How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

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RATATTAK

10,593 posts

188 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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RichB said:
What's the older looking car 2nd from left, middle row?
Riley ?

forsure

2,118 posts

267 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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RATATTAK said:
RichB said:
What's the older looking car 2nd from left, middle row?
Riley ?
I can see why you'd say Riley, the wings and headlights are very similar.

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 ?

forsure

2,118 posts

267 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Alvis TB21 ?


Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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iSore said:
manorcom said:
For a little Easter amusement. Here is a Rootes used car pitch, I think on the Coventry Road, Yardley, Birmingham. Guess the year [I don't know]:
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.
FC Commer at the back came out in 1960, I think the right hand Minx is a IIIc, by the plain rounded bumpers (I owned one) and that came out in 1961

what's the car under the X of exchange?

forsure

2,118 posts

267 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Hugo a Gogo said:
what's the car under the X of exchange?
Hillman Husky S2 ?

Bob the Cop

187 posts

83 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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I have put this photo in the classic Lamborghini section but it is appropriate to go in here.



A 1973 Intermeccanica Indra with a Hillman Minx in the background.

Bob the Cop

187 posts

83 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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The same Hillman Minx in the back ground.
The Triumph is a 1600 Vitesse.................the car I learnt to drive in!




tog

4,517 posts

227 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Bob the Cop said:
A 1973 Intermeccanica Indra with a Hillman Minx in the background.
The perfect two-car fleet?

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Multipla, returning to nature by a canal.

Veeayt

3,139 posts

204 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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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.



TCEvo

12,625 posts

201 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Great story re that old Moskvich, Veeayt. Different world.

Loose_Cannon

1,593 posts

252 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Bob the Cop said:
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A 1973 Intermeccanica Indra with a Hillman Minx in the background.
'kinell! How rare is that, I would never dream one of those would make it to these shores.

Bob the Cop

187 posts

83 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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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.

S10GTA

12,645 posts

166 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Posted in my frogeye sprite thread, but here is a picture of my step-mum in 1973 with her froggy


Veeayt

3,139 posts

204 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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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.

droopsnoot

11,810 posts

241 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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From a postcard of Bergen in 1960 that was posted on FB just now.


Yertis

18,016 posts

265 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Veeayt said:
motoring tales from Soviet Union
I really enjoyed that Veeyat, nice to hear a different perspective. clap

(You also get bonus points in my book for running an urS6plus – very nice, and rare too).

P5BNij

15,770 posts

105 months

Thursday 27th April 2017
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Jochen Rindt with his daily driver...


soxboy

6,060 posts

218 months

Thursday 27th April 2017
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P5BNij said:
Jochen Rindt with his daily driver...

I never knew he only had one leg.

ivanhoew

974 posts

240 months

Friday 28th April 2017
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soxboy said:
P5BNij said:
Jochen Rindt with his daily driver...

I never knew he only had one leg.
The arm nearest us is false too.
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