Shite Postcards

[chaseracer]

Next time you travel via Ouisterham give me a shout

 

Will do, Keith.  Aiming to do the D-day beaches this year.

[adw1977]

More postcards of French shite to bore you with.

I've no idea of why this one is a postcard:

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Not just the postcard - the stamp shows the same building!

 

Apparently Rob Mallet-Stevens was a French architect and the postcard shows Rue Mallet-Stevens in Paris.

[Junkman]

I have no idea why this is a postcard.

 

 

Looks like they frisk some English.

[chaseracer]

Tagora bottom left ?

 

Solara.

 

 

[Junkman]

Borgward Isabella pick up in Punta del Este, Uruguay

 

 

 

Agram, Austria Zagreb, Yugoslavia Croatia awash with GM chod.

 

 

Looks like two Rekord P2, an A Rekord and a 1956 Chevrolet 210 four door sedan.

[Junkman]

Hazebrouck ca 1982. There's a Dolly Sprint.

 

 

Imagine how many Simcas would have been parked there just ten years earlier.

How could they fuck this up so badly?

[Spottedlaurel]

Lots of R5s there. Mk1 Escort vaguely of note amongst the French stuff.

[Junkman]

Interestingly there are at least four C Kadetts representing Germany, but only one VW.

[Spottedlaurel]

Also an early R4 on the bottom right, and a commercial version without windows in the C-pillars?

[chaseracer]

Dyane, front and centre.  Merveilleux.

[Junkman]

Yeah, and you'd probably could have bought it for 250 FF TTC.

[chaseracer]

Also an early R4 on the bottom right, and a commercial version without windows in the C-pillars?

 

R3, believe it or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4

[Junkman]

Is it only me who thinks the R6 was quite a flop?

You hardly see any even on contemporary pics.

[pshome]

Let's go shopping in Stockholm

[pshome]

Parking spaces used to be larger, 3 cars can fit in two spots, try that today.

What is the black one at the very right next to white 404?

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Jaguar Mark II? Also a Spitfire a few cars along that row.

[RayMK]

I also thought Jag Mk2, but there's another perhaps lesser known black car next to a black 404 a couple of rows higher in the photo.  I reckon that one could be a Simca Ariane or possibly a Simca Vedette.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This is how I love my shite postcards. Artificial colouring - check.Awash with Autoshite - check.Backdrop is Archishite - check.Exotic location - check. (It's Essen, if you need to know)Something politically incorrect going on - check (Note the cigar shop)  When you could have an ice cream and a beer next to a Pfaff sewing machines shop in Lainate (Milan).Note angular Ford not being as angular as the Lancia in front of it.Also, there is an NSU Prinz 4 parked further down the street.   A proper car and a very fast A Kadett are parked at the railway station in Aulnoye.   This one is just marvelously shite. 

Looks like the hipster selling coffee out of a Citroen H van outside a station is not a modern phenomenon then.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Edsel front & centre in Stockholm, plus a mk2 consul & possibly zodiac

[RayMK]

Renault 6s rare (Mr Junkman)?  They sold at least one - it's next to the Citroen H van  .

[Junkman]

I also thought Jag Mk2, but there's another perhaps lesser known black car next to a black 404 a couple of rows higher in the photo.  I reckon that one could be a Simca Ariane or possibly a Simca Vedette.

 

The car of the card for me is the 17m Badewanne Turnier 4th row 3rd from right.

Talk about hens teeth.

[Spottedlaurel]

Anything interesting/unusual in either of these?

 

 

La Place du Palais, Monaco. Sent to an address in Le Havre on 20 June 1964. Some sort of Rootes-mobile at the top, by the wall?

 

 

Not a lot of non-Italian stuff here in Milan. A couple of Americans, a Beetle and maybe the odd Opel?

 

[Junkman]

The third car in the right row of the B&W card is a Borgward Hansa 2400, which I suggest was special even back then.

There is also a Borgward in the Milan postcard, a Hansa 1500.

Note that only two cars sport whitewalls, the green Opel Kapitän and a dark Fiat 1100/103 in the upper right corner.

[mercrocker]

Le Havre Rootes chod (next to the DS)  looks like a Mk VII/MkVIII Minx convertible.   There is the arse end of a '56 Ford wagon in the bottom right hand corner and a 2cv pickup just right of the centre of the card 

[skoda_fan]

Did they ever make a pick-up? I may be wrong but I think it's a van.

 

Continental Europe seemed much more foreign and exotic in those days. I spent some time in France and Germany in the 70's and the cars were totally different to the norm here. I knew a guy who ran a Mini van in France at the time..it seemed very exotic amongst all the 2CVs and R4s. Just wish I'd taken a few pics.

[omegod]

Loving these old cards, are they used ?  there must be some proper random stuff written on them if so

[Frogchod]

Did they ever make a pick-up? I may be wrong but I think it's a van.Continental Europe seemed much more foreign and exotic in those days. I spent some time in France and Germany in the 70's and the cars were totally different to the norm here. I knew a guy who ran a Mini van in France at the time..it seemed very exotic amongst all the 2CVs and R4s. Just wish I'd taken a few pics.

Yep, that's a van. 2cv pickups were made at Citroens factory in Slough though. Four door pickups were also made in Argentina.

[Frogchod]

Mr Junkman in "finds shop open in France" shocker.

Goes in to buy fags and postcards with R6's on them.

R sixeses here:

[chaseracer]

Le Havre Rootes chod (next to the DS)  looks like a Mk VII/MkVIII Minx convertible.   There is the arse end of a '56 Ford wagon in the bottom right hand corner and a 2cv pickup just right of the centre of the card 

 

What's the RHD two-tone job in the rightmost row?

[Spottedlaurel]

What's the RHD two-tone job in the rightmost row?

 

Next to the Borgward Junkman mentioned? Very well-spotted that it's RHD, maybe an Austin A90?