A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[P5BNij]

I've just posted these in one of the yank threads but thought it worth posting them here too - this is the AC Cobra owned by Tara Browne, the heir to the Guinness fortune, the paint job was done by artists Binder, Vaughan & Edwards in 1966....













Browne was a business partner with Lotus dealer Len Street....

[woodytype S]

[Halmyre]

woodytype S said:

Nuffield Universal

[lotusposition]

[quote=P5BNij]I've just posted these in one of the yank threads but thought it worth posting them here too - this is the AC Cobra owned by Tara Browne, the heir to the Guinness fortune, the paint job was done by artists Binder, Vaughan & Edwards in 1966....

Amazing and evocative, historic pictures, thank you P5BNij

[lotusposition]

amazing and evocative, historic 60's photo's...thank you P5BNij

[wobblyweb]

On the subject of Tara Browne and a much less pleasant note
"He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed"

His Elan

[P5BNij]

wobblyweb said:

On the subject of Tara Browne and a much less pleasant note
"He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed"

His Elan

His passenger that day was Suki Poitier, a fashion model, she died several years in another car crash.

[TypeR]

P5BNij said:

Posted elsewhere but worth dropping it in here too - Kensington Olympia motorail terminal on 5th April 1966....

The Loco on the right. Is that a "Warship"?
I remember getting my Dad to take myself and some mates to see one in about '73 at Didcot before it was sent to be scrapped.

[RichB]

TypeR said:

P5BNij said:

Posted elsewhere but worth dropping it in here too - Kensington Olympia motorail terminal on 5th April 1966....

The Loco on the right. Is that a "Warship"? I remember getting my Dad to take myself and some mates to see one in about '73 at Didcot before it was sent to be scrapped.

It's a Western, D1000 etc.

[aeropilot]

RichB said:

TypeR said:

P5BNij said:

Posted elsewhere but worth dropping it in here too - Kensington Olympia motorail terminal on 5th April 1966....

The Loco on the right. Is that a "Warship"? I remember getting my Dad to take myself and some mates to see one in about '73 at Didcot before it was sent to be scrapped.

It's a Western, D1000 etc.

Hmmmm......Maybach's

[V8Sully]

At least one still around

[RDMcG]

Here is one from 1941...
Simple line of wartime VWs...
apart from the Typ 64 in the foreground:

[CharlesdeGaulle]

RDMcG said:

Here is one from 1941...
Simple line of wartime VWs...
apart from the Typ 64 in the foreground:

Is that really 41?

[aeropilot]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

RDMcG said:

Here is one from 1941...
Simple line of wartime VWs...
apart from the Typ 64 in the foreground:

Is that really 41?

It could be.....it possibly could be earlier, late 39 or 40 depending on where it was taken.
With the 64 in shot, my guess that it is taken at Zuffenhausen, and those are some of the 14 x VW39's built by Porsche at Zuffenhausen?

[Spottedlaurel]

Gareth1974 said:

With a colour change it would seem, that P6 estate is still around:


1970 Rover P6 3500 Estoura by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

I took this photo in 2010, but I think he still has it.

[Lily the Pink]

aeropilot said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

RDMcG said:

Here is one from 1941...
Simple line of wartime VWs...
apart from the Typ 64 in the foreground:

Is that really 41?

It could be.....it possibly could be earlier, late 39 or 40 depending on where it was taken.
With the 64 in shot, my guess that it is taken at Zuffenhausen, and those are some of the 14 x VW39's built by Porsche at Zuffenhausen?

It says Stuttgart on the building in the background.

[Error_404_Username_not_found]

Lily the Pink said:

It says Stuttgart on the building in the background.

Umm...
Zuffenhausen is a district of Stuttgart, on the north side of the city. And now home to the Porsche museum.

[Halmyre]

Spottedlaurel said:

Gareth1974 said:

With a colour change it would seem, that P6 estate is still around:


1970 Rover P6 3500 Estoura by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

I took this photo in 2010, but I think he still has it.

According to DVLA it was taxed and MOT'd as recently as 2019 or so.

[P5BNij]

Waterloo station, 1965....

[P5BNij]

Reading in 1975, photo c/o a chap on the RMWeb forum....