martc Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Osterburg, 1959. lesapandre, sheffcortinacentre, Remspoor and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Pelican Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 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 Yoss, Remspoor, bigstraight6 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 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' ) lesapandre and Rusty Pelican 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew353w Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 9 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said: It's a Consul Classic And I claim my £5! MiniMinorMk3, Remspoor, lesapandre and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 This years entries in the Synchronised Woolarding martc, lesapandre, Remspoor and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 And now the solo entries Remspoor, Asimo, lesapandre and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Remspoor, EML, lesapandre and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EML Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 J.R.Ewing caught Woolarding MiniMinorMk3, martc, Remspoor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Swedish scrap yard 1950s and it is a very special and unusual vehicle in the picture, does anyone notice it? lesapandre, RayMK, lisbon_road and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Tatra 600! (Next to the Citroen) Yoss, Dyslexic Viking, lesapandre and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 uk_senator, lesapandre, RayMK and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Emmen, The Netherlands Dick Longbridge, uk_senator, RayMK and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Andrew353w, Dyslexic Viking, lesapandre and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Hotel Rossiya, Moscow, 1975. MiniMinorMk3, Dyslexic Viking and lesapandre 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 11 hours ago, Asimo said: 2600cc in a pushbike frame? I thought it would be faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Allard Clipper 1954 MiniMinorMk3 and uk_senator 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Remspoor, Joey spud, uk_senator and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 RayMK, lesapandre, Remspoor and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 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. martc, MiniMinorMk3, Remspoor and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_senator Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 LightBulbFun, Andrew353w, MiniMinorMk3 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_senator Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Remspoor, warch, Dick Longbridge and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_senator Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 MiniMinorMk3, Remspoor, Fat_Pirate and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew353w Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 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! Remspoor, uk_senator and lisbon_road 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Remspoor and lisbon_road 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 sheffcortinacentre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_senator Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 7 hours ago, Andrew353w 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! So did I, at Halfords (when I was still at school!), I later worked at Ripspeed further down! (I`ve got more of The Angel Edmonton pre-underpass too, & weirdly there was a second of video footage there on one of the old Top Of The Pops 80`s programs a few weeks back!) Andrew353w, sheffcortinacentre, MiniMinorMk3 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 MiniMinorMk3, Dyslexic Viking, RayMK and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew353w Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Remspoor said: This thread's beginning to spook me.... Not content with showing a picture close to my former place of work in Edmonton, earlier, this is a picture of Gipsy Lane, Grays, which I recognise as being tantalisingly close to the industrial estate in Grays, where a branch of the trailer rental company T.I.P. were based, for whom I briefly worked in the late 1980s. Has someone access to my private life? Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 uk_senator, Remspoor and sheffcortinacentre 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Remspoor and sheffcortinacentre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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