Eye-catching black and whites

[Remspoor]

[BL Bloke]

Not exactly eye catching but it is black and white. This is me with my A35 van and a brand new MG Metro during an Austin A30/A35 club visit to Longbridge in 1985.

DSCF1251 by timothy jones, on Flickr

The visit included a tour of the assembly buildings where SD3 Rover 200s, Mini 25s and the yet to be announced facelifted Metros were being built. 

[LightBulbFun]

it is eye catching to think that your A35 van would have been "just" a 20 year old van then

where as a 20 year old van now is just something from the year 2000!

it seems like there was such a large gap between old and new back then, then compared to old and new now for the same time gap

[Skut]

4 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

it is eye catching to think that your A35 van would have been "just" a 20 year old van then

where as a 20 year old van now is just something from the year 2000!

it seems like there was such a large gap between old and new back then, then compared to old and new now for the same time gap

That's just what I'd been thinking. 20 year old cars now are just indisguishable street furniture, whereas the difference between a car launched in the early 60s and early 80s was huge. It was that disparity that got me interested in cars.

Odd considering how much longer cars stayed in production in those days. You'd think the more frequent model cycles of todays cars might allow even more dramatic change but it doesn't. 

Aerodynamics and CAD are in part to blame. 

[Remspoor]

7 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

Not exactly eye catching but it is black and white. This is me with my A35 van and a brand new MG Metro during an Austin A30/A35 club visit to Longbridge in 1985.

DSCF1251 by timothy jones, on Flickr

The visit included a tour of the assembly buildings where SD3 Rover 200s, Mini 25s and the yet to be announced facelifted Metros were being built. 

I done that tour too.  I was there are when the Acclaim was being manufactured.

Local MG club organised. Just wish I could have taken a camera as there were some fascinating imagery which I would have loved to have preserved.

[lesapandre]

Yes I had an A30 of 1954 in 1977 - 23 years old. With it's black paint, small back window, curvy looks, sit-up style and slow pace even then it seemed of an era long past. Yet today I have a W124 260E Mercedes that is 31 years old yet in looks and operation does not seem so completely 'out of date'. 

50's cars in the 70's all seemed (nice) curiosities even then to most.

Do you still have the A35?

[lesapandre]

Mobile medical...

[lesapandre]

Valencia - early 70's.

[Austat]

 

[keef]

12 minutes ago, Austat said:

Nice HL.

Yours?

GBK 987N

✗ Untaxed

Tax due: 
1 May 1985

Incorrect tax status?

MOT

No results returned

Incorrect MOT status?

[Austat]

12 hours ago, keef said:

Nice HL.

Yours?

GBK 987N

✗ Untaxed

Tax due: 
1 May 1985

Incorrect tax status?

MOT

No results returned

Incorrect MOT status?

It was the car my dad learnt to drive in, passed his test on the 14th of May 1980. His bearded collie "Angus" loved sleeping in the back of it!

[keef]

2 hours ago, Austat said:

It was the car my dad learnt to drive in, passed his test on the 14th of May 1980. His bearded collie "Angus" loved sleeping in the back of it!

Did Angus take any more pictures?

[Austat]

University students hang a FJ Holden motor car from Adelaide University footbridge, as part of a Prosh week stunt in 1971.

[Austat]

[Austat]

I've been trying to do some scans of German car magazines recently, I'll upload some more on the Shite Magazine scans topic when I can:

[JeeExEll]

Scanning people's thoughts in the 1960s.

[Richard_FM]

Here's a selection of Vauxhall publicity shots from 1992.

I was hopeful that the registrations would yield some interesting results, but they are mostly unissued ones from the DVLA, complete with Swansea codes.

K526XNK is the sole real one, being listed as a Grey Vauxhall Astra Convertible registered on 14th October 1992.

It's not on the DVLA tax checker, but the last MOT was on 11th December 2007, which suggests is was a victim of the scrappage scheme.

The full set is here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/richard16378/albums/72157713439626101

[Austat]

Capri prototype, 1968:

[Remspoor]

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[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Was this a Nancy Sinatra lookalike contest?

[martc]

^^^^ There's quite a lot of sheds and old ruins in those Vauxhall photos.

(just sayin')

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Was this a Nancy Sinatra lookalike contest?

Looks like a knobbly knees competition.

[Skut]

[Richard_FM]

45 minutes ago, Skut said:

The Gellar family’s first car.

[martc]

'Stop rubbing the car Uri... too late.'

[Remspoor]

On 3/21/2020 at 10:13 AM, Richard_FM said:

Was this a Nancy Sinatra lookalike contest?

Those socks were made for walking!

[Remspoor]

17 hours ago, martc said:

'Stop rubbing the car Uri... too late.'

Uri you wanker!

[Remspoor]

USA  in the 70's