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Summerseat Estate, Bury, 1967.

Edit, it's Arlington Close if anyone wants to do the Googlestreets thing.

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The old 'Wile E Coyote' pay-&-go carwash trick.

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I've heard heard of 1950s car still being common in working class parts of London until the late 1970s.

Even if the weather is a bit kinder the the bodywork, the mechanical parts would have taken a hammering from the stop - start traffic. 

Saying that a lot of 1950s cars seemed to be a bit more over-engineered compared to ones built in the next two decades, and a bit more DIY friendly. 

When I was growing in Marple in the 1980s I don't remember many 1960s cars around, normally the odd bigger selling ones like Minis, Morris Minors, VW Beetles etc.  Even some early 1970s cars around were looking scruffy.

I remember my Mum pointing out a Mk3 Ford Zephyr on a drive & it looked totally different to anything else on the roads, even though it would have been about 20 years old at the time.  By contrast a car from 2000 normally doesn't look too out of place today!

[Amishtat]

There used to be a man round the corner from my grandparents who had a 1971 Morris Oxford from new until about 2000,I always used to look out for it on the way to school and back, it finally disappeared after I'd gone to university although it had had ripply aerosolled rear arches for its last ten years or so. 

[lesapandre]

Please take me home...

[Andrew353w]

I just LLOOVVEE these black and white pictures-they're so much more atmospheric than modern ones. As I'm over 60 I'm allowed to say that! 

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44 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Please take me home...

Exactly, how can you choose just one?  There's literally none of those I wouldn't take home (and I'm not even that keen on Heralds) 

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Cardiff was much less gloomy than Manchester in 1971.

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6 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Grassy front gardens as opposed to acres of gravel, tarmac or resin-bound extra parking.

What a refreshing change. Can I go back? 

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11 hours ago, lesapandre said:

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.

I've always had a soft spot for early post war cars (most fifties saloon cars are generally pretty ugly imho). But when I started driving (my driving license being dated from 27th June 1974) the emphasis in our household was economy, reliability with least maintainence, and a sensible turn of performance.  And with the latter goes ; decent windscreen wipers, steering, handling ..and brakes.  The mainstream side-valve cars pre-1960's cars simply didn't meet any  of those criteria.  

In my very-very  late middle-age   ..I still wanted a post-war car.  Without going too exotic - something like a Rover 12  is I think a right-elegant motor.  However with my size of feet - I think I'd miss the lower foot wells of a monocoque car.  Perhaps I can have one when I grow up !   ..And that'll be after the '60's driver's car I presently have an itch for. 

Pete.

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On 10/28/2020 at 7:27 PM, lesapandre said:

The original condition of the Victorian houses, all with their lovely uniform original sash windows - which at the time wd have been at least 70 years old even then.

Original sash makes such a difference to a period property. To me, 95% of Victorian properties now look completely soulless with their out-of-keeping upvc top-opener windows. If I owned that type of property, I'd like to think I'd endeavor to retain or replace with sash. 

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In case you're wondering,yes,that really is Jimmy Savile parading through Caerphilly in a Land Rover.

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