A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[52classic]

I thought perhaps a Farina MG Magnette - All good except the MG's chunkier overriders

[skwdenyer]

hidetheelephants said:

soxboy said:

Maybe the angle covered the reflector?

Looks like a match to me; 10,000 PH nerd points to you and Dan Singh.

I'd agree with that. Excellent sleuthing! If you're thinking (as I did) that that cluster looks rather elegant (I thought it redolent of Pininfarina's work), it seems the Type 3's design is credited to Sergio Sartorelli, then of Ghia, a man with a decent grasp of the pen

[Huntsman]

Excellent rear light nerding chaps.

[soxboy]

Huntsman said:

Excellent rear light nerding chaps.

Thanks, and apologies to work for the report being late.

[Milkyway]

Different... gross, 4.5T (allegedly).

[Dapster]

Milkyway said:

Different... gross, 4.5T (allegedly).

The Ford tractor and Transit are rhd but with the yellow headlamp covers like your dad used to use on the family trip!

The Simca in the foreground has a 27 suffix - Eure department in Normandy.

[Gavarnie]

Family holiday on Westward Ho ! circa 1953. It's a Riley but not sure what type. Amazingly DVLA records show that it's still on the road with the same registration, taxed and with a current MoT. Same colour too.

[GTRene]

Street Scene and Pantheon, Rue Soufflot, Paris, France, 1963



Deserted street at the Olympia in Paris, France on August 15, 1967.



Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England

[hidetheelephants]

Gavarnie said:

Family holiday on Westward Ho ! circa 1953. It's a Riley but not sure what type. Amazingly DVLA records show that it's still on the road with the same registration, taxed and with a current MoT. Same colour too.

RMA I think.

[RSTurboPaul]

GTRene said:

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Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England

What is the two-tone estate on the right??

(And why have they bothered removing number plates from a picture where most people in it will probably be 6 foot under by now? lol)

[hidetheelephants]

RSTurboPaul said:

What is the two-tone estate on the right??

Vauxhall Victor FC

[RSTurboPaul]

Thanks! I like some of the pics a quick search turns up - looks a very 'clean' design.

[Milkyway]

RSTurboPaul said:

GTRene said:

...
Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England

What is the two-tone estate on the right??

(And why have they bothered removing number plates from a picture where most people in it will probably be 6 foot under by now? lol)

You can never be too careful these days.

[aeropilot]

GTRene said:

Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England

Lovely absence of road markings and street furniture/pedestrian bollards and crap that festoon the roads today.

Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago.

[Dan Singh]

World's first traffic lights erected here 9th Dec.1868, apparently

[Sardonicus]

Milkyway said:

Different... gross, 4.5T (allegedly).

That poor old wheezy V4 must of struggled , should be a petrol tanker attached to that trailer too

[NomduJour]

aeropilot said:

Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago

That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started.

[Yertis]

aeropilot said:

Lovely absence of road markings and street furniture/pedestrian bollards and crap that festoon the roads today.

Note also the correlation of roadmarkings to greyness of sky and bareness of trees.

Edited by Yertis on Wednesday 17th April 12:20

[hidetheelephants]

NomduJour said:

aeropilot said:

Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago

That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started.

Probably the original was trashed by the Luftwaffe.

[RustyMX5]

NomduJour said:

That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started.

No 1 Parliament Street was refurbed just before Portcullis House was built. Whether the Mansard was done as part of that refurb I don't know.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/bu...