Shite Postcards

[RayMK]

My first reaction was it's an Opel.  Ford's Taunus models look similar at that distance but the side trim line should help identify it.

 

Just checked: Looks as though it's a 1956ish Opel Caravan (i.e. estate).

[pshome]

another one i dont know, what is the red one about to leave??

[RayMK]

DAF Daffodil/33

[pshome]

There is nothing old about the vieux port in Toulon. Another small car i dont know, black and white at right?

[RayMK]

Could be a Dyna Panhard special but not totally convinced yet.

[mercrocker]

Looks like another Deutsch-Bonnet HBR5.....

[mercrocker]

My first reaction was it's an Opel.  Ford's Taunus models look similar at that distance but the side trim line should help identify it.

 

Just checked: Looks as though it's a 1956ish Opel Caravan (i.e. estate).

 

Correct, "Caravan" version of the Olympia Rekord  - there is a saloon, 2nd from left on front row...

[RayMK]

Isle of Wight in the 1930s.  The postcard was bought in the 1980s, so probably based on an old negative or an original old postcard. 

 

[pshome]

So here we are in Budapest, where there is ample parking, even for an oversized American.

 

[pshome]

meanwhile in West Germany somebody parked his S-Class in Barntrup

 

[pshome]

In Austria, they build a pointless road all the way up to the top of a mountain, then flattened the top  so they can have parking for the beetles to cool their engines.

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[barrett]

There is nothing old about the vieux port in Toulon. Another small car i dont know, black and white at right?

 

I think it's a Marathon Corsair

[Tadhg Tiogar]

In Austria, they build a pointless road all the way up to the top of a mountain, then flattened the top  so they can have parking for the beetles to cool their engines.

That looks familiar. Think I stopped there in the summer of 1984...

[MorrisItalSLX]

Telecom Tower, Canberra

 

 

Escort Van and 2 Holden Kingswoods + Mystery white car

[brandersnatch]

 

My old Road King on the Grossglockner 2008

 

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[Junkman]

Grade A archishite, autoshite and hortishite in La-Grande-Motte.

 

[Junkman]

Some town on an island.

 

[chaseracer]

In Austria, they build a pointless road all the way up to the top of a mountain, then flattened the top  so they can have parking for the beetles to cool their engines.

 

Bet the A35 was struggling a bit, too... 

[chaseracer]

Telecom Tower, Canberra... Mystery white car

 

Morris Major?

[Junkman]

Pooshow sure has carved out some market share in Chamonix.

 

[Junkman]

Chamrousse. What's nicer than photographing some terrible hotel and a car park when you're in a stunningly beautiful region?

 

[Junkman]

Belgium always had some septic content in ye goode olde dayse. This is Charleroi:

 

 

 

This is from after yanktankerism was taxed into oblivion:

 

[pshome]

Back to Africa, short wait at the light across from Eglise Notre Dame in Cotonou

[pshome]

something is up at the presidents palace, independence day!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Back to Africa, short wait at the light across from Eglise Notre Dame in Cotonou

Typically French traffic lights are an old Sagem design. Remember seeing them in Calais in the early 1980s.

[pshome]

is that light ever green? 2CV fourgonnette likely came out of local assembly line.

[pshome]

Typically French traffic lights are an old Sagem design. Remember seeing them in Calais in the early 1980s.

for quite some time, this was the one and only light in town and, suprisingly, was generally respected.