How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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Johnny Raydome said:
Here's a couple that popped up recently on a Facebook page I get notifications for, to do with my home town.
Can't help but smile at the complete lack of H&S on display with those guys on the roof.
I've stayed in that hotel - only a couple of years ago. The rear of the building - the one you approach from the car park - is rather less glamorous. But it does have great decoration in the downstairs rooms dating back centuries, depicting (iirc) scenes from the bible and later hidden due to sensitivity over such overtly religious musings.Can't help but smile at the complete lack of H&S on display with those guys on the roof.
This next one popped up in the Grauniad dated 1986 and cites Headington, Oxford as the location. How come Morse never featured this?
Do I detect an early RX7 behind the Clubman?
Here's another one from a later date, the Standard part has been dropped.
Sadly the pumps are long gone, or it could be one for the Humer Unbeam thread. My memory only goes back as far as the garage being a Vauxhall dealership called Guyvers in the 70's and I don't remember seeing the pumps then.
Sadly the pumps are long gone, or it could be one for the Humer Unbeam thread. My memory only goes back as far as the garage being a Vauxhall dealership called Guyvers in the 70's and I don't remember seeing the pumps then.
rene7 said:
Came across this whilst converting some old 35mm slides
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We think its from about 1989-90
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I think I recognise this one!! It is a Classic Car show held at the Rhondda Heritage Park in Porth. It was an annual fixture for years commencing as you say, around 1990. No longer held there but most of the cars in the picture are still with the same owners and still being shown at the local shows.>
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We think its from about 1989-90
Hope it's not too NEW for this thread
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ks driving right up to the coned end and trying to cut in 
I'd agree with the age of this pic:-
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It includes several well known Welsh Petrolheads cars:-
The Longtail KVA was Peters it had a 289 Ford V8 and plenty of cooling issues! - OOI it was one of the first KVA's to be road registered. Peter was also the original builder of one the most famous racing Lotus 7's - KVX189J the privately entered and driven car that got the Lotus 7 banned from racing [By Caterham cars of all people!! ] - it was consistantly beating the works Caterham at that time!!] - Coz it was Too fast
It also spawned the infamous 'Lotus7 TOO FAST TO RACE' T shirts see pic below
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The green Lotus TC engined Pre lit Westfield was Wayne O's - at the time he also owned a baby Elan & an Elan+2, after selling both the 'Production' Elans he built several other notable kits including a Lotus TC engined Locost, & the Ultra rare yellow Strada in the photo below, last time I spoke to him he was building a triumph straight 6 Burlington.
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The Speed 6 [You can see in both photo's] was Roger T's [now sadly no longer with us - RIP Roger] - Roger [a self made Multi millionaire]was a bloke who didn't suffer idiots - having been elbowed out of the Bentley OC coz he wasn't an old school Etonian BLA BLA and didn't fit in with the tossers therein, he sold his real speed 6 and built the Magnificent replica you can just see in the Rhondda photo, he also built one of the first Injected 2 litre Westfields, at a time when Fuel Injection was a real black art. Later he owned & raced the famous 'Sweet Pea' Austin 7 racer.
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Sadly the SWKCclub photgraphed above at their annual BBQ no longer exists, its comittee having been hijacked by a bunch of sad ageing wannabe TINTOP owners - but hey that's car club constitutions for you
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It includes several well known Welsh Petrolheads cars:-
The Longtail KVA was Peters it had a 289 Ford V8 and plenty of cooling issues! - OOI it was one of the first KVA's to be road registered. Peter was also the original builder of one the most famous racing Lotus 7's - KVX189J the privately entered and driven car that got the Lotus 7 banned from racing [By Caterham cars of all people!! ] - it was consistantly beating the works Caterham at that time!!] - Coz it was Too fast
It also spawned the infamous 'Lotus7 TOO FAST TO RACE' T shirts see pic below>>
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The green Lotus TC engined Pre lit Westfield was Wayne O's - at the time he also owned a baby Elan & an Elan+2, after selling both the 'Production' Elans he built several other notable kits including a Lotus TC engined Locost, & the Ultra rare yellow Strada in the photo below, last time I spoke to him he was building a triumph straight 6 Burlington.
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The Speed 6 [You can see in both photo's] was Roger T's [now sadly no longer with us - RIP Roger] - Roger [a self made Multi millionaire]was a bloke who didn't suffer idiots - having been elbowed out of the Bentley OC coz he wasn't an old school Etonian BLA BLA and didn't fit in with the tossers therein, he sold his real speed 6 and built the Magnificent replica you can just see in the Rhondda photo, he also built one of the first Injected 2 litre Westfields, at a time when Fuel Injection was a real black art. Later he owned & raced the famous 'Sweet Pea' Austin 7 racer.
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Sadly the SWKCclub photgraphed above at their annual BBQ no longer exists, its comittee having been hijacked by a bunch of sad ageing wannabe TINTOP owners - but hey that's car club constitutions for you
52classic said:
DeHavilland Comet isn't it? I think that the square windows in the sides identify it as a Comet 1. Could it be anything to do with testing following the fatigue crashes?
I didn't read anything about a link to the problems. From what I can gather it was on the way to the factory at Broughton, which is the site that the Airbus factory is now on. Not sure where it was coming from. The page I found this copy of the photo suggests it is a Comet 2.Edited by droopsnoot on Tuesday 9th April 19:25
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