Eye-catching black and whites

[Austat]

Old Melbourne, Australia shite sourced from the r/melbourne subreddit:

"Peak hour on St Kilda Rd, 1962":

"Parking Inspectors doing their thing in 1967 on Spring St. Back in the 60s they used a Mini Moke and a yellow crayon":

"Tram collision 1968, Swanston and Flinders Streets":

"Tullamarine Freeway early 70s. Two lanes each way...":

[sheffcortinacentre]

What's towing the boat in last pic? Chrysler valiant?

[Austat]

4 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

What's towing the boat in last pic? Chrysler valiant?

'71 Mustang perhaps?

 

[martc]

Noo Yoik City, Noo Yoik, 1980 -

Greene Street, SoHo.

Turns out Blondie was wrong, it's not men from Mars eating cars, it's cars from Detroit eating men.

[Austat]

 

[Austat]

 

[LightBulbFun]

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[martc]

26 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Are you contemplating a change? Yes please, can you swop this for a working one?

[adw1977]

On 20/04/2021 at 11:53, Dick Longbridge said:

93 cent car wash, very precise pricing!  I wonder if another garage nearby was offering a $1 wash, then this one offered 99c and then a tit for tat ensued.

[martc]

Be prepared for some miscellaneous fun...

Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981.

Tudor Square, Sheffield, the 1950's I would guess.

Civil Defence drill, USSR 1930's. Photo by Emmanuil Evzerikhin.

[Bfg]

3 hours ago, martc said:

^ There's always a such long bloody queue for the bogs, I'll just sneak open this briefcase. 

[Remspoor]

[Austat]

 

[Andrew353w]

5 hours ago, Austat said:

 

I bet that Moskvich 427 was his pride and joy! It was probably the first new car he had bought! 

[Austat]

Dagenham dustbins in Japan:

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[Austat]

Japanese market Holden HQ Statesman badged as an Isuzu:

[Remspoor]

[Leyland Worldmaster]

On 4/14/2021 at 11:14 PM, LightBulbFun said:

nice GEC Z8430CM street light there  would love to get one for the collection someday!

http://www.streetlightonline.co.uk/Z8430CMNEW_photographs.htm

I think there's one near me. Two, actually. I'll PM you later... 👍 

[Austat]

[Remspoor]

[JeeExEll]

WTF is it???

Headlight air-intakes.

???

Looks almost Hillman Imp-ish.

Does my arse look big in this?

It was actually one of the XP 714 design concepts from 1960 for what was to become the HA Viva.  Fantastic.  It has a Rootes Group styling vibe about it though.

From Vauxpedia.

[Richard_FM]

9 hours ago, Austat said:

I'm enjoying these Japanese pictures, I didn't realise they imported so many cars before their own industry built up.

[JeeExEll]

Some more HA Viva concepts from around 1960.

Looks like some sort of miniaturised Bristol.

Can you imagine a GPO postie's Bedford HA van with this front on it?  The headlights must have been tiny, like bicycle lamps.

A bit like an Americanised Austin ADO16 coupe, in 1960.

Loads more pics and info on here   http://vauxpedia.net/vauxhall-ha---viva-part-1

[Rab]

[martc]

[somewhatfoolish]

Motorcycling shouldn't interrupt a good fag.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Motorcycling shouldn't interrupt a good fag.

The draught at speed would have kept it alight!

[somewhatfoolish]

Careful attention should be paid to the angle of dangle to prevent hot ash and cinders from being blown up the hooter by the slipstream.