A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

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The Bristol Post website has published a few photos showing the city in 1991.
Here are the ones with cars in them.
The first one is the British Aerospace site at Filton.

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By coincidence it was about 1991 when I had an XR3i, it felt like it was from Tomorrow’s World to me after minis, metro, cortinas, MGB etc.

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aeropilot said:

PomBstard said:

P5BNij said:

Scrump said:

The Bristol Post website has published a few photos showing the city in 1991.
Here are the ones with cars in them.
The first one is the British Aerospace site at Filton.



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The two Escorts at the front of the queue make the Beetle look positively acient. Brings back a memory from 1983 / 84 when I was living and working in London - during a quiet spell at work with my mate Dave 'Dianna' Dawes taking me for a spin in his Dad's then new XR3i, a quick blast down Old Oak Common Lane and a particularly hairy drive along the A40(M) into Paddington, long before any speed cameras appeared. The four hole alloys looked like something from 'Tomorrow's World' .

I reckon the Escort front right is an RS1600i - spots and fogs at the front, looks like Recaro headrests rather than A-frame on the front seats.

No, horizontal stripes on leading of bonnet, and the front air dam should be black on the RS, and a bit deeper, and shaped slightly differently.

It does seem to have black door mirrors (which I think the RS1600i had) whereas XR3i had body coloured door mirrors (at least mine did).
Edit: had a search on Google and the RS1600i had body coloured bumpers,as did the XR3i, so may not be either.

Edited by Scrump on Sunday 7th February 21:39

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