Eye-catching black and whites

[martc]

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Grasmere Avenue, Leeds. The '70's?

[martc]

Ireland, 1971.

London, late 70's.

[martc]

America, the '30's. 

Disgrunteld girlfriend - 'all these cars look the same to me'.

Boyfriend 'don't worry hun, in the future all new cars will look completely different from each other, y'all'.

[Richard_FM]

Some recent purchases of mine:

[Remspoor]

[Asimo]

[martc]

^^^ The Honda CB750 won it's stand off against the Austin Cambridge and is still with us, or at least it's SORN'd.

The Toyota has expired, tax due 29/9/89 a mere 12 years old. Perhaps the weight of snow crushed it.

[somewhatfoolish]

Brave man if he's on 1978 bridgestone ditchfinders, if the 750 was anything like the 400/4 the old man had(riding in damp conditions often rendered it a 300/3 and occasionally a 200/2) the 'thrills' come thick and fast.

[Asimo]

[Richard_FM]

Anyone know what sort of radio this is from?

[ETCHY]

32 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

Anyone know what sort of radio this is from?

Is it a 1957 ish Vauxhall Velox.

[Richard_FM]

18 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

Is it a 1957 ish Vauxhall Velox.

Thanks for letting me know.

[DSdriver]

On 1/22/2021 at 7:34 PM, martc said:

Clacton-on-Sea, 1964.

one of my school mates wired up all the lamps on the front of his Lambretta and when switched on they reduced its forward momentum to a crawl.

[Minimad5]

On 1/23/2021 at 2:35 PM, Richard_FM said:

Some recent purchases of mine:

Is that a 2000e Sapphire ?

[martc]

3 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Brave man if he's on 1978 bridgestone ditchfinders, if the 750 was anything like the 400/4 the old man had(riding in damp conditions often rendered it a 300/3 and occasionally a 200/2) the 'thrills' come thick and fast.

My 400/4 had Avon tyres so I was lucky there, but the non-stick front disc led to some 'interesting' braking in the damp. It's damp starting was not brill either. It was replaced by a Moto Guzzi V50 whose cast iron discs and Brembo calipers and no-fault damp starting was a revelation.

[Remspoor]

[Garythesnail]

6 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

Is that a 2000e Sapphire ?

Right wheels, two tone paint job and ghia badge on the wing - looks like?

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, Garythesnail said:

Right wheels, two tone paint job and ghia badge on the wing - looks like?

The DVLA says it's a Ghia.

[Remspoor]

[Asimo]

[Asimo]

[martc]

Taxi drivers waiting for a fare, Noo Yoik City, 1994

[martc]

'Wapping'.  When = ?

[martc]

'Crossroad in the Russian Countryside' photographed by Yuri Pirogov  in 1991, yes 1991!

 

[martc]

[Remspoor]

[Richard_FM]

On 1/25/2021 at 3:49 PM, Asimo said:

ODU...P was a Coventry issue of May 1976.

[Skut]

On 25/01/2021 at 3:49 PM, Asimo said:

 

4 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

ODU...P was a Coventry issue of May 1976.

My dads Princess 1800HL was ODU 777P.

[martc]

Noo Yoik City, 1985, photographer Bene Taschen.

'This was the end of the SRO (single room occupancy) hotels. A lot of people on the edge would live in SROs. All the way uptown, and all the way downtown. Then they started warehousing the properties to make them all upscale like you have today. The SROs were a huge safety net for people at the bottom. Once they were taken away, a lot of people ended up on the street.'

[martc]

Ulan Bator, Mongolian People's Republic,  sometime in the 1960s.

Mum to young lad, second along 'What on earth are you doing? You'll trip over, loose your balance and walk into things. And you look like a zombie (whatever one of those is).'

Second lad along 'I've no idea what I'm doing Mum, but I think it'll be an important skill in about 50 years time'.