How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[Rateone]

droopsnoot said:

I'm pretty sure these are all in Liverpool, but I'm not exactly sure exactly where. I thought the first one was standing opposite Lime Street station and looking south, but maybe not. Late seventies, or possibly very early eighties.

I would go for 1980. The Leyland National in the first picture looks like it has a "W" registration

[P5BNij]

Abbey Road Studios car park, December '66, George and Ringo arrive for another night's work on 'Strawberry Fields Forever' with George's Radford Cooper S parked up for the duration... looks bloody cold...!

[Pat H]

View out of the window at Billinge maternity hospital in Wigan one day in April 1969.

Dad took this photo on the day I was born.

[Longnose]

OK, I'll try...

Left to right

BMC 1100 (in the driveway, can't see which of many variants)
Reliant 3 wheeler
Ford Cortina Mk1
Hillman Minx
Hillman Husky? (Imp van)
Rover 75
Ford Cortina Mk1
Triumph Courier (Herald van)
Ford Anglia
Early Vauxhall Victor
Later Vauxhall Victor
Early Mini (small tail lights)
VW Beetle
Singer Gazelle
BMC 1100, Austin or Morris?
Vauxhall Viva
Sunbeam Stiletto
Ford Zephyr 4 or 6
Volvo 'Amazon (in driveway)

[Pat H]

Same scene taken from across the road a bit later in the day.

[P5BNij]

Longnose said:

OK, I'll try...

Left to right

BMC 1100 (in the driveway, can't see which of many variants)
Reliant 3 wheeler
Ford Cortina Mk1
Hillman Minx
Hillman Husky? (Imp van)
Rover 75
Ford Cortina Mk1
Triumph Courier (Herald van)
Ford Anglia
Early Vauxhall Victor
Later Vauxhall Victor
Early Mini (small tail lights)
VW Beetle
Singer Gazelle
BMC 1100, Austin or Morris?
Vauxhall Viva
Sunbeam Stiletto
Ford Zephyr 4 or 6
Volvo 'Amazon (in driveway)

I think the Mini might be a slightly later Mk2 (built September '67 to March '70), the lights look big enough and the rear screen looks wider than a Mk1, there's also the hint of the larger Mk2 rear badge above the numberplate.

The Stiletto looks very rakish...

Cracking shots Pat

Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 22 March 16:23

Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 22 March 16:24

[LordBretSinclair]

P5BNij said:

The Stiletto looks very rakish...

That Stiletto might be a Singer Chamois

[iSore]

Longnose said:

OK, I'll try...


BMC 1100, Austin or Morris?

Morris.

Grey with the fluted boot handle.

Grey was a non Austin colour, as beige was non Morris.

[Yertis]

iSore said:

Morris.

Grey with the fluted boot handle.

Grey was a non Austin colour, as beige was non Morris.

And that is why I keep coming back to this forum...

[droopsnoot]

Rateone said:

I would go for 1980. The Leyland National in the first picture looks like it has a "W" registration

I'm blaming scanner quality, that's an M. ENL827, NFM827M.

[P5BNij]

LordBretSinclair said:

P5BNij said:

The Stiletto looks very rakish...

That Stiletto might be a Singer Chamois

The artwork looks fab, like an Airfix kit

[williamp]

Does, doesnt it. And in no way does it make the car look bigger or sleeker then in real life...!

[gothatway]

Longnose said:

OK, I'll try...

Left to right

BMC 1100 (in the driveway, can't see which of many variants)
Reliant 3 wheeler
Ford Cortina Mk1
Hillman Minx
Hillman Husky? (Imp van)
Rover 75
Ford Cortina Mk1
Triumph Courier (Herald van)
Ford Anglia
Early Vauxhall Victor
Later Vauxhall Victor
Early Mini (small tail lights)
VW Beetle
Singer Gazelle
BMC 1100, Austin or Morris?
Vauxhall Viva
Sunbeam Stiletto
Ford Zephyr 4 or 6
Volvo 'Amazon (in driveway)

Very impressive, but you've missed two - the vinyl roofed car in the driveway (above the Reliant) and something in the side road, largely hidden by railings/brick pillars/foliage.

Only the Beetle is a foreign make, though I guess Fords and Vauxhalls might have been built in Germany ?

[soxboy]

LordBretSinclair said:

P5BNij said:

The Stiletto looks very rakish...

That Stiletto might be a Singer Chamois

Bit different in the metal:

[CR6ZZ]

Longnose said:

OK, I'll try...


Ford Zephyr 4 or 6

I think I'd go with 4. A bit hard to tell, but there appear to be no wheel trims and there does not appear to be the decorative strip along the trailing lip of the boot.

[RATATTAK]

CR6ZZ said:

I think I'd go with 4. A bit hard to tell, but there appear to be no wheel trims and there does not appear to be the decorative strip along the trailing lip of the boot.

me too

[dandarez]

P5BNij said:

LordBretSinclair said:

P5BNij said:

The Stiletto looks very rakish...

That Stiletto might be a Singer Chamois

The artwork looks fab, like an Airfix kit

Always puzzled me, as the Imp (all variants) was very popular, why Airfix never made one, of any variant, not even the bog standard Hillman Imp. That kind of artwork would have looked superb.
I can remember being pissed off about it back in the day when my mate had built an Airfix (Morris) Mini (Minor) which sat on top of his dash, painted the same colours as his actual souped-up Mini.
Perhaps the Imp's double-skinned shell was too hard to replicate in plastic!

[RATATTAK]

The Imp van was called the Commer Karrier (I think)
The Husky had side windows behind the driver a la estate car

Edited by RATATTAK on Thursday 22 March 22:34

[NDA]

My mother had an Imp - my cousin had one too when he was at university.

I recall them as being horrid cars, although my cousin's was done up a bit like a rally car with the subtle addition of spotlights. I seem to recall his number plate was NAB or JAB. It was a long time ago.

[aeropilot]

gothatway said:

Only the Beetle is a foreign make, though I guess Fords and Vauxhalls might have been built in Germany ?

Nope, only the Beetle.

Vauxhall's would have been made in Luton, and the Fords in the UK as well, the Anglia at the then new Halewood factory in Liverpool, and the Zephyr at Dagenham.