How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
Discussion
P5BNij said:
... or the Monteverdi.... or.... or....
The last Monteverdi 375L I saw was a bronze one with the driver's side window smashed which had been dumped near Leytonstone tube station in the mid-80s. I used to walk past it each morning and evening to and from work. If only I knew it was going to be removed by the council, it could have been wheeled round to my parent's gargage.
nicanary said:
The 5th photo down showing the rears of vehicles on the M1 - that estate car is a Simca 1501. When did you last see one of those?
. . and it's at Watford Gap, the weak point in the hills that three generations of civil engineers used. The first was William Jessop of the Grand Junction canal, opened in 1805 and sadly not in the photo but Robert Stephenson's London and Birmingham railway of 1838 (later L&NWR) is.
crostonian said:
Showing my trainspotting past here! Don't the Mk3 carriages look ultra modern compared with everything else in that shot?
The Mark 3 coaches were built for the prototype HST in 1972, the locomotive hauled stock came out in 1975. The class 86/2 (with the flexicoil suspension) on the front dates from 1971. Its headcode box is set to 0000 so that indicates a 1976 date, so the motorway will have been seventeen years old in that shot.
williamp said:
P5BNij said:
Some more London street scenes from the '60s and '70s...
would love to know more. The DB2 series is rare enough. To have two parked together must be the back of a dealership somewhere
RichB said:
P5BNij said:
Stuff and (Clive Dunn lived five doors away)...
How funny, Mum & Dad got married in Hammersmith Town Hall next road along from Cromwell Ave. But also Mum always told the story that as a kid she'd been on the same estate as Buster Merryfield (Uncle on Fools & Horses) and she once whacked him over the head with one of her porcelain dolls because he used to annoy her. Small world! Anyway yes, growing up in London in the late 50s early 60s I remember many very nice cars just parked up on the side of the road. That Bentley Continental in one of the pics on this thread looks very familiar 
(* where the opening and closing credits for the first three series of The Sweeney were filmed back in '74)
threespires said:
I'll have a go, but am open to correction!From the front left: Lanchester Ten, Lagonda Rapier, Jowett (Ten?)
From the front Right: Triumph Gloria, Morris Eight, Standard Ten
My eyes aren't good enough to see further back...
vernonderby said:
threespires said:
I'll have a go, but am open to correction!From the front left: Lanchester Ten, Lagonda Rapier, Jowett (Ten?)
From the front Right: Triumph Gloria, Morris Eight, Standard Ten
My eyes aren't good enough to see further back...
While dad was going through the mid to late 60's with his new Jaquar period...1965 S Type 3.8 Manual in blue, superb car then his Daimler Sovereign Auto (Jag 420 shape) blue again H reg. I had started with a Bedford Van, then a Morris Minor Traveller and then this super (for its day) Viva.
The my first convertible, a MkI Vitesse 6. Lovely smooth engine. Can you believe me in stupid orange sweater with the top down in winter?
My appetite for topless cars went then with a nice Austin Healey Sprite Mk4:
Then while searching for an MGB my great Morris 1100, much better than I expected:
Then the best car by far for ages my 1967 MGB:
And here en route to Spain in the Pyranees mountains with my mate in his 1964 B
The my first convertible, a MkI Vitesse 6. Lovely smooth engine. Can you believe me in stupid orange sweater with the top down in winter?
My appetite for topless cars went then with a nice Austin Healey Sprite Mk4:
Then while searching for an MGB my great Morris 1100, much better than I expected:
Then the best car by far for ages my 1967 MGB:
And here en route to Spain in the Pyranees mountains with my mate in his 1964 B
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