A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[eccles]

Gojira said:

eccles said:

keeef said:

P5BNij said:

Photo c/o Dave Ford - Damdykes level crossing on the ECML in Northumberland, 5/12/92...

The Maxi was out of tax! It doesn't look very roadworthy either.

BNL 364V
? Untaxed
Tax due:
1 October 1992
Incorrect tax status?
MOT
No details held by DVLA
Incorrect MOT status?

American date format maybe?
As for not looking roadworthy, they all looked like that!

Certainly both mine did...

Yeah we had 3 on the trot. Great cars, but the rust proofing was up to the usual standard of the time.

[Dapster]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Another Sindelfingen pic

..."oh modern car colours are so boring, not like the old days..."

This I think are dealers collecting demos as the model is launched, which in the case of the R107 would have been springtime 1971 - red on white number plates, cars clean and fully prepped for sale, chaps in suits etc.

I remember the W123 pic you posted before.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Both from the Mercedes museum's Facebook page.
Just surprised there are no lairy 70s colours in the 107 pic, plenty in amongst the 123s

[keeef]

eccles said:

As for not looking roadworthy, they all looked like that!

Must just be lucky with mine then?

Here's my latest find. Pulled from a garage in SE London after 20 years of laying idle!

image by keef, on Flickr

[keeef]

Gojira said:

Certainly both mine did...

My previous rescue, which had sat in a barn in Swanley for 17 years. :-

image by keef, on Flickr

[Gojira]

Those are definitely in better nick than both mine were, and they were only about 10 or 11 years old when I got them

Mind you, they'd both been round the clock at least once, and I did about 20k in each of them, so I'm not complaining too much!

[keeef]

eccles said:

Yeah we had 3 on the trot. Great cars, but the rust proofing was up to the usual standard of the time.

Even the one that had sat outside for 15 years wasn't too bad. :-
image by keef, on Flickr

Edited by keeef on Monday 30th December 17:58

[manorcom]

The Fab Four talking about their cars January 1966 [Overdrive on a Mini-Cooper?]:

[P5BNij]

Here's George's Cooper S at the Radford Works in Hammersmith, the photo dates from circa December '65, it was registered 'LGF 695D' on 8th February '66, the same day as John's Radford 'LGF 696D' ...



He was caught speeding in it the following year...



And here's Patti's orange Mini (GUU 707C) mentioned above which was also a Radford but minus electric windows etc...

[williamp]

Dapster said:

This I think are dealers collecting demos as the model is launched, which in the case of the R107 would have been springtime 1971 - red on white number plates, cars clean and fully prepped for sale, chaps in suits etc.

I remember the W123 pic you posted before.

Also like the ferrari photo, from an earlier post I believe...



Even one which looks like lamborghini green...

[Hugo a Gogo]

Wow, surprising how few red ones there are

[finlo]

williamp said:

Also like the ferrari photo, from an earlier post I believe...

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Even one which looks like lamborghini green...

Is that a solitary 365/400 on the ramp to the left?.

[Notwen]

Cheadle, Cheshire. Early 70's.
We had a caravan owning neibour with a periscope around the same time.

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

The booze was certainly flowing during the making of the film, when they shot the scenes in the Assembly Rooms in Kentish Town, Liz Taylor was behind the bar pulling pints...

Spent many an hour in the Assembly Rooms back in the 90's....

[john2443]

manorcom said:

The Fab Four talking about their cars January 1966 [Overdrive on a Mini-Cooper?]:

How do you fit overdrive on a Mini?

[P5BNij]

john2443 said:

manorcom said:

The Fab Four talking about their cars January 1966 [Overdrive on a Mini-Cooper?]:

How do you fit overdrive on a Mini?

I doubt it was ever fitted but I've posed the question in the Radford thread on the Mk1 Performance Mini forum, one of the regulars on there knows the car very well

Meanwhile, does anyone know what the two door coupe is that Mick Jagger is getting into in 1969...?

Edited by P5BNij on Tuesday 31st December 13:01

[TR4man]

Not sure, but there can’t be many with a side repeater in that location on the front wing.

[P5BNij]

TR4man said:

Not sure, but there can’t be many with a side repeater in that location on the front wing.

Usually seen on some Italian cars those, the roofline / side window aspect suggests Gordon Keeble GT to me but the sharp corner at the top of the windscreen doesn't fit with that idea. Mind you, neither does the bonnet shut line!

Curious...!

[Martin350]

I found this, it's actually Keef's old 1965 Bentley S3 Continental Flying Spur with Mulliner, Park Ward coachwork.



The repeater looks right as does the door mirror, but the windscreen, nowhere near...

[P5BNij]

Whatever it is, it looks smaller than the Bentley. I've asked elsewhere and got a reply offering up the Alfa 2600 Sprint but the same thing applies to the shape of the windscreen as it does to the Bentley so no joy there.