Andrew353w

Away on holiday in Norfolk I spotted this beauty in Cley:

Seen on the Great North Road (that's the A1 to younger ones...) in Barnet on Saturday. It really was in excellent condition!

I'll try to patrol the area occasionally and report back......

You're right! After reading your post I popped down to that location & took these pictures. Oddly, I returned home to find a U.L.E.Z. debate taking place on the "Talking Politics" programme. Several London boroughs (although Barnet was not one of them!) are refusing permission for the cameras to be erected. To date these are: Sutton (Lib-Dem) Bromley, Hillingdon, Bexley and Harrow (I don't know the political complexion of them) so it's not all "plain sailing" for the Mayor. As a tangent to this discussion, all the commentators agreed that London's air needs to be cleaned up (no dispute there!) but they also all conflated "older" cars with "higher polluting" which is not necessarily the case. I refuse to accept that a 1 litre 05 reg Micra pollutes more than my 10 reg Subaru, but the U.L.E.Z. says otherwise....

Oops! Thanks for that!

Early Devon registered Austin Se7en that must have travelled quite a bit to have ended up in Preston, or have I missed something?

Hadley Highstone, Near Barnet. I had a chat with the owner-quite a character!

Just found copy on Amazon-thanks!

I've a copy of this very "Autocar" magazine, which includes the report of the run. Fascinating to read and a superb example of how "have a go" guys used to tackle what would appear to today's audience to be insuperable obstacles!

A very early Skoda Octavia, evidenced by the horizontal strip along the radiator grille. This was deleted from about 1960, so this one had been on the road for quite some time!

It is!

I FIXED THAT DAF! I'm glad to see it running!

The car between the two Simcas is a Daf 750 Daffodil (type 30) and the one from which the name was derived. If you look closely it's just possible to see the indicator on the corner nearest the photographer. This, coupled with the sloping bonnet and horizontal chrome strips made the front look like a crocodile. This was joined with the manufacturer's name, resulting in.... "Daffodil"!

An amazing picture! A policeman on point duty (who has ever seen that?) wearing no high-visibility clothing, but carrying a flaming torch! Cars all around, none of which have their headlamps on, and no doubt with fuel pipes that weep slightly....... Health and safety would have a fit, but, as they weren't around, no-one worried themselves and everyone muddled through. Result-we managed!

This thread's beginning to spook me.... Not content with showing a picture close to my former place of work in Edmonton, earlier, this is a picture of Gipsy Lane, Grays, which I recognise as being tantalisingly close to the industrial estate in Grays, where a branch of the trailer rental company T.I.P. were based, for whom I briefly worked in the late 1980s. Has someone access to my private life?

I worked in Edmonton Fore Street, just round the corner from here in the early 1980s; I drove a Ford Escort as the time...... but that's not it! As an aside, one day a member of Autoshite is going to spot their own (or, more likely, their parents'!) car in one of these pictures!

The Mk 2 Cortina's great and the Golf convertible parked next to the B.M.W. are at the end of my road! That Golf's been sitting there since we moved in..... that was 2006!

And I claim my £5!

Are you thinking Hillman Super Minx or a Humber Sceptre? The rear window looked raked to me, a la Ford Consul and Anglia, but I'm not sure....

I'd say it's a Sunbeam Stiletto; a luxury Hillman Imp, with 4 headlights. The bonnet line looks like there are 2 headlights on the near-side.

Brilliantly atmospheric picture! My money's on the rear of a Ford Consul Classic centre stage.....

Lovin' that old Skoda Favorit!

Original Skoda Octavia-Winner!!

Haverhill Station, Suffolk. Used by Shell to promote their fuels.

May I ask if you know where this was taken? The railway bridge has been widened at some stage, as one can see the inner arched bridge and the newer girder one in front of it. The very pretty little Fiat 500 has a London number, but that doesn't mean too much!