A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

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52classic

2,530 posts

211 months

Monday 15th April
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I thought perhaps a Farina MG Magnette - All good except the MG's chunkier overriders

skwdenyer

16,511 posts

241 months

Monday 15th April
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hidetheelephants said:
soxboy said:
Maybe the angle covered the reflector?


Looks like a match to me; 10,000 PH nerd points to you and Dan Singh. thumbup
I'd agree with that. Excellent sleuthing! If you're thinking (as I did) that that cluster looks rather elegant (I thought it redolent of Pininfarina's work), it seems the Type 3's design is credited to Sergio Sartorelli, then of Ghia, a man with a decent grasp of the pen smile

Huntsman

8,058 posts

251 months

Monday 15th April
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Excellent rear light nerding chaps.

soxboy

6,263 posts

220 months

Monday 15th April
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Huntsman said:
Excellent rear light nerding chaps.
Thanks, and apologies to work for the report being late.

Milkyway

9,452 posts

54 months

Monday 15th April
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Different... gross, 4.5T (allegedly).

Dapster

6,953 posts

181 months

Monday 15th April
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Milkyway said:
Different... gross, 4.5T (allegedly).
The Ford tractor and Transit are rhd but with the yellow headlamp covers like your dad used to use on the family trip!

The Simca in the foreground has a 27 suffix - Eure department in Normandy.

Gavarnie

130 posts

59 months

Tuesday 16th April
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Family holiday on Westward Ho ! circa 1953. It's a Riley but not sure what type. Amazingly DVLA records show that it's still on the road with the same registration, taxed and with a current MoT. Same colour too.


GTRene

16,570 posts

225 months

Tuesday 16th April
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Street Scene and Pantheon, Rue Soufflot, Paris, France, 1963



Deserted street at the Olympia in Paris, France on August 15, 1967.



Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England


hidetheelephants

24,428 posts

194 months

Tuesday 16th April
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Gavarnie said:
Family holiday on Westward Ho ! circa 1953. It's a Riley but not sure what type. Amazingly DVLA records show that it's still on the road with the same registration, taxed and with a current MoT. Same colour too.

RMA I think.

RSTurboPaul

10,394 posts

259 months

Wednesday 17th April
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GTRene said:
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Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England

What is the two-tone estate on the right??

(And why have they bothered removing number plates from a picture where most people in it will probably be 6 foot under by now? lol)

hidetheelephants

24,428 posts

194 months

Wednesday 17th April
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RSTurboPaul said:
What is the two-tone estate on the right??
Vauxhall Victor FC

RSTurboPaul

10,394 posts

259 months

Wednesday 17th April
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Thanks! I like some of the pics a quick search turns up - looks a very 'clean' design.

Milkyway

9,452 posts

54 months

Wednesday 17th April
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RSTurboPaul said:
GTRene said:
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Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England

What is the two-tone estate on the right??

(And why have they bothered removing number plates from a picture where most people in it will probably be 6 foot under by now? lol)
biglaugh You can never be too careful these days.

aeropilot

34,639 posts

228 months

Wednesday 17th April
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GTRene said:
Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England

Lovely absence of road markings and street furniture/pedestrian bollards and crap that festoon the roads today.

Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago.


Dan Singh

869 posts

51 months

Wednesday 17th April
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World's first traffic lights erected here 9th Dec.1868, apparently

Sardonicus

18,962 posts

222 months

Wednesday 17th April
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Milkyway said:
Different... gross, 4.5T (allegedly).
That poor old wheezy V4 must of struggled , should be a petrol tanker attached to that trailer too frown

NomduJour

19,126 posts

260 months

Wednesday 17th April
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aeropilot said:
Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago
That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started.

Yertis

18,058 posts

267 months

Wednesday 17th April
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aeropilot said:
Lovely absence of road markings and street furniture/pedestrian bollards and crap that festoon the roads today.
yes

Note also the correlation of roadmarkings to greyness of sky and bareness of trees.



Edited by Yertis on Wednesday 17th April 12:20

hidetheelephants

24,428 posts

194 months

Wednesday 17th April
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NomduJour said:
aeropilot said:
Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago
That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started.
Probably the original was trashed by the Luftwaffe.

RustyMX5

7,049 posts

218 months

Wednesday 17th April
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NomduJour said:
That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started.
No 1 Parliament Street was refurbed just before Portcullis House was built. Whether the Mansard was done as part of that refurb I don't know.

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