Shite Postcards

[Junkman]

 

[mercrocker]

There are some rarities in the top card - what looks to be a RHD '46 Buick, A40 Somerset drophead (never a common sight on British roads) and the Phase 1 Vanguard behind the LD van appears, on closer inspection, to be a van converted with side windows rather than the factory station wagon.   I spy a Cowley too, behind the A40 Devon bottom right foreground.  Which means I need to find this postcard for my collection.....

[Spottedlaurel]

What’s the rather rakish-looking saloon just below the “Maypole†canopy?

[Junkman]

Jag MKIV

[Junkman]

[martc]

What’s the rather rakish-looking saloon just below the “Maypole†canopy?

 

Looks like Terry-Thomas has dropped into the Red Cow for a quick snifter and a flirt with the fillies. Ding Dong.

[Junkman]

Freistadt in that Austria.

 

[mercrocker]

Colours!

[flat4alfa]

I love the fishtanks on my Daimler 

[mercrocker]

Not as nice as Diana's fishbowl, though, I bet....

[flat4alfa]

Oops posted in wrong thread.  Dork

[flat4alfa]

Have a postcard, with added VX4/90 and Flavia Berlina action

 

 

[Junkman]

Where did they enhance the panorama so nicely with some stunning archishite?

[Tayne]

It's Waterford in Ireland.

 

 

 

 

[flat4alfa]

It certainly Is.  I thought about visiting such a quaint, picturesque place

 

But the modern day look is shite, so that's off.  They even knocked down the toilet block

[Junkman]

I thought it is a chapel.

[flat4alfa]

I just found out the toilet block used to have its very own proper two-storey tower annex

 

[mercrocker]

Even has a little door to load up coach luggage racks with....

[Junkman]

So they hated the English's guts, but loved their chod?

[mercrocker]

Well, aside from that Heinkel, they didn't have much of their own.....

[Junkman]

Yeah, but weren't they aware of the fact that countries other than the UK also made cars?

They seem to have finally woken up to it in the later of the two pics.

Besides, Ireland built surprisingly many cars, albeit mostly from imported CKD kits.

[flat4alfa]

* Searches for Shamrock postcard *

 

[flat4alfa]

So they hated the English's guts, but loved their chod?

 

Down there in the happier south-east, there wasn't anything like the level of gut-hating you'd find up on the northern border

 

From nearby Rosslare you could pop your Heinkel on the daily Sealink ferry to Fishguard or Pembrooke without fear.  

Mind you it would be a bit of a trip to get from Welsh to English soil in that screaming Heinkel

[Junkman]

I think I've shown you this one before.

 

Reit im Winkl, Germany

 

 

Junkpapa's R16 TX (sans rear spoiler, because TÃœV) is on it, which is quite an amazing coincidence,

since we hardly ever went to this tourist trap. In a further coincidence, I discoverd the card decades

later while being in the area on an assignment in a nearby cement factory.

[pompei]

on an assignment in a nearby cement factory.

 

Tell us more!

[flat4alfa]

...Junkman worked for the Viennese Cosa Nostra arm?  

[Junkman]

Material testing equipment.

 

[Junkman]

Steyr an der Enns, Austria:

 

 

[Junkman]

Lienz, Austria:

 

 

[mercrocker]

Yeah, but weren't they aware of the fact that countries other than the UK also made cars?

 

 

I have collected mid-century car photos for years and always been amazed at the amount of European shite that puttered around the Emerald Isle whilst us Brits fought shy of mis-pronouncing anything with rubber mats, FWD, rear engines or Michelin tyres....