A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[Escort3500]

On the subject of pop stars’ cars…

[Doofus]

Riley Blue said:

Ah Engelbert

His late wife, Patricia made me lunch in her kitchen once.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Doofus said:

Riley Blue said:

Ah Engelbert

His late wife, Patricia made me lunch in her kitchen once.

I'd worked out that you two are getting on a bit, but fk me, that's like dinosaurs, man.

[Doofus]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

Riley Blue said:

Ah Engelbert

His late wife, Patricia made me lunch in her kitchen once.

I'd worked out that you two are getting on a bit, but fk me, that's like dinosaurs, man.

I'm 52.

[bigothunter]

Doofus said:

I'm 52.

[Doofus]

bigothunter said:

Doofus said:

I'm 52.

What? It's a real number, you know.

[dandarez]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

Riley Blue said:

Ah Engelbert

His late wife, Patricia made me lunch in her kitchen once.

I'd worked out that you two are getting on a bit, but fk me, that's like dinosaurs, man.

Christ, I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967 at Newbury Plaza (thankfully Engelbert was not there!) - what's that make me?

Yeah, but then again, image is everything Charlie.

[Dapster]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

Riley Blue said:

Ah Engelbert

His late wife, Patricia made me lunch in her kitchen once.

I'd worked out that you two are getting on a bit, but fk me, that's like dinosaurs, man.

What regular posters on this thread think we look like




What regular posters on this thread actually look like

[dandarez]

Doofus said:

bigothunter said:

Doofus said:

I'm 52.

What? It's a real number, you know.

I dunno, you kids today.

[bigothunter]

Doofus said:

bigothunter said:

Doofus said:

I'm 52.

What? It's a real number, you know.

So not a complex number which includes both real and imaginary parts (eg a + bi)

Dinosaur comment followed by your assurance of being only 52 amused me greatly. This was not a reflection on your honesty about age.

52 is young in my book especially as I'm 16 years older...

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Dapster said:

What regular posters on this thread actually look like

Rear right is pretty close to me actually, although probably combined with the mad staring eyes of the nutter sat in front of him.

[Spottedlaurel]

Milkyway said:

Some bargains there...

1973 Datsun 240 GT? Yes please! Insanely rare here now, I viewed this one back in the '90s:


1974 Datsun Skyline 240K GT (C110) c.1995 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

My John Powell archive has a photo of one too:


1973 Datsun 240K Auto, RJH466M (Pre-1984) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Sadly we never got the coupe. They did in mainland Europe, but in the '80s they weren't treating them with much respect:


1970s Datsun Skyline (C110) coupe - crushed! by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Belgian show report photo scanned from a mid '80s copy of Street Machine magazine.

[Escort3500]

[rallycross]

Escort3500 said:

Who’s that ? Looks like Jean Todt’s cockney cousin?!

[bigothunter]

rallycross said:

Escort3500 said:

Who’s that ? Looks like Jean Todt’s cockney cousin?!

Dropping bricks on the Mini opposition is going a bit far even for the French.

With memories of 1966 Monte Carlo headlamp fiasco...

[moffspeed]

bigothunter said:

rallycross said:

Escort3500 said:

Who’s that ? Looks like Jean Todt’s cockney cousin?!

John Rhodes was so successful in the BT(S)CC during the mid 60’s that his Mini ended up with a massive amount of success ballast …

[bristolracer]

Escort3500 said:

Shows how far we have come in terms of safety.
If that happened to a modern MINI you could probably still open the door and walk away.

[Turbobanana]

bristolracer said:

Escort3500 said:

Shows how far we have come in terms of safety.
If that happened to a modern MINI you could probably still open the door and walk away.

There's mortar that than you think.

[Tyre Smoke]

Ooh! You're going to be in a whole pile of trouble with Johnspex. I'd throw the trowel in now. I bet you're bricking it.

[Notso]

Doofus said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

Riley Blue said:

Ah Engelbert

His late wife, Patricia made me lunch in her kitchen once.

I'd worked out that you two are getting on a bit, but fk me, that's like dinosaurs, man.

I'm 52.

52?

That's like a lot older than my dad , no wonder I don't get half the stuff the posters on here go on about and some are probs even older than my granddad who keeps goin on and on (and on) about his funny old Fords, stuff from back in the 60s and 70s like I should know what he's talkin about. Sometimes we didn't even go back that far in school history lessons.