A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[Escort3500]

RATATTAK said:

hidetheelephants said:

Looks BMC Farina, no idea which flavour though.

Agree with Escort - it's the Austin variant.

I couldn’t decide whether it was Morris (Oxford) or Austin (Cambridge) as they both feature ribbed panels below the rear lights. Badge engineering at its finest

[RATATTAK]

Escort3500 said:

RATATTAK said:

hidetheelephants said:

Looks BMC Farina, no idea which flavour though.

Agree with Escort - it's the Austin variant.

I couldn’t decide whether it was Morris (Oxford) or Austin (Cambridge) as they both feature ribbed panels below the rear lights. Badge engineering at its finest

I'm sure the Oxford didn't have the ribbed bits, the back end had a slightly cleaner look IIRC.

[Escort3500]

Yeah, you’re right. Except for the estate

[Dapster]

52classic said:

Third pic of the 'London Scrappies' Do I see a Fiat Strada with a Dolomite front end resting on it?

I'd agree with the Strada - and isn't that a dead TR7 opposite and facing towards us?

[john2443]

nicanary said:

.....and the "Bugatti" is a VW-powered Teal replica.

For me, that's one of the great mysteries of the modern world; why would anyone think that using a Beetle as the basis of a Bugatti rep was a sensible idea, surely they could have found something (anything!!) that didn't sound like a box of spanners and had the engine at the front!

[Yertis]

Dapster said:

I'd agree with the Strada - and isn't that a dead TR7 opposite and facing towards us?

Yes. I think there's another poking its nose out on the left, behind the car with its bonnet up.

[Dapster]

Yertis said:

Dapster said:

I'd agree with the Strada - and isn't that a dead TR7 opposite and facing towards us?

Yes. I think there's another poking its nose out on the left, behind the car with its bonnet up.

Blimey that's a sharp spot. I'd agree with that too - you can see the big rubber bumpers.

When was the pic taken? Surely that isn't a mobile phone mast at the end of the yard?

[P5BNij]

RATATTAK said:

Escort3500 said:

RATATTAK said:

hidetheelephants said:

Looks BMC Farina, no idea which flavour though.

Agree with Escort - it's the Austin variant.

I couldn’t decide whether it was Morris (Oxford) or Austin (Cambridge) as they both feature ribbed panels below the rear lights. Badge engineering at its finest

I'm sure the Oxford didn't have the ribbed bits, the back end had a slightly cleaner look IIRC.

That looks remarkably tall and thin compared to the Lancia and Peugeot ‘Farinias’ that Pininfarins did in the same period.

[lowdrag]

Donington track day 1992. Sadly, my car is not on the left.

[Touring442]

P5BNij said:

That looks remarkably tall and thin compared to the Lancia and Peugeot ‘Farinias’ that Pininfarins did in the same period.

The later 1622cc versions with the cropped fins had a wider track. They were funny old things to drive and mechanically obsolete even on launch. A pity - Nuffield were using torsion bars, rack and pinion and multi link coil sprung rear axles as far back as 1954 (1948 with the Minor albeit with leaf springs at the back), yet BMC went down the knife and fork Austin route instead.
BMC would have been a serious player if they'd not been sidetracked into Minis and so on. All the FWD stuff never really made any money.

[Yertis]

Dapster said:

Blimey that's a sharp spot. I'd agree with that too - you can see the big rubber bumpers.

When was the pic taken? Surely that isn't a mobile phone mast at the end of the yard?

I was wondering that. Mid-80's? I thought the 'mast' was some kind of crane or hoist.

[Turbobanana]

lowdrag said:

Donington track day 1992. Sadly, my car is not on the left.

It's OK lowdrag - we won't judge you for owning an Astra

[Dapster]

lowdrag said:

Donington track day 1992. Sadly, my car is not on the left.

Oh, you poor bugger, you just missed your chance! Tom Hartley had that one up for sale last year.

https://www.tomhartleyjnr.com/car/previously-sold/...





"6 GTO" was chassis 3527 and previously in the Lord Laidlaw collection. It was owned by Stephen Pilkington when you snapped it - prolific Ferrari collector

http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Ferraris/Detai...

[OptionalExtra]

A Farina - a Morris Oxford this time - in better nick in a street scene from 1978

[Doyliestag]

Datsun 1200 coupe and a 180b estate also present

[Dapster]

And a post '73 facelift Merc W114/5 to the left of the Datsun estate.

[Yertis]

Dapster said:

My TR has identical colour carpets. If I'm honest they're a bit too pink. I've also found them tricky to keep clean. So I don't think I'd buy one of these cars.

[lowdrag]

Dapster said:

Oh, you poor bugger, you just missed your chance! Tom Hartley had that one up for sale last year.

https://www.tomhartleyjnr.com/car/previously-sold/...

"6 GTO" was chassis 3527 and previously in the Lord Laidlaw collection. It was owned by Stephen Pilkington when you snapped it - prolific Ferrari collector

When the Pilkingtons sold this car the new owner to my mind ruined it. I knew the car well, but it was transformed from a patinated wonder into a modern bordello; change of colour new cream interior etc etc. Here's a photo I took of it in 2007 on the Tour Auto at the Le Mans circuit. He had truly pimped his ride.

[Rateone]

OptionalExtra said:

A Farina - a Morris Oxford this time - in better nick in a street scene from 1978

That's Banchory in Aberdeenshire. Not changed that much

[Dapster]

lowdrag said:

Dapster said:

Oh, you poor bugger, you just missed your chance! Tom Hartley had that one up for sale last year.

https://www.tomhartleyjnr.com/car/previously-sold/...

"6 GTO" was chassis 3527 and previously in the Lord Laidlaw collection. It was owned by Stephen Pilkington when you snapped it - prolific Ferrari collector

When the Pilkingtons sold this car the new owner to my mind ruined it. I knew the car well, but it was transformed from a patinated wonder into a modern bordello; change of colour new cream interior etc etc. Here's a photo I took of it in 2007 on the Tour Auto at the Le Mans circuit. He had truly pimped his ride.

I agree - it looks sublime on the outside but the posho leather modern seats / shag pile / inertia reel belts look very odd and give it a slight whiff of Z3 based conversion.... Story of the resto here



https://www.mototechnique.com/ferrari-250-gto