Shite Postcards

[chaseracer]

^^ A 142, no less... 

[Junkman]

Auch:

 

 

 

Aulnay-sous-Bois - look at that petrol station!

 

 

 

You could buy an R16, a McCulloch lawnmower, a Mobylette and get pissed within 30 yards in Aumale:

 

 

 

Two (!) R Sixes in Aumont-Aubrac:

 

 

 

NSU Prinz, Mini and an Amazon in Avignon:

 

[Junkman]

Rear engined cars don't appear to do too well in Andorra:

 

[Junkman]

This is in Belgium, but I don't know where:

 

[Junkman]

The Parliament in Dakar:

 

[Junkman]

I found a few more from Andorra.

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

I have no idea where these are from:
 

 

 

 


 

And I would like to know what's heading for Venice here:

 

[RayMK]

What is the black two door saloon in the first one, which is making the GS behave like a scared cat?

 

Can't help with the ferry to Venice, but I am really enjoying these continental motoring scenes from 40-60 years ago.  The only old postcard I've got is a 1980s reprint of a much earlier postcard - Isle of Wight and all pre-WW2 cars.  I'll add it later when found.

[Junkman]

Do you mean in Agon-Coutainville? The black car sneaking into the pic from the right? Behind the white R6?
 
I think it's one of those:
 

 

[pshome]

This is in Belgium, but I don't know where:

 

 

This is at Kooigem they have the greasiest "Fritures" of all Belgium, i am sure the postcard still drips oil.

https://beeldbank.kortrijk.be/erfgoed/index.php/image/watch/a44a1e41982f4264aed977c89a1794e8f77cd6d20f6f4bdd882482b6f4e433dfq0e52k6fsa74u7jsqiloovikm2xszfpb?s=5a83387ea8c32&c=3&tab=objectlocation

[RayMK]

Do you mean in Agon-Coutainville? The black car sneaking into the pic from the right? Behind the white R6?

 

I think it's one of those:

 

 

 

 

'Liked' because I had not realised that you'd posted more before the one I was referring to - which I might have missed entirely if you hadn't suggested the Audi which I could not remember seeing anywhere.

 

The saloon that I can't identify is on the first postcard, bottom left, of post number 618.

[Junkman]

Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint.

[pshome]

I have no idea where these are from:

 

 

 

 

 

Vibraye

Ronce les Bains

Sète

Grimaldi

 

don't you have something challenging?

[martc]

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Unlike the rest of Europe where many were shut 'for the duration'.

[RayMK]

Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint.

 

Yes! I've never seen one from that angle before.....and only ever seen one in the flesh. Books tend to picture them at ground level.

[Junkman]

 

Vibraye

Ronce les Bains

Sète

Grimaldi

 

don't you have something challenging?

 

 

Nope.

 

Now identify the cars going Veniceward. And I don't mean the obvious ones, like the Ardea, Traction and Fiat 1100.

I think this is a batch of special bodied cars going to an exhibition.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The Triumph in Armentieres is the far more upmarket 1300, possibly a TC from the badge on the wing.

[Junkman]

I found one of them - 1950 Fiat 1400 by Carrozzeria Boneschi:

 

 

[pshome]

The convertible has the same dashboard with the two center dials and the big knob in the middle as the 1952 Lancia B52 Aurelia PF200 Spider, but its not one. So whatever this car is, Pinin stole the dials from it for the PF200.

 

http://fristcenter.org/misc/1952-lancia-b52-aurelia-pf200-spider

 

 

 

[Junkman]

I'm a bit at a loss. I know this won't let me sleep tonight.

 

Given the Boneschi Fiat, I hazard a guess it's 1950 and there is a car show going on in Venice.

The cars in the left row are all show cars. So are the two poking their noses into the pic from the bottom.

They have strong Ghia overtones, no? The right one could well be a Ferrari 195 Inter.

The cabriolet with the two large instruments is very Pinin Farina, don't you think?

[Junkman]

The shooting brake's tailgate treatment makes me guess Frua, possibly on a Lancia Aprilia chassis.

[pshome]

1950 - yes

Cabrio ver Pinin - yes

car show in Venice ??? never heard of such

tbc

[Junkman]

Well, I think I found out where the cars are going.

 

[pshome]

at front of left lane is a Zagato Fiat Topolino 750

 

http://www.coachbuild.com/2/index.php/encyclopedia/coachbuilders-models/item/zagato-fiat-topolino-750-mm-1949

[Junkman]

Woah.

[pshome]

convertible steering wheel is Fiat?

https://twitter.com/ItaliAuto/status/956854589608857606

[Junkman]

I'm pretty sure the cabrio is a Fiat. It's smaller than the 1400, so 1100?

[dozeydustman]

Could only find one of my home town (Gravesend, Kent) but it features the arse end of a BMC product

 

[dozeydustman]

Scouring t'interwebs has revealed this beauty

 

 

 

[Junkman]

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...

 

 

I'm not convinced that Pooshow wasn't nicked in the Bundesrepublik as well.

 

Note Bundes DIN 1451 fonts:

 

 

 

Bundes Talbot Spiegel:

 

 

 

 

And the plates were proudly silver on black at the time in La Grande Republique.