Eye-catching black and whites

[JeeExEll]

1969.

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[HMC]

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

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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.

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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.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

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.

[JeeExEll]

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

[JeeExEll]

Vinyl roof HB.

[JeeExEll]

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