Eye-catching black and whites

[D.E]

2 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Good find.  Check out 1926 Buick Master.  

Looks like a match!

[phil_lihp]

We may have a winner!  That does look similar.  Well done!  It's been an education - apologies for thread de-rail.

[JeeExEll]

17 hours ago, phil_lihp said:

Ah thank you, that makes sense, the family were based in London at that time.  They seemed to be quite well off at that time, so I'm guessing the car is quite a posh one but I have pretty much zero knowledge of pre-war cars past knowing what a Ford Model T looks like.

Narrows down identifying old cars a little bit, sometimes.

https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-letters.htm

[JeeExEll]

Aftermarket padded fibreglass dash top designed for Cortina 1500GT gauges and a Mk1 Cortina 1500GT/Lotus armrest console.  Wonder what engine it had.  I'd be disappointed if I didn't hear the bark of twin 40s.

Just needs Deep Purple 'Smoke On The Water' at full volume.

Then converted to side windows.  Those banded rims must have been heavy.  Bit of negative camber at the front there, what a fantastic period van.

[Remspoor]

Good news for those who use the M25 today. The protests have moved "up North"

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, JeeExEll said:

Aftermarket padded fibreglass dash top designed for Cortina GT gauges and Mk1 Cortina GT/Lotus armrest console.  Wonder what engine it had.

Just needs Deep Purple 'Smoke On The Water' at full volume.

Converted to side windows.  Those rims must have been heavy.

Very Carlos Fandango.

[JeeExEll]

Late 60s.  Cortina had a V8, from memory a 289 or a 302,  and it was called the Fraud Cortina.  Some more info on old saloon car racing websites.

[martc]

[martc]

Bin workers strike, Glasgow.

[martc]

This is where 5G was invented, West Ferry Road, the Isle of Dogs, 1983.

[somewhatfoolish]

Bits of Glasgow still look like that, minus the seventies motors and flares. Flytipping is certainly still a popular sport.

  

3 minutes ago, martc said:

Bin workers strike, Glasgow.

 

[Skut]

On 9/19/2021 at 10:39 AM, Remspoor said:

Good news for those who use the M25 today. The protests have moved "up North"

German? reg plate on the Imp.

[martc]

16 hours ago, Skut said:

German? reg plate on the Imp.

Yes it's a German plate, probably from Bonn (BN-)

[Dyslexic Viking]

Volvo's PV 800 series was in production from 1938 to 1958 and was mostly aimed at the Taxi market. The pictures below are of the latest model PV 831-834 these had 3.6 liters 6 cylinders flat head engine and coulumn change gearbox. And were well known for being extremely durable and reliable many were still in taxi use well into the 70's.

 

Volvo also used this model as a base for the Volvo TP 21 (1953-1958) which had a 4x4 and was for the Swedish Armed Forces.

[Remspoor]

At first I thought this was a one way street. But there is a van parked with it's rear doors facing the camera. So WTF is the Bedford doing in the middle of the road?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

...WTF is the Bedford doing in the middle of the road?

Hoping to turn right?

[High Jetter]

Or just taking a racing line. Great pic tho

[STUNO]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

 WTF is the Bedford doing in the middle of the road?

Or maybe just following the Hillman in the middle of the road.

Local road rules !

[Austat]

[martc]

GAZ's 69 and 66 with track conversions for use in The North.

[martc]

Caution Drive Slowly.

The Lord Mayor’s Parade reaches Ludgate Hill, London in 1917, featuring a Mark IV tank to drum up support for the war. The Mk IV was Britain’s most produced tank of the First World War.

[Rab]

Sunbeam Talbot ..one of a variable crusty collection that sat in a field in my village..Strontian-1986..Funnily enough..Im seeing sound unloved examples going cheap in NZ...my bad habit...

[ETCHY]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Caution Drive Slowly.

The Lord Mayor’s Parade reaches Ludgate Hill, London in 1917, featuring a Mark IV tank to drum up support for the war. The Mk IV was Britain’s most produced tank of the First World War.

Fantastic image, thanks for that.

Imagine what that beasite would be worth today. The rhomboids were a great & rather futuristic shape, takes me back to when I read  " Charley's war" in Battle comic as kid.

[Remspoor]

[martc]

[martc]

[martc]

[martc]

GAZ-AAA produced from 1936 to 1943.

[martc]

Looks like an aero engine.

[martc]

Schleizer Triangle Race, DDR.