How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[RicksAlfas]

Bebee said:

Same person?

Can't see it myself. Roger Taylor looks more like Emilia Fox than Richard Hammond.

[P5BNij]

Williamstown, Australia in 1972...

[RicksAlfas]

P5BNij said:

Williamstown, Australia in 1972...

Crikey. It would be rare enough to see those two together at an Italian Lancia Owners Club meeting!

[Dapster]

P5BNij said:

Williamstown, Australia in 1972...

What's the dark coupe parked in the background, three from the left? Fiat 124?

[P5BNij]

I'd sat Fiat 124, yes. I'm still reeling at the pair of Lancias…

(Fourth car to the right of it looks like a Maxi / Landcrab I think).

[Dapster]

P5BNij said:

I'd sat Fiat 124, yes. I'm still reeling at the pair of Lancias…

(Fourth car to the right of it looks like a Maxi / Landcrab I think).

Austin 1300, Holden FB, Fiat 124, Cortina, Merc W114/5, Volvo 144, Landcrab

[P5BNij]

Dapster said:

P5BNij said:

I'd sat Fiat 124, yes. I'm still reeling at the pair of Lancias…

(Fourth car to the right of it looks like a Maxi / Landcrab I think).

Austin 1300, Holden FB, Fiat 124, Cortina, Merc W114/5, Volvo 144, Landcrab

Quite a mixed bag really, you'd expect the Holdens to out number everything else.

[gothatway]

P5BNij said:

I'm still reeling at the pair of Lancias…

So what is the nearest Lancia - has a touch of Zagato about it ?

[P5BNij]

gothatway said:

P5BNij said:

I'm still reeling at the pair of Lancias…

So what is the nearest Lancia - has a touch of Zagato about it ?

Fulvia Super Sport

[3.8 MOD]

Hmm...
More like a Flavia Sport Zagato I would think

[RicksAlfas]

3.8 MOD said:

Hmm...
More like a Flavia Sport Zagato I would think

[Dr Interceptor]

P5BNij said:

Williamstown, Australia in 1972...

Beetle looks an early one too, 1958-1963 - after that the lens on the indicator went further back into the housing so it was more visible from the sides.

[P5BNij]

RicksAlfas said:

3.8 MOD said:

Hmm...
More like a Flavia Sport Zagato I would think

I'll get it right one of these days

As penance I've spent several hours today absorbing '50s / '60s / '70s Lancias galore on youtube, it's a tough old job but someone has to do it...

[uk66fastback]

Dr Interceptor said:

P5BNij said:

Williamstown, Australia in 1972...

Beetle looks an early one too, 1958-1963 - after that the lens on the indicator went further back into the housing so it was more visible from the sides.

Was there a specific year this happened as my mum's old Beetle - XCG 465 - was a 1960 and that had trafficators ... I remember my dad fitting normal indicators to it. It was 6v as well and had no fuel gauge from memory.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Fuel guage was 62, 12v was 67

Semaphores were up to 62 on basic models, export ones lost them earlier

[Nik da Greek]

Indicators are a surprisingly complicated subject on Beetles... American and some other markets didn't allow semaphores and so had flashers; called "bullets" or "feelers" cos they looked like little antennae down by the bumper. They also didn't get wing-top pod flashers like Euro models, they had blinkers mounted in the glass fairing over the headlights when Euro market cars got the "peanut" pods that Dr Interceptor mentioned. These became the wider pods with more lens in '63, as he said. America did eventually get wing-top indicators in the '70s, but they were horrible great big square pods that doubled as running lights... ironically as our models lost the wing-top pods in favour of little oblong flashers in the ends of the new "Euro" girder bumpers that had replaced the curvy "blade" bumpers a few years before



Clear as mud? That's what you get from a 50-year production run

[P5BNij]

Two from the Iso factory c.1968 with Bizzarrini 5300GT Stradas and Iso Grifos under construction...

[P5BNij]

An old stager 'Jinty' tank loco meets one of the jet set in a Lancia Flaminia GT (a rare RHD example to boot) at Wetmore Road Level Crossing in Burton-on-Trent...

[TR4man]

A rather stylish way to go on holiday.

[Hugo a Gogo]

rat look scene hipsters...