How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[williamp]

Ford transit

[truck71]

A 1600cc petrol transit, correct.

[M3DGE]

johnxjsc1985 said:

just about 30 years ago since Paula Hamilton did the famous Golf advert. I think the Car survived but not too sure about her.

The plate is on an Aston now..

[M3DGE]

sun.and.rain said:

P5BNij said:

Looking at all this ADO16 goodness conjures up images of public information films where sheepskin coat wearing blokes called Reg tootle about in 1100s on a mixture of crossplys and radials...!

Interesting pic there, a VDP 1300 shown on a R-plate. "Do not publish until September 1977". (Which would also have been period for an S-reg.
Was there a plan to continue sales of the VDP beyond 1974?

Also note this pic is of the "long booted" body. There appears to maybe have been some black highlighting done to the image.

Edited by sun.and.rain on Wednesday 16th March 12:49

The plate could be real - OOG was issued with both a G and an R suffix (but not as a P as suggested by another poster), and OG is a Birmingham plate so that would fit. But car companies often used random plates on unregistered vehicles for publicity shots. EDIT Now I have gone through the whole thread I see the plate has been tracked to a Tranny- how bizaare that BL used a real plate from a Ford for this!!

Edited by M3DGE on Monday 4th April 16:39

[Pat H]

Thought it might be interesting to revisit a few of the locations in the family photo collection.

Hopefully this is sufficiently within the spirit of the thread.

More to come in the fullness of time.


1971:



2016:



1975:



2016:

Edited by Pat H on Wednesday 6th April 13:08

[The Don of Croy]

Pat H said:

Thought it might be interesting to revisit a few of the locations in the family photo collection.

Hopefully this is sufficiently within the spirit of the thread.

More to come in the fullness of time.


1971:

My Dad had a Zodiac in 1972 - CKE707K - but I don't remember it having wing mirrors or fogs, so maybe this fine example is an Executive?

Talking of wing mirrors - you'd need sharp vision (or binoculars) to see much in those far flung jobbies.

[sun.and.rain]

Great pics of then and now.

That does look like a Mk4 Zode Exec Freeleeta.

Slight diversion but, I've been reading the Harris racing book, does anyone have any pics of Rollerball early 70s V8 Mk4 Zode? I vaguely remember a Mk4 V8 on the custom mags of the day but so far haven't found any pics. Think it was a 302 or 351.

Sorry for diversion, this is a great thread for interesting old pics.

[superhans88]

Had the misfortune to spend my first few months travelling in the back of one of these...




Soon graduated to Sierras though...

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Pat H said:

Thought it might be interesting to revisit a few of the locations in the family photo collection.

Hopefully this is sufficiently within the spirit of the thread.

More to come in the fullness of time.


1971:



2016:



1975:



2016:

Edited by Pat H on Wednesday 6th April 13:08

Unusually there's more foiliage in the first 1975 picture than the later one

[mehere]

[quote=Pat H].


1971:



/quote]

when I was a kid - I always wanted me dad to have one of these....
I even got the brochures and everything !...
..........but no, he didnt ...

and I was one cross kid when both my uncle AND the bloke across the road got one ..
.......the one over the road was registered GOX 717D.

I asked him one day:- ".. mister - wots it like to drive?... "
- & he said " it's like driving a billard table"...

It never struck me at the time, but I don't now know whether he was referring to the length of the bonnet or the handling qualities ....... maybe both?

[Hugo a Gogo]

lots of cars to spot


and the location?

[iSore]

The lower pic could be Marlborough....?

[Allan L]

mehere]at H said:

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I asked him one day:- ".. mister - wots it like to drive?... "
- & he said " it's like driving a billard table"...

It never struck me at the time, but I don't now know whether he was referring to the length of the bonnet or the handling qualities ....... maybe both?

My boss had one of those as a company car which I had to drive back from Heathrow once, as he wanted to read some papers en route, and I can agree with the billiard table comparison: length of (and shape of) bonnet, handling qualities and apparant weight!

[Roy C]

Hugo a Gogo said:

lots of cars to spot

and the location?

Market Place, Barnard Castle.

The London-registered Cortina Mk1 threw me a bit, but the County Durham Viva helped.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Roy C said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

lots of cars to spot

and the location?

Market Place, Barnard Castle.

The London-registered Cortina Mk1 threw me a bit, but the County Durham Viva helped.

well done

If you know Barney the other pic should be easy

[Roy C]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Roy C said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

lots of cars to spot

and the location?

Market Place, Barnard Castle.

The London-registered Cortina Mk1 threw me a bit, but the County Durham Viva helped.

well done

If you know Barney the other pic should be easy

Never been there, but I noticed the Golden Lion pub sign on the left and looked for a pub of that name in County Durham.

Bowes Museum?

Edited by Roy C on Sunday 10th April 15:32

[Hugo a Gogo]

ha yeah, well done

[unrepentant]

Roy C said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

lots of cars to spot

and the location?

Market Place, Barnard Castle.

The London-registered Cortina Mk1 threw me a bit, but the County Durham Viva helped.

At first glance I was going to say Bedale but obviously not and obviously Barney.

Here's a period pic of my company Capri 2.0GL, about 1980 or 1981 somewhere near Basingstoke. I was a very young sales rep for Prince tennis rackets and the other sports trade road warriors were a little envious as they were mainly in Marina's and Cortina's. It replaced a Datsun 120Y Coupe and was my first nice car, although I now look back fondly on a MK2 Cortina that I had.

Wonder if KAR 109V is still on the road? Doubt it.

[iSore]

The tax ran out December 1985, so it was nicked or written off. Capris lasted about 10 - 15 years on average. Our T plate 3000S was last taxed in '94, and the 1976 2000S before that in 1989. I had a 2.0GL on a Y plate in 1996, a minter that I sold in 1997. It was a superb example of a bloody awful car - I absolutely hated it!

[unrepentant]

iSore said:

The tax ran out December 1985, so it was nicked or written off. Capris lasted about 10 - 15 years on average. Our T plate 3000S was last taxed in '94, and the 1976 2000S before that in 1989. I had a 2.0GL on a Y plate in 1996, a minter that I sold in 1997. It was a superb example of a bloody awful car - I absolutely hated it!

It didn't last long after I had it then. We traded it in at Hughes of Beaconsfield in '83 for another new Capri. The green car had been the bosses wife's before I had it and when it was time to change Hughes had a 1 yr old silver 2.0 S in the showroom and a white 1.6 LS brand new. The boss said I could have one or the other and I chose the 1.6 as I'd never had a new car before. Regretted it fairly quickly! I liked the Capri's, I was very young and they looked cool. Traded the white car (A649 KUD I IIRC) for a Toyota Corolla GTi Twin Cam 16 FWD which was a blast to drive. We also got that from Hughes who in that multi franchise age sold Toyota, Ford and Mercedes-Benz from the same dealership.