Remspoor Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 RayMK, LightBulbFun, JeeExEll and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Amishtat, Sudsprint, adw1977 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 All the above taken in Reading and posted in one of the local newspapers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Â Mk12 Invacar and GEC Z8430CM in one shot FTWÂ Â http://www.streetlightonline.co.uk/Z8430_photographs.htm Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Â saw the vehicle. Bu no idea of what model it was.The camber on that road must have made getting in and out very difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 How ancient does that Singer Hunter in the first pic look? RayMK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 The Invacar looks like it is in the other shot too - presumably two ends of the same street.... That Singer is, what, 20 years or so older than the date of the pic?  Compare that to say a sad face Fiesta in today's traffic - definitely seems more visual progress took place back then.  Also the Singer is not lop-sided and knackered like that nearly-new Cortina! Amishtat, Dick Longbridge and LightBulbFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 How ancient does that Singer Hunter in the first pic look? Well identified.  I was familiar with the Singer SM1500 which had a completely different grill, but was not aware of the more traditional Singer grill treatment on later models.  All variants were a rare sight when new and I have never seen a restored or preserved one in the flesh. Amishtat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Dick Longbridge, Remspoor, Sudsprint and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019   The E-Type in the background is still with us, it's tax is due 1/7/19. In the picture a couple of posts above (the street scene with bridge) the Triumph motorbike departed this world in 1981 and the Cortina estate in 1984. No records found for the Bedford. hennabm, LightBulbFun, Sudsprint and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Wolseley Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 sheffcortinacentre, DSdriver, Remspoor and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 So this piece of shit E-Type survived the 73/4 OPEC Oil Crisis, even though it looks as if it would collapse if you tried to move it and would have been worth about £30.Fast forward to 1997 and its ' First registered' as a 1962 roadster in BRG. Before they were valuable enough to be worth a restoring basket cases, but about when a lot of US cars came home.It now looks like this and is probably worth upwards of £150k The cynical amongst you might hear a ringing sound... Cardinal Wolseley, Remspoor, LightBulbFun and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselassist Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 So this piece of shit E-Type survived the 73/4 OPEC Oil Crisis, even though it looks as if it would collapse if you tried to move it and would have been worth about £30.image.png. ...im wondering WTF are them box type additions on the rear valance are; an example of early 'barrying' with filler/glassfibre/ papermache ...?? Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 ...im wondering WTF are them box type additions on the rear valance are; an example of early 'barrying' with filler/glassfibre/ papermache ...??I think you're right as to fibreglass / mesh repair stuff. It looks as if the rear valance has rotted away and the owner couldn't afford a replacement.The only pic I could find of a naked arsed E -Tupe , it's a V12 but the shape looks very similar.The bumper looks to high and close to the lights too, maybe it was just attached to the first solid bit of steel they could find. dieselassist and mercrocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 So this piece of shit E-Type survived the 73/4 OPEC Oil Crisis, even though it looks as if it would collapse if you tried to move it and would have been worth about £30. image.pngFast forward to 1997 and its ' First registered' as a 1962 roadster in BRG. Before they were valuable enough to be worth a restoring basket cases, but about when a lot of US cars came home.It now looks like this and is probably worth upwards of £150kimage.png The cynical amongst you might hear a ringing sound...That might be true,but several companies were restoring basket cases a long time before 1997.Panels were available for rebuilding a shell from almost nothing.I seem to remember one firm were making virtually new shells. NorfolkNWeigh and mercrocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Remspoor, Amishtat, RayMK and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 NorfolkNWeigh, RayMK and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 RayMK and lesapandre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 NorfolkNWeigh and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 K98PPO bit the dust in 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Austin Taxi in front of the lighthouse in A Coruna RayMK, Dick Longbridge, DSdriver and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Julio Iglesias,(singer) and his Mercedes Benz 280 SL JeeExEll and Amishtat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 I can only assume young Daltrey got a good deal on his tour van. This is what they should all look like.In fact, looking at it again, that Commer couldn't have been even a decade old at the time...Edit: Apparently the photo was taken on 13th November 1965. That would make the van nearly new... Cardinal Wolseley, JeeExEll and Amishtat 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Roger Daltry? The van is in Paris I think? Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Roger Daltry? The van is in Paris I think?18ième Arrondisement je pense... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momentary Lapse Of Reason Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 adw1977 and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 mercrocker, JeeExEll, Cardinal Wolseley and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Amishtat, DSdriver and Cardinal Wolseley 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 mercrocker, Amishtat, Cardinal Wolseley and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momentary Lapse Of Reason Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 sheffcortinacentre, JeeExEll, Amishtat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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