How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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TR4man said:
RJG46 said:
RATATTAK said:
RATATTAK said:
American Ford ?
Corniche doesn't have an emblem on the front wing, although some markets had a side indicator lens, but it was a lot lower, and the RR bumper is thinner, and the wheel/tyre fills the arch a lot more, and the arch shape is all wrong for a RR.
aeropilot said:
Shape matches a Corniche even less.....
Corniche doesn't have an emblem on the front wing, although some markets had a side indicator lens, but it was a lot lower, and the RR bumper is thinner, and the wheel/tyre fills the arch a lot more, and the arch shape is all wrong for a RR.
When I saw the original post I immediately thought it was the car I finally settled on ... from then it was just a matter of finding a picture that matched and confirming (IMO) that the car was a 1960 Ford Galaxie Corniche doesn't have an emblem on the front wing, although some markets had a side indicator lens, but it was a lot lower, and the RR bumper is thinner, and the wheel/tyre fills the arch a lot more, and the arch shape is all wrong for a RR.
RATATTAK said:
RATATTAK said:
When I saw the original post I immediately thought it was the car I finally settled on ... from then it was just a matter of finding a picture that matched and confirming (IMO) that the car was a 1960 Ford Galaxie
Probably a Sunliner ...
1955/56 model year production all headed for the USA with the raised bumper bars and wing mounted indicators low down rather than the later wing top design. I guess all long gone now or else recreated into the earlier split window versions by Customisers which seems to be a popular idea now.
HQB said:
1955/56 model year production all headed for the USA with the raised bumper bars and wing mounted indicators low down rather than the later wing top design. I guess all long gone now or else recreated into the earlier split window versions by Customisers which seems to be a popular idea now.
And yet back in the day it was quite popular to cut out the split window and fit a 'modernising' kit with the oval window to make your car look newer.Thats amazing. Lots of foreign cars.... and wome interesting observations:
Do the black cabs have blackedout rear windows? When did they stop doing that?
There is a 6 door lDaimler limo at 5min in
London looks so dirty. Loads of soot on all the buildings
Early capri on regent street. One of the first??
Fab spot on the aston. I cant see the DB5 badges on the lower front wings, so it might be a DB4 Vantage
Do the black cabs have blackedout rear windows? When did they stop doing that?
There is a 6 door lDaimler limo at 5min in
London looks so dirty. Loads of soot on all the buildings
Early capri on regent street. One of the first??
Fab spot on the aston. I cant see the DB5 badges on the lower front wings, so it might be a DB4 Vantage
mhurley said:
Great to see this, so many of these streets are very familiar to me and its amazing to see them 50 years ago - interesting to see so few non UK manufactured cars and also with lack of street markings traffic flowing well, much of it 2 lanes per side where we now struggle with just one. And looks so clean without all the unnecessary street furniture we have now, signs, lines, markings, cameras etc cluttering everything up.
The London of my childhood 
Funny seeing cars driving up through Leicester Square......almost forgot what that looked like.
Spotted what could have been a Lotus-Cortina parked up alongside Hyde Park early on, but couldn't quite see if it was a LC or a GT with a green stripe, which was so common of the period?
Also spotted what looked like a bright yellow Alpine A110 parked at side of road in the last sequence filmed from rear top of bus.
Funny seeing cars driving up through Leicester Square......almost forgot what that looked like.
Spotted what could have been a Lotus-Cortina parked up alongside Hyde Park early on, but couldn't quite see if it was a LC or a GT with a green stripe, which was so common of the period?
Also spotted what looked like a bright yellow Alpine A110 parked at side of road in the last sequence filmed from rear top of bus.
Edited by aeropilot on Saturday 29th December 17:42
Excellent find - rather nostalgic for me .
The Linkline coach at 1.24; we used that company a lot at that time and they had one particularly mad driver who carried a hammer, which iirc we saw him aim at a car roof when he considered it had not given way to him
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The white Giulia Super at 3.42; I had a white one at that time
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.The Linkline coach at 1.24; we used that company a lot at that time and they had one particularly mad driver who carried a hammer, which iirc we saw him aim at a car roof when he considered it had not given way to him
.The white Giulia Super at 3.42; I had a white one at that time
.williamp said:
Do the black cabs have blackedout rear windows? When did they stop doing that?
I'd forgotten that, but yes they did.Don't know when it changed; maybe around the time that the bodywork changed to incorporate indicators at the rear, instead of the 'teddy bear ears' on the roof.
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