A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[Dapster]

Yertis said:

hidetheelephants said:

I idly speculated about some hero entering a R30, but google turns up an entry list and it would appear number 57 was an R17.

Is that an SM a few cars back?

It's the Team Automobiles Ligier Maserati car # 25

[P5BNij]

And another rozzer pic for good measure...

[P5BNij]

Rome, 1967, on your marks, get set, go...!

[RichB]

P5BNij said:

Rome, 1967, on your marks, get set, go...!

Not changed much on 50+ years has it.

[swisstoni]

You’d have thought they’d have sorted the building at the back by now.

[Blib]

I took this in 1990 on a trip to France with a couple of friends and our wives.

The Alpine was mine. I remember my mate paid way over the odds to jump the queue for his 964

[P5BNij]

swisstoni said:

You’d have thought they’d have sorted the building at the back by now.

They'll be back a week Thursday to finish it off

My sister and some of her girl friends stayed there for a couple of weeks just before covid struck and hired a couple of Fiats to buzz around in, she said it was utter madness every time they went out for a drive!

A dutch registered Lancia Flavia 1800 Coupe on the Tre Croci Pass in October '67...

[GTRene]

its no longer in the Dutch RDW registered, must be for many years then.

or it also could be a Portugal registered car? they then had the same sort numbers... strange but true.

[Speed 3]

Blib said:

I took this in 1990 on a trip to France with a couple of friends and our wives.

The Alpine was mine. I remember my mate paid way over the odds to jump the queue for his 964

Great pic, variety of approaches to sports cars in that era is refreshing looking back.

[GTRene]

RichB said:

P5BNij said:

Rome, 1967, on your marks, get set, go...!

Not changed much on 50+ years has it.

more cars, less lanes... at least 2 lanes gone in the younger version, must be climate brains change... ;-)

[GTRene]

borrowed from a car ad I just came across.

1951 Fiat 500C Topolino ex-Mille Miglia 1953



its now like this

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Prefer it blue.

[GTRene]

hah, good one.

[gdaybruce]

P5BNij said:

My sister and some of her girl friends stayed there for a couple of weeks just before covid struck and hired a couple of Fiats to buzz around in, she said it was utter madness every time they went out for a drive!

Attitudes to traffic lights vary across the Italian regions: 'In Milan traffic lights are compulsory, in Rome they are advisory while in Naples they are Christmas decorations'.

[Quoted from a letter to The Times a little while ago.]

[Bar8arian]

When did the window stickers for 'Tiger in the Tank' first get released?[url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/9uGDGxe2[/url]

Brownie point if you can name the car

[P5BNij]

Bar8arian said:

When did the window stickers for 'Tiger in the Tank' first get released?[url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/9uGDGxe2[/url]

Brownie point if you can name the car

About '64 I think.

Car looks like a mid '60s Scimitar GT.

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 8th April 16:33

[RATATTAK]

Fiat 500 ?

[Bar8arian]

Not a FIAT, although the name sounds Italian

[williamp]

Sabre Reliant?

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Bar8arian said:

Not a FIAT, although the name sounds Italian

Bugatti?