How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[TR4man]

How could a company that made something as beautiful as a Marcos 3000 then make something so pig-ugly as the Mini Marcos?

[W124Bob]

For those who like yank tanks



All and more can be found at this railroad Flickr site https://www.flickr.com/groups/1793636@N21/pool/pag...

Edited by W124Bob on Monday 31st December 18:10

[williamp]

It tookmea while to se the trains on the 2nd and third images!

[Pericoloso]

P5BNij said:

Some more Marcos shots - at Beaulieu in 1974...



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What's the blue car ?

Not something I'm familiar with.

ETA.......has a Marcos badge , so someone good with fibreglass made it a little prettier ?

[vixen1700]

TR4man said:

How could a company that made something as beautiful as a Marcos 3000 then make something so pig-ugly as the Mini Marcos?

Or the Mantis.

[P5BNij]

Pericoloso said:

P5BNij said:

Some more Marcos shots - at Beaulieu in 1974...



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What's the blue car ?

Not something I'm familiar with.

ETA.......has a Marcos badge , so someone good with fibreglass made it a little prettier ?

It's a Marcos 'Fastback', built in very small numbers with most being bought new by club racers. Lots of outright and class wins to their credit apparently.

[P5BNij]

vixen1700 said:

TR4man said:

How could a company that made something as beautiful as a Marcos 3000 then make something so pig-ugly as the Mini Marcos?

Or the Mantis.

An acquired taste as the saying goes but I like the interior, the dash and centre console has a definite touch of 'Ed Straker' about it...

[Pericoloso]

Thanks for that info P5 ,just noticed a brown FIAT 128 in that pic too...

[P5BNij]

Pericoloso said:

Thanks for that info P5 ,just noticed a brown FIAT 128 in that pic too...

Well it is the 'ampshire set and all that, very cosmopolitan down on the coast apparently

Bugger, I've just spilled me bloody Martini....

[RJG46]

aeropilot said:

And.......

7) A lot less people
8)A lot less 'street furniture' clutter

London was shrinking at the time with a lot less people living in the centre of town due to the arrival of the suburbs and stuff. Numbers have increased since.

Edited by RJG46 on Monday 31st December 19:42

[RJG46]

vixen1700 said:

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The Imelda

[RATATTAK]

Please stop posting pictures of the Mantis; I'd forgotten how ugly it was ...

[RJG46]

RATATTAK said:

Please stop posting pictures of the Mantis; I'd forgotten how ugly it was ...

Can never be forgotten.

[Sardonicus]

W124Bob said:

For those who like yank tanks



All and more can be found at this railroad Flickr site https://www.flickr.com/groups/1793636@N21/pool/pag...

Edited by W124Bob on Monday 31st December 18:10

Mid 70,s on was really a bad time for yank iron real ugly

[finlo]

Sardonicus said:

id 70,s on was really a bad time for yank iron real ugly

Is that middle pic a fake building frontage?

[aeropilot]

finlo said:

Sardonicus said:

id 70,s on was really a bad time for yank iron real ugly

Is that middle pic a fake building frontage?

Not going by the 3rd pic which is taken at 90 degree to the 2nd and from further to the photographer's left, and you can thus see the rear of it.

[finlo]

aeropilot said:

Not going by the 3rd pic which is taken at 90 degree to the 2nd and from further to the photographer's left, and you can thus see the rear of it.

Thought it was like one of those old western set's as it only looks about a foot thick!

[Dapster]

W124Bob said:

Love the licence plate of the Trans Am. Has he left the building?

[williamp]

Been looking at those train images. American trains arent beautiful they have a certain functionality. Anyway, these two images are interesting

(Cant seem the images, but here are the links...)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/76677346@N04/1544530...
The americans had a version of a Mk1 fiesta???


https://www.flickr.com/photos/76677346@N04/2380075...
A run down area of america in the mid 80s. Yet in the same frame a yank car with the TV boomerang aerial, and a new looking 911 carrera 3.2.

Something's going down, man....

[finlo]

williamp said:

Been looking at those train images. American trains arent beautiful they have a certain functionality. Anyway, these two images are interesting

(Cant seem the images, but here are the links...)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/76677346@N04/1544530...
The americans had a version of a Mk1 fiesta???


https://www.flickr.com/photos/76677346@N04/2380075...
A run down area of america in the mid 80s. Yet in the same frame a yank car with the TV boomerang aerial, and a new looking 911 carrera 3.2.

Something's going down, man....

The yank version of the Fiesta was the source of the XR2's round headlights.