Eye-catching black and whites

[Metal Guru]

8 hours ago, Bfg said:

Even in my dreams I cannot imagine being so stylishly wealthy as to drive something like that ..in context of it being a 1936 motor vehicles.  Clearly I too was born on the wrong side of the tram lines.  As an appreciative onlooker - I'm very glad such things as Bugatti ever existed ..but it's as far from my reality as owning and frequently flying off in a Lear jet. 

I guess the Jaguar XJ220 was the last really stunning car of style that 'wow'd me  (most modern cars look like Chelsea tractors to me) ..and yet I see from wiki that its production period dates way back to 1992-94.  I really am a c.20th dinosaur.!   

But that Bugatti was is still extra-ordinary 87 years on. Wow !

Thanks for sharing this photo

 

I think Morgan were inspired by this in creating the Aero 8, but got it badly wrong with the cross eyed look.

[Austat]

[MiniMinorMk3]

If money is no object then you might like one of the splendid creations by Figoni et Falaschi. 

Here's a Delahaye 175S.

[Bfg]

6 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

money is no object ..

..to be found in my wallet !

[Bfg]

19 hours ago, martc said:

If you can't stretch to the Bugatti try the positively proletarian Voisin C28 Aerosport -

I think you'd still need to be stylish though...

In 1936 this too would have been something exceptional  ..not least because the wings were streamlined into the body tub, which with its art~deco architectural influences were very advanced for car styling of the day. 

Unfortunately the designer appears to have lacked he ability to sketch in 3d.  As an engineering drawing from the side, front, rear, or top the lines work ..but that low flat screen and the bonnet line didn't work with the curves of the slab sides, and the glazing to body proportions were odd from anything but a high-up three-quarter rear view.  Its saving grace is however when the roof is opened, and there was almost nothing of a header rail ..a refined detail.  Perhaps this was a car that is much better appreciated from the driver's seat ?  Its interior is simple but beautiful in the geometric deco style.

[Bfg]

On 4/3/2023 at 2:53 AM, Metal Guru said:

I think Morgan were inspired by this in creating the Aero 8, but got it badly wrong with the cross eyed look.

I think probably not, they already had their Morgan plus 8 and so sought to jump on the modern-retro band wagon.  Sadly it ended up looking like a fibreglass kit car.  Possibly the reason for that is its blobbiness (..lacking refining details), the excessive raking of windscreen and headlamps, and the avante position of the radiator grille relative to the front axle.  Try as the designers did they either weren't brave enough, or allowed to, move it that far back (as the Panther J72 did).   More Bat-mobile  than stylish imo.

[martc]

1 hour ago, Bfg said:

In 1936 this too would have been something exceptional  ..not least because the wings were streamlined into the body tub, which with its art~deco architectural influences were very advanced for car styling of the day. 

Unfortunately the designer appears to have lacked he ability to sketch in 3d. 

Oh well, looks like it's back to the Bugatti for all of us dreamers...

 

[Remspoor]

Bugatti? Don't worry Rodney next week we will be....Oh wait.

[somewhatfoolish]

Tideline on a Regal? 🤣

[High Jetter]

59 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Tideline on a Regal? 🤣

Yea, sporty M9, like the go faster side stripes. (Puffs on pipe...)

[Andrew353w]

13 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Bugatti? Don't worry Rodney next week we will be....Oh wait.

Anyone spot the express train in the background, hauled by 2 class 25 locos? 

I'll get my anorak and leave....!

[lesapandre]

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

The German North African campaign?

[Remspoor]

Stafford

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Stafford

Lady on the right there looks really happy*
Place I grew up in  - there's even a car or two in the picture.
Love the smoke from all the coal fires...

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

The German North African campaign?

Picture taken 1959 in Morocco by Paul Bowles writer and composer.

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Stafford

Zip-up brown fur lined suede bootees on right. I remember them well - and ladies on bikes with baskets...

Photo could anytime after 1968.

[Remspoor]

[busmansholiday]

9 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Is that a scene from Indiana Jones and the last Beetle?

[bigstraight6]

11 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

Anyone spot the express train in the background, hauled by 2 class 25 locos? 

I'll get my anorak and leave....!

I’m not sure, they look like class 26 or 27 locos which would be North of the border…

[warch]

Anyone know what this one off prototype is based on?

[EyesWeldedShut]

Looking at the front diff I'd go for a Land Rover FC101 

[edit] https://www.lrsoc.com/web/portfolio-items/photos-from-the-estate-of-andrew-barnard/#:~:text=1954 Land-Rover ‘Mini-Bus’ prototype - interesting

[EyesWeldedShut]

https://www.autoboerderij.nl/2020/11/26/land-rover-mini-bus-by-mulliners-of-birmingham/

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, warch said:

Anyone know what this one off prototype is based on?

Land Rover Series 1 LWB,

modified to make it Forward Control.

 

[warch]

Have a Landrover truck with special lowering rear suspension as a reward!

 

[Remspoor]

Breaking news.... men building the Tamar Bridge.

[Andrew353w]

Westward T.V. was established by Sir Peter Cadbury (he of the chocolate fame) and it was a great company, with an interest in the local area. T.S.W. (Television South West) who gained the franchise in 1982 were never as good at the local stuff. 

[Richard_FM]

5 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

Westward T.V. was established by Sir Peter Cadbury (he of the chocolate fame) and it was a great company, with an interest in the local area. T.S.W. (Television South West) who gained the franchise in 1982 were never as good at the local stuff. 

I heard he never forgave the IBA for not including Bristol in Westward's coverage, instead creating the HTV West sub-region.

[Andrew353w]

9 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I heard he never forgave the IBA for not including Bristol in Westward's coverage, instead creating the HTV West sub-region.

You have a point there. My late grand-father and father ran an electrical retail business in Bideford and were enthusiastic supporters of Sir Peter Cadbury and his plans-not least since a good local T.V. franchise would encourage sales of T.V.s! KERCHING! 

Oddly north Devon (but not the rest of the county) had the relative luxury of tow I.T.V. franchises; Westward T.V. from Plymouth and (as it was) T.W.W. (Television Wales and the West) from Bristol, which was transmitted from South Wales. 

I appreciate I've gone "off piste" rather here, so will take my anorak from under the pile of coats in the spare room and take my leave......

[Dyslexic Viking]