Eye-catching black and whites

[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?

[Remspoor]

On 2/15/2020 at 4:02 PM, lesapandre said:

Madrid 1950.

Note the Right Hand drive bus on the right of the photo.

Just like these ex LT trolleybuses, location North  of Spian

[somewhatfoolish]

Why did the Generalissimo prefer right-hand drive omnibuses then?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Why did the Generalissimo prefer right-hand drive omnibuses then?

They were going cheap?

There is some history of Britain and Ireland shipping pensioned-off transport equipment to Spain, mostly for scrap.

[martc]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Why did the Generalissimo prefer right-hand drive omnibuses then?

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest it was a conscious decision as it allows the driver to position the bus close to the curb edge to help the passengers to board/alight without falling into the gutter..

[lesapandre]

They were bought by a consortium of Spanish bus operators when London Transport modernised their fleet - they continued to buy them. At least one is preserved I believe.

Lots of old buses get exported of course to some odd places.

The Franco regime was not a strict command and control economy like some in Eastern Europe - there was an amount of free enterprise. The control would have been in obtaining the £'s sterling to buy the buses as Spain operated strict currency controls on the Peseta to protect its economy. 

[artdjones]

The Portuguese bought them new.So they could have them the way they needed to be.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

....Lots of old buses get exported of course to some odd places....

See Malta!

[martc]

4 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

See Malta!

See Maltese quarries.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 minute ago, martc said:

See Maltese quarries.....

Yes, Red Ken's bendy-bus was too much even for the Maltese.