Eye-catching black and whites

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[lesapandre]

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[Remspoor]

Great Western Road

[Asimo]

https://www.paimages.co.uk/image-details/2.1275651

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White Saab at the back for me please.
What's the one (centre rear) priced at £1275?

[Asimo]

Renault 16?
 

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I'd vote for Renault 16 👍

[Austat]

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[Andrew353w]

5 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Brilliantly atmospheric picture! My money's on the rear of a Ford Consul Classic centre stage.....

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[Remspoor]

Weston Super Mare.

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

Brilliantly atmospheric picture! My money's on the rear of a Ford Consul Classic centre stage.....

Fins too high. Something Rootes?

[Austat]

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Waitrose @ Woodley c1970 according to themselves

Original (BIG) image here - I spotted one of the Blues Brothers getting out of the dark car in the left hand side of the image.

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From the above - there's a 'something' parked behind the standing trio - little white car with 'different' bonnet/headlight line - I was thinking Renault but cannot find anything to confirm - ideas?
[edit] t'missus reckons they're all Vauxhalls and this is a staged photoshoot?

Edited December 27, 2022 by EyesWeldedShut
t'missus's advice

[Andrew353w]

13 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

From the above - there's a 'something' parked behind the standing trio - little white car with 'different' bonnet/headlight line - I was thinking Renault but cannot find anything to confirm - ideas?
[edit] t'missus reckons they're all Vauxhalls and this is a staged photoshoot?

I'd say it's a Sunbeam Stiletto; a luxury Hillman Imp, with 4 headlights. The bonnet line looks like there are 2 headlights on the near-side.

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10 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Fins too high. Something Rootes?

Are you thinking Hillman Super Minx or a Humber Sceptre? The rear window looked raked to me, a la Ford Consul and Anglia, but I'm not sure....

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2 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

I'd say it's a Sunbeam Stiletto; a luxury Hillman Imp, with 4 headlights. The bonnet line looks like there are 2 headlights on the near-side.

Have an ad - all the images I can find of the Stiletto (another car I never knew existed - my uncle had an Imp tho') don't have any bonnet lettering on it like the white car in the picture.

[High Jetter]

Might be a more basic Imp. The Singer Chamois had a Singer badge, but Hillman was individual lettering.

[lesapandre]

Yes the Stiletto was made as Rootes/Chrysler attempted get a few more sales out of the Imp design and to part fill the gap left by the discontinuing of the Sunbeam Alpine sports. Presumably to keep dealers with something to sell.

Made 1967-72. About 9000 made. And introduced a long-time after the original Imp appeared in '63. 

So at about 1800 cars per year can hardly have been worth it. It shared the Hillman Imp Californian shell - which was an Imp without the rear hatch and with less headroom in the rear - so not a great move really.

By the the late 60's all this Rootes badge engineering was getting pretty desperate - and sales were dismal. By comparison BLMC made 278,000 Minis in 1970.

But nice cars but dogged by their reliability and image problems. Such a pity as they were classy in the Rootes way and had pretty good performance. But really too little too late.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

[edit] t'missus reckons they're all Vauxhalls and this is a staged photoshoot?

Vauxhall Cortina?

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3 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

Are you thinking Hillman Super Minx or a Humber Sceptre? The rear window looked raked to me, a la Ford Consul and Anglia, but I'm not sure....

It's a Consul Classic

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2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Vauxhall Cortina?

Aye - there's one right there next to Mr Blues  

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[martc]

4 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

 

Bloody 'ell we've seen some Wollarding phails recently, but this takes the biscuit.

[martc]

Percy Street, NuT, 1972.