How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[uk66fastback]

anotherjohnv said:

bath street I think .. still there but blocked off by that one way street (stratton way) that's now 2 way (Abingdon schoolboy late 60's!)

I had a look at Bath Street - more towards the High St/Ock St end, but couldn't see any similar buildings.

[daveenty]

aeropilot said:

RichB said:

Bodo said:

Doesn't stop me to post more images of the Land-Rovers used in the robbery:

Never mind those, is that a Vauxhall Viva van at the front of the line

Looks more like an A55 van to me.....

Does to me as well.

[P5BNij]

manorcom said:

Other Train Robbery shots

Aside from some new palisade fencing, the scene round the bridge has hardly changed at all since 1963, I work freights along the route and always have a gander as I pass through. The pond still looks exactly the same today.

Reynolds' Mk2 Cooper S was left behind when he was arrested in Torquay in 1968...


Twiggy's second Mini, a poshed up 1968 Wood & Pickett Mk2..


Film producer Robert Boulting's Mk1 Radford Cooper S in 1966...


Twigs picks up her new DB6 in 1968...


A split second screen grab from the film 'The Killing Of Sister George' made in 1969, with a brief glimpse of a rare Stewart & Ardern MiniSprint, I posted this on a Mini forum a while back and the owner appeared saying it's being restored...

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 6th March 11:00

[iSore]

This was used in the 1967 film 'Robbery', and I owned it 10-15 years ago. Strange spec - 998 Cooper but with standard Mini Minor trim (red) and monotone body. Repainted black, I sold it around 2002/3. Like a few cars in the film, it was supplied by BMC.

[Rich G]

P5BNij said:

Standard 10 or Pennant Van on the left - a real rarity these days. I owned one 30-odd years ago, another of those that I wish I'd never sold!

[P5BNij]

iSore said:

This was used in the 1967 film 'Robbery', and I owned it 10-15 years ago. Strange spec - 998 Cooper but with standard Mini Minor trim (red) and monotone body. Repainted black, I sold it around 2002/3. Like a few cars in the film, it was supplied by BMC.

Often wondered about this car, I've watched the film dozens of times and looked closely at screen grabs, couldn't decide if it was a Morris 850 done up as a Cooper or t'other way round. Presumably it had the correct 998 Cooper Speedo, with the three gear change points marked on the dial in yellow..? Odd that the interior was to non Cooper spec, the lack of black vinyl on the dash top rail seems strange!

[P5BNij]

Boras and Meraks await despatch at the Maser factory...


Pavarotti in his Maser QP...


Browns Lane 1975...


Keith Richards departs the Scrubs in his Bentley S3 ('The Blue Lena') in 1967...


Range Rover launch June 1970...


Thirty four years since the last Cortina rolled off the line...!


Earls Court 1974...


Browns Lane 1967...

[hidetheelephants]

manorcom said:

On that theme of the Police car, I found a few recently, these were titled Birmingham Police through the years:

Morris Marina K9 unit; the cutting edge of crime fighting!

[TR4man]

P5BNij said:

Boras and Meraks await despatch at the Maser factory...

Crikey, that must be about six month's production.

[aeropilot]

hidetheelephants said:

manorcom said:

On that theme of the Police car, I found a few recently, these were titled Birmingham Police through the years:

Morris Marina K9 unit; the cutting edge of crime fighting!

More like the 'biting' edge of crime fighting



Here's my late father standing behind a Met.Police one, circa 1982.

[P5BNij]

A couple more train robbery shots at Bridego Bridge...




In those days passenger and freight traffic continued to run past most incidents, today it would stop the job for hours, possibly even days while all the evidence was gathered.

[Nik da Greek]

Is it me, or does anyone else ever wonder what happened to these inadvertently famous cars? In a similar vein, whatever happened to this...



Lord Lucan's Ford Corsair abandoned in Newhaven after he disappeared. Lead pipe allegedly used to bludgeon the nanny to death found in the boot (not pictured). I've tried a quick search to see whether it's still alive (the car, not the Lord), but my Google-fu is weak

Oh and by the way, those ranks of Masers are just pure filth

[RichB]

Nik da Greek said:

..Lord Lucan's Ford Corsair

I'd always pictured someone like Lord lucan driving around Belgravia in a Bentley not a shabby looking Corsair!

[soxboy]

hidetheelephants said:

P5BNij said:

Had this lurking in my hard drive for a while, somewhere up north perhaps...?

The DVLA don't recognise GUB843K so it probably went to the crusher before the DVLA supercomputer became sentient in 1983 or thereabouts, but UB is a Leeds registration, so oop north seems likely.

Looks very much like Lovell Park flats in Leeds, great photo.

[v8250]

RichB said:

I'd always pictured someone like Lord lucan driving around Belgravia in a Bentley not a shabby looking Corsair!

It was a borrowed car from his friend, Michael Stoop. His normal motor was a blue Mercedes Benz.

[iSore]

P5BNij said:

Often wondered about this car, I've watched the film dozens of times and looked closely at screen grabs, couldn't decide if it was a Morris 850 done up as a Cooper or t'other way round. Presumably it had the correct 998 Cooper Speedo, with the three gear change points marked on the dial in yellow..? Odd that the interior was to non Cooper spec, the lack of black vinyl on the dash top rail seems strange!

Police Cooper S cars were like this apparently. This one didn't have the chrome around the door glass either and I don't think it even said Cooper on the V5 - but it had the correct cut out for the gear lever and the brackets in the boot for the carpeted board. But I'm not sure if the Police used 998 Coopers...? I don't think they did.
Back in the day I had a factory black 1966 Mini Minor, one of a batch destined for the MoD but diverted to Stewart & Arden instead....and then registered in Dorset. EPR165D.

[RichB]

v8250 said:

RichB said:

I'd always pictured someone like Lord lucan driving around Belgravia in a Bentley not a shabby looking Corsair!

It was a borrowed car from his friend, Michael Stoop. His normal motor was a blue Mercedes Benz.

Thanks... seems someone, somewhere on Pistonheads knows the answer to everything.

[aeropilot]

soxboy said:

hidetheelephants said:

P5BNij said:

Had this lurking in my hard drive for a while, somewhere up north perhaps...?

The DVLA don't recognise GUB843K so it probably went to the crusher before the DVLA supercomputer became sentient in 1983 or thereabouts, but UB is a Leeds registration, so oop north seems likely.

Looks very much like Lovell Park flats in Leeds, great photo.

Well spotted.

[v8250]

RichB said:

v8250 said:

RichB said:

I'd always pictured someone like Lord lucan driving around Belgravia in a Bentley not a shabby looking Corsair!

It was a borrowed car from his friend, Michael Stoop. His normal motor was a blue Mercedes Benz.

Thanks... seems someone, somewhere on Pistonheads knows the answer to everything.

The great collective that is, PH. But am unable to publicly answer the big question of what did happen to Richard John Bingham

[manorcom]

Another couple of Train Robbery pics: