How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
Discussion
nicanary said:
gothatway said:
_Sorted_ said:
Working through an archive of car pictures so much interesting stuff. Car rich environment in this picture sequence. Old version of Top Gear?
I like this one in particular for the cars in the background .. Leftmost looks almost like a Panhard back half, but not the front,
Second is a Jowett Jupiter,
Third dunno,
Fourth possibly a Princess (too upright for a ZA/ZB),
Fifth looks like a Lancia (Aurelia ?),
Sixth looks like another limo.
Then we have a split-screen Moggie,
while to the right is it a Vauxhall Wyvern ?
And finally a Riley RM.
Jensen Interceptor
Jowett Jupiter
Lagonda 2.6
Daimler Conquest (?)
Lancia Aurelia
Armstrong-Siddeley (?)
Morris Minor
Renault Fregate
Riley RM
Johnspex said:
It's not Chiswick bus garage is it? With the pointed roof of the Chiswick Empire in the right background?
I think you're probably right. The lampost design is the same, as is the flagpole (for flying a red flag while the skid pan was in use).I used to work in a building overlooking the skid pan. AFAICR at the beginning of every course, the students were loaded into the bus for an instructor to throw it wildly around so they saw it from a passengers' point of view. Fun to watch.
52classic said:
To the right of frame, the light coloured contraption - I think that's the vehicle used for some sort of endurance record in the 1950's AIRC the record car 'docked' between the wide tracked rear legs to enable rolling servicing & maintenance to be carried out. Morris Minor springs to mind.
Minor at Goodwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvx2g6vxRHU
"continued under its own power for the full distance"...."servicing, even wheel changes were done on the move" Err, what? How!? Ah well, never mind, it was a long time ago
You posted that one before!
Sardonicus said:
As that TR just bumped that Minx from behind? looking at that TR front bumper and the bizarre just stopping in the road lark , lots of onlookers too 
why else would you take this random pic?
Think so. Skid marks in front of Triumph(?) and pool of liquid going to pavement on LHS of smashed up car. why else would you take this random pic? 
Yertis said:
RicksAlfas said:
The design of skips hasn't changed much has it?
I wonder when that design of skip was introduced? There's bound to be a skip expert on here, like that chap who was an expert on lamp-posts.
Still find this as funny as the skip driver did!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184921/Th...
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