Eye-catching black and whites

[JeeExEll]

Associated 25-minute vid of 1972 exploits 'Dublin to Russia and back' in today's Youtube Moments.

[JeeExEll]

Mk1 Consul 2-door. (May be a Mk1 Zephyr, can't see front wing properly). Have never seen a production 2-door saloon but maybe they exist(ed) somewhere. Looks like a long 100E.

[JeeExEll]

Les Ballamy's 1172 Supercharged Supersprung Pop.  Excellent. Would love to have a drive in one.

[lesapandre]

On 1/19/2020 at 3:52 AM, Austat said:

  

Bold BL concept illustrations by Mark Stehrenberger. Would of been quite modern for the times, if only.

BLMC were all over the place in how to rationalise their range - with all the competing brands - MG vs Triumph, Rover vs Jaguar and where to fit Riley and Wolseley etc. In Australia where the ad is from with typical antipodean bluntness they dispensed with all the pommie nonsense and ditched the legacy names in favour of LEYLAND.

The coupe there looks very similar to the late 60's Rover P9 which was almost ready for production (possibly as an Alvis), but got the chop in favour of the XJS by the BLMC board after merger.

What a beauty. Sad all that experience and expensive development was binned.

The Jaguar's heavy Italian influence  reminds me of the styling of the smaller Lancia Beta which came a bit later. I think initially BLMC had some discussion with the Italian design houses for its cars - but to save costs opted for in house instead.

Given the problems with the UK operations Leyland in Australia did attempt to set off in their own direction which resulted in the big Leyland P76 saloon. But mounting losses put paid to this Austrian operation shortly after.

 

Leyland P76 - owners discussing whether to push it into the lake and try to claim the insurance.

Neat bit of design though - and shamelessly copied by Datsun for their larger cars - that could easily be 240K or Cedric.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Never seen that pic think it's a consul.

[Austat]

Wartburg pedal car in the DDR (late 50's/early 60's).

[Austat]

Saw this in an eBay magazine listing.

Taken from Motor magazine, 12/10/74.

[lesapandre]

VW works main gate. 1973. New fwd unregistered cars on right. This is just at the period during which they went fwd. VW Beetle still going but not for long in Germany at least.

I'm not knowledgeable on VW stuff so I have no idea what the cars on the right are...prototypes?

Must have been seen as a gamble within VW to make this fundamental change.

BLMC bottled it - really VW went the whole hog pretty fast when they finally decided? No rwd halfway stages.

God knows what they thought of BLMC and the Marina. Wonder if they ever had one to evaluate?

[martc]

17 hours ago, Austat said:

Wartburg pedal car in the DDR (late 50's/early 60's).

Looks like they're playing at queuing for one as well, just like Mummy and Daddy have to.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, lesapandre said:

VW works main gate. 1973. New fwd unregistered cars on right. This is just at the period during which they went fwd. VW Beetle still going but not for long in Germany at least.

I'm not knowledgeable on VW stuff so I have no idea what the cars on the right are...prototypes?...

Difficult to see, but the back end looks like either the Mk.1 Polo / Audi 50 or possibly the Audi 80

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Difficult to see, but the back end looks like either the Mk.1 Polo / Audi 50 or possibly the Audi 80

Possibly Audi 80 for the nearest one. Would have just been at the start of production.  Wonder if those were random cars off the line about to be road tested or something. Or maybe local delivery.

[sheffcortinacentre]

If they did buy & strip/evaluate a marina they must've pissed themselves.

[lesapandre]

Jowett CD prototype- mid 50's before they went bust. But the market for a two door estate pretty limited at the time. Jowett ran out of cash because of problems with the early Javelins and because the competition were getting better and cheaper.

Great shame.

 

[Austat]

[Macscrooge]

53 minutes ago, Austat said:

Parking in Paris hasn’t changed much then....

[JeeExEll]

Name the car.

[ETCHY]

The above is a Ford Torino based on 105e Anglia. An Italian re-work of it.

[JeeExEll]

Pretty much unknown in the UK but they weren't just a limited run of handbuilt specials, OSI made about 10,000 of them 1965 to '68.

[JeeExEll]

[lesapandre]

Plywood chassis. I kid you not. Beautiful car - I think these are Volvo engined. Made at Westbury Wiltshire - sold as a partly complete kit to avoid car tax I think.

[JeeExEll]

Ideal 4x4 for the school run for picking up the kids from school. It's either a Ford or a Mercury, not sure which, from 1946 / 48-ish.  

(Possibly a Ford Super Deluxe Woody Wagon Marmon-Herrington 4x4 from 1948).

[sheffcortinacentre]

Marcos mantis bit to early to be Essex V6 engined so your probably right.

[lesapandre]

Gosh that Ford Mercury is beautiful. The kind of car carelessly scrapped in the 60's when something went wrong. 

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Just like 15 year old motor now worthless so just weighed in.

[Richard_FM]

When the MOT came in during the early 1960s a lot of old cars were simply dumped at the side of the road as they would have needed too much work to get through the test.

Same when petrol prices went up in the 1970s & big old cars without enough prestige were suddenly practically worthless.

[Austat]

1 hour ago, JeeExEll said:

Pretty much unknown in this country but they weren't just a limited run of handbuilt specials, OSI made about 10,000 of them 1965 to '68.

Reminds me of the Sussitas and Carmels built in Israel.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Pretty much unknown in this country but they weren't just a limited run of handbuilt specials, OSI made about 10,000 of them 1965 to '68.

Very reminiscent of Vauxhall HA Viva...

[lesapandre]

A lot of MK2 Escort in the front end look.  What an unusual car. Clearly Ford could have reskinned the Anglia themselves but opted instead for Escort - shows just how ambitious Ford were in the 60's.

[JeeExEll]

A high performance coupe from the early 70s and some sort of contraption from Chevrolet.

[JeeExEll]

66 pillarless 4-door on UK plates.