Eye-catching black and whites

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[HMC]

[lesapandre]

3 hours ago, HMC said:

A Riley RM ragtop (edit - its an Alvis!)  second row. Now that is rare - hope it survives. An early Landrover too - might be about.

The rest I doubt - some notorious rusters there and the kind of cars that were deeply unfashionable by the 1970's to the local Bob and Thelma. Off to the crusher at the first sign of expensive trouble. The early post-war Oxford is quite an old car by then and completely outclassed with its sidevalve engine. But interestingly the two earliest surviving cars a both Nuffield products which were very well made. 

I'll take the Riley - but I can't see the price.

To compare prices a new Austin 1100 was about £1000 in 1972. 

Those prices probably reflect the fact the cars could be bought on credit by the uncredit-worthy and with some kind of comedy warranty.

The big Humbers were probably one of the 70's least desirable cars...guzzly rusty old-fashioned barges during the fuel crisis. 

The 'modern world' reflected by the new Anglia off to the right just out of shot - the 60's and 70's Fords made all the rest of this stuff seem very dull.

[artdjones]

MO Oxford on the far left of the middle row.

[hls1981]

Second from left in the second row of the Rootes dealer's second-hand car display looks to me like an Alvis TB21.   cf. 

from  https://alvisarchive.com/1950-1967-the-three-litre/the-tb21/  which says that  31 were built, making it considerably rarer than a Riley drophead or roadster of the same era.   The same page claims that at least 25 have survived, so the chances of the one in the photo still existing are pretty high, although it looks rather out of place on that forecourt.  I wonder if it was traded in for a Sunbeam Alpine.

The last Audax Hillman Minx estates retailed for £823 in 1962, so the one at bottom right, offered at £679, can't be more than a couple of years old in this photo, I would have thought.

 

[Skut]

2 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

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Superb pictures. Although the pictures do make me nostalgic it's also undeniably very grim. There is none of the modern tendency to prettify surroundings and be concerned about people's sensibilities.

The speed at which relatively new cars are falling apart is terrifying. It's no wonder some bread and butter cars from this era are so rare. 

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1969.

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[HMC]

That’s a bit unexpected- the Alfa (gulietta ss)?

[HMC]

6 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

1969.

We’ve got that ss Alfa (forget the name)but what’s far right facing away from the camera?

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Crunchy sills.

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[Richard_FM]

I've seen some of those photos on Flickr as part of the Manchester Archive.

[Bfg]

Aside from the first and second world wars it's pretty amazing that Britain / the British survived those years.  It all looks positively medieval to me ..and very depressing.  I also remember the seemingly endless dull and damp weather and dirty-brick buildings ..as m' Dad's family came from Redditch and I was living in Birmingham during this time.  Even Kodacolour Gold all too often seemed like Black and White.  I got out to work and live in Warwickshire ..and thereafter went to work in the U.S. where they had sunshine and blue skies  ..weird !

[artdjones]

It's only a fairly small part of Manchester,not the whole place.Applied to Cardiff it would be like basing your entire impression of the place on the strip between East Moors steelworks and Tiger Bay.

[martc]

10 hours ago, lesapandre said:

An early Landrover too - might be about.

Found it, at least a small rectangular piece of it has survived...

Sorted.

[lesapandre]

Superb pictures. Thanks for posting them.

[barrett]

10 hours ago, HMC said:

We’ve got that ss Alfa (forget the name)but what’s far right facing away from the camera?

It's an Alfa 2600 coupé.

Some really great photos posted on this last page, I really enjoyed that

[NorfolkNWeigh]

10 hours ago, HMC said:

We’ve got that ss Alfa (forget the name)but what’s far right facing away from the camera?

Based on the unexpected Sprint Being there , could it be a 2600 coupe ? Not sure about scale though, it looks quite small, the Bertone Guilin has a different tail light design.

 

Sorry @barrett posted at the same time!
Just realised if that is 1969 , the oldest that Zepyr could be is 4 yeas old.

Edited October 29, 2020 by NorfolkNWeigh

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[JeeExEll]

'Barclaycard welcome here'.

Drive away today, just pay the minimum payment to cover interest on the loan.  Forever.

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Some sort of new-fangled French spaceship with stuff on it called suspension.