somewhatfoolish Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 This string of pics is courtesy of pistonfascists. uk_senator, GeorgeB, JeeExEll and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leafsprung Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 45 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said: Top shot is of Duff Morgan & Vermont on Grapes Hill in Norwich. Here's a mouth watering inside shot. They later moved over to Citroen and are still about. The Company was founded jointy by Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson who founded the 'Blue Shirts' an anti-fascist organisation, and who sheltered Albert Einstein in a hut near his Estate in North Norfolk with his game keeper and two heavily armed young female assistants. The road behind the garage is Earlham Road and a hundred yards or so further down was the site of this famous occurence (couldn't find a B&W shot). Factoids! somewhatfoolish, Dick Longbridge, uk_senator and 10 others 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: I wonder what the story on these two Rover shots? First looks like some modifications to the front bumper area. The trailer looks like an ex army one. High ground clearance and large wheels. Intrigued to know how that was coupled up to the car. The second one looks like someone installed SAAB headlamps. Dick Longbridge and DSdriver 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leafsprung Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 30 minutes ago, Remspoor said: I wonder what the story on these two Rover shots? First looks like some modifications to the front bumper area. The trailer looks like an ex army one. High ground clearance and large wheels. Intrigued to know how that was coupled up to the car. The second one looks like someone installed SAAB headlamps. Rover development vehicles, apparently just back from brake tests https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes/rover-p7/ Shite Ron, Remspoor, somewhatfoolish and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Lenny 'King Kong' Reed worked for Beck (an Indian motorcycle dealer) in Harlem, NYC, on 138th Street, before the Beck Warehouse moved to Melville, Long Island. 'King Kong' was a parts man and raced his Indian Motorcycle at the weekend. He raced as an 'Independent' through the 1940s and 1950s, since the AMA did not allow African Americans to join during that time. warch, uk_senator, somewhatfoolish and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Saratov, Russia. The first car in Saratov was bought by Count Anatoly Nesselrode from an exhibiton in Paris, in 1900. It was driven by belts, one snapped and caused the first road accident in Sartov when the out of control car crashed into a tree. Anyhow, this didn't put the people of Saratov off, this building from 1880, originally a glass factory then a mirror factory was turned into Saratov's first garage in 1914 and an enormous bas relief frieze was added to make sure people knew about it. After the revolution it became an electrical shop (as above), it's still there now as a supermarket. JeeExEll, Fat_Pirate and puddlethumper 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Austat, JeeExEll, martc and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 LightBulbFun, DSdriver, uk_senator and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Thump-drooone-thump-drooone-thump-drooone... ETA; thinking about it it was more: thump-drrrrr-thump-drrrrr-thump-drrrrr-thump-drrrrr... Must work on my onomatopoeia. Nostalgia; driving home from visiting relatives you could tell you were getting nearer Glasgow as that bloody noise started up from the shitey concrete section of the M74. LightBulbFun, Skut and M'coli 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warch Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 On 2/2/2021 at 3:15 PM, Remspoor said: I wonder what the story on these two Rover shots? First looks like some modifications to the front bumper area. The trailer looks like an ex army one. High ground clearance and large wheels. Intrigued to know how that was coupled up to the car. The second one looks like someone installed SAAB headlamps. I reckon that’s a Brockhouse trailer, manufactured for Rover as an accessory for their well known range of cross country vehicles. I think they came with pin type or ball type attachments so could be used behind a car. Iirc they were a bit shit, being small, heavy and prone to rotting out. Nothing like a Land-Rover then.... Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 JeeExEll, Asimo, uk_senator and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 JeeExEll, MorrisItalSLX and uk_senator 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 RayMK, sheffcortinacentre, DSdriver and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Shite Ron, artdjones, Asimo and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Komsomol member N.F. Kovshar works on children's toy trucks. Consumer goods workshop of the "Moscow Small Car Plant" (MZMA). Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev, USSR, 1954. I don't need to remind you that MZMA made the 'Moskvitch' range of cars. And what they were making down the corridor - a 1954 Moskvitch 401. A little later, Soviet traffic policeman, Karelian ASSR, sometime in the '70's. On the look out for ropey Moskvitch 401's. RayMK, LightBulbFun, warch and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Deptford. Later... London Docklands. Make your own jokes up. JeeExEll, RayMK, Remspoor and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Pedestrians and road traffic crossing Bank Junction in front of the Royal Exchange, City of London. Just before the introduction of the Congestion Charge. LightBulbFun, RayMK, Andrew353w and 4 others 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 On 1/31/2021 at 1:06 PM, somewhatfoolish said: Helensburgh seafront, circa 1953 That's quite interesting - I'm sure that's yon mine that was at the putting green opposite Dino's in the 70's and 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Very likely; I put a few pennies in it myself after pestering granny for change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 On 2/2/2021 at 12:45 PM, somewhatfoolish said: Dundee. Is the Humber still for sale??? RayMK and martc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 20 hours ago, martc said: Shit quality zoom-in but WTF is it?? I don't know, looks a bit like a Mk1 Scirocco panelled as a van. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Testing a prototype F-type Victor. The thing on the roof is an antenna to send suspension readings back to HQ at Luton. I can't get that Telstar tune out of my head now. Pic and info from Vauxpedia. Amishtat, adw1977, LightBulbFun and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 19 minutes ago, JeeExEll said: Shit quality zoom-in but WTF is it?? I don't know, looks a bit like a Mk1 Scirocco panelled as a van. Looks too upright to be a Scirocco to me. I reckon a kit car, but no idea what. JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Eye-catching black and whites I rest my case, your honour. JeeExEll, Remspoor, RayMK and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeinabz Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Dundee.I was wondering with the mini being an Aberdeen reg. ThanksSent from my iPad using Tapatalk JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pastry Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Not Railshite or Aeroshite, so maybe it belongs here. Not sci-fi either, this was an actual thing. The Bennie Railplane. Skut, uk_senator, eddyramrod and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 3 hours ago, JeeExEll said: Shit quality zoom-in but WTF is it?? I don't know, looks a bit like a Mk1 Scirocco panelled as a van. Given its 1990 by the Tory party advert, Matra Simca Bagheera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 4 hours ago, eddyramrod said: Eye-catching black and whites I rest my case, your honour. Mean while back in Blighty RayMK, eddyramrod, artdjones and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Mr Pastry said: Not Railshite or Aeroshite, so maybe it belongs here. Not sci-fi either, this was an actual thing. The Bennie Railplane. The first and last time cutting edge transport technology was developed in Maryhill. Skut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pastry Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 38 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said: The first and last time cutting edge transport technology was developed in Maryhill. You have to hand it to George Bennie for following his dream and actually getting the thing built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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