Eye-catching black and whites

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[Amishtat]

Some right gems here! Keep 'em coming.. 

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[martc]

18 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Chinese tyre early adopter.

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Made-to-measure radiator-blind, 'suits you Sir'.

[lesapandre]

If these were all taken around the same time what strikes me - the latest car is is a 1970's HC Viva I think - is the low ownership of cars in this Manchester area, how poor people were still then, many cars are bangers (I'm assuming some of the ritzy cars are business owners), the lack of parking restrictions and the original condition of the Victorian houses, all with their lovely uniform original sash windows - which at the time wd have been at least 70 years old even then.

[Andrew353w]

6 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

A REAL Skoda Octavia! Fandabidozi!

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[NorfolkNWeigh]

These pictures remind me, so much of what I remember as kid living in a poor part of Birmingham in the late 60’s early 70’s. Cars were almost always dirty, usually with riveted bits and or odd coloured patches. The air stank of burning oil and unburnt fuel., plus it was difficult to tell what was parked and what was dumped as scrap was worthless so old cars were just parked up and forgotten about.

This seemed to change in the mid70’s or it could just be my parents moved to a posher neighbourhood!

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Rub thighs, it's a twin-exhaust Ventora.

[artdjones]

10 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

the original condition of the Victorian houses, all with their lovely uniform original sash windows - which at the time wd have been at least 70 years old even then.

My mother replaced the sash windows in our house in the late 80s.The house was built in 1889,and even then the originals weren't rotted beyond redemption.Whereas the main window in the kitchen extension,put in in 1976,was replaced in 1986 by my own fair hands due to the sill and bottom corner joints disintegrating.

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[HMC]

Bolton? 

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Fred Fearnley's Motor Mart.  Guess which one he's currently using as personal transport.

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Just now, HMC said:

Bolton? 

All formally listed as 'Manchester' 1968 to 72, but who knows?

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3 hours ago, HMC said:

A Riley RM ragtop (edit - its an Alvis!)  second row. Now that is rare - hope it survives. An early Landrover too - might be about.

The rest I doubt - some notorious rusters there and the kind of cars that were deeply unfashionable by the 1970's to the local Bob and Thelma. Off to the crusher at the first sign of expensive trouble. The early post-war Oxford is quite an old car by then and completely outclassed with its sidevalve engine. But interestingly the two earliest surviving cars a both Nuffield products which were very well made. 

I'll take the Riley - but I can't see the price.

To compare prices a new Austin 1100 was about £1000 in 1972. 

Those prices probably reflect the fact the cars could be bought on credit by the uncredit-worthy and with some kind of comedy warranty.

The big Humbers were probably one of the 70's least desirable cars...guzzly rusty old-fashioned barges during the fuel crisis. 

The 'modern world' reflected by the new Anglia off to the right just out of shot - the 60's and 70's Fords made all the rest of this stuff seem very dull.

[artdjones]

MO Oxford on the far left of the middle row.

[hls1981]

Second from left in the second row of the Rootes dealer's second-hand car display looks to me like an Alvis TB21.   cf. 

from  https://alvisarchive.com/1950-1967-the-three-litre/the-tb21/  which says that  31 were built, making it considerably rarer than a Riley drophead or roadster of the same era.   The same page claims that at least 25 have survived, so the chances of the one in the photo still existing are pretty high, although it looks rather out of place on that forecourt.  I wonder if it was traded in for a Sunbeam Alpine.

The last Audax Hillman Minx estates retailed for £823 in 1962, so the one at bottom right, offered at £679, can't be more than a couple of years old in this photo, I would have thought.

 

[Skut]

2 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

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Superb pictures. Although the pictures do make me nostalgic it's also undeniably very grim. There is none of the modern tendency to prettify surroundings and be concerned about people's sensibilities.

The speed at which relatively new cars are falling apart is terrifying. It's no wonder some bread and butter cars from this era are so rare. 

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