Shite slides from 60s & 70s UPDATE page 2

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I liberated some slides from a skip saturday morning, so i scanned the relevant shite spottings.......

 

The three UK cars featured in the slides all last until the mid-eighties:

The vehicle details for BKG 934L are:

Date of Liability 31 08 1984

Date of First Registration 27 10 1972

Year of Manufacture Not Available

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2000cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour RED

 

The vehicle details for MBB 654L are:

Date of Liability 01 05 1984

Date of First Registration 07 02 1973

Year of Manufacture Not Available

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1798cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour GOLD

 

The vehicle details for JGR 440N are:

Date of Liability 01 09 1984

Date of First Registration 19 03 1975

Year of Manufacture 1975

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1565cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour PURPLE

 

but dvla has no trace of the Marina

 

lovely platforms and flairs

 

and the others, in no particular order

is that shades from saturday shake up?

a pair of Zed cars

 

oh and some more flairs

[scooters]

Great save

 

What a shame they ended up in a skip. The kids would probably be in their late 40s now.

 

Brings back memories

 

Those blue tents look like Canvas Holidays ones the spoiled young scooters spent many a July sleeping in one being driven around europe by the late Pops Scooters in firstly a DS Safari then a MK4 cortina estate then a 245 dl and latterly a BX 17TZD and lastly his uber rare BX19 tzd turbo estate

 

Those blue and orange bbeach umbrellas came as part of the tent equipment and enabled you to identify fellow middle class britons on the beach...well until ch stated flogging holidays to the dutch but the dutch are as close to briton as you get I and all speak english so you could still discuss which cave sold the cheapest local gutrot plonk and the young scooters took advantage of the strapping blonde large breasted daughters who not only went topless on the beach but shared the pudding if you get my drift....

 

Phwoarrr......bit of a Carry on Camping moment thee!

[Guest]

 

Bet it was a brave man ( or Woman ) who took that Mini further than the end of their own road Are they being strangled in the back of it?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

We did Canvas Holidays in France in the 1970's when I was a nipper. Packed the Escort Mexico or Capri S with gear and off we went. Driving on the wrong side of the roade, signs saying 'Toutes Directions', "Centre Ville' etc and of course other Brits in Maxis, Marinas, Cortinas and so forth. Before the hell of Centreparcs, holidaymakers would pack stuff into cars and explore Europe - smelly cheese, Carrefour Hypermarkets (how big were they!!?) and for car mad nippers like me, all these weird Citroens, yellow headlights and stuff like that. On the return to Cherbourg, you used to see loads of British scrappers relieved of number plates and dumped so that the owners could go back as foot passengers and save £££ - I recall a Rover 2000, a sixties Rapier and a Mark 1 Mini Van with the wheels removed. British scum!

We used to go for the last 2 weeks in July so that when we got back, the new registration letter would be out and it was a competition to spot the first one - I spotted a T plate Chrysler Sunbeam in August 1978 and won.

Foreign driving holidays in the seventies were certainly character building.

[Mash]

These are brilliant. Good save, thanks for sharing

[andrew e]

Call me a sex-pest, but how great is this beachfront snap! is that a boutique Renault 4?

 

[scooters]

We did Canvas Holidays in France in the 1970's when I was a nipper. Packed the Escort Mexico or Capri S with gear and off we went. Driving on the wrong side of the roade, signs saying 'Toutes Directions', "Centre Ville' etc and of course other Brits in Maxis, Marinas, Cortinas and so forth. Before the hell of Centreparcs, holidaymakers would pack stuff into cars and explore Europe - smelly cheese, Carrefour Hypermarkets (how big were they!!?) and for car mad nippers like me, all these weird Citroens, yellow headlights and stuff like that. On the return to Cherbourg, you used to see loads of British scrappers relieved of number plates and dumped so that the owners could go back as foot passengers and save £££ - I recall a Rover 2000, a sixties Rapier and a Mark 1 Mini Van with the wheels removed. British scum!

We used to go for the last 2 weeks in July so that when we got back, the new registration letter would be out and it was a competition to spot the first one - I spotted a T plate Chrysler Sunbeam in August 1978 and won.

Foreign driving holidays in the seventies were certainly character building.

 

Flying is such hell just now I would always rather drive. The missus is difficult about it but she did concede to perhaps take a mobile home with us.

 

I would rather stick a large rusty wiper arm up my jap's eye than contemplate centre parks

[eddyramrod]

These are lush! Fancy chucking out all your old memories like this. Back in the 60s we camped, but never outside the British mainland. First with tents, later caravans. The 10-foot Sprite 400 looked a trifle odd when our Corsair 1500 was replaced by a new Mk3 Zephyr, as I recall, but was itself swiftly replaced by a 12-foot Sprite Alpine which looked much more at home. I must have some photos of those days, if I find them I'll scan some in.

[Wilko220]

What a fantastic collection - how 70s can you get! Great save

[Negative Creep]

By saving from a skip you mean they are just some random person's photos?

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yes

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

By saving from a skip you mean they are just some random person's photos?

I bought a huge collection of slides which were headed to the skip. I couldn't bring myself to throw photographs out, even ones of strangers. I posted some of them on here, although I didn't have as many great car ones as A5.

 

Daft thing is old slides sell for decent money on eBay now, so there's even less excuse to skip them.

[wackywacerwill]

Great pics, great hat.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Flying is such hell just now I would always rather drive. The missus is difficult about it but she did concede to perhaps take a mobile home with us.

 

I would rather stick a large rusty wiper arm up my jap's eye than contemplate centre parks

 

 

Me too. The Holiday began the minute you squeezed into the back of the car next to the suitcases, and really got into gear when you rolled onto the ferry. The places you went through to get to the South of France was what really made these holidays. I drove to Munich a year or three back, and on the way there we did the whole of France including Fort Vaux at Verdun and a very nice lunch stop in Reims. The very thought of missing all of that to save a day or two is unthinkable to me.

It's a bit like folks flying to Inverness to go on holiday in the Highlands - the whole sodding point is that the drive there up on the A82 is so spectacular.

[keef]

Nice work!

[trigger]

Is that Trigger just driving out of shot on the left?

I'm unsure as there is no visible christmas jumper.

 

VINTAGE TRIG IZ PAPPED.

 

Great scans A5, Like Eddy said though, Sad that they had been just binned like that.

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Is that Trigger just driving out of shot on the left?

I'm unsure as there is no visible christmas jumper.

 

VINTAGE TRIG IZ PAPPED.

 

Great scans A5, Like Eddy said though, Sad that they had been just binned like that.

 

i pick slides and old photos up all the time, rarely do they contain in shite related stuff. i cant believe people throw them away, but they do. I was at a market last week and a tip-owner had picture frames for sale on his stall. most of them still had photos in, babies, children's school photos, wedding photos etc - strange what some people throw away

[keef]

most of them still had photos in, babies, children's school photos, wedding photos etc - strange what some people throw away

 

You ever watch that TV program - Life of Grime?

 

People die without relatives, marriages break up, people are admitted to mental institutions.

 

Life throws some hard balls sometimes.

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

marriages broke up because people bought the Austin 1100 / 1300 cars and were then admitted to mental institutions.

 

Life throws some rusty subframes sometimes.

 

E.F.A

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fresh slides i picked up sunday morning

slides from america, africa, rhodes, spain, germany, austria and the Uk

its amazing what shite you can find when you zoom in a little

 

This man loves his merc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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eh up he's pulled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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last lot

 

 

 

 

 

ignore the big fishy thing, check out the parking lot

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gricer]

Amazing how many flashbacks someone else's holiday snaps can bring.... Seat 600s in Spain. Townsend Thoresen Ferries. Those chromed European touring coaches. Muscle memories of 70s holidays, all of them...

[scooters]

Amazing how many flashbacks someone else's holiday snaps can bring.... Seat 600s in Spain. Townsend Thoresen Ferries. Those chromed European touring coaches. Muscle memories of 70s holidays, all of them...

 

 

too right Gricer - I would go further and say that it is the content of the landscape that brings the memories back rather than the lansdscape itself.

 

When I was a nipper in the mid 70's we went on 3 holidays to Llafranc in Catalonia - it's part of the municipality of Palafrugell, a town some 40km east of Gerona - on all 3 occasions we drove - once in a DS Safari, secondly in a Mk IV Cortina GL Estate, lastly in a Volvo 245 DL. To save money we kept off the autoroutes and instead used the Routes National - remember the big green arrows Toutes Directions.

 

Anyway, in 2007 and 2009 we took our nipers to the area and stayed in Llafranc and Caellla de Palafrugell, the vilage next to it. I recognised the place obviously but could not remember what it was really like. For instance the square hads been given a 90's makeover and some poncey rush style large sun shades installed. It was only when I stumbled on a load of pics of the 70's holidays at Mums that it all came back to me - there was the same square, only this time there were loads of bars in the square all with the sort of parasols you get in B&Q and loads of cheap garden furntiture - now its all a lot more upmarket. Gone as well were the cheesey omlette bars and icecream cafes I remember - now there are a series of (very good) up market restaurants - it's almost as if the place has matured as we have grown older - to cater for us now.

 

It only came to me that it is not the landscapes and scenary but the content, the cars, clothes, colours, street signs. Problem these days is with global brands all this ends up looking similar and the distinction between countries is no longer there - it was great seeing the exotic French tin and the mad Italian revvys and the strange Spanish knock offs -

 

I suppose with Europe falliung apart we'll all get far more resentful and isolated from our foreign neighbours, we'll get another World War followed by a few decades of excellent european chod...

 

I really must stop drinking in the mornings!

[PaykanHunter]

I liberated some slides from a skip saturday morning, so i scanned the relevant shite spottings.......

 

I knew I would find at least one Hunter!

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fresh slides dipped from a skip this morning

some of them are a bit under exposed, i have attempted to clean them up a bit, but then they go grainy.

 

you may need to zoom out slightly to see the whole image

 

maximum shite points for the owner of these slides, he owned a selection of 70s cars including;

 

 

 

 

and this;

 

 

 

 

there will be other pics of the escrot , but i have about a thousand slides to look at,

so i ll add the rest in the order they were scanned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

don't know what, or where, this is;

 

plane shite

 

 

 

 

 

more to follow shortly

[eddyramrod]

FD Victor Estate! I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurve that shape! How I'd like to find one of those when I return... I'd even consider it with a DIY gearbox, that says something!

[HillmanImp]

These are great. I have never noticed this thread before. I would love it if one of the families found it on here.

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These are great. I have never noticed this thread before. I would love it if one of the families found it on here.

 

that would be good

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more to follow

[retrogeezer]

These are just great aren't they! I took photos of slides my dad took in Australia & New Zealand in the 60's a few weeks back, will post a link to them tomorrow.

 

This is Windsor in case anyone was wondering....and and I think the one 3 pics above it is also Windsor.