A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[Yertis]

Isimmo said:

Gareth1974 said:

Great variety of cars in this picture

My guess is, summer 1985 approaching Exeter Central.

I guessed that too... and Google agrees. Not sure whether to be sad or proud





Even a Class 50 would have its work cut out going from standstill up that bank I should think.

[tog]

I wondered what had happened to this thread, and now I see we've been on Vol.2 since last May! Who says I'm not quick on the uptake...?

Anyway, I saw this onTwitter yesterday and thought of this thread. 8322 photos (some duplicates though) of Sainsbury's car parks through the years.

For example:








https://sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/s...n--awao-everywhere:car-park#0

Or https://tinyurl.com/r2r5zkb (forum formatting breaks the above URL)

[52classic]

Looking at the last picture, I think the Rover 216 Vitesse is brand new. That makes the scene 1985. The white car nearest the entrance to the store is a Polski 125P, because I think the brightwork on the window surrounds identify it from a Lada. I can also see a blue Zastava Yugo 45.

5 Series BMW and a good few Metros on view too.

[TCEvo]

Where's the middle (photo) location?

[tog]

TCEvo said:

Where's the middle (photo) location?

Bath

https://sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/s...n--awao-everywhere:car-park/action/ajax/c/3

https://tinyurl.com/r7nvgy5

Edited by tog on Wednesday 15th January 17:23

Edited by tog on Wednesday 15th January 17:23

[P5BNij]

velocemitch said:

SilverHarrier said:

P5BNij said:

It'll be 1987 onwards as that version of the Network Southeast livery wasn't introduced until then (the first version with the upturned stripes on the cabsides was introduced in '86). Another poster mentioned the incredible noise the class 50s make, having driven all fifty of them at full chat when I worked on the Western Region in the '80s I can vouch for that!

The noise of those things really was amazing,
I used to spend the summer holidays with my cousins at their place in West Byfleet and the mainline to the South Coast runs along the end of their street. On a clear day we could hear them coming from miles away, cousin and I would be playing football in the garden and as soon as we heard one in the distance we would run out the gate, leg it up the end of the street and climb up the oak trees that ran along the fence line. We used to be able to get high enough up the trees to see over the embankment and get level with the train as it would come through. These things were shifting, absolutely flat out. They always seemed to be working harder coming down from London , maybe the track has a slight incline through there?
As the train went through the noise was truly deafening , sometimes the drivers would see us in the trees and blast the horn!
Sometimes we would go to the station and hang around on the footbridge for hours just waiting for the 50's to come through..
Was about 10 at the time, happy days!

Hoovers...... as the Fifties were always known as. I preferred their slightly smaller but rortier cousins the 40’s, same engine but not quite as well developed.
Strange how these things go round, the fifties used to get panned by those ‘spotters’ from the western region who missed the Class 52’s.
The modern diesels don’t have the drama of any of them.

Ah now the 52s / aka / Westerns, now you're talking. Spent a large part of my youth chasing and blagging cab rides on them before the 50s took over and was at Padd on 26/2/77 to see the last railtour special leave with D1013 and D1023 (couldn't afford a ticket!), just over six years later I was working at Old Oak alongside the old boys who drove them. The Inspector who passed me out for driving is one of the regular drivers on mainline certificated D1015 'Western Champion', the lucky bugger . He spent some time at Kings X as a secondman on the Deltics but told me he much preferred the Westerns.

Right, back on topic - a dash of Mk1 Supersonic Velvet goodness parked up somewhere in the Smoke...

[uk66fastback]

The last thing I could be called in any way is being a train buff, and my only real experience of trains apart from the odd trip to London nowadays on the East Coast line was travelling to Swindon from Didcot in the early 80s for four years on those yellow and blue HST monsters, so all this talk of 40s and 50s and the like got me to go to YT and search ...

The slow start up of those things is incredible ... I was on there for about an hour, so thanks!

[Turbobanana]

52classic said:

Looking at the last picture, I think the Rover 216 Vitesse is brand new. That makes the scene 1985. The white car nearest the entrance to the store is a Polski 125P, because I think the brightwork on the window surrounds identify it from a Lada. I can also see a blue Zastava Yugo 45.

5 Series BMW and a good few Metros on view too.

But there's a Peugeot 309, launched in 1986.

[tog]

Turbobanana said:

52classic said:

Looking at the last picture, I think the Rover 216 Vitesse is brand new. That makes the scene 1985. The white car nearest the entrance to the store is a Polski 125P, because I think the brightwork on the window surrounds identify it from a Lada. I can also see a blue Zastava Yugo 45.

5 Series BMW and a good few Metros on view too.

But there's a Peugeot 309, launched in 1986.

Oct-Dec 1987 according to Sainsbury's.

https://tinyurl.com/ryk6ceu

https://sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/s...n--awao-everywhere:car-park/action/ajax/c/5

[keeef]

RATATTAK said:

ORK965W
ROVER MAXI

I think it was an attempt at humour, rather than an observation about lookup.

I call him Mork.

[52classic]

Fair cop on the 309 but I am very surprised that the scene is even later - 1987.

Can I still have my 'one year out' T shirt tho'?

[Turbobanana]

52classic said:

Fair cop on the 309 but I am very surprised that the scene is even later - 1987.

Can I still have my 'one year out' T shirt tho'?

Yes, yes you can. I only knew about the 309 as I used to sell Peugeots. The 216 Vitesse is ace though, isn't it? Pre-facelift though: the later ones (with the better alloys) looked even better.

[P5BNij]

British Museum in London, 1966...

[neutral 3]

P5BNij said:

British Museum in London, 1966...

Just look @ those 2 early Sunbeam Alpines in the SAME light metallic blue !!

[P5BNij]

neutral 3 said:

P5BNij said:

British Museum in London, 1966...

Just look @ those 2 early Sunbeam Alpines in the SAME light metallic blue !!

Ragtops are different though... odd!

[M3DGE]

keeef said:

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

Strange that it was dumped with a private plate on it - even 20 years ago worth a few quid.. issued by Coventry in 1950.

[ClaphamGT3]

Turbobanana said:

52classic said:

Fair cop on the 309 but I am very surprised that the scene is even later - 1987.

Can I still have my 'one year out' T shirt tho'?

Yes, yes you can. I only knew about the 309 as I used to sell Peugeots. The 216 Vitesse is ace though, isn't it? Pre-facelift though: the later ones (with the better alloys) looked even better.

I also think the BMW is a 7 series, not a 5 series

[M3DGE]

P5BNij said:

Rugby based Marvin's coach somewhere between Dunchurch and Southam...



Somewhere in Sheffield in the early '70s...



Southam Market Square in the early '80s...

That coach looks like it's Southam bound just up from Draycott Water...some snow!!

[keeef]

M3DGE said:

Strange that it was dumped with a private plate on it - even 20 years ago worth a few quid.. issued by Coventry in 1950.

Double lucky for me, I guess?

Why is it nigh on impossible to get DVLA to acknowledge a 1974 car was first registered in 1974, not 1976, which is presumably when it got it's 1950 plate?

[M3DGE]

P5BNij said:

velocemitch said:

SilverHarrier said:

P5BNij said:

It'll be 1987 onwards as that version of the Network Southeast livery wasn't introduced until then (the first version with the upturned stripes on the cabsides was introduced in '86). Another poster mentioned the incredible noise the class 50s make, having driven all fifty of them at full chat when I worked on the Western Region in the '80s I can vouch for that!

The noise of those things really was amazing,
I used to spend the summer holidays with my cousins at their place in West Byfleet and the mainline to the South Coast runs along the end of their street. On a clear day we could hear them coming from miles away, cousin and I would be playing football in the garden and as soon as we heard one in the distance we would run out the gate, leg it up the end of the street and climb up the oak trees that ran along the fence line. We used to be able to get high enough up the trees to see over the embankment and get level with the train as it would come through. These things were shifting, absolutely flat out. They always seemed to be working harder coming down from London , maybe the track has a slight incline through there?
As the train went through the noise was truly deafening , sometimes the drivers would see us in the trees and blast the horn!
Sometimes we would go to the station and hang around on the footbridge for hours just waiting for the 50's to come through..
Was about 10 at the time, happy days!

Hoovers...... as the Fifties were always known as. I preferred their slightly smaller but rortier cousins the 40’s, same engine but not quite as well developed.
Strange how these things go round, the fifties used to get panned by those ‘spotters’ from the western region who missed the Class 52’s.
The modern diesels don’t have the drama of any of them.

Ah now the 52s / aka / Westerns, now you're talking. Spent a large part of my youth chasing and blagging cab rides on them before the 50s took over and was at Padd on 26/2/77 to see the last railtour special leave with D1013 and D1023 (couldn't afford a ticket!), just over six years later I was working at Old Oak alongside the old boys who drove them. The Inspector who passed me out for driving is one of the regular drivers on mainline certificated D1015 'Western Champion', the lucky bugger . He spent some time at Kings X as a secondman on the Deltics but told me he much preferred the Westerns.

Right, back on topic - a dash of Mk1 Supersonic Velvet goodness parked up somewhere in the Smoke...

Plate still exists, now on a Merc SL