How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
Discussion
droopsnoot said:
I love old slides, I'm always looking out for them at car boot sales, and have a few 'house clearance' people supposedly keeping an eye out for them, just for stuff like this. And they've always got a particular "look" to them from that era. Great stuff.
Thanks, I've never seen these slides before. Its tragic they sat in a garage so long. My mums been dead for 26 years, and it would have been nice for her surviving family to have seen them. There's only my uncle left (in the pics) so I'm printing them off for him to see at the weekend.Apologies to everyone for one totally indulgent picture that doesn't include a classic car, however it is "classic joinery".......This is the first colour pic I've found of my Grandparents frontage. Doesn't it make you realise what we have lost to s
tty plastic double glazing? All the colours, warmth, texture and leaded lights. I reckon fking Everest and the likes have done more damage to this country's architecture than the Lufwaffe, Henry VIII and 60s town planners combined. As well as living in a monochrome hell of greyscale cars we live in a sea of white plastic conformity.
FYI early 60s; L to R thats my Grandma Ruby, wonderful warm hearted woman lived to 96, my Grandad Ken lost to industrial disease (asbestosis, just to temper the nostalgia for days gone by), and my formidable spinster great Auntie Nora, whose bite was way less than her her bark.
Edited by Loose_Cannon on Friday 5th May 12:41
Edited by Loose_Cannon on Friday 5th May 13:47
Loose_Cannon said:
yellowjack said:
The aeroplane is a Douglas DC-6 of Società Aerea Mediterranea, a subsidiary company of Alitalia between 1959 and 1976...
Thanks I couldn't quite make out the markings.
There was one flying in the UK in historic 'British Eagle' livery. G-APSA is the registration, it appeared in the Bond film Casino Royale. You could also buy a share in it at one point... https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/planes/sa...
I think Red Bull still operate one in flying condition. And there was the "DC-6 Diner" at Coventry Airport - not sure if that is still operating though...
Loose_Cannon said:
Not a car obviously but interesting machinery. What is the airline? Some state owned affair before Alitalia?
I've looked in the list of defunct Italian airlines, and there's nothing there that could match for that era, operating a DC-6/7 fleet............so very curious.
52classic said:
My 'Ian Allan' 'plane spotters book tells me I flew on that actual DC6 Gatwick to Milan at the start of a holiday to Pesaro in 1966. Return trip was in the sister aircraft I-DIMP.
On the subject of DC6'..... What happend to the Air Atlantique one?
Take your pick...On the subject of DC6'..... What happend to the Air Atlantique one?
https://twitter.com/gapsa?lang=en
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/844520/g-ap...
...but I think it's the one that's now in private hands but available to charter.
aeropilot said:
Aah.....so the airline is Società Aerea Mediterranea then.
I see I-DIMP went onto the Italian military register in 1969 as MM.61987
I-DIMO was lost with 5 deaths in March 1962... https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id...I see I-DIMP went onto the Italian military register in 1969 as MM.61987
52classic said:
On the subject of DC6'..... What happend to the Air Atlantique one?
Hasn't flown in over 10 years..........and with all the airworthy and non-airworthy Classic Flight/AA fleet up for sale for sometime, I suspect, it will likely eventually be scrapped insitu at Coventry.....unless someone with VERY deep pockets comes along. Shame....
52classic said:
My 'Ian Allan' 'plane spotters book tells me I flew on that actual DC6 Gatwick to Milan at the start of a holiday to Pesaro in 1966. Return trip was in the sister aircraft I-DIMP...
I-DIMD? Aircraft history here... http://www.azfleet.info/aerei/douglas-dc6/i-dimdaeropilot said:
Aah.....so the airline is Società Aerea Mediterranea then.
I see I-DIMP went onto the Italian military register in 1969 as MM.61987
And withdrawn from service in May 1974, scrapped in Venice 1975... http://www.azfleet.info/aerei/douglas-dc6/i-dimpI see I-DIMP went onto the Italian military register in 1969 as MM.61987
Loose_Cannon said:
More pics I've been meaning to post for a while, my Grandads trusty MG Magnette. He still used to rave about this car decades after it dissolved. The bottom picture was taken at his work, Richardson's Leather Works in Newcastle.
Absolutely brill! Stuff like this makes this the best thread on PH by a mile!Loose_Cannon said:
Yours truly with my Grandad's penultimate car, a blue Maxi.
Would it be OK to share this on the Maxi Facebook page please?https://www.facebook.com/groups/AustinMaxis/
keeef said:
Would it be OK to share this on the Maxi Facebook page please?
Of course, heres another, not very good though. It reminded me grandad always stretched a tartan rug over the roof on sunny days. Whether it was to protect the paint on his pride and joy, or just dry out a foisty dog smell I don't know
There are a few packs of old photos in the attic, this has sparked a desire to get scanning. This is possibly my favourite thread on the net so I'm ashamed not to have contributed much earlier.
Edited by Loose_Cannon on Saturday 6th May 00:23
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Absolutely brill! Stuff like this makes this the best thread on PH by a mile!
Agree, I love it too. Pictures like above, where my grandad has unbolted the seats to use as impromptu deck chairs just to sit on a quiet verge and play with the dog in the sun.....makes me think we have lost something over the years, simplicity perhaps? And old fashioned Sundays that weren't just additional shopping days.Loose_Cannon said:
Agree, I love it too. Pictures like above, where my grandad has unbolted the seats to use as impromptu deck chairs just to sit on a quiet verge and play with the dog in the sun.....makes me think we have lost something over the years, simplicity perhaps? And old fashioned Sundays that weren't just additional shopping days.
He must have either used a tripod for several of those pictures or had an official photographer with him a lot of the time 
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