Shite Postcards

[FakeConcern]

Spotted on display at the De La Warr Pavilion

 

 

[Junkman]

Holland, Kingdom of Shite.

In this case, it's Noordwijk aan Zee.

 

 

There isn't a thing in this card I wouldn't would.

Note especially the rare Rallye (sic) B Kadett up by the zebra crossing.

[mercrocker]

There's an example of the other type of Kadett B Coupe there too.    Noice.

[Spottedlaurel]

BMW '02s appear to be popular.

 

What's the white coupe with twin round rear lights, just behind the lamp post? I don't think Opel GT or Mazda R100, possibly Fiat or SImca?

[chaseracer]

Viva HA, front row...?

[mercrocker]

BMW '02s appear to be popular.

 

What's the white coupe with twin round rear lights, just behind the lamp post? I don't think Opel GT or Mazda R100, possibly Fiat or SImca?

 

It is an Opel GT.....

[Junkman]

Algiers.

 

 

How did they manage to buy cars from the French?

[pshome]

Algiers.

 

 

How did they manage to buy cars from the French?

leboncoin?

[pshome]

[AlabamaShrimp]

Do any of these postcards have stuff written on them or are they pics taken from random sites?

[pshome]

i pick them usually from this site:

https://www.delcampe.net/en_GB/collectables/postcards/

[Junkman]

I pick them mostly from my stash, but they are all unused.

[Junkman]

leboncoin?

 

I would have noticed by now if it was possible to buy a car that way.

[pshome]

I would have noticed by now if it was possible to buy a car that way.

 

it is possible, did it twice. Try to sell there, then it gets funny, some samples:

 

- i have no internet, please phone me on +234xxx. No

- i would like to buy your car, can i make a suggestion for the price. Yes (never heard anything again)

- can i pay by cheque. No

- do you accept cheques. No

- would it be ok to send you a cheque for the payment. No

- Could you wait for my cheque until next week. No

- i will pay you by mandat postale tommorrow. No

- can you deliver the car to Marseille, i will pay you instantly by cheque when you arrive. No.

- I am abroad, me and my wife decided to buy, do you accept a mandat postale.  No

[Junkman]

My nerves!

 

Have a fucking postcard instead.

 

 

That's probably one of the countries were above mentioned offers are from.

 

Note ADO and R. I mean, 16.

[Spottedlaurel]

I tried to buy a big stash of postcards from the local auctions on Friday. Probably the equivalent of 6-7 shoeboxes' full, and every time dug out a few I found ones with good car content and the quantity of ones with bright blue skies suggested there would have been many more from the right era. Guide price of £25-30, I stuck in a commission bid of £40, but they ended up going for £110!

 

Pity, they'd have kept me busy over winter but I probably already have enough 'in stock' to occupy me for a while yet.

 

I've forgotten what cards I've posted on here, apologies if this is a repeat.

 

The Square, St Annes on Sea old postcard 1960s by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[pshome]

My nerves!

 

Have a fucking postcard instead.

 

 

That's probably one of the countries were above mentioned offers are from.

 

Note ADO and R. I mean, 16.

 

Nice find, i did stay at the Akwa a number of times, very decent hotel. Ecobank across the road was one of my customers.

[Junkman]

Do you by any chance know where these are from? I guess Algiers, but I'm not sure and can't read the imprints.

 

 

 

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Not Norfolk. Or even Suffolk.

[pshome]

First is mosquée de la Kasbah, Tunis.

Second is Abidjan, (ex) Librairie de France corner of Avenue Chardy and Rue Leceur

Third looks like Dakar,  but not sure.

Round Hilton tower is Nairobi

[Spottedlaurel]

Tunis, of course. Even I should have recognised the red and white taxi from a card I have:

 

Tunis, Tunisia postcard 1950s/60s? by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[Junkman]

Back on the correct Continent, this is Torremolinos when Spain was a dictatorship without a Hitler.

 

 

The chap sitting in front of Pedro's bar has an impeccable taste in trousers.

[chaseracer]

Not Norfolk. Or even Suffolk.

 

Last one's Birmingham.

[mitsisigma01]

Mr mercrocker "The cruise terminal is now a shed such as you might find on a mushroom farm but God only knows what now lurks at the Polygon. Like I say, I never go there now....."

 

Apparently student accommodation

[Junkman]

Last one's Birmingham.

 

Nah, there aren't any mosques in the pic.

[adw1977]

Do any of these postcards have stuff written on them or are they pics taken from random sites?

The Dublin one that I posted on the previous page is a genuine used in 1965 postcard that an eBay seller randomly used as stiffener to post me a completely unrelated item.

[Junkman]

No idea:

 

 

Still no idea:

 

 

Oh dear:

 

 

The last one is game crossing Kenya style.

[pshome]

First Izmir, Bayramyeri clock tower

 

second Marrakech, Hotel El Maghreb

 

third... animatronics at Tokyo Disneyland.

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

I pick them mostly from my stash, but they are all unused.

Aww shame I like the random stuff they put on them.

 

Thanks ks for the link above the quoted post. Spent ages on there already.

[Spottedlaurel]

If I upload a sent card on Flickr I usually try and add the message to my description, gives a bit of context. That’s on the basis that I can make out the handwriting and/or it’s in English. I have quite a few cards which appear to have been sent from various Eastern Bloc countries to a German person/family living in England and they’re beyond me….