in the garage - Mike Astill's.
Historic Teals of The Week No 14 (left, Jeff Turner) and No 15 (right, Mike Astill) in patriotic Pennine surroundings.
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - Number 16
Cliff and Jan Sedman have been at the heart of Teal motoring for more than 20 years, leading expeditions all over Britain and also abroad to the Schlumpf Museum, to the former Bugatti factory, to Angouleme and across the Pyrenees and Picos into Spain; also solo to the Classic races at Pau, to La Rochelle and Brittany and most recently to Norway, very much a Teal first...
Cliff and Jan have a great sense of fun and a magnificent range of fancy dress costumes, causing endless amusement to Tealers and spectators alike, in Britain and on the Continent; and Jan can be guaranteed at each pit stop to produce masterly picnics with delicious cakes from the seemingly limitless supplies in the tail of their unique silver Teal...
Cliff is a skilled engineer and former Teal Owners' Club Chairman, always willing to help fellow Tealers out with sound advice or practical assistance, and Cliff and Jan's many kindnesses to other Tealers down more than twenty years are widely appreciated...
TEAL OF THE WEEK - No 17
Ian and Lavinia from Cumbria have been Tealers for many moons, and have taken part in most of the great Teal adventures of the past ten years, from the Lands End to John'O Groats Spider Run to the Triangle Run, The Backbone of England, to Angouleme and to Spain with their fine Teal, which sports an unique and practical luggage rack designed and built by Ian (below), and the handsome Bugatti Elephant on the radiator (above)...
Recently warm, kind, generous and wise Ian and Lavinia have concentrated their Tealing on local Cumberland, Northumberland and Lancashire shows and rallies, often meeting up wth other Tealers to recall good times and look forward to new adventures...
At Angouleme, on a sunlit Tealer fancy dress evening....
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1998 - Three Admirable Tealers
Colin, George Rainsford (see below) and Cliff seated on a Basque fireplace during the great Spanish push of 1998 - and all three are still happily driving their fine Teals to new adventures fifteen years later.
Teal of the Week - Number 18
George Rainsford's fine Teal was built by him in Skegness twenty years ago in George's brother's garage,and has featured in many Teal adventures in France and Spain...
Ellen and George, a distinguished musician, lived (with their Teal) in Haute-Vienne, near Limoges in their beautiful mill house (below), and their Teal does not lack for company - they have a delightful little frog-eye Sprite as well....
See the special George Rainsford Teal Tours page of this website for more photos of the construction by George of his Teal, Spanish Tealing adventures (including bullfighting), and more pictures of the man himself...
Happily George, Ellen and their Teal are now back home in Lincolnshire, and joining with other Tealers with meets, rallies and runs around northern England - welcome home! (2014)
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TEAL OF THE WEEK - No. 19
Tealer Peter Haywood from the Isle of Wight is a dedicated classic car enthusiast; as well as his dark-blue Teal his stable includes a Morgan Plus 4 and pre-war Riley Kestrel in restoration. Here he dismounts enthusiastically at the Teal meet at Laycock, Wiltshire.
Peter has suggested that the I.O.W. would be a suitable venue for a Teal summer rally, and the idea has been enthusiastically discussed at the Teal summer meets in Sussex and Hampshire. What do you think? Would you come? Here at Laycock is Peter's delightful Teal Type 35 two-seater boat-tail.
At Cliff and Jan's on St George's Drive It day, Peter with colleague Neil prepare to depart, and beyond Mike checks his rare Teal Type 44, while Cliff and Ian (in modest shirt) and other Tealers see off the Type 35.
Tealer Peter Heywood, with magnificent hat which may be reversed for driving (see photo 1 above)....
Peter and Neil (1930s MG J2) depart with Andy Dutton's Teal beyond and Dot recording the event on her camera. A happy drive-it day....
TEAL OF THE WEEK - No. 20
Dorset Tealer and sailor Ron Arnold owns one of the finest-looking Teals built, in my opinion. I'm not sure whether it's the huge headlights (see below also), the black wire wheels, the very low profile of the Brooklands screens, the pale leather seats against the black, the wooden tool box, the number 5 on the radiator grille or the total combination that makes this Teal so lovely...
...but beautiful she is, don't you think?
(see Page 12 of this website for more photos of 'Black Beauty')
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Lots More To Come, week by week... Teals of the Week 21-40 are on the next page of this website - I hope you enjoy them...