A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[TarquinMX5]

Yertis said:

badhuis said:

Not a TR3 but an early TR2. The long doors like the ones on this car were supposedly only on the first 4000 cars so this will be a 1953 example. It does have a home made front / grille opening (not very nice in my opinion).

I should know this having been around TRs for nearly forty years but what does 'long door' refer to? top to bottom or front to back?

Top to bottom. Shortened Oct '54 after approx 4,000 made, to stop the door hitting kerbs.

[5 In a Row]

Turbobanana said:

5 In a Row said:

keeef said:

GTRene said:

82-21-ED Austin A 40 Farina

Nice!

I have absolutely no idea why but when I was 6 or 7 I referred to these as the Tomato Sauce car.
There must've been a red one in the village I lived in at the time.

Are you sure it wasn't one of the 57 Crayford Convertible Wolseley Hornets produced for the 1966 competition "Greatest Glow on Earth", promoted by Heinz?

No definitely an A40.
I suspect the Crayfords would've mostly dissolved by the time I was 6 (1976).

[GTRene]

some other old car pictures from the WA profile, with some more sometimes strange 'animals' you don't see anymore.


92-89-ZD Rolls Royce 25-30 Saloon 1937 and some others not mentioned.


DD-71-76 A Ford import 1961 and some other not mentioned around it.


NX-23-86 Fiat 500 C Topolino


BX-89-03 Mercedes 170 S and I spot a simple R4 behind it.


99-40-PR Chevrolet Corvair Monza

[badhuis]

GTRene said:

NX-23-86 Fiat 500 C Topolino

And another early (narrow rear lamps) B Kadett behind it :-)

[GTRene]

badhuis said:

GTRene said:

NX-23-86 Fiat 500 C Topolino

And another early (narrow rear lamps) B Kadett behind it :-)

:hehe; lol, indeed.

[GTRene]

some other old car pictures from the WA profile, with some more sometimes strange 'animals' you don't see anymore.


Panhard PL 17


ZP-53-64 Opel Kapitän L


ZP-53-64 Opel Kapitän L, its big and to my eyes, not pretty...


78-51-DD / 72-RF-15 Hillman Minx series VI 1966


81-42-DZ Morris Oxford and a lot others

[manorcom]

Don't we usually start a new thread at 500 posts, because the links no longer take you to the last post?

[finlo]

Lots of PA Cresta DNA or vice versa in that Opel kapitan.

[daqinggregg]

Assuming they're based on the same platform.


Not easy on the eye is it,


Although not my cup of Earl Grey, the British (Vauxhall Cresta PA) iteration is somewhat more pleasing.

[badhuis]

daqinggregg said:

Assuming they're based on the same platform.

Although not my cup of Earl Grey, the British (Vauxhall Cresta PA) iteration is somewhat more pleasing.

Agree. Opels always were a bit more ugly IMO

[Dapster]

GTRene said:

81-42-DZ Morris Oxford and a lot others

We have an Alfasud and Fiat 127 behind the old Morris - assume that's a TC Taunus behind the Fiat? Never realised it had such a central raised bit on the bonnet - our UK Cortinas had a flatter panel, right?

[daqinggregg]

badhuis said:

daqinggregg said:

Assuming they're based on the same platform.

Although not my cup of Earl Grey, the British (Vauxhall Cresta PA) iteration is somewhat more pleasing.

Agree. Opels always were a bit more ugly IMO

I wouldn’t go that far, once we got into the 70’s and early 80’s I think Opel produced to great cars in comparison to Vauxhalls output.

Manta, Ascona, Kadet, Rekord, Monza, I would say they were producing cars comparable and in some cases better than the competition.

[daqinggregg]

For those yearning a little more Cresta content, sometime in the 60’s Hong Kong Star Ferry terminal.



Brussels, the most famous city Grand Place, was turned into a continuous parking lot by mass motorization (around 1960):



Milan, Via Dante, around 1960; a rather fabulous piece of Americana

[GTRene]

daqinggregg said:

Assuming they're based on the same platform.


Not easy on the eye is it,


Although not my cup of Earl Grey, the British (Vauxhall Cresta PA) iteration is somewhat more pleasing.

hm, indeed that model looks better.

btw looking at the other poster who posted this car below, makes me think, did Opel and some others, got a bit of Americana in their models on purpose?

daqinggregg said:

Milan, Via Dante, around 1960; a rather fabulous piece of Americana

[GTRene]

some other old car pictures from the WA profile, with some more sometimes strange 'animals' you don't see anymore.


Citroën 15 CV 6 cyl. companied by 2 VW bugs and a... maybe a Austin?


TK-08-62 Citroën 11 Normale Traction Avant


Citroën 11 CV and some others not named.


BMW Isetta, and I guess a Morris and hey a Opel Kadett and


Borgward B 1500, and I guess a Saab in the background?

[GTRene]

daqinggregg said:

Brussels, the most famous city Grand Place, was turned into a continuous parking lot by mass motorization (around 1960):

Wow, lovely 'old world' buildings, look amazing, good tip for that 'mylunchbreak' guy with his fantastic old world pictures/video's and mysterious things and how we been lied to etc etc, he also has sometimes things about the UK, here a ling to a very long video in which he shows a lot older video's that he already has shown before, but a nice complication if you love old world buildings and some history or his story...

The Old World Marathon

https://rumble.com/v70wnfa-the-old-world-marathon-...

[bigothunter]

GTRene said:

daqinggregg said:

Assuming they're based on the same platform.


Not easy on the eye is it,


Although not my cup of Earl Grey, the British (Vauxhall Cresta PA) iteration is somewhat more pleasing.

hm, indeed that model looks better.

btw looking at the other poster who posted this car below, makes me think, did Opel and some others, got a bit of Americana in their models on purpose?

1958 Chevrolet Bel Air from the same stable.

[GTRene]

ah yes, good example

[daqinggregg]

btw looking at the other poster who posted this car below, makes me think, did Opel and some others, got a bit of Americana in their models on purpose?

daqinggregg said:

Milan, Via Dante, around 1960; a rather fabulous piece of Americana

There were certain European and latterly Japanese manufacturers who took cues from the American automotive designers, mainly prevalent in the late 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s.





This manifested itself in fins, chrome, bench seats and rectangular instrumentation,





later morphing into the coke bottle design, all of course in a modest European package.





However, oddly the biggest aficionado’s, were the scholars of Marx and Lenin, who despite their vocal protestation at the bourgeois excesses of the West, were a tad partial to a fin or two and acres of chrome and bling.


1958 GAZ Chaika, USSR


Hongqi

Of course this discussion would not be complete without a couple of examples of cars which epitomize our love of Americana.


2.Opel Diplomat V8 Coupe



Last but not least, Europe's own piece of Americana.

[GTRene]

some other old car pictures from the WA profile, with some more sometimes strange 'animals' you don't see anymore, this time with a lot of trucks.


RF-55-33 Borgward B 1500


Fiat 616 plus 69-DU-78 Renault 4


Renault Goelette


Opel Blitz


AP-78-54 Opel Olympia