Eye-catching black and whites

[Remspoor]

9 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I'm trying to work out where this taken, it's possibly Goa or Pekalongan in Indonesia from a quick flick through my copy of Registration Plates of the World.

I'm assuming as the cars are RHD that it was a place that drove on the left, which rules Gibraltar out.

Dutch plates  G, for the province of  Noord Holland, that includes Amsterdam thus I conclude that this may be Schiphol. Just after the war the likes of MG were available only n RHD maybe the same with Wolseleys? These are Series III 12/48 which were made until '48.

[artdjones]

On 4/2/2020 at 10:24 AM, lesapandre said:

Mexico '30's bus conversion.

The County Donegal equivalent.

[Richard_FM]

20 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Dutch plates  G, for the province of  Noord Holland, that includes Amsterdam thus I conclude that this may be Schiphol. Just after the war the likes of MG were available only n RHD maybe the same with Wolseleys? These are Series III 12/48 which were made until '48.

I had thought they might be Dutch plates, I guess they had to buy whatever cars were available just after the war.

[Richard_FM]

7 hours ago, Austat said:

Filmed in 1987, set in 1969. There's a slight goof where some Fiestas and a Mk3 Escort are visable, one of which looks like an XR2:

Haven't heard of this film before so could be a good watch during isolation.

You can see some M25 signs on the motorway.

[lesapandre]

7 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

You can see some M25 signs on the motorway.

Film well worth seeing if you have not. 

[artdjones]

24 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

Haven't heard of this film before so could be a good watch during isolation.

Bring me the finest wines available to humanity!

[Richard_FM]

28 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Film well worth seeing if you have not. 

I’ve seen clips of it but can’t remember if I’ve seen it all the way through 

[Tayne]

9 hours ago, lesapandre said:

The reg may have been a fake one (edit seems it was its original reg and car belonged to Bruce Robertson) - but as the film was made very cheaply it may have just been an old Jag they picked up. Being such a cult movie I'm sure the fate of the Jaaag is known. I expect Uncle Monty's Rolls survives.

Bruce Robinson’s car was actually the Aston Martin (only visible for a moment), the Jag was just an old car they bought.

It does look more like a 25 year old car than a 7 or 8 year old car. The dent on the side was done by Paul McGann when he crashed it into a bin.

[Amishtat]

[Asimo]

Japanese Hillman!

And loads more at  https://ikuzawa.com/tetsu-ikuzawas-cars-life-style/  although it does sometimes get a bit colourful.

Just a little guy!

 

[Austat]

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[martc]

17 hours ago, Asimo said:

Japanese Hillman!

 

 

 

Isuzu made the Hillman Minx under licence from 1953 to 1962 when it was replaced by their first 'home made' car the Bellel.

They made the next, probably more recognisable, version of the Minx as well - (sos not B&W)

And this is what replaced it - the Bellel, again sorry about the colour, just get over it.

And while we're on about Isuzu they also built Japans first passenger car, a licence built Wolesley A6 (although they were called the Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd. which doesn't quite trip off the tongue). For the moaners - this is a black and white picture, it's just that some of it has been coloured in.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On 4/8/2020 at 11:39 AM, lesapandre said:

The reg may have been a fake one (edit seems it was its original reg and car belonged to Bruce Robertson) - but as the film was made very cheaply it may have just been an old Jag they picked up. Being such a cult movie I'm sure the fate of the Jaaag is known. I expect Uncle Monty's Rolls survives.

The  fate of Withnail’s Other Jag is very well known ( on here anyway) t made its way to Torquay then Chester before ending up 2 miles from the Penrith Tea Rooms and King Henry pub - yes Milton Keynes !

[Rab]

[Rab]

[Rab]

Sybill Lupp. NZ Racing driver and Jaguar dealership owner. One of her E types is in Whanganui. I actually saw it.

[Rab]

[Rab]

[Rab]

Manchester 1960s. Photo Shirley Baker

[STUNO]

2 hours ago, Rab said:

Sybill Lupp. NZ Racing driver and Jaguar dealership owner. One of her E types is in Whanganui. I actually saw it.

REDV12  also carried the plates LUPP1 and LUPP and in 2003 became REDV12 again, by 2015It is shown as only doing less than 100 km per year

[Austat]

[Remspoor]

On 4/8/2020 at 11:45 PM, Asimo said:

Japanese Hillman!

And loads more at  https://ikuzawa.com/tetsu-ikuzawas-cars-life-style/  although it does sometimes get a bit colourful.

Just a little guy!

 

Also see this post about YT.

 

[Rab]

New Zealand.1999

[Richard_FM]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/richard16378/albums/72157694849732544 after sitting around for two years I at last got round to scanning my copy of the 1973 Motor roadtest book.

Ideally I would have liked to have used an A3 scanner as the pages are somewhat bigger than my A4 one, but I've managed to get a decent-ish picture of each car tested.

The whole set is at the above link but I've included 10 of the best here:

 

[Austat]

[Austat]

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, Austat said:

Nice to see the CV ratings in use, I don't think we had the 782 cm3 (aka 782cc) 4CV in the UK.