How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[quiraing]

Period car-park shot, circa 1970.

Note the Mk2 Cortina and Mk3 or Mk4 Zephyr. (Or maybe an AMC Rambler?). That could be another Mk2 Cortina (Estate?) next to it. Does the Cortina on the left have Lotus-steels?

The bike wheel is still a mystery at the moment.

http://ufoseries.com/publicity/linda_simmons_on_ca...


This next one appears to have been taken on the same day.

Early A40 Farina with bootlid down, Humber, but what's the white car on the right? Cortina? Mustang?

http://ufoseries.com/publicity/linda_simmons_on_ca...

Edit - the lady with the white top and blue skirt is definitely Mrs. Doyle out of Father Ted.

Edited by quiraing on Wednesday 15th January 17:59

[S2Mike]

Yes but what is Linda sat on ( apart from her bottom )
Very angular rear screen frame, too early for a Fiat X-19 .... Rear engined Italian ??

Edited by S2Mike on Tuesday 14th January 16:51

[LordBretSinclair]

Looks like a Porsche 914 to me

Edited by LordBretSinclair on Tuesday 14th January 16:58

[RichB]

S2Mike said:

Yes but what is Linda sat on ( apart from her bottom )
Very angular rear screen frame, too early for a Fiat X-19 .... Rear engined Italian ??

It's a Porsche 914 or 916

[DickyC]

Roy C said:

The missing entry is probably #24 "The Challenger" (a Delage-engined special), entered by Reg Parnell, but driven by David Hampshire.

I'm not sure it's "challenge" lasted very long...

David Hampshire was the first owner of the 1960 DB4 I owned in the 80s. He bought it at Roy Salvadori's garage and it was first registered with his cherished number, DAH 100. When he sold it in 1963 it acquired an "A" reg, the only year - I believe - that cars could be re-registered with a plate younger than the car. I sold the Aston in 1991 and it is thought to be alive and well and living in Scotland.

[yorkebar]

thatnks for the help lads, you really are the best to come too!

good news is there is another box of photos which is said to contain loads of car pictures from pre war right up until the 60's so it'll be interesting to dig through those and i'll post the gems.

[forsure]

alpinemauve said:

Yarmouth Isle of Wight. Bottom photo as Google street view of the scene to-date.

IoW registered I see; the dashboard and bumpers suggest, I think, that it's a 948. Is it the same car that you're now restoring?

[yorkebar]

thatnks for the help lads, you really are the best to come too!

good news is there is another box of photos which is said to contain loads of car pictures from pre war right up until the 60's so it'll be interesting to dig through those and i'll post the gems.

[quiraing]

yorkebar said:

My dad was going through some boxes of photos we've got in the family, both of my grandads were phtographers and their parents were photographers too. traveled around Europe taking pictures and videos of interesting things and news events. we happened to stumble across some cool vintage racing pictures.

I'd need some more help identifying the cars and the venue but i'm thinking these are 1930's grand prix cars
















And then we have some slightly more modern ones. thinking we have a ford, and a couple of pictures of two white austins... but correct me if i'm wrong.

Absolutely fantastic post. Thank you

[CY88]

Yorkebar's pictures are indeed Jersey, as already established. For the sake of completeness, here are the current google street views for comparison



This one is on Victoria Avenue, now a four lane carriageway, extensively widened since 1947. You can still see the shed shaped structure on the left of the house there.





And this is a well known corner on Bouley Bay Hill.....



Cheers for showing us them all!

Edited by CY88 on Thursday 16th January 18:38

[RichB]

Here's one for you expert sleuths. This is a still form a Pathe News reel of the time showing the 1933 Brighton Speed Trial. It was of interest to me because it showed footage of an early Aston Martin. Not that I am sure this an Aston (Le Mans or Ulster, too large) but the driver looks familiar. Anyone know who the chap is or indeed what the car is?

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/brooklands-by-th...

Edited by RichB on Friday 17th January 19:31

[alpinemauve]

Found this series of period pics on the old ebay, no connection with seller. Just brill period pics. Seller is called 'pollo' and hope the link works. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/*pollo*/m.html?item=2713...

[alpinemauve]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/*pollo*/m.html?item=2713...

[Roy C]

RichB said:

Here's one for you expert sleuths. This is a still form a Pathe News reel of the time showing the 1933 Brighton Speed Trial. It was of interest to me because it showed footage of an early Aston Martin. Not that I am sure this an Aston (Le Mans or Ulster, too large) but the driver looks familiar. Anyone know who the chap is or indeed what the car is?

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/brooklands-by-th...

The first driver is Earl Howe in his Bugatti T51(?), the second is Whitney Straight in his black Maserati 26M (he won: Standing Start 1/2 Mile 24.2s) and the third driver I can't identify, but his car doesn't look like an early thirties Bertelli Aston Martin to me. It certainly can't be an Ulster as they were not introduced until 1934.

The first two cars flagged away are a supercharged MG and an Aston Martin, registration HX4322, which is LM6 (1931 Team car).

Edited by Roy C on Friday 17th January 22:42

[srob]

Where's this then, does anyone know? Dad only raced this bike at Cadwell Park, but I don't think there's any towers or flags there?! This would be late 60s. That's not my Dad, his ears aren't that big



The AJS in the pic he swapped with his mate for a Norton Model 18 which Dad paid £5 for. The carb that's on the AJS in this pic he sold for £50 to a chap from Holland, so the bike didn't owe him much even then. He still has the bike, and has put it on the road. He uses it loads, an American friend borrows it when she wants a bike to ride in the UK and we (my brother and I) ride it too. The Beetle in the pic Dad bought new in about 66 I think. He won some money on the pools or something, and bought it then. He kept it until he bought a Scimitar, which he eventually replaced with a Citroen 2CV and a 1928 Royal Enfield sidecar outfit that I now cart my girlfriend about in

Somewhere in here is Dad racing it we think. It was on the same roll of film as the above, apparently. Definitely the hairpin at Cadwell;



This is a photo of my brother on the AJS and me on the Scott, taken in about 1988. He still has the Scott too.



Here's the AJS now on 21 inch rims;

[M3DGE]

DickyC said:

Roy C said:

The missing entry is probably #24 "The Challenger" (a Delage-engined special), entered by Reg Parnell, but driven by David Hampshire.

I'm not sure it's "challenge" lasted very long...

David Hampshire was the first owner of the 1960 DB4 I owned in the 80s. He bought it at Roy Salvadori's garage and it was first registered with his cherished number, DAH 100. When he sold it in 1963 it acquired an "A" reg, the only year - I believe - that cars could be re-registered with a plate younger than the car. I sold the Aston in 1991 and it is thought to be alive and well and living in Scotland.

Indeed, for a while after the introduction of suffixes cars were re-registered with an A-plate (beyond 1963 I think); some councils also re-registered with current issues, hence some weird combinations; and eventually DVLA imposed some order and introduced 'age appropriate' and non-transferable plates, such as USU ### and, for very early cars, the unused DS, SV, BS and BF #### series.

[srob]

M3DGE said:

Indeed, for a while after the introduction of suffixes cars were re-registered with an A-plate (beyond 1963 I think); some councils also re-registered with current issues, hence some weird combinations; and eventually DVLA imposed some order and introduced 'age appropriate' and non-transferable plates, such as USU ### and, for very early cars, the unused DS, SV, BS and BF #### series.

I didn't know about many of those.

Anything with SV is age-related and from a county that didn't have enough registrations in era to use them up I thought. BF was recalled in the 1920s as it was an abreviation of Bloody Fool which was an insult many motorists didn't want on their car!

Quite an interesting table here

[Hugo a Gogo]

srob said:

M3DGE said:

Indeed, for a while after the introduction of suffixes cars were re-registered with an A-plate (beyond 1963 I think); some councils also re-registered with current issues, hence some weird combinations; and eventually DVLA imposed some order and introduced 'age appropriate' and non-transferable plates, such as USU ### and, for very early cars, the unused DS, SV, BS and BF #### series.

I didn't know about many of those.

Anything with SV is age-related and from a county that didn't have enough registrations in era to use them up I thought. BF was recalled in the 1920s as it was an abreviation of Bloody Fool which was an insult many motorists didn't want on their car!

Quite an interesting table here

that is interesting
that BF was such a recognisable thing, ABF, BBF (big?) and UBF were all banned
DUW i've looked up and it's Welsh for God
BUB? wiktionary says it means breast, a bit old fashioned maybe

and that Birmingham of all places had WOG plates right up until the late 70s

[Roy C]

srob said:

Anything with SV is age-related and from a county that didn't have enough registrations in era to use them up I thought.

There are quite a few "SV" prefixed vintage cars, mostly recent imports or cars that have lost their original registration numbers.

[srob]

Roy C said:

srob said:

Anything with SV is age-related and from a county that didn't have enough registrations in era to use them up I thought.

There are quite a few "SV" prefixed vintage cars, mostly recent imports or cars that have lost their original registration numbers.

Yeah we've got an SV and a DSV on bikes. Both have lost their original numbers, which annoys me as it means you can't really trace their history.

It makes a surprising amount of difference to value in many cases now too. I know several people who would never consider a bike on an age related plate.