Eye-catching black and whites

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3 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

Are you thinking Hillman Super Minx or a Humber Sceptre? The rear window looked raked to me, a la Ford Consul and Anglia, but I'm not sure....

It's a Consul Classic

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2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Vauxhall Cortina?

Aye - there's one right there next to Mr Blues  

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4 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

 

Bloody 'ell we've seen some Wollarding phails recently, but this takes the biscuit.

[martc]

Percy Street, NuT, 1972.

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Osterburg, 1959.

[Rusty Pelican]

5 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Yes the Stiletto was made as Rootes/Chrysler attempted get a few more sales out of the Imp design and to part fill the gap left by the discontinuing of the Sunbeam Alpine sports. Presumably to keep dealers with something to sell.

Made 1967-72. About 9000 made. And introduced a long-time after the original Imp appeared in '63. 

So at about 1800 cars per year can hardly have been worth it. It shared the Hillman Imp Californian shell - which was an Imp without the rear hatch and with less headroom in the rear - so not a great move really.

By the the late 60's all this Rootes badge engineering was getting pretty desperate - and sales were dismal. By comparison BLMC made 278,000 Minis in 1970.

But nice cars but dogged by their reliability and image problems. Such a pity as they were classy in the Rootes way and had pretty good performance. But really too little too late.

My first car was a Stiletto , bought for £60 in 1980

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22 minutes ago, Rusty Pelican said:

My first car was a Stiletto , bought for £60 in 1980

That picture just catches the whole era for me

(Mine was a Vitesse Mk 1 (2 litre mind). My hair was shorter but the clothes match. I never did go for the danglies on the mirror there tho' )

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9 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

It's a Consul Classic

And I claim my £5!

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This years entries in the Synchronised Woolarding

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And now the solo entries

[Asimo]

[EML]

J.R.Ewing caught Woolarding

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Swedish scrap yard 1950s and it is a very special and unusual vehicle in the picture, does anyone notice it?

[Asimo]

Tatra 600!  (Next to the Citroen)

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[Remspoor]

Emmen, The Netherlands

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Hotel Rossiya, Moscow, 1975.

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11 hours ago, Asimo said:

2600cc in a pushbike frame? I thought it would be faster!

 

[lesapandre]

 Allard Clipper 1954

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[D.E]

Monkey Charley escaping his owner who wants to bring him to Calderpark Zoo in Glasgow. In the end he was caught in a garage. Scotland, Glasgow, 22 November 1971.

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[Andrew353w]

8 hours ago, uk_senator said:

I worked in Edmonton Fore Street,  just round the corner from here in the early 1980s; I drove a Ford Escort as the time...... but that's not it!

As an aside, one day a member of Autoshite is going to spot their own (or, more likely, their parents'!) car in one of these pictures! 

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