How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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Was the spoiler bought from Richard E Grant ? We want the finest spoilers known to mankind,we want them here, and we want them now!
Love the Viva HA in the early pic. Had one as my first car, also an SL model -you got two-tone paint, chrome wheel trims and a lockable glove-box. SHK 497D, if anyone's got it. We were easily satisfied in those days.
Love the Viva HA in the early pic. Had one as my first car, also an SL model -you got two-tone paint, chrome wheel trims and a lockable glove-box. SHK 497D, if anyone's got it. We were easily satisfied in those days.
RIP.nicanary said:
Went from Norwich to Brands Hatch on one in the rain to see the BOAC 1000km - it's a long way at 50/55mph.
If it was 1970 and pissing down with rain most of the day that was the same year I was there. Went with a mate from Ealing by train and bus. We were about 14 and it was my first ever race meeting. His mum worked for BOAC at Heathrow and got complimentary tickets, I don't think that thought about how we'd get there back in those days and we didn't care. Just jumped on the tube at Ealing Broadway, made our way to Charing Cross or Victoria and wound up at some country station somewhere. I remember getting a country bus for the last leg to the track. Can you imagine that these days... 
I'd have given my eye teeth for one. 
1 PST said:
This was taken around 1980 when we lived in Dubai. It was my dads company car, a Chevrolet Caprice Classic and my mums Toyota Carina in the garage. And me on my bike, I was seven!! 
We lived in Abu Dhabi at the same time and my Dad had an identical Caprice and my mum a Honda Prelude 
LordBretSinclair said:
I was very young and impressionable.
Mods, scooters, Twiggy etc turned my young head.
Never Vespas for me either. Mohair suit jacket, Ben Sherman oxford-cloth button-down shirt,stone-washed Levis, tasselled mocassions. Small Faces and Otis Redding. Bikes were a big no-no, all the wrong associations.Mods, scooters, Twiggy etc turned my young head.
And yes, it was 1970 - we didn't have stand tickets, but we just walked in anyway cos we were so pissed-off, and no-one stopped us.You could hardly identify the cars with all the spray.
Aha, as they say in Norway. I didn't of course wear mocassions, but moccasins, which would today be called loafers. As for Vespas, they had the engine out on the right-hand side of the frame, and thus were so heavy on that side that the rider had to lean to the left to counterbalance - we called it the "Vespa lean".From behind you saw a weird S-shape of the drivers head and curved body ending with the bulbous sidepanel.
I knew a guy with and Eddie Grimstead Hurricane - an SS180 bored out to 200cc. These things were really quick but the cylinder wall must have been paper-thin and he put the rod through the side when flat-out on the Acle straight (twixt Norwich and Gt. Yarmouth, maybe the longest straight in the UK). He was "hors de combat" for a while.All the scooter racers were Lambrettas, so they must have been more suitable in some way, maybe the "balance" thing.
I knew a guy with and Eddie Grimstead Hurricane - an SS180 bored out to 200cc. These things were really quick but the cylinder wall must have been paper-thin and he put the rod through the side when flat-out on the Acle straight (twixt Norwich and Gt. Yarmouth, maybe the longest straight in the UK). He was "hors de combat" for a while.All the scooter racers were Lambrettas, so they must have been more suitable in some way, maybe the "balance" thing.
W124Bob said:
Another flickr find 
Canary Wharf.
[high horse]Canary Wharf.
I don't know if the Flickr user took this themselves or not, but in any case if you're gong to pinch photos off Flickr you should at least attribute them (depending on the rights granted). Luckily, Flickr gives you the tools to do this very easily
Fun with a Cortina Canary Wharf 1986 by Danny McL, on Flickr
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