Eye-catching black and whites

[lesapandre]

2 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

From Motor magazine, April 1939. (Text readable if you zoom in).

Inflation calculator shows £1 in 1939 = about £65 now.

Let's hope a few survive. The Rolls'spossibly - the Phantom 2 top right is magnificent. It is similar to this one which is 2 years later. Sold in the states for £85,000 and then again in the UK I think.

https://hymanltd.com/vehicles/5843-1932-rolls-royce-phantom-ii-sports-saloon/

Rolls are pretty much documented so possible to trace. Standard and Wolseley probably not - the Morgan, Aston Martin, Bentley and Frazer-Nash might as they were all enthusiasts cars and raced etc. 

Oh for a time machine tow truck. 

 

[JeeExEll]

Lancia Beta Mizar.  Gullwing doors for all the family, including the dog.

"Watch your fingers kids, I'm going to press the close button NOW!!".   Crrrunch.

You wouldn't want one with rotten sills.

[St.Jude]

Not quite eye catching, but I took this of my Peugeot 107 the other week.

The film I used for the photos - Kodak TMax 400 - expired in 1999. So the film was older than the car itself, as well as the camera.

 

[keef]

1 hour ago, JeeExEll said:

Lancia Beta Mizar.  Gullwing doors for all the family, including the dog.

She don't look that bad!

[JeeExEll]

It's seven minutes to two,

But what's in the box with the handle? Chocolate? Secrets? Maybe a 50p coin.

[lesapandre]

Catford London. Demolished 20 or more years ago. Built in '36.

[lesapandre]

Citroens in the Sahara.

[martc]

7 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

It's seven minutes to two,

But what's in the box with the handle? Chocolate? Secrets? Maybe a 50p coin.

In the box? The very big key for the very big clock.

[lesapandre]

Paris. 1977.

[lesapandre]

& 1959.

[lesapandre]

1977.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

31 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Paris. 1977.

The photo looks like one of the streets that was used in Ronin

[lesapandre]

On the hill up to Montmartre I think.

[Austat]

Rare Australian Skoda advert from late 1963, before they started using decimal currency (dollars) in February 1966 (hence why the price is in pounds):

They were sold in miniscule numbers.

[lesapandre]

On 2/9/2020 at 5:40 AM, JeeExEll said:

It's seven minutes to two,

But what's in the box with the handle? Chocolate? Secrets? Maybe a 50p coin.

Fitted luggage? There was a bit of an obsession with it in the 50's as a luxury - along with a heater, second sun visor and fancy hubcaps.

Usually very odd shaped suitcases to fit an odd shaped boot. Ever seen in a Rover P4 boot? Looks big but shallow with a weird humped base - hmmmm....could apply to the owner too.

[lesapandre]

Surbiton. Demolished 1998.

[lesapandre]

Madrid 1950.

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

[lesapandre]

'No need for the complications of better wheels, tyres, suspension or brakes' 

Allard, after they stopped making cars in around 1957, did quite a lot of auto-engineering on Fords...but it was all over by 1966 alas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allard_Motor_Company

[lesapandre]

20 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

A Viva with a V8. 

[JeeExEll]

Yes, that is correct.  Google Basil Green South Africa.  There have been a few similar spec cars in the UK, rally driver Jimmy McRae did some events in one a few years ago, probably not an original. It sounded fantastic.

Obvious solution to the lack of power and torque from a 1256.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Far as I knew there's one possibly 2 gen Chevrolet can-am firenzas in the UK. One has been here since late 81-2.

Was always led to believe that GM built them.

& basil green ( as he was a ford dealer & ex racer) built the perana mk2 3.0 cortina & half dozen MK3 3.0 V6 cortina before ford put the 2.5 & 3.0 V6 into production.

As well as the 5.0V8 MK1 Capri & Granada's, he reputedly built one mk2 Granada V8 & I think one Sierra sapphire V8.

As well as some MK3 escort GTs ( cam/head & twin down draughts).

LVX  781 J was one of the MK3 GT 2drs used in a pro-celebrity race a brands hatch in 71 & race proved used it to build the first MK3 savage, it was rumoured to have been in a bad accident severely damaging the shell in the late 90"s-00's the remains where forsale at one point with an estimated then a few years back it was for sale sometimes with mention of being "rebuilt with another shell".

[JeeExEll]

Always worth a repost.  I used to have this hanging in our kitchen.

[JeeExEll]

Well you can't say they haven't tried.

[JeeExEll]

It's a speed machine.

[JeeExEll]

L.M.Selby, get your Skodas and fags here.

'Twenty Silk Cut and a 4-door, certainly Sir, would you like a disposable lighter too, half price today only.  Now then, that'll be £1,312.18p please'.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Well you can't say they haven't tried.

The turning circle must have been excellent*

[somewhatfoolish]

Which episode of the A-Team is that from?