Shite Postcards

[Junkman]

When Mercedes built cars that were actually fast.

 

[Junkman]

An SM in Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
 

 

Not the SM you think of, mind.

[Junkman]

Only the locals are displaying an impeccable taste in cars at Waidring, Austria.

 

[Junkman]

Wagrain, Austria, obviously attracted the middle of the middle class.

 

 

Looks like someone is inspecting the wheel arch of that Mannie while his GF punishes him with passively aggressive disregard.

[Junkman]

Am I the only one who loves NTSC (never the same colour) postcards from kind of exotic places?

 

This one is from Tehran in soon to be nuked Iran.

 

[Junkman]

Some poor Belgian visited Cannes.
 

Just look at that rodomont's tawdry whitewalls.

I bet he wore two tone plimsolls and a fasciated sweater with his boater,

because I'd have done the same.

[Junkman]

Marrakech replete with Gelsenkirchen Baroque Taunus and a set of stinking cylinders with holes in them.

 

 

I'm a bit baffled by the complete absence of Benzes, but Stuttgart is represented nevertheless in form of a 356 Porker.

[Junkman]

Dijon spanning four decades of chod, although in theory that 203 could still require an MoT.

 

 

Those are Saviem SC10s until FPB7 corrects me.

 

Of course such a convenient car park had to be converted into a useless empty concrete desert

so that some people refusing to grow up and buy a car can ride their childrens toys there:

 

[Junkman]

23/10 for choice of motif:

 

 

This is the Franco-Belge border at Athus.

[Junkman]

If there is a chance to burn lots of petrol for fuck all reason, the septics happily jump at it.

Here they do so at Lake Elsinore in that California.

 

[Junkman]

Back in Austria some Dubbers would eat their hearts out at the Grossglockner.

 

[Junkman]

When the power was still balanced:

Only one of those Johnny Foreigner's jobbies in sight yet.

 

[Junkman]

This is the Truro Cathedral from Chapel Hill:
 


Not even Beetles had made it there yet.

[Junkman]

Brits ventured as far as St Tropez, a poor fishermen's village in that France.

 

[Junkman]

 

What's that yellow shite?

[Junkman]

 

That Isabella k00p must have been rare even back then.

[Junkman]

Nah, man. It's one of Dr Uhlenhaut's babies.

[RayMK]

 

 

What's that yellow shite?

 

Austin A40 sports.

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[RayMK]

Isabella saloons were fairly common back in the day (possibly a biased view caused by dad being in the RAF, thus exposing us kids to more foreign stuff, thanks to postings in Germany and advantageous purchasing schemes - hence our RHD Ford Taunus 17m!) but the coupe was rare indeed. 

[Spottedlaurel]

Tenuously linked to Junkman's last offering, in that it was was sent to an address in Tenterden, here's Newbury in the 1960s:

 

The Broadway, Newbury postcard Mid-60s? by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Modern van drivers are denied the pleasure of driving around with the door open.

[Junkman]

Thirsk in that Yorkshireshire.

 

[Junkman]

Autoshite meets Archishite at Orcières-Merlette.

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Thirsk in that Yorkshireshire.

 

Several Renaults in that Thirsk shot, otherwise all looks to be domestic stuff (with a lot of BLMC ADO16s). Neat matching pair of Mk1 Cortina estates, though I prefer the 2dr Mk3. I’m wondering about the conversation between the two chaps by the Marina, discussing levels of understeer perhaps? Looks like the road painters were struggling with their markings either side of the zebra crossing……

 

A later card I have:

 

Old Postcard - Thirsk, Yorkshire by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[lisbon_road]

'ere, Mr Junkman, I've got a copy of that Tehran postcard.  What are the chances of that??????

 

I also have one from Tehran at the same time with two LHD AEC Regents (buses).

 

We passed through Tehran in about 1971.

[Junkman]

That was when I was for the first time in Beiruth. I was 7 or so.

My father opened a branch of his civil engineering office there, in partnership with a Lebanese architect

and my mom a branch of her fashion house, in partnership with his wife, a fashion designer.

A few years later their dreams got pulverised.

We did travel to Tehran quite a bit when I was a kid, my father and the Lebanese architect had several

building projects there.

 

Tehran and Beiruth were paradise in the early Seventies. A bit like Italy, but with proper food.

[Junkman]

[Junkman]

This is a railway station.

It's in Beira, which is in Mozambique.

 

 

I believe that's a Standard Vanguard next to a DKW 3=6 or Auto Union 1000.

There should be some prime Trainshite inside.

[Junkman]

One would think VW's market share wasn't 50% in 1950s Germany when looking at this card.

 

[Junkman]

St. Josef church on Kahlenberg in Döbling, a district of Vienna.

 

 

PShome might get eggsited.

Those 600 Multiplas were relatively popular in a not yet very wealthy catholic country.

[pshome]

St. Josef church on Kahlenberg in Döbling, a district of Vienna.

 

 

PShome might get eggsited.

Those 600 Multiplas were relatively popular in a not yet very wealthy catholic country.

 

Let me guess, the Multipla belongs to the vikar and the undertaker drives the Vedette,