Eye-catching black and whites

[Richard_FM]

14 hours ago, lesapandre said:

I think so too - you'd consider yourself ultra-cool to be driving one of these in the 70's. The kind of car driven by graphic designers and university lectures etc etc.

Were these officially sold in the UK?  Even the humble 2CV wasn't offered for over a decade after Slough stopped assembling them, apart from some French built RHD ones that were diverted from being sent to Nigeria in the 1960s.  The lack of seatbelt mounts ruled them out for many years.

I imagine some Mihranis might have been privately imported.

[Richard_FM]

[Yoss]

It was good of Vauxhall to give every single mk2 Cavalier built its own publicity shots. 

[Remspoor]

It  is harder to make out the cars towards the back of the photo.

[Richard_FM]

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

It  is harder to make out the cars towards the back of the photo.

Isn't that a matter of perspective?

[adw1977]

South African mobile Post Offices

[Richard_FM]

[Remspoor]

Spain

[barrett]

On 9/27/2022 at 10:37 AM, lesapandre said:

Zaragoza Spain 1954. Trolley buses.

Interesting one there...

[lesapandre]

A Pegaso? 

[barrett]

No, not a Pegaso, but maybe an Alfa Romeo or something of that ilk. I doubt the body is Spanish, but it's possible. Love the letterbox rear window.

[Remspoor]

Another interesting from the same photo. Car parked on the right of the image.

Looks like a rear engined car. The area below the rear window look like air vents. Not a Beetle. It is not a SEAT as the image is too old- The same reason it is not a Fiat either. The nearest car I could find is a Renault 4CV. However, the rear quarters are not the same plus that line would not be a 4CV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rear-engined_vehicles

[D.E]

13 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Another interesting from the same photo. Car parked on the right of the image.

Looks like a rear engined car. The area below the rear window look like air vents. Not a Beetle. It is not a SEAT as the image is too old- The same reason it is not a Fiat either. The nearest car I could find is a Renault 4CV. However, the rear quarters are not the same plus that line would not be a 4CV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rear-engined_vehicles

Peugeot 203, I think.

[Remspoor]

2 hours ago, D.E said:

Peugeot 203, I think.

Thank you.

Looks like I was mistaken in the rear engined theory.

[Remspoor]

Solihull

[lesapandre]

43 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Solihull

Same view today - wide handsome high street closed and filled with clutter and mis-matched paving with the inevitable McDonalds to the left of shot. Progress? Bet its a charmer on a wind-swept Saturday night...

And now no place to park the Jaaag. No Rovers to be seen either...

[Remspoor]

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Ford fest, a pair of MK2 cortinas the 4 Dr being a series 1 GT as it looks to have auxiliary gauges on top of dash & GT badge on rear wing.

The two tone one next to the Thames trader box truck looks to be a Clubman's rally car with an Alan Mann style lotus paint job.

[High Jetter]

Yup. Wipac 'reversing' spotlight?

[Remspoor]

15 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

The two tone one next to the Thames trader box truck looks to be a Clubman's rally car with an Alan Mann style lotus paint job.

Thank you for the info. The car certainly looks a bit worse for wear. The rear bumper could be a bit out of shape. The rear reversing lamp is obviously what would be used in on a rally car. The rear badging under the Cortina script looks like is is the same a the twin-cam badging used for Mk2 Cortinas.

The lorry is Essex reg with OO

[Remspoor]

Can't park won't park.

[Remspoor]

Mean while in Spain.

[martc]

Richmond Market Place. c.1940s.

[martc]

Sheep sales on Reeth green. c. 1960. The vicar is looking concerned, a couple of inches further and it's an offence.

[martc]

[RayMK]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Richmond Market Place. c.1940s.

Probably at least 1951 if that is a Vauxhall Wyvern EIX or the equivalent Velox.

[lesapandre]

Shows how many really old cars soldiered on right into the 1950's and beyond - mostly then driven off the road by the introduction of the MoT for the first time.

The Rolls looks a beauty and is highly likely to survive.

[Richard_FM]

4 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Shows how many really old cars soldiered on right into the 1950's and beyond - mostly then driven off the road by the introduction of the MoT for the first time.

The Rolls looks a beauty and is highly likely to survive.

It was quite hard to buy a new car in the first few years after the war, as most were being exported & customers often had to have a good reason for needing a new car, normally needing it for work.  The alternative was to keep an older car on the road, with a bit of make do & mend.

[Remspoor]

France