Shite Postcards

[pshome]

   There is the arse end of a '56 Ford wagon in the bottom right hand corner

This being in near France and a two tone job, it's more likely a Simca Marly.

[RayMK]

On Frogchod's second postcard (river with bridge), there's a Honda S800 on the waterfront in the viewing line of the head of the street lamp, just past the blue minibus.  The start of the Japanese invasion? 

[mercrocker]

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

 

Yep.  Short-arse Westy, colour scheme suggests it might be the short-lived  A105 version too.   Owner must have been a bit rakish to have ordered those white walls, though...

[chaseracer]

Thought it looked Austin-ish.

 

Is that a mk1 Consul/Zephyr next to the Beetle at the far end of row 2?

[mercrocker]

yeah it does look Ford Mk1-ish....Mind you I thought that 2CV van was a pickup!

[Junkman]

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

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

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R sixeses here:

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Gauloises, Norevs and Heller kits!

[chaseracer]

2cv pickups were made at Citroens factory in Slough though...

 

...and used by the Royal Navy: http://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/slough/rn-pickup/pick-up.html

 

Most ended up on the seabed.

[Junkman]

Best place for them.

[chaseracer]

Philistine.

 

[Junkman]

Marjeh Square in Damascus.
 

 

 

 

By the mid Sixties, the septic chod had largely been replaced with German quality:
 

 

 

Now the German stuff is gone (I wonder why, I thought it never breaks and lasts forever)

and you can't park there anymore, of course.

 

[Junkman]

New York. Like York, but newer.
 

 


This is Renazé, just another one of those dreary French shitholes with closed shops.
 

 

 

Antibes avec d'une Rovaire:

 

 

 

 

Some natural colours in Abetone:

 

[chaseracer]

Nice example of kinetic parking on that Pujo cabrio...

[Junkman]

I'm just scanning another metric shitload of cards, predominantly French (99% of the cards you get here are French).

Are you folks even interested in that shit, or am I doing all this work for the birds?

[mercrocker]

You can do it for the birds as well but goddamn yes we are interested.   Yellow headlamps FTW.

[binbag]

Excellent stuff!

 

But I think the thread should be renamed "You can't park there anymore" lol

[Junkman]

I just find it weird that the more cars there are, the more they make places cars could park in into vast expanses of fuck all purpose whatsoever.

Who has an advantage? What are the benefits?

[Guest Hooli]

I just find it weird that the more cars there are, the more they make places cars could park in into vast expanses of fuck all purpose whatsoever.

Who has an advantage? What are the benefits?

 

It might* just be a coincidence that the same councils that ban all the parking are the ones running the car parks you have to pay to use. Anyone would think they've forgot they are public servants.

[Junkman]

Don't start the revolution without me!

[Junkman]

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

 

Most of the ones I buy are not used.

If they are, it's largely some drivel about the weather and that Tommy got himself a new pair of white socks and sandals.

It's rather disappointing really. I'd also have expected some tales about major piss ups and getting laid by mademoiselles,

buying some chod and coaxing it into life for the trip home, but sadly the general public always was disturbingly dull.

[Junkman]

La merde Japonnais is creeping into Agon-Coutainville, but it's still outnumbered by Rosbiff chod.

 

 

 

 

Some sophisticated animal torture is going on in Aigues-Mortes:

 

 

 

This is in Ainhoa, wherever that is.

 

 

 

There's not really a lot going on in Alencon.

 

 

[Junkman]

Allevard is PShome approved.

 

 

 

Amiens - Pont de Metz:

 

 

 

 

Amiens Archishite and Amazon:

 

 

 

I begin to understand where Norev got their inspiration for colours from:

 

 

[chaseracer]

Damascus, as earlier.  Note the oval West German export plates on the red Opel, and covering the Seine-Maritime originals on the blue 404.

 

Long way from the Bundesrepublik.  And Normandy...

 

[Junkman]

In Annonay some oldtimers are still stubbornly puttering around with their Force de Resistance tacots:

 

 

 

Remember when the doctor was the only one in town who had a car and wore a tie?

This is Anor.

I wouldn't want to imagine what its nightlife is like.

 

[Junkman]

Let's move on to Antibes.

 

Archishite and Cadillac:

 

 

 

Look at that poser what with his BMW:

 

 

 

Hence someone had to buy a bigger BMW:

 

 

 

Look, a Velosolex:

 

 

 

'59 Impala and '62 Caddy floppytops:

 

 

 

I always thought shops were open in France only between 1940 and 1944.

But that's a '56 Ford Sunliner there.

 

[mercrocker]

Renault Rodeo!

[Junkman]

Some British holidaymakers in Arcachon. I bet they brought their tinned beans with them.

 

 

 

Some crime is in progress:

 

 

 

Flags demonstrate holidaymakers from which country are expected.

 

 

 

Giulia Sprint Veloce!

 

[Junkman]

Look how discreetly my car is parked in Argeles-Gazost:

 

 

 

Argeles-Gazost is not to be confused with Argeles sur Mer, although I don't see la mer in this shite postcard:

 

 

 

But there is a Vauxhall:

 

 

And some gold quality Archishite:

 

 

B Kadett, A Manta and Cortina MKII:

 

[Junkman]

Argenteuil in Colour (why do they always forget to paint the headlights yellow?):

 

 

 

 

An UNIC in freezing Argentiere:

 

 

 

A Jaaaag in Argenton-sur-Creuse:

 

 

 

Kässbohrer Setra in Arles:

 

 

 

NSU Prinz and Triumph Toledo (?) in Armentieres:

 

 

 

Some people got onto the housing ladder in Arneke. I bet that 2CV is financed, too.

 

 

 

Phares jaunes in Arnouville les Gonesse:

 

 

 

Just look at that shithole:

 

 

 

Ovlov jaune:

 

[Junkman]

Les couleurs de Norev in Arpajon:

 

 

 

 

 

MG and Skoda in Arras:

 

 

 

A Brit in Arromanches

 

 

 

And a DKW:

 

[Junkman]

Jacques Tati would be delighted in Assevilliers.