Eye-catching black and whites

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18 minutes ago, D.E said:

Same car, it seems:

Brixton, 1981. Long shields, short truncheons, long hair - what could possibly go wrong? (and don't forget it was all the fault of the SPG, honest guv).

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Kind of similar - own goal this time. Oxford Street, 1975,  Selfridges on the right and a Triumph 2500 lurking behind the advertising rondula thingy

[sheffcortinacentre]

12 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

Think it was based on a van shell.

[Richard_FM]

11 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Think it was based on a van shell.

One book on the Mini features a picture of one with neater rear doors which used the longer wheelbase of the vans & estates.

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19 hours ago, D.E said:

Same car, it seems:

Brixton very different these days - but still some problems - there were the recent sad crush-deaths at the Brixton Academy.

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[adw1977]

AROnline has a picture of what seems to be a factory four door prototype based on the longer van wheelbase.

AROnline link

[Richard_FM]

3 hours ago, adw1977 said:

AROnline has a picture of what seems to be a factory four door prototype based on the longer van wheelbase.

AROnline link

That's the one I was thinking of!

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[lesapandre]

[lisbon_road]

7 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Just wondering what that is?

[lesapandre]

2 hours ago, lisbon_road said:

Just wondering what that is?

Singer SM 1500 - it was Singers first Post-War car -1948 to '56.

The body was styled by Leo Shorter, Singer's chief engineer since 1937 - OHC engine. Singer could not sell enough cheap enough to survive - so were bought out by Rootes and hermogenised into the Rootes operation. Nameplate finally dropped in 1970 - caused by the Chrysler buyout and their reorganisation of Rootes.

About 17,000 made - a lot exported and  very few survive.

Odd 'any-car' styling - which aged very fast. 

I like them for their oddness - never seen one on the road.

They even made a handful of pick-ups for export.

[adw1977]

Very practical shape, the SM1500.  Generous headroom and easy access for rear passengers, look at the vertical rear edge of the rear door.  But also looks rather ungainly.

The Rover P4 is actually a similar shape but styled better.

[lesapandre]

25 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

Very practical shape, the SM1500.  Generous headroom and easy access for rear passengers, look at the vertical rear edge of the rear door.  But also looks rather ungainly.

The Rover P4 is actually a similar shape but styled better.

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[Remspoor]

Street furniture.

[Remspoor]

Framboosstraat, Utrecht. The Netherlands. 1974

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[Spottedlaurel]

On 2/6/2023 at 5:04 PM, Remspoor said:

Street furniture.

All belonging to an oval racer? Whatever it is on the right (Farina?) already looks to have been raced, and the Fiats were popular as stock rods/saloon stock cars.

[Spottedlaurel]

More SM1500 content here:

From a late 1962 copy of Autosport.

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Castle Meadow, Norwich.

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Ditto. 100A made it to 1988.

[sheffcortinacentre]

5 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Framboosstraat, Utrecht. The Netherlands. 1974

Is that an N 600 between the HB viva & Volvo 66 on the left?

[D.E]

28 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Is that an N 600 between the HB viva & Volvo 66 on the left?

Fiat 850.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Ah yes.