Eye-catching black and whites

[D.E]

Police brought a 'talking car' to Bonn Square in 1975

[martc]

On 02/02/2025 at 15:14, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Handles like a pig on stilts

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, martc said:

Handles like a pig on stilts

We bow to your porcine knowledge 😀

[Metal Guru]

On 02/02/2025 at 15:14, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Road hog!

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

On 02/02/2025 at 15:14, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Would you lot stop hamming it up!

🙃

 

Car is a BSA.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Bacon SArnie

[DSdriver]

On 26/01/2025 at 15:32, martc said:

Chicago, 1924, a car wash designed to clean cars undercarriages as most roads were still unmetalled back in the USA.

Will it get the salt off? Could be a new 'thing'

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Bacon SArnie

Bump Starting Again

[martc]

16 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Will it get the salt off? Could be a new 'thing'

In most of the handbooks I've had they mention regular washing of the underneath as pat of the anti-corrosion warranty, but with no explanation of how you do this. Squirt a hose pipe upwards from pavement level?

Some sort of water trough would be ideal (although I wouldn't do it with the Ora...).

Or you could DIY...

 

[Metal Guru]

On 05/02/2025 at 13:17, martc said:

In most of the handbooks I've had they mention regular washing of the underneath as pat of the anti-corrosion warranty, but with no explanation of how you do this. Squirt a hose pipe upwards from pavement level?

Some sort of water trough would be ideal (although I wouldn't do it with the Ora...).

Or you could DIY...

 

A lawn sprinkler would do a good job.

[martc]

The first Viper that Alistair Miller campaigned for Wolseley comprised a big Hispano aviation V8 (Wolseley-made) stuffed into the chassis of the Prince of Wales’s old Napier shooting brake. 

[martc]

A 10 foot caravan made by Tom Propert & Son towed by a 1923 Fiat 510 Sports car restyled by Tom Propert, Sydney, 1939.

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

[somewhatfoolish]

The rare amphibious Consul Mk2 was sadly never put into production.

[lesapandre]

[lesapandre]

Fleamarket find - old snap of a 1953-57 Ford Anglia - on back reads:

"DONT BELIEVE IT, I AM NOT DRIVING - ONLY SWANK"    😂

[bigstraight6]

On 14/02/2025 at 20:48, Remspoor said:

OMG! Climate change catastrophe, oh hang on that picture appears to be a long time ago.

[lesapandre]

I looked on Google Earth - there does not appear to be any obvious source for that flooding - though there was a gasworks to the left at the time. To the right there is a railway embankment - so maybe a subterranean drain or even a burst main.

The pub is still going. A live music venue.

Past anomalous weather events are no measure that the climate is not currently changing.

[martc]

1932 Bugatti Type 41 Royale Cabriolet (by Weinberger), chassis number: 41121 on it's way to that America owned by Dr. Josef Fuchs, a wealthy Surgeon from Munich. It suffered a piston seizure and left for scrap. Fortunately it was saved and is still with us, although now painted white.

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, bigstraight6 said:

OMG! Climate change catastrophe, oh hang on that picture appears to be a long time ago.

Thank you I have now lost a bet with the wife. She said that someone will post a comment about climate change and begin taken  too early.

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Stop monkeying around and just get in ffs!

[martc]

[martc]

[martc]

A Vernon Derby (ie a Derby imported into the UK by Vernon Balls) tackling a stage on the London-to-Land’s End trial in 1930.

Perhaps one for the cars I didn't know about util recently thread. The Derby was made in France although the company was controlled by us Brits. Details here -

https://www.uniquecarsandparts.com/lost_marques_derby.htm

A few have survived -

[martc]

Count de Cadignan at the 1903 Dourdan speed trials in a twin-crankshaft, opposed piston Bardon. The engine was built under licence from Gobron-Brillié, the inventors.

It was equipped with the 'Roussel' sprung wheels he manufactured in the mistaken belief he would put Michelin out of business.

[martc]

[martc]

Rolf Armstrong’s special was built on a shortened Duesenberg Model A chassis using a variety of parts, note it's got those Woodlight lights. It is believed that it survives.

Rolf Armstrong was a bit of a lad and made his money by painting pretty ladies he was known as the 'father of American pin-ups'.

more here - https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/artists/rolf-armstrong