How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[Sardonicus]

Great pics hotel is in paignton in devon

[SilverHarrier]

Sardonicus said:

Great pics hotel is in paignton in devon

Cheers, that was quicker than me searching google for it!

[Pericoloso]

Sardonicus said:

Great pics hotel is in paignton in devon

I guessed it was on the seafront just by looking at it......

It just looks like it is.

[Rostfritt]

SilverHarrier said:

I think this must have been taken no earlier than 82 as the blue Fiesta looks like a facelift with the bigger head rests and black bumpers. don't know where the Park Hotel is though, anyone recognize it?

I don't like how that is one set of windows away from being symmetrical.

[soxboy]

SilverHarrier said:

Ambassador or Princess? Never can remember the differences!

That’s an Ambassador, tell by both the rear side window (which the Princess lacked) and the exposed wipers (which were hidden on the Princess and no idea why they weren’t on the Ambassador).

[52classic]

Caravan is a Cotswold Windrush. Mid 70's I'd guess, judging by the glass windows and the design of the door handle.

[HealeyV8]

My car back in 1975 (pictures sent to me by a previous owner)



As she is now

[cv01jw]

SilverHarrier said:

Random old postcard I found on a house clearance last week, dated August 1963

Is the car more or less central a Vanden Plas Princess?

[cv01jw]

SilverHarrier said:

I think this must have been taken no earlier than 82 as the blue Fiesta looks like a facelift with the bigger head rests and black bumpers. don't know where the Park Hotel is though, anyone recognize it?

The Park Hotel was in Paignton - was sold at the end of last year for redevelopment.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Esplanade+Rd,+...

[droopsnoot]

I don't want to fill the thread by posting all of these individually (and I can't be bothered - there's thousands of interesting images) but a recent thread on Retro Rides pointed to this chap on Flickr who has a lot of albums of this kind of stuff: https://www.flickr.com/photos/trainsandstuff/album...

[P5BNij]

droopsnoot said:

I don't want to fill the thread by posting all of these individually (and I can't be bothered - there's thousands of interesting images) but a recent thread on Retro Rides pointed to this chap on Flickr who has a lot of albums of this kind of stuff: https://www.flickr.com/photos/trainsandstuff/album...

Bookmarked for future perusal over a cuppa

Brian Epstein with a Maserati Sebring in Chapel Street, Belgravia...

[vixen1700]

P5BNij said:

Brian Epstein with a Maserati Sebring in Chapel Street, Belgravia...

There really is something so understated, stylish and cool about Maseratis of this vintage.

[forsure]

cv01jw said:

SilverHarrier said:

Random old postcard I found on a house clearance last week, dated August 1963

Is the car more or less central a Vanden Plas Princess?

Almost certainly; the only other car with that bodyshell would be an Austin Westminster (with a different grille and bonnet), but they definitely look like VP hubcaps/wheeltrims.

[JeremyH5]

forsure said:

cv01jw said:

SilverHarrier said:

Random old postcard I found on a house clearance last week, dated August 1963

Is the car more or less central a Vanden Plas Princess?

Almost certainly; the only other car with that bodyshell would be an Austin Westminster (with a different grille and bonnet), but they definitely look like VP hubcaps/wheeltrims.

There was also the Wolesley 6/110.

[aeropilot]

forsure said:

cv01jw said:

SilverHarrier said:

Random old postcard I found on a house clearance last week, dated August 1963

Is the car more or less central a Vanden Plas Princess?

Almost certainly; the only other car with that bodyshell would be an Austin Westminster (with a different grille and bonnet), but they definitely look like VP hubcaps/wheeltrims.

Agree, the hub caps definitely look VDP.

[P5BNij]

Ringo looks rather pleased with his MB 600 in 1970...



George Martin had to make do with a Herald convertible, John Lennon passed his driving test in it in 1965...



I'd happily 'make do' with either of them if I had the space

[Auntieroll]

aeropilot said:

forsure said:

cv01jw said:

SilverHarrier said:

Random old postcard I found on a house clearance last week, dated August 1963

Is the car more or less central a Vanden Plas Princess?

Almost certainly; the only other car with that bodyshell would be an Austin Westminster (with a different grille and bonnet), but they definitely look like VP hubcaps/wheeltrims.

Agree, the hub caps definitely look VDP.

It's definitely not a VdP 4 Ltr R , if it was the rear fins would be rounded at the top corners with the rear light clusters arranged lower down and horizontally rather than built into the fins as the above image , can't remember about the hub caps though !
Looks like a Riley or Wolseley as previously mentioned.

[aeropilot]

Auntieroll said:

aeropilot said:

forsure said:

cv01jw said:

SilverHarrier said:

Random old postcard I found on a house clearance last week, dated August 1963

Is the car more or less central a Vanden Plas Princess?

Almost certainly; the only other car with that bodyshell would be an Austin Westminster (with a different grille and bonnet), but they definitely look like VP hubcaps/wheeltrims.

Agree, the hub caps definitely look VDP.

It's definitely not a VdP 4 Ltr R , if it was the rear fins would be rounded at the top corners with the rear light clusters arranged lower down and horizontally rather than built into the fins as the above image , can't remember about the hub caps though !
Looks like a Riley or Wolseley as previously mentioned.

It's the first gen Princess 3 Litre, or VDP 3L Mk2, not the later end of line VDP 4L R, which as you say has the rounded rear lights.

There never was a Riley version made of these, but there was an Austin, the Westminster.

[Cyb1967]

I can confirm it’s a Vanden Plas Princess 3 Litre as I own one , the tall overiders below the lights were unique to that model.

[bristolracer]

P5BNij said:

George Martin had to make do with a Herald convertible, John Lennon passed his driving test in it in 1965...

Irony of that numberplate for Mr Lennon