A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)
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Mr lestat said:
aeropilot said:
With a Mk.2 Granny, that has to be 1979/80 just after the Iranian revolution. It was a snowy winter as well, IIRC.
Winter of discontent 78/79
Turbobanana said:
P5BNij said:
There's a Renault 14 on the left, behind the ADO Estate, so 1976+. My guess is 1977, due to the bunting (Silver Jubilee?).There's an early 1275GT in the same colour for sale on facebook, unusual to see one still on hydrolastic suspension too....
Milkyway said:
Mr lestat said:
aeropilot said:
With a Mk.2 Granny, that has to be 1979/80 just after the Iranian revolution. It was a snowy winter as well, IIRC.
Winter of discontent 78/79
That Cortina looking a bit worse for wear... even though it is only a few years old.
Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 11th May 13:59
Mr lestat said:
Milkyway said:
Mr lestat said:
aeropilot said:
With a Mk.2 Granny, that has to be 1979/80 just after the Iranian revolution. It was a snowy winter as well, IIRC.
Winter of discontent 78/79
That Cortina looking a bit worse for wear... even though it is only a few years old.
Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 11th May 13:59
Turbobanana said:
P5BNij said:
There's a Renault 14 on the left, behind the ADO Estate, so 1976+. My guess is 1977, due to the bunting (Silver Jubilee?).aeropilot said:
Mr lestat said:
Milkyway said:
Mr lestat said:
aeropilot said:
With a Mk.2 Granny, that has to be 1979/80 just after the Iranian revolution. It was a snowy winter as well, IIRC.
Winter of discontent 78/79
That Cortina looking a bit worse for wear... even though it is only a few years old.
Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 11th May 13:59
When I was 20 in 1979 I bought a Rover P6B 3500S which wasn't the ideal car to have in the 1979/80 oil crisis - as if I cared!
Then I replaced it with a 1978 MK2 Granny Ghia in 1981 on a T plate, but early ones had an S plate so by 1979 the skanky Cortina might have been 5 years old. They don't make them like they used to - thankfully.
aeropilot said:
Milkyway said:
My late father did that back in the fifties, and often in a thick pea-souper smog conditions in London, when you could hardly see your hand in front of your face.....he had a few scary near misses.You know the old saying that history repeats itself. Not the pea-soupers...
something nearly as bad made a comeback recently!
Could be.
Not sure if I've shared this but my dad worked for an ad agency which had a company car policy of four door saloons. Two of the employees who qualified for a company car went to the Alfa dealer, which I think was on Baker Street and both ordered Alfetta 2000s. One went back later and added GTV to his order. At the time both were the same price. For some reason we did end up with both cars on our driveway at home.
I thought it was a 'sud Sprint, but happy to be corrected.
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Not sure if I've shared this but my dad worked for an ad agency which had a company car policy of four door saloons. Two of the employees who qualified for a company car went to the Alfa dealer, which I think was on Baker Street and both ordered Alfetta 2000s. One went back later and added GTV to his order. At the time both were the same price. For some reason we did end up with both cars on our driveway at home.
I thought it was a 'sud Sprint, but happy to be corrected.
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