How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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RATATTAK said:
RichB said:
What's the older looking car 2nd from left, middle row?
Riley ?There were two convertible versions of the Riley RM: the Roadster and the Drophead.
The Roadster had a one-piece flat windscreen, and the Drophead's windscreen was the same as the saloon's - i.e. it was framed by painted 'bodywork'.
And the radiator shell doesn't have the 'peak' at the top.
But I don't know what it is. Alvis possibly ?
iSore said:
manorcom said:
The newest car there is a Series III Minx introduced 1959 - 1961/2 I'd say. The early 48-50 MO Oxford was an almost worthless banger then.what's the car under the X of exchange?
Thumbed through the last 100 or so pages of this thread and decided to make my contribution, hopefully interesting to someone. My older brother in July 1977, by our family car.
The car pictured is '67 Moskvich 433 panel van. Unfortunately, it's the only pic of it, so here's virtually the same car
The car has slightly interesting story to it. It started life as a delivery van for a state-owned publishing house, in which my grand dad was a boss. He was a powerful man in those days. This car had had some sort of accident, and my grand dad wrote it off service and sold it for a penny to my dad - a well known and beloved loophole in Soviet system. At the time it was very cool to have a car, 'cause just a few 'normals' had had enough money to afford a motorcycle, not to mention a car, with queue for cars were years long, and those privileged jumping it all the time.
It's not a body-on-frame chassis, and it was pretty advanced car for it's age to receive appraise even from Western motoring press. As someone mentioned, these enjoyed very good sale rates in Continental Europe due to their cheapness, good build quality and some advanced engineering bits. The Moskviches were not only superior than contemporary Ladas, but even to many European cars, especially to British Leyland cars of the time. Since strikes were not allowed in USSR, one should think.
The Moskvich had received some sort of structural damage to one of the front beams, and without any kind of service available (with queues for normal people for servicing, not to mention repairing, their cars, were months long), it couldn't be driven in a straight line for longer than millisecond, so dad had to fight with the steering all the time. And with the shifter on the column, he borked the gearbox too. So the car went in a garage for the next 38 years. I still own it, but it'd take serious money and work efforts to restore, mainly due to tin worm. One day, may be.
Meanwhile I'm trying to restore his other 'barned' car, the mighty 1983 Peugeot 505 XD2, which was in a garage for 21 years. I don't have any period (or recent) piccies of it, but here it is anyway.
The car pictured is '67 Moskvich 433 panel van. Unfortunately, it's the only pic of it, so here's virtually the same car
The car has slightly interesting story to it. It started life as a delivery van for a state-owned publishing house, in which my grand dad was a boss. He was a powerful man in those days. This car had had some sort of accident, and my grand dad wrote it off service and sold it for a penny to my dad - a well known and beloved loophole in Soviet system. At the time it was very cool to have a car, 'cause just a few 'normals' had had enough money to afford a motorcycle, not to mention a car, with queue for cars were years long, and those privileged jumping it all the time.
It's not a body-on-frame chassis, and it was pretty advanced car for it's age to receive appraise even from Western motoring press. As someone mentioned, these enjoyed very good sale rates in Continental Europe due to their cheapness, good build quality and some advanced engineering bits. The Moskviches were not only superior than contemporary Ladas, but even to many European cars, especially to British Leyland cars of the time. Since strikes were not allowed in USSR, one should think.
The Moskvich had received some sort of structural damage to one of the front beams, and without any kind of service available (with queues for normal people for servicing, not to mention repairing, their cars, were months long), it couldn't be driven in a straight line for longer than millisecond, so dad had to fight with the steering all the time. And with the shifter on the column, he borked the gearbox too. So the car went in a garage for the next 38 years. I still own it, but it'd take serious money and work efforts to restore, mainly due to tin worm. One day, may be.
Meanwhile I'm trying to restore his other 'barned' car, the mighty 1983 Peugeot 505 XD2, which was in a garage for 21 years. I don't have any period (or recent) piccies of it, but here it is anyway.
Yes a rare car. 27 of the 2+2 were built. Two were in the USA, several in Germany. This one came in for evaluation in 1973, just in time for the fuel crisis!
It was built with either a straight six 2.8 litre or a V8 5.3 litre. Available as a manual or Automatic transmission. This was a V8 Auto. Nice to drive but thirsty, which left me with a problem in finding fuel when during the crisis most garages rationed it at 2 gallons only per customer.
It was built with either a straight six 2.8 litre or a V8 5.3 litre. Available as a manual or Automatic transmission. This was a V8 Auto. Nice to drive but thirsty, which left me with a problem in finding fuel when during the crisis most garages rationed it at 2 gallons only per customer.
TCEvo said:
Great story re that old Moskvich, Veeayt. Different world.
Yeah, quite. But it's now gone. Here in Kazakhstan, at least. Russia seems to be crawling back to what it was. I liked the idea that you'd have a very different perspective of what was happening at the other side of memory lane.Gassing Station | Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff