Eye-catching black and whites

[MiniMinorMk3]

@LightBulbFun

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[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

@LightBulbFun

We’re they made from a similar paper mache to Trabbies ?

[lesapandre]

8 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Mini 1000WX - number or car no longer on road. Sunbeam Rapier showing its elegant roof to left.

No longer seem to get old ladies like that...

[High Jetter]

13 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Corsair wheel trims?

[D.E]

Tennessee, 1987

[D.E]

[lesapandre]

P4 action there. Probably more than a 50%-50% chance car still with us.

[MiniMinorMk3]

32 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Corsair wheel trims?

Or Mk IV Zodiac

[MiniMinorMk3]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

We’re they made from a similar paper mache to Trabbies ?

GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic)

[Madman Of The People]

1 hour ago, D.E said:

Tennessee, 1987

 

The spire-like structure in the background marks the entrance to the old Belle Meade Theatre on Harding Pike in Nashville.  It opened in 1940 and is one of the few remaining examples of Streamline Moderne architecture still in existence.  The cinema closed in 1991, after which the interior was repurposed as a bookshop.  I was a regular customer when it was a bookshop, but it closed sometime in the early 2000s.  It then served a brief stint as a supermarket before going vacant yet again.  Property developers and historic preservationists have been fighting back and forth over the fate of the Belle Meade Theatre ever since.

Also now exceptionally rare is the US-spec Peugeot 505 in the foreground, undoubtedly originally sold by the former local dealer, Madison Smith's Superb Motors.  The former dealership building on Lafayette Street has also stood vacant for years, which is strange because it sits on a prime piece of real estate, just behind the new convention centre.  My old 405 estate (one of only around 1,000 in total sold in the USA) was originally sold there and I used to go there for servicing.

The 505 saloon is a 1984-on facelift model with the square sealed-beam headlights set inside opaque surrounds intended to mimick the look of the European headlights.  Pre-facelift US-spec 505s had four round headlights.

 

[Remspoor]

[Madman Of The People]

9 hours ago, D.E said:

Tennessee, 1987

I just took a photo from the same spot today…

 

[Madman Of The People]

And here’s the entrance to the cinema…

[sheffcortinacentre]

9 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Or Mk IV Zodiac

Only the very early ones had 13's most were 14 in ,pubic hair 2000E had 13s

[sheffcortinacentre]

9 hours ago, D.E said:

Omg nowadays a thick frost & the country grinds to a halt.

[Shite Ron]

[Asimo]

This Stig, not the Stig in a Simpson helmet.

 

[lesapandre]

55 minutes ago, Shite Ron said:

Mercedes 600 in the background. Very rare in the UK then and now.

[sheffcortinacentre]

6 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

Made it to Nov 85

[lesapandre]

[Westbay]

On 04/01/2025 at 23:15, MiniMinorMk3 said:

@LightBulbFun

I thought I told you not to fart when your in the car !

[Vantman]

[JeeExEll]

Elvis would have been 90 today, 8th January.

[Metal Guru]

14 hours ago, Vantman said:

Elvis has left the building. ( without his car keys).

[MiniMinorMk3]