Some nice old 1970s & 1980s showroom pics...

[Owain71]

Just stumbled across these on t'internet, courtesy of an article back in Feb by the Torquay Herald & Express (link below):

 

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Pictures-focussing-forecourts-garages-yesteryear/story-20527001-detail/story.html

 

Some great mixes of marques being sold from the same site, back in the days before Corporate Identity was king.

 

Note the "Renault" dealership is actually a Daf dealership

 

And, just because I like 1980s Vauxhalls, a bonus from my own "collection":

 

 

Did I mention I like '80s Subarus, too?

 

 

Anyone got any more?

[Junkman]

[vulgalour]

I bet the Autohaus had a smell all its own with those Trabbies being driven in and out of it.

[ShiteRider]

The vauxhall garage pic brings back so many memories of Ormskirk Vauxhall when i was a kid, especially the spring of '90 when my dad traded a terracota mk2 cavalier for an opel manta gte coupe in black (D33 SCP).

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've never thought of myself as a 'Vauxhall Man' but looking at that picture I'm getting misty eyed about velourtastic CDi Carltons and 120 mph mk2 GTE Astras.

I've never driven a Manta GTE but always fancied one ,the first car I drove after passing my test was my dad's Ascona 2.0 SR Auto so a GTE was a teenage dream.

[UmBongo]

I can remember when car dealers were located IN towns rather than being housed in massive tin buildings on out-of-town industrial estates.

[UmBongo]

 

 Alexanders of Edinburgh, opposite the Usher Hall.

[UmBongo]

I know it's a butcher's shop but I loike it.

 

[UmBongo]

I know it's another shop, but look at those craaaaazy colours.

 

[Cavcraft]

Nice work, Owain! I especially love the Nova SR, oh to go back in time and buy a few of them.

[UmBongo]

Cardiff Yugo extravaganza.

 

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[UmBongo]

Canterbury Tales, as opposed to Shillingbury Tales where the star of the show was a fecking Matra Rancho.

 

[Owain71]

Cardiff Yugo extravaganza.

 

 

Blimey, not just a Yugo dealership, but a double-decker Yugo dealership that's also selling old-skool Dacias!

 

I truly miss garages like this... LOVE IT

[Owain71]

More Yugo greatness...

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is there any pictures of what they look like now?

[mercrocker]

That Tesco - Goodwood Revival...

[Junkman]

 

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different view of Yugo place

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Tottenham Hale, early 70s

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Newhaven

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[carlo]

A bit later but here's a couple of Peugeot dealers, Normans Conquest Slough and Grange Uxbridge, when I worked there in the early nineties.  Some interesting machinery in front of Grange, we were off to a classic car show that morning - the 204 Cabrio was mine.

 

 

[Junkman]

 

Tottenham Hale, early 70s

 

Whoa, an Imperial!

[Petrolize]

 

'1X' only lasted 4 years. '2X' until 1989 (8 years). '3X' until 1991. '4X' SORN