Eye-catching black and whites

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4 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

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

Don’t worry , it’ll still rot away before your eyes just like a proper British car.

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Resident's parking.

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10 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Crunchy sills.

This picture should be a lesson to those that insist on putting inappropriate black plates on 70’s cars.

This dude has spent a fortune painting and customising his Cortina- racing mirrors, aerial , door bump things and what looks like a parking light or strangely positioned  indicator repeater. The icing on the cake ? Reflective number plates.

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This is quite high up the 'grim'-scale.

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Vinyl roof HB.

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No vinyl roofs left.  'Fuck it, we'll have a bonnet stripe instead'.

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Garage seen in an earlier pic, (tatty Zodiac), with added yummy-mummies.

I would have been about the age of those kids in 1972.  This era was my introduction to cars, aged 4.

[busmansholiday]

1 minute ago, JeeExEll said:

Garage seen in an earlier pic, (tatty Zodiac).  Now with added 1972 yummy-mummies.

Treble Green Shield Stamps, now that was an offer worth taking !

[busmansholiday]

On 10/28/2020 at 8:46 AM, JeeExEll said:

Those fibreglass cab Scammels were a beast to drive, and foooking hot in summer, trust me.

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Who's Dad is it?  Come on, has to be someone on here.

 

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[somewhatfoolish]

5 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

The Wolseley doesn't look long for this world, nor does the bogie that lad's pushing.

[lesapandre]

21 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

 

Amazing stuff. What is very noticeable is how many cars have been personalized or altered in some way - the Cortina for example has some sort of sports steering wheel - unless it is original? And note the ariel punched through the scuttle.

Or the cars have bodged repairs. There are very few 'old cars' - 50's and before and where the are to be seen they are in scrap yards.  Some of it to do perhaps with the local climate - me starting driving in the 70's - there were still quite a lot of 50's cars about in London -I had a few and they were not difficult to find. But its drier here and less salting of roads in winter. Going from Manchester up towards the Pennines  the weather can be brutal - and it must have been so for many rust-trap cars.

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22 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

 

Have some of these pictures been made to look grimmer than they really were?Or maybe the photographer only took photos on gloomy days.If you look closely,this is quite a nice road 

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12 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Have some of these pictures been made to look grimmer than they really were?Or maybe the photographer only took photos on gloomy days.If you look closely,this is quite a nice road 

You are right - it does depend what the photos were taken for.  If they were taken say by the Manchester Corporation official photographer they could have been to do with redevelopment - pictures of the worst grot- spots or areas earmarked for demolition or identifying other problems. All photography has a 'point of view'.

An amazing snapshot of a time and place - how easy to forget how different the recent past often was. In contrast David Bowie was singing Ziggy Stardust around the time some of these were taken.

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Official dignitaries taking part in some sort of function, or maybe some well-dressed giffers on the way to a blag.  Same thing really.

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RaTt loOk dubber.

[martc]

2 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Resident's parking.

I hope those garages are only half built.

Frustrated Anglia owner - 'I don't understand it, it's only 5 years old and the back half has rotted away already'