Eye-catching black and whites

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[JeeExEll]

[lesapandre]

On 11/3/2020 at 9:48 PM, artdjones said:

Long John Consul there....

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[busmansholiday]

20 hours ago, artdjones said:

The reason there's not a full rear window upstairs on that top deck emergency exit is probably because it folds down horizontal so fitters can stand on it to change the carbon shoes on the trolley poles.

[JeeExEll]

1964.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

26 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

X- Pack or Cologne ?

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[MorrisItalSLX]

14 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

What a fantastic door.

[artdjones]

[artdjones]

And they say 2post lifts aren't safe.

[artdjones]

[JeeExEll]

Oh.  Is it fucked m8?

 

Hey, you there, yes you, is it fucked?

 

'Oi m8, is yer car fucked?'

 

Cool car Mister, have you fixed it yet?

 

Car's fucking fucked m8.

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[JeeExEll]

Grandparents or late-starters?

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Anyone know what the American looking coupe is?  Would guess it's from late 1930s.

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

Same location as Ford / Victor pic on previous page. 

Manley Road, Manchester in 1964.  Number 195.

Empty road.  Almost. 

Google Streetview Maps shows plastic windows and modern clutter.

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[Austin-Rover]

42 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

This looks the same now, apart from the road layout being completely fucked up. Only the Ducie Bridge pub (middle left) has gone, and even then only very recently too.

[Bfg]

1 hour ago, JeeExEll said:

Anyone know what the American looking coupe is?

I'd guess it's a Packard coupe, c. 1940 with its distinctive edge to the bonnet line.    .. perhaps a 2nd word war-spec one without much chrome. ?

Packard 120 coupe, c. 1940

c. 1940 Packard 160 Super Eight Coupe

[JeeExEll]

Packard!  Yes.

I'd been trying upmarket cars like Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Chrysler, De Soto, etc from 1936 - 39 but had completely forgotten about Packard. 

It looks a real moonshine-runner.

[Richard_FM]

I was thinking it would be something Dick Tracy would drive.

I wonder how it got over here, maybe someone started bringing them over in the 1950s when they would have been cheap as chips in the USA.

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Wossat? I thought it was a jaaag mk5, but it would seem not.

[Mr Pastry]

58 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Wossat? I thought it was a jaaag mk5, but it would seem not.

I think it's an Armstrong Siddeley Lancaster, 1949/50 ish.  Great series of photos BTW.

[HMC]

Love it, looks a bit crispy. Loving these real world gritty pics @JeeExEll

[JeeExEll]

Armstrong Siddeley Lancaster is a good call.  Need to compare some pics I think.

Some of the pics are maybe 'too gritty' and were never meant to be top quality, but that's just how they are.  Personally I much prefer old street pics to staged ones or ones taken at car shows. There are  some more early 60s but I had to stop looking at Manchester pics for a few days when I couldn't get that 'Matchstalk Cats And Dogs' song out of my head.  Woke up in the middle of the night hearing it, it was driving me insane. Loved the Lowry paintings but hated the song, hated it when I was 10 and the situation hasn't improved any. Wouldn't have heard of Lowry at that time otherwise though.