How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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Hugo a Gogo said:
williamp said:
some supermarket car park images (don't ask why I found the first one, but it gave me an idea)
1980:
Lots of cars to identify. I reckon in each image, there is about the same ratio of new, nearly new and old cars.
notice the only two silver cars are a VW and a BMW...1980:
Lots of cars to identify. I reckon in each image, there is about the same ratio of new, nearly new and old cars.
My first wee beastie, taken in '89, it's actually a '77 Mini 1000 that was exported to Italy when new and re-reg'd on a Y plate when it came back to Blighty. Poor old thing only lasted four months in my hands, I paid £150 for it but it was only fit for the scrap yard, which is where it ended up. I should have kept the interior though as it had been done up with Innocenti Mini parts including the dash... hindsight is a wonderful thing...
Almost a year later this 1100 Clubman came along, I wasn't that keen on the Clubbie styling but i needed a daily hack and at least I didn't have to look at it while I was driving it. A much better car than the previous one and it didn't half shift given the chance. Sold to a mate of my Dad's for a £50 profit, one of only two cars I ever made money on...
Just before selling the Clubbie along come my first 'proper' Mini with exterior door hinges and sliding windows, a 1970 Mk2 Morris Mini 1000, which like the first one ended up at the local scrappie, I've still got the plates off it hanging up in the garage...
Ownership of the Mk2 soon had me wanting an earlier Mk1 and within a couple of years this little fella arrived, almost by accident, a '67 Mk1 850. I saw it parked up in town one day and left a note under the wiper saying if the owner ever fancied selling it to let me know. I thought no more of it but three weeks later the owener rang me up and asked if I still wanted it... the best £350 I ever spent, I used it every day for nearly four years and all it ever needed was a new battery and rear box...
Almost a year later this 1100 Clubman came along, I wasn't that keen on the Clubbie styling but i needed a daily hack and at least I didn't have to look at it while I was driving it. A much better car than the previous one and it didn't half shift given the chance. Sold to a mate of my Dad's for a £50 profit, one of only two cars I ever made money on...
Just before selling the Clubbie along come my first 'proper' Mini with exterior door hinges and sliding windows, a 1970 Mk2 Morris Mini 1000, which like the first one ended up at the local scrappie, I've still got the plates off it hanging up in the garage...
Ownership of the Mk2 soon had me wanting an earlier Mk1 and within a couple of years this little fella arrived, almost by accident, a '67 Mk1 850. I saw it parked up in town one day and left a note under the wiper saying if the owner ever fancied selling it to let me know. I thought no more of it but three weeks later the owener rang me up and asked if I still wanted it... the best £350 I ever spent, I used it every day for nearly four years and all it ever needed was a new battery and rear box...
P5BNij said:
My first wee beastie, taken in '89, it's actually a '77 Mini 1000 that was exported to Italy when new and re-reg'd on a Y plate when it came back to Blighty. Poor old thing only lasted four months in my hands, I paid £150 for it but it was only fit for the scrap yard, which is where it ended up. I should have kept the interior though as it had been done up with Innocenti Mini parts including the dash... hindsight is a wonderful thing...
Almost a year later this 1100 Clubman came along, I wasn't that keen on the Clubbie styling but i needed a daily hack and at least I didn't have to look at it while I was driving it. A much better car than the previous one and it didn't half shift given the chance. Sold to a mate of my Dad's for a £50 profit, one of only two cars I ever made money on...
Just before selling the Clubbie along come my first 'proper' Mini with exterior door hinges and sliding windows, a 1970 Mk2 Morris Mini 1000, which like the first one ended up at the local scrappie, I've still got the plates off it hanging up in the garage...
Ownership of the Mk2 soon had me wanting an earlier Mk1 and within a couple of years this little fella arrived, almost by accident, a '67 Mk1 850. I saw it parked up in town one day and left a note under the wiper saying if the owner ever fancied selling it to let me know. I thought no more of it but three weeks later the owener rang me up and asked if I still wanted it... the best £350 I ever spent, I used it every day for nearly four years and all it ever needed was a new battery and rear box...
that Mk1 is cracking - I've never owned a Mini, but in the mid 80's my cousin bought an Innocenti Cooper with a 1380 (is that right?) engine in it - did that thing go! Only had it a few months before he wrote it off... Almost a year later this 1100 Clubman came along, I wasn't that keen on the Clubbie styling but i needed a daily hack and at least I didn't have to look at it while I was driving it. A much better car than the previous one and it didn't half shift given the chance. Sold to a mate of my Dad's for a £50 profit, one of only two cars I ever made money on...
Just before selling the Clubbie along come my first 'proper' Mini with exterior door hinges and sliding windows, a 1970 Mk2 Morris Mini 1000, which like the first one ended up at the local scrappie, I've still got the plates off it hanging up in the garage...
Ownership of the Mk2 soon had me wanting an earlier Mk1 and within a couple of years this little fella arrived, almost by accident, a '67 Mk1 850. I saw it parked up in town one day and left a note under the wiper saying if the owner ever fancied selling it to let me know. I thought no more of it but three weeks later the owener rang me up and asked if I still wanted it... the best £350 I ever spent, I used it every day for nearly four years and all it ever needed was a new battery and rear box...
P5BNij said:
My first wee beastie, taken in '89, it's actually a '77 Mini 1000 that was exported to Italy when new and re-reg'd on a Y plate when it came back to Blighty. Poor old thing only lasted four months in my hands, I paid £150 for it but it was only fit for the scrap yard, which is where it ended up. I should have kept the interior though as it had been done up with Innocenti Mini parts including the dash... hindsight is a wonderful thing...
That looks almost identical to one I had (AUE36S,where are you?), they were early Belgian built Mini Specials. Note the vinyl roof, clubman rear bumpers on the front, the hub caps and the black grill. My one had a clubman 2 clock dash and nice Cibie headlamps fitted as standard.eccles said:
P5BNij said:
My first wee beastie, taken in '89, it's actually a '77 Mini 1000 that was exported to Italy when new and re-reg'd on a Y plate when it came back to Blighty. Poor old thing only lasted four months in my hands, I paid £150 for it but it was only fit for the scrap yard, which is where it ended up. I should have kept the interior though as it had been done up with Innocenti Mini parts including the dash... hindsight is a wonderful thing...
That looks almost identical to one I had (AUE36S,where are you?), they were early Belgian built Mini Specials. Note the vinyl roof, clubman rear bumpers on the front, the hub caps and the black grill. My one had a clubman 2 clock dash and nice Cibie headlamps fitted as standard.
Me reaching into the back end of the car that kick-started my obsession with cars, parked up in Bishop's Lydeard station car park on the West Somerset Railway. That picture was probably taken less than a year or two before a nurse in a mk4 Escort drove into the back of it at about 30mph on the M271. That happened in Oct 1994, so I'm guessing this could be July '94 or possibly 1993. Or even 1992 - if I was wearing a football shirt it'd be easier to date!
That car had such an impact on me that I wonder how I'd be different if the milkfloat that pulled out on my Dad's Opel Kadett in 1988 hadn't done so. The Kadett would have stayed longer, and the whole love affair with the slightly left-field French hatchback may never have kicked off. A BX of that spec/colour and vintage (the first 6months of R.H.D BX production) is a very rare beast these days. So rare that your chances of finding one are slim to nil.
So when I managed to acquire this for free, completely by accident last year, I couldn't be happier!
I want it on the road for next year, but there's ALOT of work to do. My aim is to travel round the places I used to go to as a kid in it
Edited by Kitchski on Friday 23 October 09:32
Kitchski said:
Me reaching into the back end of the car that kick-started my obsession with cars, parked up in Bishop's Lydeard station car park on the West Somerset Railway. That picture was probably taken less than a year or two before a nurse in a mk4 Escort drove into the back of it at about 30mph on the M271. That happened in Oct 1994, so I'm guessing this could be July '94 or possibly 1993. Or even 1992 - if I was wearing a football shirt it'd be easier to date!
That car had such an impact on me that I wonder how I'd be different if the milkfloat that pulled out on my Dad's Opel Kadett in 1988 hadn't done so. The Kadett would have stayed longer, and the whole love affair with the slightly left-field French hatchback may never have kicked off. A BX of that spec/colour and vintage (the first 6months of R.H.D BX production) is a very rare beast these days. So rare that your chances of finding one are slim to nil.
So when I managed to acquire this for free, completely by accident last year, I couldn't be happier!
I want it on the road for next year, but there's ALOT of work to do. My aim is to travel round the places I used to go to as a kid in it
Edited by Kitchski on Friday 23 October 09:32
You've brought back good memories and some dust to my eye, thank you mate.
williamp said:
some supermarket car park images (don't ask why I found the first one, but it gave me an idea)
1980:
That's a lot more colourful than the sea of silver, grey and blue (and now white) that you'll see in most supermarket car parks now :-(1980:
About half of those are still RWD too.
gweaver said:
williamp said:
some supermarket car park images (don't ask why I found the first one, but it gave me an idea)
1980:
That's a lot more colourful than the sea of silver, grey and blue (and now white) that you'll see in most supermarket car parks now :-(1980:
About half of those are still RWD too.
More Minidom from my youth...
I traded in the Island Blue '67 Mk1 for a '64 model in Almond Green / Old English White, it had been fitted with a 998 lump from a scrapped Wolseley Hornet and had a later rod change gearbox rather than the old magic wand affair. I only kept it on the road until I could afford my first kosher Mini Cooper, namely a '69 Mk2 in El Paso Beige / Snowberry White which had not long been restored, I paid £1,500 for it in '99, an utter bargain looking back!
I sold the green Mk1 to a bloke from Bradford who said he was going to restore it, the last I heard was that it had been reshelled into a much later shell with windup windows etc and had a 1275 lump dropped in, so it's '60s charm was now lost. Oh well, onwards... I used the Mk2 Cooper as my daily runabout for about five years which didn't do it much good, the sills were becoming very crusty and the usual Mini tin work was eating into the seams under the headlamps. At this point I took it off the road and bought a vary late Rover Cooper Sport to use everyday, fully intending to sort out the Mk2 but it stayed tucked up in the garage for another six years. Once more a grand plan formed in my grey cells, I was was to get it done once and for all but the Cooper Sport soon went then along came three Rover P6s and two P5B Coupes (all used as daily hacks) and the Mk2 Cooper was sold to a chap on ebay by the name of 'Lotusracing' who some PH'ers might be aware of. Two days later he sold it to someone in Northern Ireland, as far as I know it's still there. I wish I'd kept it and stuck to my plans...!
I traded in the Island Blue '67 Mk1 for a '64 model in Almond Green / Old English White, it had been fitted with a 998 lump from a scrapped Wolseley Hornet and had a later rod change gearbox rather than the old magic wand affair. I only kept it on the road until I could afford my first kosher Mini Cooper, namely a '69 Mk2 in El Paso Beige / Snowberry White which had not long been restored, I paid £1,500 for it in '99, an utter bargain looking back!
I sold the green Mk1 to a bloke from Bradford who said he was going to restore it, the last I heard was that it had been reshelled into a much later shell with windup windows etc and had a 1275 lump dropped in, so it's '60s charm was now lost. Oh well, onwards... I used the Mk2 Cooper as my daily runabout for about five years which didn't do it much good, the sills were becoming very crusty and the usual Mini tin work was eating into the seams under the headlamps. At this point I took it off the road and bought a vary late Rover Cooper Sport to use everyday, fully intending to sort out the Mk2 but it stayed tucked up in the garage for another six years. Once more a grand plan formed in my grey cells, I was was to get it done once and for all but the Cooper Sport soon went then along came three Rover P6s and two P5B Coupes (all used as daily hacks) and the Mk2 Cooper was sold to a chap on ebay by the name of 'Lotusracing' who some PH'ers might be aware of. Two days later he sold it to someone in Northern Ireland, as far as I know it's still there. I wish I'd kept it and stuck to my plans...!
Respect...Just love those great Mini pics especially like the narrative. The pics mean so much more with an explanation. I saw some Beatles pics earlier. Here are some screen grabs from a prog on TV about bands/groups touring in vans:
Beatles first van Ford Thames:
Beatles new Commer:
The Blue Boar on the Motorway where bands used to "pass in the night" and stop for a sarney and a cuppa:
And a grainy earlier Blue Boar pic:
Beatles first van Ford Thames:
Beatles new Commer:
The Blue Boar on the Motorway where bands used to "pass in the night" and stop for a sarney and a cuppa:
And a grainy earlier Blue Boar pic:
threespires said:
P5BNij said:
More Minidom from my youth...
I traded in the Island Blue '67 Mk1 for a '64 model in Almond Green / Old English White,
I passed my test in an Almond Green Mini Cooper with the traditional rattling gear lever.I traded in the Island Blue '67 Mk1 for a '64 model in Almond Green / Old English White,
Top tip no.2 for curing the rattling Mini gear lever : remove gear knob, cut a length of flexible garden hose pipe and slip it over the lever, replace gear knob. Looks a bit Heath Robinson but often works.
Next week : how to maintain an exhaust / rear subframe contact interface scenario on a 1964 Mk1 Mini using a wire coat hanger
Manorcom - love those popular beat combo tour van pics! When we moved house in 1978 my Dad borrowed his mate's old Commer van which had previously been abused by a local pub band. It stank something awful!
Kitchski said:
gweaver said:
williamp said:
some supermarket car park images (don't ask why I found the first one, but it gave me an idea)
1980:
That's a lot more colourful than the sea of silver, grey and blue (and now white) that you'll see in most supermarket car parks now :-(1980:
About half of those are still RWD too.
Not a single Jap/Korean car in sight.
Oops. Is that a Datsun 100A?
Pat H said:
When Dad died, I interhited his Silk 700S.
Being a 1970s water cooled parallel twin, I suppose is a distant cousin of the Suzuki Kettle.
I have long since sold it, but it was a fascinating curiosity of a bike.
I stuck it in the Old Bike Mart and was inundated by phonecalls. It was bought unseen for £4000 by a chap from Cornwall, who drove all the way to Lancashire to collect it.
But we are getting off topic, as these are hardly period pics.
Here is something a bit more in keeping.
This is an early 1990s pic of my old 1968 Rickman Metisse. It was built up from a box of bits and was powered by a 750cc Triumph Bonneville motor. It was an absolute monster.
Check out that unsilenced megaphone exhaust.
That Silk 700 is pure investment grade, i bet it would have been like money in the bank by 2017,Being a 1970s water cooled parallel twin, I suppose is a distant cousin of the Suzuki Kettle.
I have long since sold it, but it was a fascinating curiosity of a bike.
I stuck it in the Old Bike Mart and was inundated by phonecalls. It was bought unseen for £4000 by a chap from Cornwall, who drove all the way to Lancashire to collect it.
But we are getting off topic, as these are hardly period pics.
Here is something a bit more in keeping.
This is an early 1990s pic of my old 1968 Rickman Metisse. It was built up from a box of bits and was powered by a 750cc Triumph Bonneville motor. It was an absolute monster.
Check out that unsilenced megaphone exhaust.
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