Eye-catching black and whites

[lesapandre]

29 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

KKP1 a 1948 Bentley Mk6 chassis with a Hooper 'Empress' body still seems to survive. Given at the time it was worth more than two of the houses in the picture in SE London - it would have all been bent back into shape - probably at Hoopers at their Acton works - in Metroland. A very expensive car at the time - given that the owner did not opt for the 'standard steel' body but had a coachbuilt car made.

Here are some outside the factory:

[martc]

Reeth Green. the 1980s.

[somewhatfoolish]

On 1/4/2023 at 11:05 PM, sheffcortinacentre said:

Except it's Japanese & everyone knew it.

Didn't stop germans buying Dixis or japanese buying various licence-built Hillmans and Austins, evidence suggests most car buyers don't give a shit about such things.

[MiniMinorMk3]

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Pre health and safety

Post health and safety

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Pre health and safety

Post health and safety

Riddle airlines. “Welcome on board your flight to?.

My first is in …..

[Remspoor]

Keeping in with the theme that @MiniMinorMk3 is running here is another one of those "pesky foreign cars"

Leeidse Veer Utrecht

[Felonious]

Three photos of the Quai de Javel Citroën fatory in Paris. First one in 1956, the other two in the early 1970s.

[EML]

Grimsby lockhill roundabout 1983

Photo snaffled from the Gy Telegraph website

[MiniMinorMk3]

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[Austat]

 

[D.E]

[martc]

The Cotton Club in Harlem (Noo Yoik), 1938.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Norway 1969

[Dyslexic Viking]

Norway 1950s or 1960s

[MiniMinorMk3]

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[lesapandre]

21 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Norway 1950s or 1960s

Left over ex-German army Kubelwagens?

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Left over ex-German army Kubelwagens?

Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Oslo Norway 1962

[lisbon_road]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles.

May I ask how that works?  Would the Norwegians buy a new body from VW and fit it to an old Kubelwagen?  

[Dyslexic Viking]

7 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

May I ask how that works?  Would the Norwegians buy a new body from VW and fit it to an old Kubelwagen?  

Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong.

[Dyslexic Viking]

9 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong.

I can also add for those who don't know. These have a separate body and bottom part/frame, so it is possible to change the body. I don't know how well a beetle body fit a Kupelwagen bottom part, but Norway had creative and clever mechanics back then who could make most things  work.

Beetle bottom part/frame

[lisbon_road]

12 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong.

Perhaps then the owners of some very old beetles in Norway might not realise that parts of their cars are even older than they thought.  

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

Perhaps then the owners of some very old beetles in Norway might not realise that parts of their cars are even older than they thought.  

It is possible but I don't know how common this was. At least I have read about one that was rebuilt like this and there should be more.

One thing I came across now. In Narvik Norway 2012 they found and dug up a Kubelwagen that was buried in a garden in 1965.

[lisbon_road]

There are other examples of how shortage of money makes people innovative.  I've put here a picture of a bus on Malta, made from a 1959 Bedford SB chassis with a locally built body.  I am sure many of you know how famous the Malta bus builders were.  I suppose at the moment in the UK there are cars being fixed now that a few years ago would have been forgotten!

[Remspoor]

Barrow in Furness

[MiniMinorMk3]

20 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles.

Maybe they were/are a VW Type 82E, which is a Kubel chassis with a Beetle body. VW built almost 700 of them

[MiniMinorMk3]