How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

RichB said:

P5BNij]IMG]http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x38/rugd1022/Misc/12310552_424503027753576_8362662277788683598_n_zpsqwklptoz.jpg[/IMG said:

Must confess I miss the days when taxis came down onto the platform at Paddington. That dates me!

Me too! I used to work trains in and out of Padd in the early '80s, it was such a different place then, it's lost a little of its soul since those days. The bustle of the night mails being loaded is very much missed, there'd be GPO vans all over the place and some of the postal lads would park their own cars between platforms 8 and 9.

And me....

I remember often going with my Dad to Paddington in the car to pick up his aunt who'd come over from Ireland on the ferry/train from Fishguard, and we'd just drive down that curved ramp from the road down onto the platform to park up. That memory would always return every day when I was using Paddington a few years back when working in London for 18 months, and would often get the Reading train from that same platform.

[TonyF55]

[quote=P5BNij]
Brentwood, Essex '76, nice Interceptor beyond and another one lurking inside the showroom along with a S1 XJ6...


Loving all these old pics, must sort out what pics my parents have.

Was this taken what is now the Aston Martin dealer ? Do you have any other old pics of Brentwood ?

[Number 5]

mehere said:

Isn't this thread absolutely riveting? - I find myself checking back twice a day or so...

Best thread on the Internet!

[manorcom]

While we are waiting for those readers out there to get scanning their old car pictures to post for us to enjoy. I thought you might like a "Celebrating the Transit" interlude. I had to do a long journey the other day in a brand new Transit Custom. What a change from Transits of old. That got me searching for a picture of my old '83 Diesel Tranny 35cwt pick up. It was a 2.4 non DI York engine. Pretty gutless and very noisy. A world away from a modern van: Here it is ROM 936Y a few weeks old outside our shop:

And you remember that pic of "Our Enry"?:

Well here is in 2010, re creating that picture on the 45th Anniversary of the Tranny;


The Police said that the humble Tranny was the best getaway motor of the 1970's:

Here are a record 48 students at Barking College cramming into one:

1965 Carrying Elephants at London Zoo;

1960's Spurs showing their new team transport (Jimmy Greaves is there)

Even The Tremelos had one:

Camouflage Trannies at Longleat:

Minibus service England to Australia:

In the North African Desert:

Penthouse magazine racing escorts support vehicle1975:

49 foot Cetiosaurus transporting Kent to Edinburgh:

Steve Mathews leaping 15 cars:

And finally caravan towing world record at 170 mph 1985:

[P5BNij]

TonyF55 said:

P5BNij said:

Brentwood, Essex '76, nice Interceptor beyond and another one lurking inside the showroom along with a S1 XJ6...


Loving all these old pics, must sort out what pics my parents have.

Was this taken what is now the Aston Martin dealer ? Do you have any other old pics of Brentwood ?

Al not Tony, that one was a found / half inched pic that's been lurking in my hard drive for some time!

[P5BNij]

iSore said:

P5BNij said:

That was BMW Concessionaires' 528 press car, JLD308N. John Bolster raved about it in his Motor Sport column. Golf yellow is much more vivid and citron in real life, same as used on the E9 CSL.

Thanks iSore - I'm becoming dangerously partial to '60s and '70s BMWs of late. I'll have a gander at the Motorsport archive for that JB example, they've scanned in every issue now and I have a dip in every now and then, partly for the adverts which are at turns uplifting / depressing... fancy a one owner DB4 that's been pampered to within an inch of its life in deepest Slough...? Yours for £750! A 1275 Cooper S with mag alloys and slot radio garaged in Northampton...? A mere snip at £495!

The contemporary reviews of cars which are now pretty much beyond reach for many of us are rather nice; road going GT40s, Dino 246GT and 308GT4, Urraco, Espada etc, all sobering stuff.













Men were men in the '70s...

[johnxjsc1985]

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

[ClaphamGT3]

It's fair to say that the years have not been kind.....

[johnxjsc1985]

ClaphamGT3 said:

It's fair to say that the years have not been kind.....

she was the ultimate "posh totty".

[bristolracer]

ClaphamGT3 said:

It's fair to say that the years have not been kind.....

oh do come on she is 55

[TR4man]

To be fair that's not the most flattering of photos of PH.

However, I do seem to remember she had more than her fair share of magic substances....

[truck71]

bristolracer said:

oh do come on she is 55

Quite, looking mighty fine through these eyes.

[P5BNij]

Manorcom, I see your several Transit vans and raise you another one...


More Rodge...




That young Jagger chappie again...


That's Keith's second Bentley S3 behind, the story goes that he crashed it whilst 'slightly intoxicated' in Chelsea early one morning, running off to let a passenger deal with the consequences...


Goerge Best + dolly bird + E-Type = ace...


Oxford Street, October '65, almost everyone is driving on sidelights...


Smith Street, Chelsea late '60s...


Murchison Road E10, 1969...




Southern Row W10, 1969, part of Kensal Rise gasworks looms in the background and hidden out of sight is the Great Western mainline out of Paddington...






Market Place, Nuneaton in 1966...

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 13th March 11:10

[RichB]

fesuvious said:

Did make me chuckle.

What am I missing?

[dinkel]

manorcom said:

And finally caravan towing world record at 170 mph 1985:

Cosworth DFX 3.9 litre take on the DFV F1 powered this epic Transit. Saw it in period and the sound was just amazing. Still dreaming of a DFX powered Cerbera or Cobra.

[daveenty]

P5BNij said:

Oxford Street, October '65, almost everyone is driving on sidelights...

Surprisingly, when I learnt to drive in the early 70s, sidelights were the norm in towns and on well lit streets. Headlights were usually only used on unlit lanes/country roads, purely to see with. Never a thought was given to the "see and be seen" of latter years.

[Sardonicus]

daveenty said:

Surprisingly, when I learnt to drive in the early 70s, sidelights were the norm in towns and on well lit streets. Headlights were usually only used on unlit lanes/country roads, purely to see with. Never a thought was given to the "see and be seen" of latter years.

Yeh but back then they didnt have to deal with fking numb nuts with ear buds in their lug holes like fking zombies and stepping off the pavement ...... you cant teach common sense

[RichB]

Sardonicus said:

daveenty said:

Surprisingly, when I learnt to drive in the early 70s, sidelights were the norm in towns and on well lit streets. Headlights were usually only used on unlit lanes/country roads, purely to see with. Never a thought was given to the "see and be seen" of latter years.

Yeh but back then they didnt have to deal with fking numb nuts with ear buds in their lug holes like fking zombies and stepping off the pavement ...... you cant teach common sense

Exactly. I learnt to drive in Ealing in the early 70s and like my dad before used side lights in town. However people grew up aware that you looked right, left and right again and only stepped onto the road when it was clear.

[uk66fastback]

RichB said:

What am I missing?

Maybe that it's an 80s car driven by a woman not attired in the modern jeans look - ie virtually on her pubic bone, but the high waistband type - + white, fashionable in the 80s ... ?

[RichB]

uk66fastback said:

RichB said:

What am I missing?

Maybe that it's an 80s car driven by a woman not attired in the modern jeans look...

Can't imaging so, why is that funny?