How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[guru_1071]

that bentley is lovely.

my dad (who knows a fair bit about them)

thinks its a gurney nutting body - they always made very elegant shapes with flowing wings

its still showing as taxed on the dvla system

[radlet6]

tog said:

Can we get back to 'in period' shots now please?

Does this count? This is me, circa 1976.

I see your 1976 picture and raise you one of me on my father's Trokart with a JLO engine in 1963 - this is what passed as racing machinery then.

I had a smaller one of my own which I crashed when I found out how to select second gear.

The boot lid of the car in the background is my father's Sunbeam Supreme



And me 10 years later on a Devinsons Sprint Leggero

[2volvos]

Yertis said:

You know your bikes Pat!

Here's Uncle Gordon, on Dad's AJS.

I think I may have a bit of a mancrush on your Uncle Gordon. He looks like he was an absolute hoot.

[zeb]

WreckedGecko said:

Lordbenny said:

mph said:

One of the best pictures on the site!

Hope you dont mind, I have just added that as my desktop!

best picture on one of the best threads ever on PH IMHO....

[Robert C]

Dateline July/August 1962.

My parents take my brother and I on a five week long holiday. Countries visited France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Whilst in Sweden and Norway we drive as far as the Artic Circle.

Points of note, a few laps of the Zandvoort race circuit, mainly gravel roads in Sweden and Sweden was still driving on the left.

Car Sunbeam Rapier.... so a few scanned pics from slides


scans0525 by Robert Clayson, on Flickr


scans0526 by Robert Clayson, on Flickr


scans0524 by Robert Clayson, on Flickr


scans0527 by Robert Clayson, on Flickr

Robert

Edited by Robert C on Sunday 9th October 09:51

[E31Shrew]

Cracking pictures Robert. Life was so simple then

[srob]

Y282 just posted this link in the Biker Banter section - so credit for finding it should go to him! - I thought you'd like to see it one here though.

Brilliant pictures

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

[radlet6]

Hi Robert

Great pictures. Interesting trailer, do you know the supposed rationale behind just one wheel over two?

[srob]

radlet6 said:

Hi Robert

Great pictures. Interesting trailer, do you know the supposed rationale behind just one wheel over two?

Single wheel trailers used to be used behind scooters quite a bit. I've never seen one behind a car though, maybe it was a leftover put to good use?

[Pat H]

srob said:

Y282 just posted this link in the Biker Banter section - so credit for finding it should go to him! - I thought you'd like to see it one here though.

Brilliant pictures

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

My word, they are fantastic.

What a wonderful trip.

I thought that driving a 25 year old Esprit to Le Mans was a bit of an adventure, but I am humbled.

Thanks for posting the link.

[RichB]

srob said:

Y282 just posted this link in the Biker Banter section - so credit for finding it should go to him! - I thought you'd like to see it one here though.

Brilliant pictures

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

Wonderful stuff, I will read it in full some time. p.s. I noticed a Griff in the backgorund didn't I?

[bob1179]

srob said:

Y282 just posted this link in the Biker Banter section - so credit for finding it should go to him! - I thought you'd like to see it one here though.

Brilliant pictures

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

Absolutely brilliant. I really enjoyed that, it makes you realise how easy it is to travel across Europe now, now border crossings and main roads that are surfaced properly.

I would love to have seen Europe in the fifties.

[LordBretSinclair]

srob said:

Y282 just posted this link in the Biker Banter section - so credit for finding it should go to him! - I thought you'd like to see it one here though.

Brilliant pictures

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

Thank you so much Simon for posting this. What a fantastic trip and absolutely superb photos.
Makes my recent trip to the Picos mountains in the Aston, with full breakdown cover etc, look very tame.

[na]

fabulous link to a fantastic story

[verbarthe]

Great pics and story , many thanks for sharing

[hidetheelephants]

I too have been scanning the old man's slide collection(finished those and now wading slowly through a mountain of negatives!); I posted these on this thread first, but they belong here as well:





There are loads of others, rather than hog the thread I'll put them up a bit at a time.

another stop to cool down and refill the radiator.



A touring holiday in the north of Scotland; that's mum's head visible in the Spitfire.







Grandparents' Singer Gazelle? "leavin' on a propellor plane".



Setting up camp in Deutschland.



HTE senior(first from right) hamming it up with a pipe while visiting friends in Germany; 3rd and 4th standing from the (our)left is Grandad and Grandma HTE. Is the car a Borgward? Not sure.

ETA Bodo identifies it as a Lloyd Alexander



HTE senior by a Swiss lake with his 100E van.



HTE senior's Spitfire Mk2 and Grandma's ADO16 on holiday in Spain.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Tuesday 11th October 01:04

[lowdrag]

Pat H said:

I thought that driving a 25 year old Esprit to Le Mans was a bit of an adventure, but I am humbled.

Thanks for posting the link.

Saw someone last week who has just bought an original 8,000 mile raod-going Mk 3 GT40. He's driving it to the Classic next year

But back on topic all the above are fabulous photos. Well done, and awaiting the next instalment.

[TiMopar]

That wonderful picture of the Car transporter is a Silver City Bristol Superfreighter. I believe thay operated cross-channel from Lydd in Kent and Hurn at Bournmouth.

[Yertis]

2volvos said:

I think I may have a bit of a mancrush on your Uncle Gordon. He looks like he was an absolute hoot.

Indeed he was, very popular guy. My main memory is of him stuffing lit cigarettes into the funnels of my model trains for added realism.

[zeb]

Pat H said:

srob said:

Y282 just posted this link in the Biker Banter section - so credit for finding it should go to him! - I thought you'd like to see it one here though.

Brilliant pictures

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html

My word, they are fantastic.

What a wonderful trip.

I thought that driving a 25 year old Esprit to Le Mans was a bit of an adventure, but I am humbled.

Thanks for posting the link.

I've just done the same in a 9 year old porsche...looks quite tame by comparison!


wonderful story, and then seeing the bike some 50 years later...amazing