How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[vixen1700]

P5BNij said:

Suffolk Street car park, Queensway in Brum, May 1972...

Apart from a single Beetle, I don't think there's another non-British car in that entire picture.

How times have changed.

[Yertis]

vixen1700 said:

Apart from a single Beetle, I don't think there's another non-British car in that entire picture.

How times have changed.

Two Beetles but your point stands.

[Wooda80]

ClaphamGT3 said:

vixen1700 said:

Rare little Fiat 128 Coupe, can't remember the last time seeing one of those.

A 1283p - I had one back in the late 80s; cracking little cars

There was one in this pic ( on page 449 ) and another 3 pages back ( 446 ) . Strange that something so rare would appear in two random pics, what are the chances of it being the same one?!

[vixen1700]

Yertis said:

Two Beetles but your point stands.

Oh yeah!

[P5BNij]

Chassis P/1033, Switzerland, 1966...



(Hoping to do a few laps in a replica next year )

[Hugo a Gogo]

Yertis said:

vixen1700 said:

Apart from a single Beetle, I don't think there's another non-British car in that entire picture.

How times have changed.

Two Beetles but your point stands.

And a VW camper parked in amongst the buses

[iSore]

Mick getting out of Keef's (or Ronnie's) XJ-S in 1976.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

A bit of a cheat, but a couple of photos from my dad's scrapbook made up in the 1940s



Bergerac's car anybody?

[Squirrelofwoe]

P5BNij said:

Chassis P/1033, Switzerland, 1966...



(Hoping to do a few laps in a replica next year )

Do it if you get the chance!

Building a GT40 replica is top of my (semi-realistic) car bucket list, so I was desperate to have a go in one.

I got to do a few laps of a local airfield in one a couple of months ago. It was clearly a few years old and the interior condition showed it had seen plenty of use, but Christ did it go well. It was running a 6ltr engine and had a 4-speed centre shift rather than the right-hand side sill-shift. As visceral experiences go it's right up there- the noise was such that the two of us had to shout to communicate, combined with the heat, and the issue of being sat on the floor trying to decide whether to look through the gap in the top of the steering wheel or over the top of it (I'm sub-6ft), whilst wrestling the wheel to get the car vaguely pointing towards very-rapidly-approaching apexes... Fortunately the breaks were superb, once you properly stamped on them- essentially like most performance cars of a certain age.

The outright performance was staggering. I did several laps of a 2mile airfield and I was rarely brave enough to drop it out of 4th gear! The torque was such that it felt like the lower gears were simply there to do wheelspins

I woke up the next day and my shoulders were aching and my leg bruised. My V8 TVR feels like a complete pussycat by comparison.

I don't think I stopped grinning for about 3 weeks and I'm now even more convinced than before that I need one in my life

[P5BNij]

Oh I intend to, believe me! 'Visceral' is what I want and what I'm sure I'll get in a GT40, real or not

At the Stoneleigh kit car show earlier this year I sat in a couple and felt right at home, I'm barely 5'3'' but it seemed just right for me.

Edited by P5BNij on Friday 30th November 12:39

[vixen1700]

[Bebee]

40" floor to roof
20" waist belt

[soxboy]

vixen1700 said:

Is Slazenger the supplier of the tennis balls Noel stuffs down his jeans?

[RichB]

soxboy said:

Is Slazenger the supplier of the tennis balls Noel stuffs down his jeans?

With a name like Soxboy I guess you'd know

[aeropilot]

vixen1700 said:

1014.......now since restored back to its as it originally left the Slough factory spec. when first registered as NNO 14C.

[P5BNij]

Not that old Noel needs the money, but I wonder if he wishes he'd kept it...

[mhurley]

what would Noel's be worth now?

[P5BNij]

£2m or £3m maybe, given its rarity, possibly more...? Only seven road going MkIIIs were built.

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 2nd December 20:30

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

£2m or £3m maybe, given its rarity, possibly more...? Only seven road going MkIIIs were built.

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 2nd December 20:30

I assume 1014 is back row, right.

[Hugo a Gogo]

It was reported to be up for sale a couple of years ago for £4.5million. I don't know how much prices were affected by Noel's story of driving it at 186MPH in the nude