How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[RichB]

TR4man said:

Look at those flares!

Tell me about it! And I thought it would be the velvet jacket that got the ribbing!

[iSore]

RichB said:

Don't know if a Cortina Mark II and a Skoda are classed as classics but here's one of my dad's car taken around 1973. For some reason my mum must have taken a snap of my brother and me walking the dog. Amusingly it was only when I blew it up on my PC that I noticed the kid next door on his bicycle getting in on the act. Was this one of the first examples of photo-bombing!

Is your last name Gibb?

[RichB]

There is a touch of that isn't there but that's my brother so I'll laugh too!

[uk66fastback]

P5BNij said:

uk66fastback said:

You know you've got BV's Daimler on your PBucket pictured with the white Webasto?

I clicked on the Jag/Escort pic to read the Escort's plate better ...

Yes uk66, that's why I uploaded it, so I could post it in BV's thread!

Ah, I hadn't seen a pic of it with the white roof ... ! I think I prefer the black though! Good stuff.

[MarshPhantom]

RichB said:

Don't know if a Cortina Mark II and a Skoda are classed as classics but here's one of my dad's car taken around 1973. For some reason my mum must have taken a snap of my brother and me walking the dog. Amusingly it was only when I blew it up on my PC that I noticed the kid next door on his bicycle getting in on the act. Was this one of the first examples of photo-bombing!

Is that South East London? Looks like Catford.

[RichB]

MarshPhantom said:

Is that South East London? Looks like Catford.

No, Ealing, West London.

[manorcom]

Great 70's pics guys, like the medallion.

Last night down our local we were discussing this winter. Us old codgers were saying how mild it had been. There was a young lad, around 19, saying how flipping cold he was this winter. Well you can imagine us old guys saying. Cold son....you don't know the meaning of the word. This got me remembering the winter of '63. The coldest since '47 and one the coldest on record. I was 13 and just started my weekend job, helping the milkman. Boy was it cold. I remember sitting in the open sided milk float moaning how cold it was. Albert the milkman said. "Come on lad, get running up and down these paths, that'll soon get you toasty." Milk left on the doorstep for longer than half an hour looked like this:



Here are some pics from around the country in 'Winter of '63:






Alcester Road, Birmingham:

Winbledon:

Glasgow:

Cold Ashton Petrol Station on the A46 (appropriate name eh?)

Now this is what you call deep snow:





Bradford:

And Dorset [or is this 1968?]

[RichB]

Great pics MC, I remember the winter of 63, I was 7. The snow was piled up about 6' high on the edge the pavement. Dad and the next door neighbour dug a tunnel from our front gate to the edge of the road.

[P5BNij]

Ecellent shots MC, lovely stuff.

Harrods car park, c.1969 / 70, note pre-decimal charges... nice Jensen Interceptor and Rover P5B Saloon...






JYS with Jensen FF, possibly his own or on loan...


P5B x3 outside No.10, early '70s I think...

[threespires]

Alfa Romeo P3 Tipo B Monza 1934
Could this have been Achille Varzi's car ?

Mannin Moar - Douglas - Isle of Man
Winning Driver :- Hon.Brian Edmund "Bug" Lewis,(2nd Baron Essendon))
1 June 1934 - Douglas: 297.5 km (5.95km x 50 laps)
Formula Libre race.

Please let me know if any of this info is incorrect.

[threespires]

manorcom said:

Great 70's pics guys, like the medallion.

Great set of pix...

[Roy C]

threespires said:

Alfa Romeo P3 Tipo B Monza 1934
Could this have been Achille Varzi's car ?

Mannin Moar - Douglas - Isle of Man
Winning Driver :- Hon.Brian Edmund "Bug" Lewis,(2nd Baron Essendon))
1 June 1934 - Douglas: 297.5 km (5.95km x 50 laps)
Formula Libre race.

Please let me know if any of this info is incorrect.

Here's a picture of Brian Lewis celebrating after the race.
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the...
The chap in the beret is Attilio Marinoni, chief mechanic of Scuderia Ferrari.

Edited by Roy C on Sunday 21st February 17:00

[threespires]

Roy C said:

Here's a picture of Brian Lewis celebrating after the race.
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the...

Excellent Roy, thanks for confirmation.
Still taken from a cine film my g/pa made.

[Roy C]

threespires said:

Roy C said:

Here's a picture of Brian Lewis celebrating after the race.
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the...

Excellent Roy, thanks for confirmation.
Still taken from a cine film my g/pa made.

There is a description of the race on this page, about a third of the way down: http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gp342.htm

[threespires]

Thanks Roy, I also have a shot of #9 Charlie Dodson
I'll scan it & post shortly

[threespires]

Alfa Romeo Monza - Charlie Dodson

[Dapster]

P5BNij said:

Ecellent shots MC, lovely stuff.

Harrods car park, c.1969 / 70, note pre-decimal charges... nice Jensen Interceptor and Rover P5B Saloon...

I like the Volvo 145 parked next to the Jensen. Can't see any other foreign metal.

[Hugh Jarse]

Dapster said:

I like the Volvo 145 parked next to the Jensen. Can't see any other foreign metal.

Might be a BMW 2002 parked in the middle of the upper deck, reversed in.
Might be a Merc reverserd in a the end of the upper deck.
Volvos had lots of UK parts then.

Loving those snow pictures, and remembered about the frozen milk.

[aeropilot]

Vertical parking complex somewhere in the USA, late 1950's

[ATTAK Z]

aeropilot said:

Vertical parking complex somewhere in the USA, late 1950's

This should be good ... may I start please

1) Nash Metropolitan