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3 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I figured it's either the January Sales or maybe just Christmas shopping.
Went looking for one of the shitshow that was Christmas Shopping down Oxford Street in that there London - but found this instead.

It's billed as "1959, Oxford Street" - there are some Christmas decorations around.

I reckon it's taken from someplace around the M&S at number 173.  It is looking down towards Tottenham Court Road - car trying to join from the left hand side of the photo is in Great Tichfield Street (now pedestrianised) - building to the left of that car is still there and looks prettier these days in colour

Wot is the car? I reckon a Vauxhall Cresta or something but I have no clue on their stuff of that era?

PA Cresta/Velox.

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10 hours ago, Remspoor said:

If you call late 70s early 80s modern then so be it.

V reg Nisan/Datsun is from 79. Facelift police Transit from 77 to 86. Maybe around early 80s photo

MK2 fiesta is 83ish onwards & MK3 transit wasn't available til Creg so late 85.

[Andrew353w]

I would say it's more likely to be a Wartburg than a Skoda Octavia, as the rear light line looks less pointed than the Octavia's ones. Mind you, both cars were rare during their production runs and must have been vanishingly rare by the 1980s! 

In my years as a pump attendant I filled up one Wartburg and never, in my recollection, filled a Skoda Octavia! 

[Yoss]

I'm going with the Škoda. If you squint through the pixels you can sort of see the separate reflector under the main light. 

Which the Wartburg doesn't have. 

Plus the high waistline just looks more Škoda. On the other hand it could be something else entirely. 

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[Remspoor]

Honestly, officer that piano fell out of the sky.

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3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Honestly, officer that piano fell out of the sky.

& It's all for personal use.

If that's jpp 198 v it lasted til April 94 & was red.???

Reg is a morris 1275 cc.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

& It's all for personal use.

If that's jpp 198 v it lasted til April 94 & was red.???

Reg is a morris 1275 cc.

Badge says 1300L. Liars! 😀

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[adw1977]

On 27/04/2026 at 21:20, sheffcortinacentre said:

If that's jpp 198 v it lasted til April 94 & was red.???

Reg is a morris 1275 cc.

Possibly brand new at the time, but I still find it incredible that could have been repaired.  Look at the creases in the roof!

DVLA MOT check does confirm that JPP198V was a Marina, though.

JPL198V was a Ford, JPF198V no data.

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47 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

Possibly brand new at the time, but I still find it incredible that could have been repaired.  Look at the creases in the roof!

DVLA MOT check does confirm that JPP198V was a Marina, though.

JPL198V was a Ford, JPF198V no data.

Re-shell? I certainly dealt with claims for nearly new cars in the 90s where this was done.

[AnthonyG]

I suspect it would have been worth a reshell if it was genuinely more or less new at the time.

Marina’s didn’t hold their value particularly well, so by the time it was more than a year old that would have been a total loss.

[artdjones]

Sometimes shells were available cheaply. A friend of mine reshelled a Sierra around 1989, and, as he was notoriously tight, the figures must have added up.

I remember back around the mid 90s, when the Astra F had been out two or three years, Vauxhall must have been getting rid of shells of the previous model. So in the Auto Trader there was a box ad for any shell you wanted, Hatch, Estate or Van, for £325+Vat. Even allowing for inflation, it would still be well worth a shell swap on a four or five year old car that was mechanically perfect, if you had the skills and facilities to do it.

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[adw1977]

On 08/05/2026 at 12:50, Skut said:

@vulgalour I don't think HON517N is in the Wedgister.  Morris 1800 registered 12th May 1975.

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16 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Thought that was Scott newsteads garden at first.

[ETCHY]

On 03/05/2026 at 06:30, Remspoor said:

A 105e in that depth of water. I can feel it rusting from here !