MrRegieRitmo Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I know that because my mate Nigel (who knows everyting /Everyone) tells me you're a great bunch of young lads !!! Oh Nigel! Mr N.B: the tat-meister (or should that be tat-master??) He's a good judge of character. We love him too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Ok, scanned a few more. All these, again, taken on the streets of Bangor:Start with a couple of shots of one of the car parks, taken from the Zoology lab windows.My Cortina visible in the bottom corner of this shot.Light 15Another Pop. Fantastically shitey VanguardMG Magnette ZB I mentioned earlier the surprising No of old Vauxhauls in Bangor:-Wonderful 3 window versionRecall seeing this on a few occasions. Amazing! looks pretty well done too. I just HAVE to include this shot, for it's comedy value. This is a fellow resident of the student house, who REALLY loved himself to bits!! He insisted I take this pic of him on 007 mode, with a target shooting air pistol and the Toyota Crown Coupe. Hope he's not out their somewhere browsing this forum!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volksy Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Fantastically shitey VanguardArmstrong Siddeley I beleive.. I'd love to smoke around in that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 I stand corrected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 My Cortina visible in the bottom corner of this shot. Excellent shot! R4 F4, GS break & Fiat 850 for me please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUNO Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 what do I say about the Jaguar Royce. Love it but ??? I just about works and must have been a major job. Did he pick up a coupe of wrecks ? would YOU want to be seen driving it?forget your marriage 55bloke and just keep on posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I wish I'd had a camera when I was a nipper. Remember seeing V8 Mk1 Escorts (with huge tail-lights), Moggy Minors likewise and a Mini with a Merc W114 front end!Ace shots. Loving the Dyane and GS break in one of the shots - and how many BMC 1100s?!And yes, it is an Armstrong Siddeley. Lancaster I think (how's that for a patriotic, immediately post-war name?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 that Jag/Roller has always intrigued me. Looks like the front, forward of the A post, is all RR (it looks to me like the distance between the A post and the wheel arch is longer than a standard Jag, so looks like MAJOR surgery) but how did he make it fit so well? Just had a closer look at the car park pic, and looks like the Cortina is a 2 door, so can't be mine!! Well, it is over 35 years ( ) since I took them, so plz forgive the memory lapse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 That Jagroyce has me LOLLING all over the floor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 that Jag/Roller has always intrigued me. Looks like the front, forward of the A post, is all RRDunno, the front end looks a bit odd - front panel too shallow?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycox Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 As self-appointed chief DVLA looker-upper I can officially announce that of the ones I could make the plates out on the only one left on the road is......................................................................... The MG Magnette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycox Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Oh and why isn't Armstrong Siddeley in the drop-down box thing on the DVLA site? Especially as it's hard to spell and theres loads on there that nobody's ever heard of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Ace photos Dave - great thread. Jaguar Royce is cleverly done. I just wish I knew why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reallyloud Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Asides from the excellent content, they're very good photos. What sort of camera did you use? There's a lot of call for bygone images of everyday scenes these days - remember the feverish responses to the 1985 car park images on here? These sort of things sell - got to be worth looking into it - maybe a book of something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Interesting thought Datsun! Might look into that, though I'm not sure where to start! I've always been seriously into photography, and I think back then I had a Practika SLR with a 135mm lens. It's amazing how the advent of digital has made photographers out of everyone. I've attended air shows and car shows (you should see the collection of slides I have from them!!) since I was about 15, and back then you'd see a few people with SLRs and a few more with Instamatics. At similar events these days, EVERYONE is toting a digital camera, and a good half of them are pretty serious kit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain-328i Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Hey wonder if u know my parents then (unlikely).They were both in Bangor uni at exactly the same time as you by the sounds of it! However they both study teaching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 There were a lot of students of course, and not a great deal of mixing between "the arts" and "the sciences" but no doubt our paths crossed in the Union Bar or maybe one of the student pubs. Who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain-328i Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Was there another college or Uni in Bangor at the time? Maybe a teaching college? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Was there another college or Uni in Bangor at the time? Maybe a teaching college?Quite likely the same one my mum went to in the mid sixties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUNO Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Just for fun I totted up how many of the makes in this thread had been owned by family and friends. came up to 28..my bro in law even had an armstrong siddley whittley my dads first NEW car was a 1952 prefect which he must have disliked because it was replaced by a velox 12 months later.my first..a 1939 prefect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 So, did Armstrog Siddley name many of it's post war cars after RAF bombers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 Armstrong Siddley very proud of their aviation links so yes you had the Lancaster, Typhoon and Hurricane. And, from the post above, Whitley. Possibly the least likely 'plane to name a car after being, slow, obsolete, and a death trap!! Though, of course, it was made by Armstong Whitworth, so I guess the link was obvious, and it's shortcoming something not admited to at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Car in the shadows is a Triumph Renown I think. Great pics!The lights look too big for a Renown I reckon and the grille looks a bit Packard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Right, been doing a bit more scanning! More pics from Bangor:- This is, I beleive, a '54 Chrysler New Yorker. Wonderful beast!!Mk 1 Consul convertableI'd have killed for this back then, and still would!!Closest I got was this!! A '65 4-door Delux, with a GT engine and box. This is where it was parked when it was rear-ended by some pillock who didn't bother to stop.I absolutely LOVED being here!!! That's all I've scanned from my Bangor archive, but there could well be more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 However, I've been looking at some old holiday pics too. These were taken in Spain (Estartit) in '72:-I remember these SO well- we always called them Yellow Perils.In those days, I didn't have a proper telephoto lens, just a 3 X converter which fitted between the camera body and it's standard lens. Quality not great.And it sure DOES rain in Spain!!But it's usually sunny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Wow! Funny weelarches on the Yellow Peril.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55bloke Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Not as funny as they look- pic isn't good enough quality to show that they're rivited-on extensions for wide wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 However, I've been looking at some old holiday pics too.Wow - now that's more like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Love the J4 camper by the sea with GB plates, btw do you snap at this location often, it was your favourite shop window admit it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 My mum was round earlier so I showed her this thread. She recognised this as College Road maybe? Obviously most of the pictures have little to identify places for non-car people My dad (and the friend who I'm in touch with) finished there in '68. I might send a few of the more unusual cars (eg Armstrong Siddley) to dad's freind and see if he remembers them at all. He was driving an Elan at the time - in fact he's still driving the same Elan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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