How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

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aeropilot

34,299 posts

226 months

Monday 10th July 2017
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yellowjack said:
Imp?

Cortina

P5

???
If the ??? is about the car immediately behind the Citroen.....it's a Vauxhall FD Victor (or Ventura? but I don't think that's a Ventura rear trim detail?)


nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Monday 10th July 2017
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aeropilot said:
yellowjack said:
Imp?

Cortina

P5

???
If the ??? is about the car immediately behind the Citroen.....it's a Vauxhall FD Victor (or Ventura? but I don't think that's a Ventura rear trim detail?)
I must admit I thought it was a Cortina MkIII but I reckon you're nearer the mark. The car in the top left I think is an ADO16 of some sort.

Dazed and Confused

979 posts

81 months

Monday 10th July 2017
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yellowjack said:
vixen1700 said:


Me back in 1974 posing next to an old banger Traction.

Think it was in Ilford.
Imp?

Cortina

P5

???
Ventora I reckon.


aeropilot

34,299 posts

226 months

Monday 10th July 2017
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Dazed and Confused said:
yellowjack said:
vixen1700 said:


Me back in 1974 posing next to an old banger Traction.

Think it was in Ilford.
Imp?

Cortina

P5

???
Ventora I reckon.

I couldn't remember the rear trim detail well enough as I said, but you've just confirmed by that pic that its NOT a Ventura and is a Victor laugh

Dazed and Confused

979 posts

81 months

Monday 10th July 2017
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Doh!

Loose_Cannon

1,593 posts

252 months

Monday 10th July 2017
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Old Bert at work was reminiscing about his cars when he was young and full of cash in the 70s. Taken at his parents caravan site near Aberdeen I think.

I think they are all a gonner except perhaps the Europa which showed up as being taxed recently. Anyone have it? He'd love to know. Top picture is an old dear off the site trying to see how easy Europas are to get in and out.











Edited by Loose_Cannon on Monday 10th July 15:08

Loose_Cannon

1,593 posts

252 months

Thursday 13th July 2017
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P5BNij

15,770 posts

105 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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Dapster

6,875 posts

179 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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P5BNij said:
De Tomaso Mangusta!

Looks like a prototype compared to the production version



One for sale here... never realised that they were so valuable.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C681469


Edited by Dapster on Saturday 15th July 16:40

Dazed and Confused

979 posts

81 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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Not my pic, but any idea what the car at the back is? Looks to be on a V plate.





I feel I should know.

Dapster

6,875 posts

179 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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Dazed and Confused said:
Not my pic, but any idea what the car at the back is? Looks to be on a V plate.





I feel I should know.
I'm going with a Colt Sigma


Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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My new Ford Capri...1979

My new Royal Enfield Bullet in 2012


Ribblehead Viaduct/Settle-Carlisle line....North Yorkshire.

RATATTAK

10,593 posts

188 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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Dazed and Confused

979 posts

81 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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Dapster said:
Dazed and Confused said:
Not my pic, but any idea what the car at the back is? Looks to be on a V plate.





I feel I should know.
I'm going with a Colt Sigma

Well done. Is that the 4 door version of the Sapporo coupe?

interloper

2,747 posts

254 months

Saturday 15th July 2017
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bristolracer said:
[quote=P5BNij

In 1972 Bob Wallace took the LP500 prototype to Monaco...
Thats how it should have looked rather than the winged monster that made production
The winged, wide wheel arch car came later in production. The LP 400 production car ( which immediately followed the LP 500 pre production cars ) had no wings but it did gain some cooling ducts as cooling the big V12 is pretty important. Actually you can blame Walter Wolf for the mods as he wanted to run the new fangled Pirreli P zeroes, hence the tacked on arches and liked big wings hence " that wing" it gained in the late Seventies.

Hugh Jarse

3,486 posts

204 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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Moi, 1987, Newquay. Blue Allegro 1500, mates. Never went wrong, never got serviced. Car cockroach.

Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

149 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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My mum. And sister (in pram) I believe. Swindon sometime in the late 60s


Lookin atcha by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

The blue Beetle was ours... it met its end when mum went out one rainy night to collect a Chinese takeaway. The bag of sloppy chop suey-based slime slumped over in the passenger footwell, she leaned over to rescue it and drove straight into a lamppost rolleyes Not much in the front of a Beetle to resist hard impacts so that was pretty much that. Expensive takeaway!

fourfoldroot

589 posts

154 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Outside my house about 1989. The montego was a vanden plas 2.0 Efi. It actually went very well compared to its predecessor, a 1984 Chrysler Alpine. Car in garage is a TR4a ,PTB606C, it ended up in Japan. I wonder if it is still there?

dandarez

13,246 posts

282 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Astacus said:
dandarez said:


lick hmm, as it's Wimbledon, time for strawberries and cream.
Tornado Talisman?

These days these old 50s/60s specials get a seriously nice resto treatment
cool Tornado TYPHOON.

No wonder Chapman tried to buy Tornado Cars Ltd, not once, but twice! Not a lot of people (apart from Tornado nuts) know that, not even Loti enthusiasts.


Edited by dandarez on Saturday 22 July 23:35

austin

1,274 posts

202 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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fourfoldroot said:
Outside my house about 1989. The montego was a vanden plas 2.0 Efi. It actually went very well compared to its predecessor, a 1984 Chrysler Alpine. Car in garage is a TR4a ,PTB606C, it ended up in Japan. I wonder if it is still there?
Never mind the new stuff, what's the story with the Austin 7? Looks like it has a "smokers hatch" fitted as well.

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