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What a wonderful collection of shots from the 60's. I love the properly battered E Type coupe in it's original dull cellulose finish (oh how I dislike modern two pack on classic).
Every car had a proper private plate! Even the council estate was clean tidy and almost fragrant. The children are playing outside carefree. London is free of meddling road furniture, speed cameras and those f--king speed bumps. But not the b
d traffic wardens!
The scrap yard has cars that seem in perfectly good restorable condition! The KR200 is magnificent with the dude wearing the bowler jumping in and driving off.. I checked the reg and the KR's dead.
Being a confirmed luddite I am utterly unwavering in my opinion that the world was a better place. Perhaps I'm looking through rose tinted glasses but life seemed so much more positive then. The UK just looks so much more civilised. I'm not spotting too many rotund types emblazoned with their teams name on a garish shirt.
They did not know that by the early 70's industrial unrest would bring the country to its knees... The Beatles and Stones were usurped by Glam and Prog Rock. The fuel crisis would have I suspect seen that E Type been driven in to the ground as juicy motors were bad news...
Anyone one got a Tardis going cheap..?!
Footnote. Virtually every car is British. Not hard to work out why the UK's gone skint.....
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/...
Every car had a proper private plate! Even the council estate was clean tidy and almost fragrant. The children are playing outside carefree. London is free of meddling road furniture, speed cameras and those f--king speed bumps. But not the b
d traffic wardens!The scrap yard has cars that seem in perfectly good restorable condition! The KR200 is magnificent with the dude wearing the bowler jumping in and driving off.. I checked the reg and the KR's dead.
Being a confirmed luddite I am utterly unwavering in my opinion that the world was a better place. Perhaps I'm looking through rose tinted glasses but life seemed so much more positive then. The UK just looks so much more civilised. I'm not spotting too many rotund types emblazoned with their teams name on a garish shirt.
They did not know that by the early 70's industrial unrest would bring the country to its knees... The Beatles and Stones were usurped by Glam and Prog Rock. The fuel crisis would have I suspect seen that E Type been driven in to the ground as juicy motors were bad news...
Anyone one got a Tardis going cheap..?!
Footnote. Virtually every car is British. Not hard to work out why the UK's gone skint.....
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/...
Edited by P50 on Saturday 23 March 08:35
Edited by P50 on Saturday 23 March 08:38
P50 said:
What a wonderful collection of shots from the 60's. I love the properly battered E Type coupe in it's original dull cellulose finish (oh how I dislike modern two pack on classic).
Every car had a proper private plate! Even the council estate was clean tidy and almost fragrant. The children are playing outside carefree. London is free of meddling road furniture, speed cameras and those f--king speed bumps. But not the bd traffic wardens!
The scrap yard has cars that seem in perfectly good restorable condition! The KR200 is magnificent with the dude wearing the bowler jumping in and driving off.. I checked the reg and the KR's dead.
Being a confirmed luddite I am utterly unwavering in my opinion that the world was a better place. Perhaps I'm looking through rose tinted glasses but life seemed so much more positive then. The UK just looks so much more civilised. I'm not spotting too many rotund types emblazoned with their teams name on a garish shirt.
They did not know that by the early 70's industrial unrest would bring the country to its knees... The Beatles and Stones were usurped by Glam and Prog Rock. The fuel crisis would have I suspect seen that E Type been driven in to the ground as juicy motors were bad news...
Anyone one got a Tardis going cheap..?!
Footnote. Virtually every car is British. Not hard to work out why the UK's gone skint.....
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/...
Blimey are your rosy-tints welded to your head? As a confirmed Luddite you should be linking us to pictures of horses and carts, of course. Also, you appear to have already answered your footnote:Every car had a proper private plate! Even the council estate was clean tidy and almost fragrant. The children are playing outside carefree. London is free of meddling road furniture, speed cameras and those f--king speed bumps. But not the b
d traffic wardens!The scrap yard has cars that seem in perfectly good restorable condition! The KR200 is magnificent with the dude wearing the bowler jumping in and driving off.. I checked the reg and the KR's dead.
Being a confirmed luddite I am utterly unwavering in my opinion that the world was a better place. Perhaps I'm looking through rose tinted glasses but life seemed so much more positive then. The UK just looks so much more civilised. I'm not spotting too many rotund types emblazoned with their teams name on a garish shirt.
They did not know that by the early 70's industrial unrest would bring the country to its knees... The Beatles and Stones were usurped by Glam and Prog Rock. The fuel crisis would have I suspect seen that E Type been driven in to the ground as juicy motors were bad news...
Anyone one got a Tardis going cheap..?!
Footnote. Virtually every car is British. Not hard to work out why the UK's gone skint.....
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/...
Edited by P50 on Saturday 23 March 08:35
Edited by P50 on Saturday 23 March 08:38
"They did not know that by the early 70's industrial unrest would bring the country to its knees..."
craigjm said:
Personally I think a lot of that is rose tinted glasses. Life was much harder in 1964
But we didn't expect as much from it. The world's a greedy place now, hence the credit collapse.I was a 14 year-old in Norwich when they were taken. The "side street" looks like Elm Hill to me, and the department store "Curls" was taken over by Debenhams.
Interesting to note:
- few pictures of traffic are without a Morris Minor of some kind (and that traveller in the scrappy looked in fine condition - even the ash was in good nick!)
- Volkswagens appear to be the most popular 'foreign' models.
- There was a theatre/cinema on Oxford Street!
- The 'tidal flow', with lights, on Albert Bridge.
ClaphamGT3 said:
Definitely Elm Hill
The thing that always amazes me is how quickly cars wore out back then. The E Type was max 3 years old but looks knackered and the cars in th scrap yard were mostly under 5 years old.
The cars didn't have a chance. No galvanisation of the metal. Basic non phosphate primer. Finished with a thin coat of cellulose colour or two. The best some cars got was the ubiquitous undersealing which didn't stop the likes of the doors,boot,bonnet, arches and sills blowing out after a few fierce winters. The thing that always amazes me is how quickly cars wore out back then. The E Type was max 3 years old but looks knackered and the cars in th scrap yard were mostly under 5 years old.
Coupled to the fact that the sealing was generally poor so that at least one area leaked on a saloon (on a TR or MG the water easily got in round the basic hoods) it was game over from day one. Oh and you had the built in rust traps like the back wings on a TR4/5/6 or Big Healey which destroyed the door shuts etc.
Resprays were regular until the whole heap was scrapped when everything else wore out and failed. Alfa's were known for self destructing bodily long before the fantastic running gear was tired.
Such a shame so much incredible metal was crushed.
Here is a prime example of what happens when 60's Italian meets UK climate! Quick T cut and job's a good'n!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-1964-Giulia-S...
Edited by P50 on Saturday 23 March 13:54
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