Eye-catching black and whites

[Amishtat]

[JeeExEll]

[puddlethumper]

^^ SA is an Aberdeen/shire reg.

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Isn't this a mild form of heresy, one of the general's lumps of iron in a Ford?

[JeeExEll]

'Watch out Mrs, there's a fucking bus coming, didn't you see it, have you the mind of a chicken?'.

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[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

Parked Austin.

[JeeExEll]

Where I'd like to live.

[JeeExEll]

Actually looks very solid.     '£9995 m8'.

[JeeExEll]

Early Mk1 2-door porn.  Must be worth sixty farzand pahnds as the base for a Twin Cam replica,

[JeeExEll]

Check out that van with the windows.

[JeeExEll]

Guess what the estate is.  I had to look up DVLA.

A mate had a W-reg Ascona 2000SR like that one. His first auto, a 3-speed.  On the first night he had it he was fucking about with the selector and managed to put it in 'park' at about 35mph with busy traffic following behind.  Slithered to a stop sideways right across the road facing the kerb.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Guess what the estate is.....

Never mind that. I'm trying to guess where the location is......errm...errm...

[JeeExEll]

Do you really want to know? Really really?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, JeeExEll said:

Do you really want to know? Really really?

It sort of looks mildly Devon-ish

[JeeExEll]

[Amishtat]

23 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

'Oooh, that's a really good answer but it's not the right one. Fucking miles off'.  (In Roy Walker voice).

It's a rail crossing at Broughty Ferry, near Dundee. Good try though.

What's the estate car? I didn't know.

 

Mazda 323? I'm probably wrong 

[JeeExEll]

Possibly same 100E from above.

[JeeExEll]

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[Austat]

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

[ETCHY]

1 hour ago, JeeExEll said:

Nice mix of cars there.

Incredible that the BMC Farina's lasted so long, that looks so old fashioned compared to the Mk2 Cortina but was on sale at the same time !

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

...Incredible that the BMC Farina's lasted so long, that looks so old fashioned compared to the Mk2 Cortina but was on sale at the same time !

Probably a sign of some parts of the British motor industry failing to keep up with trends.

[sheffcortinacentre]

8 hours ago, Austat said:

Get down Shep!

[somewhatfoolish]

The same manufacturer was churning out ADO16s and Minis, they just had blithering idiots for managers, intransigent unions and too many factories to keep busy in a saturated market where Ford and GM were eating their lunch, the easy option was to leave a factory building Farinas rather than closing it and causing a strike/work-to-rule/etc.

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The same manufacturer was churning out ADO16s and Minis, they just had blithering idiots for managers, intransigent unions and too many factories to keep busy in a saturated market where Ford and GM were eating their lunch, the easy option was to leave a factory building Farinas rather than closing it and causing a strike/work-to-rule/etc.

The Franias should have been replaced by the Landcrab in 1964, but as that ended up too big & overweight it stayed in production.  

They probably would have given it a smoothed up reskin & possibly some mechanical upgrades if they knew how long it was going to be in production for so long.

[martc]

20 hours ago, ETCHY said:

Nice mix of cars there.

Incredible that the BMC Farina's lasted so long, that looks so old fashioned compared to the Mk2 Cortina but was on sale at the same time !

 

20 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Probably a sign of some parts of the British motor industry failing to keep up with trends.

 

16 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The same manufacturer was churning out ADO16s and Minis, they just had blithering idiots for managers, intransigent unions and too many factories to keep busy in a saturated market where Ford and GM were eating their lunch, the easy option was to leave a factory building Farinas rather than closing it and causing a strike/work-to-rule/etc.

 

I wouldn't be too smug about Ford, there's three Fords in that photo, all made in the same decade. Production of two of them, the Pop and the Anglia, overlapped each other by 3 years (and 2 decades of development).