Best Jersey holiday snap yet

[Guest]

Not taken by me I hasten to add. I might have been about 4 years old at the time

 

 

You know the routine, guesses as to what's all parked up there please!

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[Pete-M]

Ooooh... I'm gonna try this.Furthest row back, in front of the shed.VW Microbus, VW Golf Mk1, Mini Countryman, Escort Mk2 GL.I don't know the buses...Next row. Left to right.Unknown, Fiat Panda, Citroen GS, MGB GT, Mk1 Fiesta Ghia, Late Mk3 Cortina 2000E, Not sure, Allegro, Not sure - Sunny Estate?, Renault 11?, Chevette, Volvo 244?next row row. Left to right.Nissan Cherry, Cortina Mk3 GXL?, Horizon, Renault 12, Mini, Alpine, Colt, Avenger, Corolla, Sunbeam?Front row, left to right.Mini, R18, Mini, Visa, Not sure if brown estate is a Mazda.No doubt someone will be along and correct me all over the place.

[reallyloud]

I think that might be an early Peugeot 304 or 204 in between the Allegro and Cortina. That definately is a sunbeam too.

[Volksy]

The coaches all appear to be Duple bodied (Duple Dominant?) and badges look probably Bedford (or is it Leyland?) I'd have to ask my sister, who after years of running coaches with my brother can recognise all theirs by the engine note as they go past.

Not relation of the Bowkers are you?

[mouseflakes]

Good going Pete - and a nice photo xr1984.Agree with DC about the Pug.I reckon the R11? is actually a 9 (rear lights best seen on the largest version of the image) and I think the same for the dark blue-ish car between the beige Cortina and Renault 12.

[aled]

white car is a toyota corolla liftback came in 1200 and 1600 cc my mum and dad had a 1977 on an s in red, i passed my test in it in 1980 want

[Guest]

I reckon youre right Flakes, for what its worth I reckon that both the silver car see behind the white Corolla liftback and the gold one next to the yellow Cortina are both Colts, there were a LOT of these used as rental cars in the early eighties, common foreground feature in postcards from this era of local landmarks.Coaches are all Bedfords as the operators here bought little else for forty years.Its difficult to tell, but could the blue car just visible to the left of the white Panda be a 105E Anglia?

[MrRegieRitmo]

Agree on everything that's been said, thought maybe that bluey green saloon facing away might have been a K70 but I'll go with DC on late 304 saloon.That yellow estate facing away....a toughie but I'll go with Pete, 70s Sunny estate.Agree car backed onto white Corolla (I always confuse those Corollas with 70s Lancers!) is another Colt.There are two Renaults 9s in the picture as Mr Flakes says & no R11s.That brown estate bottom right.....very tough. The angles of it make me think Granada but it doesn't look big enough! The sweeping door lines ought to be a clue but I'm not getting anything...

[MrRegieRitmo]

Not taken by me I hasten to add. I might have been about 4 years old at the time

So what was the subject of the photo, someone that saw into the future & knew that we'd like to observe this in 25 yrs time?

[reallyloud]

My thoughts regarding the brown estate/wagon/shooting break or what you want to call it is that its probabily Japanese.

 

Either a virtually extinct and largely forgotten Mazda 808 Wagon.

 

 

Or maybe a mk1 Lancer wagon.

 

 

I think the car I would be driving away would be that white Corolla liftback. The UK sold quite a few of those with 1200cc engines, which is quite perverse when you compare the size of the thing next to the Avenger.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Either a virtually extinct and largely forgotten Mazda 808 Wagon.

 

 

Aaah I saw a couple of those in Malta for the first time last August, I've already shown the one I managed to photograph.

 

and one of those Lancer wagons which I didn't manage to snap.

 

I think I'd have to drive off in that dashing white Alpine myself!

[STUNO]

Think the brown estate is Mazda with the heavily inset rear window.Aren't we a sad lot, someone shows a photo of some old cars and a few buses and we all go a bit silly..me included

[aled]

My thoughts regarding the brown estate/wagon/shooting break or what you want to call it is that its probabily Japanese.

 

Either a virtually extinct and largely forgotten Mazda 808 Wagon.

 

 

Or maybe a mk1 Lancer wagon.

 

 

 

 

might even be a toyota carina estate?