A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[scs1]

I remember the RS 2000 that went to Hot Car Magazine as a project car.
I was the Hot Car staff photographer at the time and got to use it from time to time.
If I recall correctly the magazine fitted big bubble arches and wider wheels and that was about it.
It went back to Ford after a year.

[aeropilot]

scs1 said:

I remember the RS 2000 that went to Hot Car Magazine as a project car.
I was the Hot Car staff photographer at the time and got to use it from time to time.
If I recall correctly the magazine fitted big bubble arches and wider wheels and that was about it.
It went back to Ford after a year.

Correct, fibreglass bubble arches fitted to it, with a 'how to' series of articles.

I'm surprised the car went back to Ford afterwards and Ford let them do it......especially fibreglass ones rather than pukka steel ones..!
When found in the mid 80's it still had the glass bubble arches, no decals (obviously) and a set of naff coloured coded Revolution rims. It wasn't in great condition by then, the current owner then had no idea about the Hot Car connection. Somewhere in a box of old slides I will have a photo of it.....I think from memory, actually taken in the car park of the old AVO factory at Aveley, when the AVOOC held an autotest in the car park back in the mid 80's.

[Gareth1974]

HQB said:

The Rolls Royce is a 1946/47 Silver Wrath saloon.

Random old photos often seem to include a higher ratio of rare and expensive cars than I’d expect.

[finlo]

Gareth1974 said:

Random old photos often seem to include a higher ratio of rare and expensive cars than I’d expect.

Probably because it was only mostly the wealthy that could afford a car.

[HQB]

john2443 said:

Here's another from the same source, East Grinstead, it says c1929, although the cars look later than that?

If I could have the one closest, that would be nice Riley?

Yes it is much later than 1929 as the car you like is a 1935/37 Riley 12/4 Kestrel and now very sought after...£40,000 plus. They drive very well and much better than anything else in the picture. I had a 12/4 Falcon for five years.

[HQB]

finlo said:

Probably because it was only mostly the wealthy that could afford a car.

It was not just money that got you such a car, you had to have a Permit to be allowed an allocation to have one. In 1950 a local Doctor was allowed to buy two Daimler DB18’s, a saloon for him and a Convertible for his wife. Both cars were a rather drab grey and he never, ever washed them from new which was seemed dreadful to me in the 1950’s. I think they were simply scrapped around 1960. Our family Doctor had a 1948 Hillman Minx...which changed to a new 1953 Vauxhall Velox PHY 752.

Before you think I am 100 years old, I was in a pram until 1951!!

[RichB]

HQB said:

john2443 said:

Here's another from the same source, East Grinstead, it says c1929, although the cars look later than that?
If I could have the one closest, that would be nice Riley?

Yes it is much later than 1929 as the car you like is a 1935/37 Riley 12/4 Kestrel.

I would say it's certainly 1940s because there is an air-raid siren (i.e. post 1939) on the mast to the left of the black and white building at the end of the street.

[aeropilot]

RichB said:

HQB said:

john2443 said:

Here's another from the same source, East Grinstead, it says c1929, although the cars look later than that?
If I could have the one closest, that would be nice Riley?

Yes it is much later than 1929 as the car you like is a 1935/37 Riley 12/4 Kestrel.

I would say it's certainly 1940s because there is an air-raid siren (i.e. post 1939) on the mast to the left of the black and white building at the end of the street.

I'd say its just pre-war, as the there's too many cars (petrol was rationed remember) and none of them are in WW2 blackout markings with white painted edges to the wings and corners etc.
The first civil defense air-raid sirens started being put up in 1938, so photo could be summer of 1939, or early summer 1939.

[Dapster]

An imposing Granada Estate amongst the drab drizzle of Stoke in the early 80s.

[Hugo a Gogo]

I used to deliver milk off the back of a Sherpa just like that one in the 80s
Child labour, 2 quid a morning, 4.30 to 7am

[Dan Singh]

There’s a shop near me that has a sign with the same typeface as that Steele Bros

[P5BNij]

Dan Singh said:

There’s a shop near me that has a sign with the same typeface as that Steele Bros

There's a small factory / workshop unit at Croft next to the Nuneaton - Leicester railway line with the same type face and signage too, very typical of the late '50s / early '60s style.

[RS2KOHC]

"An imposing Granada Estate amongst the drab drizzle of Stoke in the early 80s."

Nobody welcomes a smart alec of course, but it's Market Street, Kidsgrove (adjacent to, but not part of, Stoke-on-Trent), actually. Featuring a building in which I spent some years of my former professional life.

But I do agree about the imposing Granada estate

[Mr lestat]

Dapster said:

An imposing Granada Estate amongst the drab drizzle of Stoke in the early 80s.

It’s exactly the same now. Just the cars will have changed. Dump then and a dump now

[generationx]

Mr lestat said:

Dapster said:

An imposing Granada Estate amongst the drab drizzle of Stoke in the early 80s.

It’s exactly the same now. Just the cars will have changed. Dump then and a dump now

And a Mk1 Fiesta van... I can’t remember the last etc

[Mercky]

The FD Victor estate would probably command more money nowadays than the Granada.

[Dapster]

The mk IV Cortina left of frame is looking in remarkably good shape considering it's probably 8 years old in this pic. Compare that to the patchwork Coke bottle behind it which looks only 2 years older. Guy in the suit getting out of the Datsun looks unusually dapper....

[Yertis]

P5BNij said:

Dan Singh said:

There’s a shop near me that has a sign with the same typeface as that Steele Bros

There's a small factory / workshop unit at Croft next to the Nuneaton - Leicester railway line with the same type face and signage too, very typical of the late '50s / early '60s style.

I’m pretty sure that’s Clarendon Italic. Designed early ‘50s.

[rjg48]

1970s Southampn.

[soxboy]

rjg48 said:

1970s Southampn.

Looks a bit continental to me, especially with the Taunus coupe.