Eye-catching black and whites

[martc]

A couple of strong German ladies carrying a Porsche 356 chassis outside the Porsche factory - year unknown.

[martc]

 'Military Highway Scout Kar (sic)' and its passengers stop for the view at Multnomah Falls, Oregon, USA, 1918.

America's first camouflaged automobile has been let loose, and is now on the war path. The inhabitants of the Pacific Coast from Seattle to San Diego swear they are "seeing things." A sheriff who has a record for pinching speeders is out after the camoufleurs who committed "camouflage" to prove that America's automobiles are as chameleon-like while on the war path as those in Europe.           Oakland Tribune, Oct. 28, 1917

        W.L. Hughson, of KisselKar fame upon the Pacific Coast, has donated the famous Kissel military scout car, recently used to blaze the "three nation run," to the government department having the new operations of "camouflage" in its charge. A committee of three prominent San Francisco artists will paint this car with color patches, which suggests nothing except the surrounding earth, trees, grain fields, sky, etc., making an exact facsimile of the cars now being used by the allies along the various war fronts                    Motor West, Oct. 15, 1917

Interpreting this I think it may be a civilian who has painted his car to look like an army scout car.

[martc]

Desmond’s Hip City. Brixton, circa 1970.

[martc]

Scrapped 10/11/1990.

Commuters at Churchgate Railway Station, Mumbai. 1996. Photo © Raghu Rai.

[martc]

[JeeExEll]

Imaginative repairs after a crash?

[Bfg]

7000 posts in this topic  ..nice one guys

[Mr Pastry]

[Rab]

Study of failed rescue attempt-Rover P5 Mk2A :Export.Porirua. NZ.2004

Major fuel blockage problem.Became garden gnome..sold...then prepped for the track last banger race....conked out at the beginning. Guilty as charged.

[martc]

Look at those prices, lets look inside...

It's literally a bun fight in there, calm down ladies there's plenty to go round. Later...

Darnall, Sheffield

[martc]

Cornwall, 1969.

[martc]

Motorcycles: making people happy since 1869

Especially on an Indian 101 Scout.

Bye bye, we're going now.

But only if you can start it (translate = 'we had a better childhood')

And don't drop it (Hammersmith, 1989).

[Bfg]

..why are kids naturally destructive ?  .sorry wrong thread , and possibly the wrong website for such questions !

[Bfg]

16 hours ago, martc said:

Bye bye, we're going now.

over here with that pump we have flat tyres !

[JeeExEll]

Well one of the reversing lights is lit, but I think they're being a tad optimistic.

'Who put that stupid barrier there anyway?'.   

May be best if you stick with the BMXs lads.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

5 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Well one of the reversing lights is lit, but I think they may be being a tad optimistic.

Maybe best if you stick with the BMXs lads.

Posh Alpine rattles past pretending it's not spotted the Escort in distress.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

17 hours ago, martc said:

Cornwall, 1969.

Any ideas on the story with this one?

[Bfg]

17 hours ago, martc said:

Cornwall, 1969.

While the Cornish farm lads are distracted with their own peculiar fun* with other sheep,  a couple of the local girls manage a quick get away !

[somewhatfoolish]

37 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Any ideas on the story with this one?

here.

Quote

Photo finish in the sheep-stakes as two Cornish girls race to the line on their wooly "steeds' . The sheep were bottle fed by them as lambs and cared for by the girls who rode them first for fun and later in agricultural shows. John Drysdale grew up in East Africa acquiring an early interest in both photography and animals. He trained at Guildford School of Art and has worked in photo-reportage, advertising and won numerous awards. But perhaps his most memorable work has been in the field of humour, working with children and animals in real life situations.

 

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Posh Alpine rattles past pretending it's not spotted the Escort  Carpri in distress.

FTFY

[busmansholiday]

On 3/3/2021 at 7:19 PM, martc said:

Darnall, Sheffield

That's where I originally hail from.

[Bfg]

 

3 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

That's where I originally hail from.

that's funny - i came from my mummy's tummy

[fatharris]

I always forgot to add these to this thread:

 

[DSdriver]

On 3/3/2021 at 12:54 PM, Rab said:

Study of failed rescue attempt-Rover P5 Mk2A :Export.Porirua. NZ.2004

Major fuel blockage problem.Became garden gnome..sold...then prepped for the track last banger race....conked out at the beginning. Guilty as charged.

Dual wall fuel hoses: The inner layer breaks away from the visible outside and gets sucked closed by the fuel pump.

[martc]

Tax due 1/10/86

Berlin

 

 

[martc]

Czechoslovakia, 1966

Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, 1960s

[somewhatfoolish]

35 minutes ago, martc said:

Berlin

 

My brother did major floorpan/sill surgery on his Metro 1.3S like this, we rolled it over onto a pile of old tyres and blankets; only set it on fire twice.

[martc]

'Kommunar Automobile Plant'. Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR, 1960, photos by Irina Pap.

Better known as ZAZ Zaporozhets; this is their first model, the 965. Despite the low tech and being the cheapest car you could buy, they were very popular and became 'the car for pensioners and intellectuals'.  Quite a large number of them were produced in variants for disabled people, with modified steering.

[Andrew353w]

8 minutes ago, martc said:

'Kommunar Automobile Plant'. Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR, 1960, photos by Irina Pap.

Better known as ZAZ Zaporozhets; this is their first model, the 965. Despite the low tech and being the cheapest car you could buy, they were very popular and became 'the car for pensioners and intellectuals'.  Quite a large number of them were produced in variants for disabled people, with modified steering.

As featured in the James Bond film "Die Another Day" (I think).........

[Rab]