A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[bigothunter]

Just found this comparative footage of Cricklewood Lane over 63 years period. I find this stuff fascinating - hope I'm not alone.

If that transformation had happened overnight back in 1957, wonder how the residents would have felt - admirable progress or the blight of time?

[P5BNij]

Photo by Dave Ford - Muskham, up north, 3rd August 1974, the 1100 / 1300 appears to have covers over the tyres...

[littleredrooster]

P5BNij said:

Photo by Dave Ford - Muskham, up north, 3rd August 1974, the 1100 / 1300 appears to have covers over the tyres...

Someone has been waving a can of spray paint at the rusty arches, perhaps?

[Gavarnie]

Sidmouth, 1972. You'd never know the Swinging Sixties had just happened.

[DickyC]

littleredrooster said:

P5BNij said:

Photo by Dave Ford - Muskham, up north, 3rd August 1974, the 1100 / 1300 appears to have covers over the tyres...

Someone has been waving a can of spray paint at the rusty arches, perhaps?

Tyre warmers on while the crossing is closed.

[finlo]

Gavarnie said:

Sidmouth, 1972. You'd never know the Swinging Sixties had just happened.

Might just be the camera angle but most of those cars look almost impossible to extracate from their parking spaces.

[lowdrag]

dandarez said:

You're correct there!

I still recall in 1968 driving my first Imp (which really, really did need a de-coke - don't hear that term much these days) through Oxford.

I'd just driven off from the traffic lights on St Giles and as I got by the Randolph Hotel this ruddy great yankmobile 'overtook' me, and he (Yank) jumped out and wondering what the hell was going on, I wound my window down.

He yelled in deep south American droll (and really really loud, so much so, everyone was looking)
'Do you realise pal, you've been choking me to ****** death for the last mile!!'

Surely " to de-coke" is today used to indicate that someone is coming off drugs

But if you wanted a smoke screen, try riding a Villiers-engined 250cc 2-stroke bike!

[Escort3500]

Wonder how the NSU Prinz fared against the Healeys, Midgets and Sprites

[Milkyway]

1957: Roberta Cowell competing at a Shelsey Walsh hillclimb.

[nicanary]

Is that the Emeryson ?

[Milkyway]

nicanary said:

Is that the Emeryson ?

A film relating to the car.. . but unfortunately, none the wiser.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0MENnadk0

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 10th July 14:48

[Allan L]

Austen May (Speed Hill Climb, 1962) tells us it was Paul Emery's Alta and she put up a new Ladies' record for the hill. Patsy Burt was not amused (some things don't change, do they?).
I don't recognise the front suspension as Alta but also can say it's not the Gordon Armstrong system quoted by Bolster (Specials 1952) for the Emeryson. It's an Alta engine of course, not the Duesenberg or Lagonda Rapier which the Emeryson had.

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:42

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:49

[nicanary]

Allan L said:

Austen May (Speed Hill Climb, 1962) tells us it was Paul Emery's Alta and she put up a new Ladies' record for the hill. Patsy Burt was not amused (some things don't change, do they?).
I don't recognise the front suspension as Alta but also can say it's not the Gordon Armstrong system quoted by Bolster (Specials 1952) for the Emeryson. It's an Alta engine of course, not the Duesenberg or Lagonda Rapier which the Emeryson had.

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:42

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:49

Good info. Looks big to me, but could be the camera angle.

[Yertis]

P5BNij said:

Photo by Dave Ford - Muskham, up north, 3rd August 1974, the 1100 / 1300 appears to have covers over the tyres...

I think that level crossing featured in a model railway article I read fairly recently

[P5BNij]

A thirteen year old Mk1 Mini gets a makeover in 1977...

[nicanary]

nicanary said:

Allan L said:

Austen May (Speed Hill Climb, 1962) tells us it was Paul Emery's Alta and she put up a new Ladies' record for the hill. Patsy Burt was not amused (some things don't change, do they?).
I don't recognise the front suspension as Alta but also can say it's not the Gordon Armstrong system quoted by Bolster (Specials 1952) for the Emeryson. It's an Alta engine of course, not the Duesenberg or Lagonda Rapier which the Emeryson had.

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:42

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:49

Good info. Looks big to me, but could be the camera angle.

Just realised, Cowell was a partner with Gordon Watson at Leacroft Engineering and Watson raced an Alta. Could this be it?

[nicanary]

nicanary said:

nicanary said:

Allan L said:

Austen May (Speed Hill Climb, 1962) tells us it was Paul Emery's Alta and she put up a new Ladies' record for the hill. Patsy Burt was not amused (some things don't change, do they?).
I don't recognise the front suspension as Alta but also can say it's not the Gordon Armstrong system quoted by Bolster (Specials 1952) for the Emeryson. It's an Alta engine of course, not the Duesenberg or Lagonda Rapier which the Emeryson had.

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:42

Edited by Allan L on Sunday 10th July 15:49

Good info. Looks big to me, but could be the camera angle.

Just realised, Cowell was a partner with Gordon Watson at Leacroft Engineering and Watson raced an Alta. Could this be it?

Hmmmm..... in 1957 Paul Emery fitted his previously Alta-engined car with a modified Jaguar 2.4-litre unit together with his home-made fuel injection adapted from a CAV diesel unit and this was entered for Roberta in hillclimbs on numerous occasions. Mind you, still looks like an Alta in the photo.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

P5BNij said:

A thirteen year old Mk1 Mini gets a makeover in 1977...

Is that you?

[maxc]

Milkyway said:

nicanary said:

Is that the Emeryson ?

A film relating to the car.. . but unfortunately, none the wiser.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0MENnadk0

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 10th July 14:48

It was my late father who crashed in the film. "Not seriously injured" wasn't quite true as he broke his neck! I now have the chassis and will get round to building it up one day

[anonymous-user]

Milkyway said:

A film relating to the car.. . but unfortunately, none the wiser.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0MENnadk0

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 10th July 14:48

In perfect RP: ‘Roberta used to be a man…’

Brilliant