Eye-catching black and whites

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[somewhatfoolish]

On account of the scottish bladder worriers gaining a rare win;

[warch]

I love the good old days when footballers had to peddle stuff like this for drinking money.

I recall reading an old Shoot annual from the 80s which had a feature on promising young footballer Peter Beardsley. He was driving a Renault 11, which the local dealership had supplied, presumably gratis as it had the dealer's name in two foot high letters on either side.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

26 minutes ago, warch said:

I love the good old days when footballers had to peddle stuff like this for drinking money...

I think Ford supplied Cortinas to the 1966 World Cup squad.

[lesapandre]

On 11/11/2020 at 7:26 PM, martc said:

Those Victors are perilously close to the sea, you can almost hear the fizzing starting. Is that an Austin/Nash Metropolitan being lifted in the background?

(at least the car is in b&w)

The Vauxhall was massively sucessful - 380,000 sold in all.

http://www.vauxhallvictorclub.co.uk/history/salute-the-victor/

I remember them in the 1960's - Mr Millar who lived next door had one. Very rusty - this would be about 1967. The chrome went particularly badly. But in an era when cars were only expected to get to 10yo I'm not sure it really mattered - it was still in use. The estate car was particularly nice.

They were exported to the USA too.

[lesapandre]

Berlin 1945 -  these  are at the airport awaiting the arrival the Allied Governors .

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[martc]

Real winnerz drive Ladas.

 

[lesapandre]

Another 1945 Berlin shot. The tank is British from WWI - a MkV I think - one of two kept in Berlin as a museum trophy in 1918 and then used briefly in the defence of Berlin in 1945*.

*easy to see how conspiracy theories and urban myths can evolve when the full understanding of  the context of a photo is not know. A WWI tank in a ruined Berlin - seemingly impossible.

Bottom shot is probably the other.

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

They were exported to the USA too.

I think that's where these ones may be going.

[artdjones]

9 minutes ago, martc said:

Real winnerz drive Ladas.

 

Somehow, I find it hard to think of Frank Worthington as a Lada driver.

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[lesapandre]

1 minute ago, artdjones said:

Wonder where the Austin Princess was off to. A funeral or pick Dylan up?

[lesapandre]

53 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

 

The late great Jim - super pundit and very enjoyable to hear. Much spoofed too - but that's fame. 

[artdjones]

1 minute ago, lesapandre said:

Wonder where the Austin Princess was off to. A funeral or pick Dylan up?

Don't know, but it's leaving Cardiff quickly. Fifteen years previously Cardiff stopped at the bottom of the hill and the hill was in Monmouthshire which at the time was in England by some reckoning.

[lesapandre]

2 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Don't know, but it's leaving Cardiff quickly. Fifteen years previously Cardiff stopped at the bottom of the hill and the hill was in Monmouthshire which at the time was in England by some reckoning.

It is bizarrely possible.  Shot was taken by Barry Feinstein on May 11, 1966 in the middle of Dylan’s World Tour. The previous night he had performed at the Colston Hall in Bristol, where he had been booed by those who did not appreciate his move from an acoustic to electric sound. He is waiting for the Aust – Beachley  ferry to take him across the Severn estuary to Wales where he was booked to perform at the Capitol Theatre in Cardiff that night! They had to take the ferry as the Severn Bridge had not been finished then. You can just make out it’s unfinished form in the background. 

[artdjones]

This fellow got in the papers in 1967 for converting his front room into a garage for the Minivan with the flash mudflaps you see parked outside. I lived a few hundred yards away and regularly passed by on the way to my local rec.

Someone has had the sense to return the garage to living accommodation, but the house still looks spoiled.

[JeeExEll]

Old pic, DVLA says number not recognised.  Appliance wheels on a Zode estate, fabtastic, hope it had a Ford V8.

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Cardiff's Mayoral car, KG1. It spent many years in an underground car park at County Hall out of use, just being taken out for the MoT once a year. It may now be on display at Beaulieu? If you look closely it has the usual Spirit of Ecstasy replaced with a dragon. The dragon had a red tongue, the only spot of colour on the car.

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[DSdriver]

Is it because modern cars are much wider or have roads got narrower. Or is it because they now have cars parked all along both kerbs that you lose the perspective?

[Andrew353w]

8 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Is it because modern cars are much wider or have roads got narrower. Or is it because they now have cars parked all along both kerbs that you lose the perspective?

Cars are now wider! My Daf 33 shoots through width restrictions around my town which I crawl through in my Subaru. I am also of the opinion that driving standard are not what they used to be, but that's a whole new discussion....