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Old Melbourne B&Ws:

Toddler playing in his toy car on a deserted Collins St, 1955:

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Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1971:

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A flooded Swan St in Richmond, 1962:

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Taxi Rank outside of Flinders Street Station, 1950s:

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Melbourne Metro Board of works sends a fleet of water patrol cars to catch people using sprinklers and hoses during water restrictions, December 1972:

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Sydney Road, Brunswick, 1964:

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On 6/24/2021 at 6:43 PM, lesapandre said:

The supercharged engine and chassis were then reused in Avanti...these were the one of the fastest US cars at the time.

The fastest car in the world, full stop, although there is some debate about how fast it really was. The official figure was 178mph but I think it's generally accepted the figure was probably about 10mph less - still, a mind boggling number for a standard 1963 production car. A factory-modified car was just shy of 200mph at Bonneville...

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7 hours ago, Amishtat said:

That's a Singer Vogue with those tail lights.. Which doesn't alter your conclusion one bit. 

Ah... the olden days... when you could brandish a gun at an airport and people just laughed.

I've also just looked up the Minx/Vogue...the Minx got one piece tail lights whereas the Vogue got separate round lenses in exactly the same slot...no wonder Roots went bust...

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1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Avanti are very nice. They look a little gooney in photos sometimes but lovely in reality.

Various states of tune -R1, R2 and R3.

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This was in France in '18.

Probably the best-looking American car of all time, perhaps just tied with the original clap-door Continental. I'm semi-kicking myself for not buying a scruffy but sorted supercharged Avanti a few years ago. It was £20k, which seemed like a lot at the time but in hindsight was probably a bit of a bargain.

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They are not too pricey in the States still but mostly are the later non-Studebaker versions. 

Myself I fancy the last of the Hawks with the squared roof - but even the Lark could be bought supercharged I think - Studebaker were in such poor shape I think they would custom-make cars to customer specification.  Most use basically the same V8 in various capacities and states of tune except the the Golden Hawk,  which is fitted with Packard's big-block  275 hp 5.8 L V8.

All are interesting cars. But like most US cars of the era they are much bigger in the metal than they appear in photos.  The Avanti is about the size of a Jensen Interceptor - the Hawks are a bit bigger.

I took quite a few pictures of the Avanti. It was on both US and French plates - it was an R3...absolutely as new. The owner was very nice to meet and was not at all precious about the car. If I see him again I will ask for a drive...

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10 hours ago, Skut said:

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This confirms what I had thought was an "urban myth" regarding the manufacture of Bubble Cars in the U.K. The "myth" was that B.R. sold their Brighton engine depot to the company planning to build the cars, but the company omitted to check there was any road access to the site-there wasn't! Consequently ALL the component parts, as well as the finished cars, had to arrive and leave by goods train! Result: a load of extra revenue for B.R.!

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1 hour ago, Andrew353w said:

This confirms what I had thought was an "urban myth" regarding the manufacture of Bubble Cars in the U.K. The "myth" was that B.R. sold their Brighton engine depot to the company planning to build the cars, but the company omitted to check there was any road access to the site-there wasn't! Consequently ALL the component parts, as well as the finished cars, had to arrive and leave by goods train! Result: a load of extra revenue for B.R.!

Still an urban myth I'm afraid. Ronnie Ashley knew exactly what site he was leasing and had toured it several times before production was set up. He viewed the rail-only access as a major plus point - the cars could be loaded up in the factory and taken directly to London by rail, where they were then distributed to dealers.

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On 7/8/2021 at 6:09 PM, JeeExEll said:

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George Oslington was a fog-traffic-director for almost 50 years, man and boy, (hardest game in the world)..  Sadly he was pancaked by 2 sets of nearside bus wheels in 1960 about 2 seconds after this pic was taken. 

The photographer took the next bus.

Never realised that the 15 went to Kew Green.

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