Eye-catching black and whites

[Asimo]

On 07/02/2021 at 20:04, somewhatfoolish said:

That is a sharp-dressed man with a sharp-dressed motor; Armstrong Siddeley Special I think.

I think I've read about this; did they do most of that distance on their own wheels and the CO was somewhat buccaneering?

That is Larry Gains, once British Empire heavyweight boxing champion.

I don't know what the car is, it is very low looking for 1932, an Invicta perhaps?  Or some exotic continental brand

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gains. https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/news-photo/american-boxer-larry-gains-in-london-with-the-car-he-has-news-photo/3416811

 

Another very hard to find book

  

tells the story, but yes, their CO was one of those hard to believe and unstoppable characters. Would make a great film!

[Remspoor]

[martc]

3 hours ago, Asimo said:

That is Larry Gains, once British Empire heavyweight boxing champion.

I don't know what the car is, it is very low looking for 1932, an Invicta perhaps?  Or some exotic continental brand

 

 

I think the car is a Lagonda 2 litre, with a coach built body. He had to chuck it when the kids came along, although how they all fitted in here is a mystery (perhaps it's just for the missus and the kids hooned along in the Lagonda with Dad, or did they sit in a dicky?).

And later, in the 60 or early 70's, amidst a forest of street furniture and photobombing Fords.

 

[Asimo]

I think we have a positive I.D. on the cool boxer's cool car: Jaguar! 

 

[Amishtat]

46 minutes ago, martc said:

I think the car is a Lagonda 2 litre, with a coach built body. He had to chuck it when the kids came along, although how they all fitted in here is a mystery (perhaps it's just for the missus and the kids hooned along in the Lagonda with Dad, or did they sit in a dicky?).

And later, in the 60 or early 70's, amidst a forest of street furniture and photobombing Fords.

 

And a PC Cresta estate! 

[lisbon_road]

Sweden I think.  Splendid Rover P4

[somewhatfoolish]

Sunbeam Talbot 90 on the right?

[Remspoor]

[Austat]

[martc]

Body weight check, 'Park Kultury' metro station, Moscow, USSR, the 1970's (?)

[martc]

Are we ready for another tour of that there London, before the gents gentrified it? This time those likely lads, Bobby and Billy are going to show us around...

The Borough of Brent. Are we ready lads? Better fill that pouch up with stones, I've a feeling there may be some water to throw them in later. Lets stop here to pick some up -

Notting Hill, the 1970's. Did the 'No Demolition' sign work? You decide. Right we've got the stones, let's go.

Limehouse Basin. Splash.

The Isle of Dogs. Splosh, splish. We've run out of stones, better get some more, lets go to a bit of rough land I know, but avoid the toughs at Piccadilly Circus.

Piccadilly Circus, 1980.

Phew we avoided the hard cases. Here we go,  Millwall Docks, pick up some more stones lads, lets go back to the water and throw them in.

Westferry, then back to Limehouse Basin. Plish, plash, plosh. Now wasn't that fun? Come down from the bridge, it's home time now, cheerio Bobby and Billy.

 

[martc]

Who's avoiding who? Somewhere in Spain, 1988.

[bigstraight6]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Are we ready for another tour of that there London, before the gents gentrified it? This time those likely lads, Bobby and Billy are going to show us around...

The Borough of Brent. Are we ready lads? Better fill that pouch up with stones, I've a feeling there may be some water to throw them in later. Lets stop here to pick some up -

Notting Hill, the 1970's. Did the 'No Demolition' sign work? You decide. Right we've got the stones, let's go.

Limehouse Basin. Splash.

The Isle of Dogs. Splosh, splish. We've run out of stones, better get some more, lets go to a bit of rough land I know, but avoid the toughs at Piccadilly Circus.

Piccadilly Circus, 1980.

Phew we avoided the hard cases. Here we go,  Millwall Docks, pick up some more stones lads, lets go back to the water and throw them in.

Westferry, then back to Limehouse Basin. Plish, plash, plosh. Now wasn't that fun? Come down from the bridge, it's home time now, cheerio Bobby and Billy.

 

Superb images from when London was interesting, it’s a dull place now though....

[Austat]

Dutch Datsun dealership in the Netherlands, 1977:

@Spottedlaurel

[Austat]

[Remspoor]

[Rab]

Armour plating and convertible is a contradiction in terms..

[Rab]

What General Franco felt most comfortable in as a daily to the shops

[Rab]

Sweaty corpse transporter.

[Three Speed]

On 09/02/2021 at 20:50, lisbon_road said:

Sweden I think.  Splendid Rover P4

This is the old bridge between Sweden and Norway taken when Sweden still drove on the left. Norway already / always drove on the wrong side of the road. The picture must be taken from the Swedish side and the bridge must follow Norwegian traffic rules. The dark square looks to have been the crossover point.

[martc]

Petrol station, Kiev, Ukraine,  built in 1979. Described as 'Japanese type design', I would suggest 'Mars type design'. It's still there, watch your eyes, not B&W, rather boringly the dangling filling pipes have been replaced by normal pumps, H&S gone mad.

http://wikimapia.org/3961536/ru/АЗС-«Авиас-плюс»

[martc]

Fidel Castro at Sverdlovsk Airport Moscow, USSR, 1963. He's walked straight past a Zil 111.

[martc]

Meanwhile, back in England.

[Mr Pastry]

20 minutes ago, martc said:

Meanwhile, back in England.

That's Ludlow, looking across to the Clee from Whitcliffe.

[Remspoor]

[martc]

[busmansholiday]

CBA to look up the exact date we hired Sheffield Transport 1012 (Weymann Fanfare bodied Leyland Leopard - in the middle of the picture) but it's probably 1970ish. The old Norfolk Arms, Manchester Road, Sheffield (A57 Snake Pass).

[martc]

Tracy Higgins - 'Outside our home in Custom House, East London. The street behind is being set up for a street party to celebrate West Ham winning the cup in 1965.'

Clement Royds Street Rochdale, 1994. Spot the nervous Mini owner 'keep that ball away from my car lads', whose car isn't on the Vehicle Enquiry website.

Ardwick Green, Manchester, 1970s.

[martc]

Japan, watch your legs on that exhaust pipe.

Motorbike football, sometime in the 1920's. Ouch, H&S yet to be invented.

Somewhere in France, 1954.

Could be Hardley Dangerous WLA's.

Brighton. 'Now then lads, don't kick anything off' 'OK Mum, you're the boss'.

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Clement Royds Street Rochdale, 1994. Spot the nervous Mini owner 'keep that ball away from my car lads', whose car isn't on the Vehicle Enquiry website.

Tis for me? exported tho curiously