How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
scs1 said:
Change over day Hexagon of Highgate 1971.
On left 1969 Mini Cooper Mk2 998 cc bought new for £710 including purchase tax!
On right (new) 1971 Mini Cooper S Mk3 1275 cc bought for the princely sum of £1085 .
Wish I still had the Mk 3 S
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Reflective number plates became available I think in 1968/69. Then became mandatory on new cars after 1973 I think.
I know I was fined for having black plates on my Avenger GLS which was new in 1974
Regarding SCS 1. I coughed up the huge sum of £125 for it in 1969.
The Mini Cooper was the first car to have the plate.
Now 50 years and eighteen cars later the plate is on a C7 Corvette.
I know I was fined for having black plates on my Avenger GLS which was new in 1974
Regarding SCS 1. I coughed up the huge sum of £125 for it in 1969.
The Mini Cooper was the first car to have the plate.
Now 50 years and eighteen cars later the plate is on a C7 Corvette.
RJG46 said:
Alain Delon and Jane Fonda.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rare-1961-ferrar...
Seems it was lost for quite some time.
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
scs1 said:
Change over day Hexagon of Highgate 1971.
On left 1969 Mini Cooper Mk2 998 cc bought new for £710 including purchase tax!
On right (new) 1971 Mini Cooper S Mk3 1275 cc bought for the princely sum of £1085 .
Wish I still had the Mk 3 S
.
Composer62 said:
Is this the same car ?
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rare-1961-ferrar...
Seems it was lost for quite some time.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rare-1961-ferrar...
Seems it was lost for quite some time.
Apparently not. That is the photo that the auction house used for their catalogue.
According to Delon, the one in the photo was not even the car being sold. He was vocally angry at the time that the auction house had hyped the car's connection with him as he had only owned it for a couple of years, 1963-1965.
Yertis said:
What was that wooden fencing called? It used to be everywhere, around construction sites etc. Never see it now.
Funnily enough I was thinking the same (about not seeing it, not what it was called) when I saw some in the recent documentary about photographer Don McCullen on BBC4. Some of his old photos of Consett and the area had falling-down sections of it. Now you usually see bright orange plastic versions for temporary fencing.SCS 1 was as you say issued in Ayr in 1961 on an Austin Princess.
I paid £125 to probably one of the first number plate dealers in the country ,way before Registration Transfers arrived on the scene.
It was much more difficult to transfer numbers in those days and I remember I had to "sell" my Mini to the owner of the Princess and then "buy" it back after the number had been transferred.
I paid £125 to probably one of the first number plate dealers in the country ,way before Registration Transfers arrived on the scene.
It was much more difficult to transfer numbers in those days and I remember I had to "sell" my Mini to the owner of the Princess and then "buy" it back after the number had been transferred.
scs1 said:
SCS 1 was as you say issued in Ayr in 1961 on an Austin Princess.
I paid £125 to probably one of the first number plate dealers in the country ,way before Registration Transfers arrived on the scene.
It was much more difficult to transfer numbers in those days and I remember I had to "sell" my Mini to the owner of the Princess and then "buy" it back after the number had been transferred.
Before the government realised it was a money making scheme tooI paid £125 to probably one of the first number plate dealers in the country ,way before Registration Transfers arrived on the scene.
It was much more difficult to transfer numbers in those days and I remember I had to "sell" my Mini to the owner of the Princess and then "buy" it back after the number had been transferred.
scs1 said:
Reflective number plates became available I think in 1968/69. Then became mandatory on new cars after 1973 I think.
I know I was fined for having black plates on my Avenger GLS which was new in 1974
Regarding SCS 1. I coughed up the huge sum of £125 for it in 1969.
The Mini Cooper was the first car to have the plate.
Now 50 years and eighteen cars later the plate is on a C7 Corvette.
I know I was fined for having black plates on my Avenger GLS which was new in 1974
Regarding SCS 1. I coughed up the huge sum of £125 for it in 1969.
The Mini Cooper was the first car to have the plate.
Now 50 years and eighteen cars later the plate is on a C7 Corvette.
scs1 said:
Reflective number plates became available I think in 1968/69.
Yep, here's my 1968 Wolseley with them on. 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hk11_yah/27914088569...
scs1 said:
Change over day Hexagon of Highgate 1971.
On left 1969 Mini Cooper Mk2 998 cc bought new for £710 including purchase tax!
On right (new) 1971 Mini Cooper S Mk3 1275 cc bought for the princely sum of £1085 .
Wish I still had the Mk 3 S
An early advert for the new-fangled reflective raised digit plates, from the March 1968 issue of Motorsport...
Regarding the LHD wiper position - there was an overlap in production of the Mk2 and Mk3 range between October '69 and March '70 which coincided with a number of LHD export front bulkhead / scuttle panel pressings being used on the line, hence its the sporadic appearance on some cars, some of these had blanking plates fitted depending on their destination.
Planning to have a look at a 1970 Mk3 S at the weekend if the planets are suitably aligned...!
Good guess P5BNij,
The Mk 2 was Island Blue and the Mk 3 Bronze yellow.
The wheels on the Mk 3 were alloys from Paddy Hopkirk.
I had a early problem with the tyres hitting the bodywork and went up to the Hopkirk Accessories HQ in Eaton Bray Bedford shire.
I was surprised when the man himself came out and suggested beefed up bump stops. Problem solved.
The Mk 2 was Island Blue and the Mk 3 Bronze yellow.
The wheels on the Mk 3 were alloys from Paddy Hopkirk.
I had a early problem with the tyres hitting the bodywork and went up to the Hopkirk Accessories HQ in Eaton Bray Bedford shire.
I was surprised when the man himself came out and suggested beefed up bump stops. Problem solved.
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