A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

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Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

262 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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Wonder how many of those Fords still survive?

Escort3500

11,919 posts

146 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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Jumpers for goalposts etc…


bristolracer

5,546 posts

150 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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P5BNij said:
(The Deltic is 55 013 'The Black Watch' if anyone's interested wink)
Fantastic, memories if childhood train spotting. Incredible beasts.

Error_404_Username_not_found

2,227 posts

52 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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P5BNij said:
I'll get Reg or Brian to dig it out for you wink

Heaton, Newcastle in December 1975, photo c/o Trevor Ermel....



(The Deltic is 55 013 'The Black Watch' if anyone's interested wink)
As an aside, I know it's OT and it's a response to content that might be considered OT, but I must remark that the railway stuff you post is fascinating to me. And I have zero knowledge of it myself.
I do hope you'll keep it up.
Thank you and have a great weekend.

Edit: I completely forgot why I was responding to the post...
I believe the Anglia was my Mum's car. One of the selection I learned to drive in. In fact I think it is the car I failed my first test in.
It's not a great picture but it seems to be still wearing the trailer hitch I made for it from a recycled bed frame.
As I recall Dad went away to a job in Geordie land in it for a week and I never saw it again - he came home in an Escort Mexico.
Weird...I'm almost 100% that was Mum's Anglebox.

Edited by Error_404_Username_not_found on Friday 24th September 21:19

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

234 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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Escort3500 said:
Jumpers for goalposts etc…

Glasgow?

generationx

6,785 posts

106 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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bristolracer said:
P5BNij said:
(The Deltic is 55 013 'The Black Watch' if anyone's interested wink)
Fantastic, memories if childhood train spotting. Incredible beasts.
My dad used to take us to Carlisle station specifically to see the Deltics. Fantastic.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

262 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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P5BNij said:
Take your pick....

Is there anything there that isn't Escort or Capri?

Escort3500

11,919 posts

146 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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Hugo a Gogo said:
Escort3500 said:
Jumpers for goalposts etc…

Glasgow?
Yes, Acrehill Street apparently. All gone now

CharlesdeGaulle

26,315 posts

181 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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Escort3500 said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Escort3500 said:
Jumpers for goalposts etc…

Glasgow?
Yes, Acrehill Street apparently. All gone now
Judging purely from the picture, but a good thing too.

soxboy

6,290 posts

220 months

Friday 24th September 2021
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Tyre Smoke said:
P5BNij said:
Take your pick....

Is there anything there that isn't Escort or Capri?
Unlikely as that's the Halewood factory compound, Cortina and Granada built at Dagenham.

67Dino

3,587 posts

106 months

Saturday 25th September 2021
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Zener said:
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
P5BNij said:
Take your pick....

Capri Ghia for me please.
Cheers mate.

(I know they were awful but they're still one of the best looking things Ford ever did).
One nearest is an S and if in 3.0 version very rare in a MK2 3.0S nowadays wearing Ronal alloys too biggrin I'd take it cool
It’s got the upgraded stereo and floor mats too.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

234 months

Saturday 25th September 2021
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CharlesdeGaulle said:
Escort3500 said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Escort3500 said:
Jumpers for goalposts etc…

Glasgow?
Yes, Acrehill Street apparently. All gone now
Judging purely from the picture, but a good thing too.
Blackhills, Riddrie, fairly rough alright. My mum lived nearby wink
I was born 5 minutes from there, in Stobhill hospital, lived in a brand new tower block, which later became even worse than that pic and was demolished (Sighthill flats in springburn)

Yertis

18,061 posts

267 months

Saturday 25th September 2021
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Tyre Smoke said:
Wonder how many of those Fords still survive?
There are probably more Deltics.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

262 months

Saturday 25th September 2021
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Very true!

P5BNij

15,875 posts

107 months

Sunday 26th September 2021
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No details with these, other than it looks like somewhere in the US....




soxboy

6,290 posts

220 months

Sunday 26th September 2021
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P5BNij said:
No details with these, other than it looks like somewhere in the US....



Looks like the US. According to Wikipedia the Ghibli was launched in 1967 and federal side markers became mandatory in 1968, do potentially a rarity.

Yertis

18,061 posts

267 months

Sunday 26th September 2021
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P5BNij said:
I know it's a beautiful thing and I can't afford one, etc, but that car does look quite shoddily put together.

finlo

3,767 posts

204 months

Sunday 26th September 2021
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Yertis said:
P5BNij said:
I know it's a beautiful thing and I can't afford one, etc, but that car does look quite shoddily put together.
I remember on here many years ago a picture of a striped down Maserati that included the use of orange boxes in the construction of the dashboard!

P5BNij

15,875 posts

107 months

Monday 27th September 2021
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finlo said:
Yertis said:
P5BNij said:
I know it's a beautiful thing and I can't afford one, etc, but that car does look quite shoddily put together.
I remember on here many years ago a picture of a striped down Maserati that included the use of orange boxes in the construction of the dashboard!
It's an Italian quirk, doncha know wink

Ettore Maserati about to leave the factory for a spin in what looks like a Tipo 26 in the '20s....



(Some Maserati books or magazine articles say there were six brothers but there were actually seven, the first Alfieri was born in 1885 but died in infancy and another brother was named after him in 1887, the others were Carlo b.1881, Bindo b.1883, Mario b.1890, Ettore b.1894 and Ernesto b.1898).

I think this is Ernesto Maserati standing next to an early OSCA in the brother's new factory in 1948, a year after their consultancy contract with the Orsi family who bought Maserati in 1937 had expired....


Turbobanana

6,294 posts

202 months

Monday 27th September 2021
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P5BNij said:
It's an Italian quirk, doncha know wink

Ettore Maserati about to leave the factory for a spin in what looks like a Tipo 26 in the '20s....



(Some Maserati books or magazine articles say there were six brothers but there were actually seven, the first Alfieri was born in 1885 but died in infancy and another brother was named after him in 1887, the others were Carlo b.1881, Bindo b.1883, Mario b.1890, Ettore b.1894 and Ernesto b.1898).

I think this is Ernesto Maserati standing next to an early OSCA in the brother's new factory in 1948, a year after their consultancy contract with the Orsi family who bought Maserati in 1937 had expired....

You can tell he's just bought a Biturbo, can't you? smile

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