Eye-catching black and whites

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Is this one of Gulbenkian's weird creations?

It’s a Winchester Taxi, which used a fibreglass body but was underpowered because it used a 1.6 litre Diesel engine & later a Ford petrol unit of the same size.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 hours ago, Austat said:

Henry Taylor driving a Ford Cortina down the olympic bobsleigh run at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Cortina was also one of the locations used for the first Pink Panther film.

#uselessfact

[Austat]

Diahatsu Camagno Berlina, first Japanese car to be sold in the UK.

[Richard_FM]

6 hours ago, Austat said:

Diahatsu Camagno Berlina, first Japanese car to be sold in the UK.

The had a stand at the 1964 motor show, but did this generate enough interest for them to actually sell many cars?  This effort didn’t seem to last long & it wasn’t until the late 1970s that they tried again.

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

They had a stand at the 1964 motor show, but did this generate enough interest for them to actually sell many cars?  This effort didn’t seem to last long & it wasn’t until the late 1970s that they tried again.

CGH 7B is the only surviving British Compagno, I think, and Daihatsu own it as part of their heritage collection. Took them years to find it, and I don't think they will ever part with it now; it's just too important historically. They do run it from time to time, just not very often.

[Richard_FM]

31 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

CGH 7B is the only surviving British Compagno, I think, and Daihatsu own it as part of their heritage collection. Took them years to find it, and I don't think they will ever part with it now; it's just too important historically. They do run it from time to time, just not very often.

I've heard about collectors going out of their way to find early Japanese exported cars.  I've heard some interesting ones have turned up in very rural areas where it would cost more than the scrap value of a car to tow it to the nearest scrapyard, so have just been left at the edge of a field or farm yard, or even in a barn under a tarp.

When these dried up the collectors had to start going to the commonwealth countries to find some hidden gems.

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[RayMK]

Is that a motorcycle and sidecar in front of the Lloyd?  I love these old street scenes.

7 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

 

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Yes. This is Madrid. It is possibly a Spanish built Motovespa with sidecar or similar.

The Renault 4CV cars were manufactured  in Spain by FASA (Fabricación de Automóviles Sociedad Anónima de Valladolid) a license having been obtained to allow local production of Renault vehicles - mostly CKD - this was to get round Spain's high import duties on foreign vehicles.

 

[Austat]

On 5/10/2020 at 7:49 PM, lesapandre said:

Interesting to see an advert for a western car in a Warsaw Pact country.

[Richard_FM]

Just now, Austat said:

Interesting to see an advert for a western car in a Warsaw Pact country.

Especially a coupe, I could understand it if it was Yugoslavia who were bit more relaxed on personal freedoms.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 hours ago, Austat said:

Interesting to see an advert for a western car in a Warsaw Pact country.

But did they actually sell any there during that era?

6 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Especially a coupe, I could understand it if it was Yugoslavia who were bit more relaxed on personal freedoms.

Not just Yugoslavia. East Germany and Poland both had limited imports of certain Western cars over the years. East Germany in particular had up to 5500 Citroen GSAs imported, plus some other brands - VW, Fiat, and Renault. This was possible via an East German catalogue company called Genex, whose function it seems to have been to facilitate "gifts" to East German citizens that could be paid for by their West German relatives. Very late in the day, you could even arrange to have a BMW E30 saloon sent to your relatives in the DDR.

How these cars were serviced / repaired after delivery and use was something I haven't yet found much information about.....

[Richard_FM]

5 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

But did they actually sell any there during that era?

Not just Yugoslavia. East Germany and Poland both had limited imports of certain Western cars over the years. East Germany in particular had up to 5500 Citroen GSAs imported, plus some other brands - VW, Fiat, and Renault. This was possible via an East German catalogue company called Genex, whose function it seems to have been to facilitate "gifts" to East German citizens that could be paid for by their West German relatives. Very late in the day, you could even arrange to have a BMW E30 saloon sent to your relatives in the DDR.

How these cars were serviced / repaired after delivery and use was something I haven't yet found much information about.....

I heard some eastern bloc countries had shops for luxury goods which had to be paid in “hard” currency.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

29 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

I heard some eastern bloc countries had shops for luxury goods which had to be paid in “hard” currency.

Yes, those would have been like the beryozhka shops in the Soviet Union

[Rab]

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[lesapandre]

Madrid

[adw1977]

23 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I heard some eastern bloc countries had shops for luxury goods which had to be paid in “hard” currency.

Intershop in East Germany (and some West Berlin railway stations)

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

[somewhatfoolish]

20 hours ago, Rab said:

Not at all dangerous or unstable* and the land rover's braking* and power-to-weight ratio wouldn't be affected in the slightest. 8<o

[NorfolkNWeigh]

20 hours ago, Rab said:

Interesting chrome wheel trim rings and front bumper. Wonder what that’s off? Presumably the 3rd overider is to hide the join.

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