How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

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truck71

2,328 posts

171 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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yellowjack said:
There's nowt wrong wi' Granny's parking. She's got that little Fiesta well inside the lines... wink


I'm just giggling at the 'catalogue pose' from the chap in the white daps stood leaning on the blue Reliant in the foreground. (Cool car, Bro!)

Also, middle of the back row, Red Capri, Blue Skoda Estelle (I think?), what's the yellow small hatch? (Chrysler/Talbot?), then a White SD1.
Haha, I've since noticed that both Grannys are poorly parked, hadn't noticed the one at the bottom of the picture.

bencollins

3,486 posts

204 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Whilst we're on a spotting frenzy YouTube have a brilliant Sweeney channel now.
Although one for rainy november rather than summer evenings.
The budget gets bigger and bigger as the series progress, so the quality improves IMO.cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4-Myxd3gQ
edited to choose a more car biased episode

Edited by bencollins on Wednesday 23 July 23:02

12TS

1,806 posts

209 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Hybrids said:
yellowjack said:
Also, middle of the back row, Red Capri, Blue Skoda Estelle (I think?), what's the yellow small hatch? (Chrysler/Talbot?), then a White SD1.
I would go with early Polo
Suppose it could be an Audi 50 wink I'd go with the Polo though.

soxboy

6,061 posts

218 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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What's the car in 3rd row from the back, behind the brown mk1 Escort? It looks like a Jeep Cherokee to me, guess it may have been one of the first ones.

Been scouring it for any friends or relatives cars as we used to use that car park all the time.

Dapster

6,876 posts

179 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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daveenty said:
Looks to me like a W126 S Class MB, but I'm on a lappy and it's late and I'm tired...
W123 MB - vents on front scuttle in front of the screen, the W126 had a flush bonnet right up to the screen. There's a blue W123 estate in the middle of row 4, behind the VW camper.

yellowjack said:
Also, middle of the back row, what's the yellow small hatch? (Chrysler/Talbot?)
Definitely a VW Polo. Pre '80 facelift with the thin metal rather than bigger plastic bumpers

soxboy said:
What's the car in 3rd row from the back, behind the brown mk1 Escort? It looks like a Jeep Cherokee to me, guess it may have been one of the first ones.
Yup Cherokee.

williamp said:
But a Uk registered opel cavalier, rather then a vauxhall...
If you mean the yellow one, row 3, 2 right from the VW camper, I think it's a 2 door Opel Ascona B, which definitely existed for Europe, but I never realised made it to the UK. It could have been cashing in on it's rally success, with GM using the Cavalier brand for sales reps...


I've managed to work out pretty much all of them...

Row 5 far left, rear view of a blue VW Passat Variant.

Row 9, from the left there's an Escort, Fiasco, another Escort, and then a mark 1 Audi 80 next to the Volvo. The Audi must have been at least 10 years old then.

Now, what's the blue coupe in front of the red Yugo to the right of the tourists in the Taunus? Single wiper tells me it's a mk 2 Scirocco. That and the mk 2 Golf way on the left hand end of Row 4 (you can just see a tail light) means I'm pitching this picture at around 1984 or 85.

Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 22 July 01:07

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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52classic said:
I think the car with the 'tourists' is a Taunus. Maybe a 17M. But what about the caravanette next to the Marina van? Not a Commer, could it be a Barkas? Badge on the grille looks DKW.
definitely a Barkas - would be a very rare spot as an East German vehicle before 89

and yes, a p5 17/20M Taunus, which would be pre-67
the UK Reg'd Ascona is an odd one too, I know that they had them in Ireland in RHD

Baur Cabrio E30 there too

big Merc 408 camper wasn't very common in the UK either

maybe a lot of this German stuff was British Forces Germany? a lot of bases around North Yorkshire
when did the dedicated BFG plates disappear to be replaced by the UK-like ones? was that not until about 1990?

Dapster said:
Now, what's the blue coupe in front of the red Yugo to the right of the tourists in the Taunus? Single wiper tells me it's a mk 2 Scirocco. That and the mk 2 Golf way on the left hand end of Row 4 (you can just see a tail light) means I'm pitching this picture at around 1984 or 85.
looks like an Isuzu Piazza to me

by the way, the pic is labelled '1985' wink
soxboy said:
What's the car in 3rd row from the back, behind the brown mk1 Escort? It looks like a Jeep Cherokee to me, guess it may have been one of the first ones.
Cherokee, yes, that model came out in 83, but there was a previous bigger one from the early 70s

I remember because a neighbour had one

got about 8 miles to the gallon

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Tuesday 22 July 10:06

The Don of Croy

5,976 posts

158 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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ClaphamGT3 said:
To be strictly pedantic ... They lost the last vestige of surface parking there at the same time.
This photo is from the Eye taken in March 2004 (ten years after) - plenty of ground parking (our Scenic is centre of the pic) -


M3DGE

1,979 posts

163 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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52classic said:
IMHO a very representative selection of their time.

The only one I had difficulty with was the tall estate in row 2 between the Triumph 1300 and the Datsun 120. Reliant Rebel? No it has 4 doors. Then I thought...... Renault 6 TL! Are they extinct nowdays?
Sorry to come back so late, but there are 25 Renault 6's licensed in the UK - of which 12 are TLs!

Damp Logs

724 posts

133 months

Wednesday 6th August 2014
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taken in or around Stockport, probably 1961


Phunk

1,972 posts

170 months

Sunday 17th August 2014
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Taken today (my 2cv)

guru_1071

2,768 posts

233 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Phunk said:


Taken today (my 2cv)
.....'the red car and the blue car had a race...............'

smile

Sardonicus

18,928 posts

220 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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guru_1071 said:
.....'the red car and the blue car had a race...............'

smile
Or tortoise and the hare scratchchin that shot could be period if you didn't look hard enough for the sky dishes and later car to the left in shot

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Sardonicus said:
guru_1071 said:
.....'the red car and the blue car had a race...............'

smile
Or tortoise and the hare scratchchin that shot could be period if you didn't look hard enough for the sky dishes and later car to the left in shot
But it's in the wrong thread - it should be the "period-looking" posts.

Roy C

4,187 posts

283 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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nicanary said:
Sardonicus said:
guru_1071 said:
.....'the red car and the blue car had a race...............'

smile
Or tortoise and the hare scratchchin that shot could be period if you didn't look hard enough for the sky dishes and later car to the left in shot
But it's in the wrong thread - it should be the "period-looking" posts.
"How about a 'period looking' classics picture thread?"

dinkel

26,887 posts

257 months

droopsnoot

11,812 posts

241 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Wandering around the car boot sale last week I dropped on a load of old slides from a house clearance, so thinking of this thread I grabbed them before they got left for the bin. I'm not sure where half of these were taken, France probably given the number of French cars. Seventies for some, but there are some eighties Peugeots and so on in here as well.

Several DSs here, Citroen Ami



CF Camper, and interesting dark green van on the right hand side of the shot.



A little later, I see a Talbot Samba or whatever it was called there.



504 estate, are they 2x 404 estates?



There's quite an interesting small truck behind the Thumbsnap logo, I didn't think of that when I was uploading them.



505 on the left, and is that red thing an SD1 or a GS?



Not sure what the estate car is from the rear.



Several more DSs, R4s



Slide is labelled "Aber Falls" but I don't think it is.



Visiting Renault estate alongside Renault coupe and a 504.



On the ferry with some more R4s



I see an R16 and the family Volvo, is the far right a Fiat 128, and can't make out the rear window just near the washing on the right.


vixen1700

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22,669 posts

269 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Nice little find there. smile

On a slightly related note, I drove to Aix-en-Provence a couple of weeks back and avoided the motorways coming back taking the nice scenic route and that entire week of driving on motorways and nice country roads, didn't seen a single DS. frown

V8 TVR

319 posts

188 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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I would say that the estate car in the seventh photo down is a Peugeot 404. Very good pics.

GTRene

16,372 posts

223 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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great looking village castle.


Roy C

4,187 posts

283 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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GTRene said:
great looking village castle.

http://www.ot-montsaintmichel.com/

...not to be confused with it's Cornish cousin: http://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/


Edited by Roy C on Friday 3rd October 14:09

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