Eye-catching black and whites

[martc]

[JimH]

Now pay attention while I explain why the diesel engine is rubbish.

 

[Asimo]

[martc]

[lesapandre]

Is that the Queen chasing?

[lesapandre]

Or PC Gussett apprehending one of the Great Train Robbers?

[martc]

Hungarian micro-cars, to whet your appetite, more pictures and a link in the 'cars I didn't know about' thread.

[High Jetter]

Just now, martc said:

 

Looks like that fell off a fairground ride!

[Remspoor]

12 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Is that the Queen chasing?

Looks nothing like Freddy.

[martc]

8 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Looks like that fell off a fairground ride!

Against the bus it looks like a prototype C5.

[lesapandre]

6 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Looks nothing like Freddy.

Monkey is singing:

🎵"I wanna break free"🎶

[Remspoor]

6 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Monkey is singing:

🎵"I wanna break free"🎶

or

Dee do de de dee do de de
I don't have no time for no monkey business
Dee do de de dee do de de

[Richard_FM]

5 hours ago, Asimo said:

This wasn't the best engine from Cummins, & some Roadliner operators managed to shoehorn a Gardner unit in the engine bay to keep them going.

[Remspoor]

[somewhatfoolish]

12 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

This wasn't the best engine from Cummins, & some Roadliner operators managed to shoehorn a Gardner unit in the engine bay to keep them going.

Small V8 dizzlers were a bit of a disaster, Perkins burnt their fingers too.

[JimH]

I was going to put this in the archishite thread but it caught my eye.

  

[JimH]

19 hours ago, martc said:

1953: Colin Chapman determines that it is possible to add too much lightness.

[Remspoor]

[martc]

The stone age meets the iron age.

Sculpture of a Neanderthal boy, recreated by anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov, based on the remains found during archaeological excavations. Photo by Evgeny Kassin, Moscow, USSR, 1965. And several Volgas.

[Remspoor]

[martc]

Elio Sorci was one of the world's first paparazzi. He captured the spirit of La Dolce Vita with his pictures of Italian and international celebrities in Rome during the 1950s and 1960s...

[lesapandre]

The name's Bond - Crushed Bond...

[lesapandre]

More woe - this time Shoreham.

[lesapandre]

La Dolce Vita - German style. Photos by Sigrid Neubert.

[lesapandre]

Austin Sheerline  with Australian built body I think.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 10/27/2021 at 11:09 AM, Remspoor said:

Bloody modern cars are so big. They fill parking spaces and dwarf everything else...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

 

On 10/22/2021 at 10:49 PM, JeeExEll said:

 

On 10/22/2021 at 11:58 PM, lesapandre said:

That's Halifax.

Tell me that pretty building on the right wasn't flattened...

[lesapandre]

On 10/27/2021 at 11:09 AM, Remspoor said:

That picture sums up the different  approaches to cars Post-War. 

Front 4-cylinder side valve water-cooled rear drive

Front 8-cylinder ohv water-cooled rear drive.

Front 4-cylinder ohv water cooled front drive. 

Rear 4-cylinder ohv air-cooled rear wheel drive.

There is also different iron and aluminium  engine configurations.

The similarity  is all are 4-passenger - and all have a luggage compartment when the hatchback was not popular yet.

[lesapandre]

Austin sports prototype - designed by Eric Neal at Jensen. Austin did not take this up preferring the Donald Healey car - which Jensen then assembled.

[Remspoor]