How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

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Bodo

12,368 posts

265 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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nicanary said:
Electrics by Joseph Lucas Industries - a.k.a."The Prince of Darkness".
Did you know that Lucas discovered how to make electricity visible? It looks like smoke getmecoat

Anyways, here's one from the series Rovers in the street of my hometown, from an unknown photographer:


RedWhiteMonkey

6,806 posts

181 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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Bodo said:
Did you know that Lucas discovered how to make electricity visible? It looks like smoke getmecoat

Anyways, here's one from the series Rovers in the street of my hometown, from an unknown photographer:

Frankfurt?

Bodo

12,368 posts

265 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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RedWhiteMonkey said:
Frankfurt?
Indeed!

The original picture seems to be here: http://www.geoffbannister.com/tod/frankfurt_trams....

This is what it looks like today (snapped from Streetview):

Bodo

12,368 posts

265 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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More from Frankfurt (again, photographers unknown):




IIRC, that was the 190SL of Frankfurt's most, erm, popular hooker.


Porker being fettled with




Messerschmitt - and the one in the back looks like an Opel?

DickyC

49,547 posts

197 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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Bodo said:
Messerschmitt - and the one in the back looks like an Opel?
I'll stick my neck out for a BMW Dixie, the Austin 7 built under licence.

In the winter of 2003/2004 I was commuting to London and back on the M4. One particularly nasty morning at about 6:45 I was passing Slough on the nice straight bit. It was dark, it was wet, the visibility wasn't brilliant but the road wasn't too busy and I thought I was doing okay at around 65mph in the slow lane. In the mirror I saw a pair of headlights in the outside lane and I thought to myself either that's something a long way away going very fast or..." and a Messerschmitt went past me at about 80. I'm not ashamed to say I laughed out loud. It was the four wheel version - the Tiger? - and, judging by his look of grim determination, the pilot was proving some sort of point. I get it, mate, now calm down before you hurt yourself.

eccles

13,720 posts

221 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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DickyC said:
Bodo said:
Messerschmitt - and the one in the back looks like an Opel?
I'll stick my neck out for a BMW Dixie, the Austin 7 built under licence.

In the winter of 2003/2004 I was commuting to London and back on the M4. One particularly nasty morning at about 6:45 I was passing Slough on the nice straight bit. It was dark, it was wet, the visibility wasn't brilliant but the road wasn't too busy and I thought I was doing okay at around 65mph in the slow lane. In the mirror I saw a pair of headlights in the outside lane and I thought to myself either that's something a long way away going very fast or..." and a Messerschmitt went past me at about 80. I'm not ashamed to say I laughed out loud. It was the four wheel version - the Tiger? - and, judging by his look of grim determination, the pilot was proving some sort of point. I get it, mate, now calm down before you hurt yourself.
Looks way too big for a Dixie.

threespires

4,289 posts

210 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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W124Bob said:
I've now found the link to the full Phyllis Nicklin collection this shot was taken in 1968 and around 9000 worked on the GEC site at the time.Heres another with plenty classics on view,wonder if thats a gaffers Vanden Plas 3litre?

http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/view/series/Birmingham=2...

Edited by W124Bob on Sunday 6th May 18:04
Love all that, thanks for the link.
This is IMI Kynoch Car Park in Brookvale Rd Witton.

Note the Lotus.


Cars in Kynoch Car Park - c1960

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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eccles said:
Looks way too big for a Dixie.
It's very similar to an Opel in georgano's encyclopedia. Also there are shades of the Ford Y-type in the body- did Ford have the German factory back then?

wildone63

989 posts

210 months

Sunday 13th May 2012
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forsure said:
laugh There was one like that on my commute in the early seventies, every evening flat out down the middle of the A5 bouncing over the cats-eyes. We used to call him 'The Flying Cripple'.
They were also often called'spacka chariots'

Bodo

12,368 posts

265 months

Monday 14th May 2012
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nicanary said:
It's very similar to an Opel in georgano's encyclopedia. Also there are shades of the Ford Y-type in the body- did Ford have the German factory back then?
Opel 1,6 Liter, Typ 1290?



Linky http://www.alt-opel.eu/index.php?sn=jahrestreffen0...

Bodo

12,368 posts

265 months

Monday 14th May 2012
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The picture is from 1969. Another example how quickly cars looked ratty in the old days. wink

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Monday 14th May 2012
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Bodo said:


The picture is from 1969. Another example how quickly cars looked ratty in the old days. wink
any non-germans know what is hiding behind the mini? wink the 'bathtub' - common in Germany but I'd say almost unknown in the UK

52classic

2,445 posts

209 months

Monday 14th May 2012
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I thought I was looking at a Taunus 17M...... But my old eyes could deceive me!

Bodo

12,368 posts

265 months

Monday 14th May 2012
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Indeed, a Taunus 17M P3!
more here: http://www.philseed.com/fd-taunus17mp3.html

nicknoo

46 posts

165 months

Monday 14th May 2012
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DickyC said:
Yikes! There's a whole world out there we knew nothing about. There are websites, clubs and societies.

I thought they were built by several companies including AC but it turns out there were two; AC and Invacar.



The relevant bit: "Although produced jointly by both AC Cars Ltd & Invacar Ltd, the Model 70 was entirely an AC design from the ground up."

They seem now to be dreadfully undignified but you have to remember that at the time they made a vast improvement to the lives of those who used them. One of my great uncles became very disabled with old age and preferred to have his Austin 1100 converted to hand controls. It was such a ramshackle, Heath Robinson solution! Each conversion being a one-off for the firm who did them. It worked though, complete with holes in the floor for levers to pass through. For the majority, an invalid carriage was presumably considered a better option.

O/T When my uncle gave up driving I was asked by my mother to go and see him, say nice things about the car, give him what he wanted for it and drive it to the breakers. When he opened the garage there was a one owner Austin 1100, 4826 PE. "That's very nice, Jack. You haven't, er, got the history have you? All the bills and receipts and things?" "Oh, no. When I knew you were coming I had a clear out."

It had no MoT and he wanted £50 for it. It took 84p for a bulb to get it through the MoT and I used it for three years as my commuting car in the late 80s. It had front wheel drive, disc brakes and a heater. It was fine. The only real problem I had with it was the interior light wouldn't work. I would fix it and it worked once or twice and gave up again. When I took it for its fourth MoT, the garage quoted £400 for welding and told me to give up. I transferred the registration and drove the car to the breakers. They gave me £10 and directed me to a clear area by the grab. When I got out for the last time the interior light came on. I could have wept.
What a great story DickyC, I really enjoyed that. Brought tears to the ole eyes.

DickyC

49,547 posts

197 months

Monday 14th May 2012
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nicknoo said:
What a great story DickyC, I really enjoyed that. Brought tears to the ole eyes.
Too kind.

Some of the lads on the Trivial thread tell me I should write book of anecdotes.

smile

Gibberish

568 posts

142 months

Wednesday 16th May 2012
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A brace of Zephyrs? Taken in the early sixties in Nottingham, is the red one a Zephyr 4? Sorry they're a bit fuzzy.



RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Wednesday 16th May 2012
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Bottom picture is of a Morris Oxford Estate. smile

Gibberish

568 posts

142 months

Wednesday 16th May 2012
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RichB said:
Bottom picture is of a Morris Oxford Estate. smile
clap Thank you.

HQB

168 posts

149 months

Wednesday 16th May 2012
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Gibberish said:
clap Thank you.
To be even more exact, the Ford is either a Zephyr 4 or a 6 but not a Zodiac. It has been fitted with a set of FoMoCo wheel rim embellishers and a pair of Tex Wingard wing mirrors so the owner must have liked it!

The Morris Oxford is the 1957/8 model Series III Traveller which has the various chrome enhancements featured on that version. Our old Greengrocer Mr. Langley had one to replace his 1954 Series II van. Despite it being new, he still stashed it full of boxes, bags and sacks of King Edwards which seemed such a shame to me despite my tender years!!driving

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