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[RayMK]

Is that a motorcycle and sidecar in front of the Lloyd?  I love these old street scenes.

7 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

 

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Yes. This is Madrid. It is possibly a Spanish built Motovespa with sidecar or similar.

The Renault 4CV cars were manufactured  in Spain by FASA (Fabricación de Automóviles Sociedad Anónima de Valladolid) a license having been obtained to allow local production of Renault vehicles - mostly CKD - this was to get round Spain's high import duties on foreign vehicles.

 

[Austat]

On 5/10/2020 at 7:49 PM, lesapandre said:

Interesting to see an advert for a western car in a Warsaw Pact country.

[Richard_FM]

Just now, Austat said:

Interesting to see an advert for a western car in a Warsaw Pact country.

Especially a coupe, I could understand it if it was Yugoslavia who were bit more relaxed on personal freedoms.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 hours ago, Austat said:

Interesting to see an advert for a western car in a Warsaw Pact country.

But did they actually sell any there during that era?

6 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Especially a coupe, I could understand it if it was Yugoslavia who were bit more relaxed on personal freedoms.

Not just Yugoslavia. East Germany and Poland both had limited imports of certain Western cars over the years. East Germany in particular had up to 5500 Citroen GSAs imported, plus some other brands - VW, Fiat, and Renault. This was possible via an East German catalogue company called Genex, whose function it seems to have been to facilitate "gifts" to East German citizens that could be paid for by their West German relatives. Very late in the day, you could even arrange to have a BMW E30 saloon sent to your relatives in the DDR.

How these cars were serviced / repaired after delivery and use was something I haven't yet found much information about.....

[Richard_FM]

5 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

But did they actually sell any there during that era?

Not just Yugoslavia. East Germany and Poland both had limited imports of certain Western cars over the years. East Germany in particular had up to 5500 Citroen GSAs imported, plus some other brands - VW, Fiat, and Renault. This was possible via an East German catalogue company called Genex, whose function it seems to have been to facilitate "gifts" to East German citizens that could be paid for by their West German relatives. Very late in the day, you could even arrange to have a BMW E30 saloon sent to your relatives in the DDR.

How these cars were serviced / repaired after delivery and use was something I haven't yet found much information about.....

I heard some eastern bloc countries had shops for luxury goods which had to be paid in “hard” currency.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

29 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

I heard some eastern bloc countries had shops for luxury goods which had to be paid in “hard” currency.

Yes, those would have been like the beryozhka shops in the Soviet Union

[Rab]

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[lesapandre]

Madrid

[adw1977]

23 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I heard some eastern bloc countries had shops for luxury goods which had to be paid in “hard” currency.

Intershop in East Germany (and some West Berlin railway stations)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intershop

[somewhatfoolish]

20 hours ago, Rab said:

Not at all dangerous or unstable* and the land rover's braking* and power-to-weight ratio wouldn't be affected in the slightest. 8<o

[NorfolkNWeigh]

20 hours ago, Rab said:

Interesting chrome wheel trim rings and front bumper. Wonder what that’s off? Presumably the 3rd overider is to hide the join.

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3 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Interesting chrome wheel trim rings and front bumper. Wonder what that’s off? Presumably the 3rd overider is to hide the join.

Interesting; it's not Jag or Daimler, nor Riley Pathfinder. I iz stumped.

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, Rab said:

I can hear the massed  “bremer demer” engine sounds.

I shows how much of the Brazilian market VW had.

[Remspoor]

You are nicked.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Interesting; it's not Jag or Daimler, nor Riley Pathfinder. I iz stumped.

I was looking at Armstrong Siddeley bumpers and found this

 

[flat4alfa]

8 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Not at all dangerous or unstable* and the land rover's braking* and power-to-weight ratio wouldn't be affected in the slightest. 8<o

Taken Sept 1953 at Crystal Palace.  Driver is Stuart Lewis-Evans aged 23, a good friend of Stirling Moss and showed comparable ability.  Sadly he died of his burns shortly after crashing at the Moroccan F1 GP five years later, driving for Vanwall alongside Moss.  His manager was another young fella named Bernard Ecclestone.

Pole position 1-2-3 at Monza 1957

Lewis-Evans (20), Stirling Moss (18), Tony Brooks (22)

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