Shite in your town, in ye olden times.

[Asimo]

Cheltenham, mid ‘70s. I moved there in ‘79, kicked the tyres of an Ro80 in this same showroom, about ‘83. It was £750 and wouldn’t start, which was a shame as it was a lovely metallic blue and and had perfect alloys. ( I’d just sold a good-running but rotten brown Ro80 (steel wheels) for £450). Shortly afterwards  l put a deposit on a “repaired” Audi 100 Coupe, then decided I was being dum to buy such a dodgy motor and walked out on the deal. One of my better decisions! It was the same colour as the one in this picture, so very possibly the same car.

 

[dozeydustman]

22 hours ago, stuboy said:

 

 

 

Is that a Simca 1000 next to the Transit?

[High Jetter]

Yes, red Toledo in front of it.

[Metal Guru]

12 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Is that a Simca 1000 next to the Transit?

Is that Mr Bean waiting to cross?

[MiniMinorMk3]

20 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Yes, red Toledo in front of it.

red 1300.

[High Jetter]

22 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

red 1300.

Of course, you're right - unless it's a 1500.

[Asimo]

Monmouth - where I took my car test.
Lovely wide street is now crammed with shit street furniture and mods to make it “more attractive to visitors”   
At the bottom of the street on the right was a Mercedes service garage and about half-way down on the left was a little garage where I sidn’t buy an Alfa 164 or a 4wd Mitsubishi Colt. It’s now an M+S food place.

[UltraWomble]

[Cavcraft]

Foregate Street, Chester 1958 it says

What's the 3 wheeler? Looks ace.

[adw1977]

13 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

What's the 3 wheeler?

@LightBulbFun is probably the man with the answer to that.  

[LightBulbFun]

20 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Foregate Street, Chester 1958 it says

What's the 3 wheeler? Looks ace.

 

6 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

@LightBulbFun is probably the man with the answer to that.  

AC Petite  

[Cavcraft]

A man who knows his three wheelers! Thank you @LightBulbFun

 

Meanwhile, have a Mk1 Capri near Lower Bridge Street.

[MiniMinorMk3]

21 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Meanwhile, have a Mk1 Capri near Lower Bridge Street.

 

Twin tail pipes, Rostyles, it could be a 3000 E

[bigstraight6]

Nice selection in this superb image of Plymouth city centre in the mid 60’s

[Cavcraft]

Been hoping for ages someone on the internet would post a picture of this place...

 

'George St Motor Exchange' was basically a sort of glorified cave, mostly full of ropey ADO16s he'd had from the auctions. He always looked quite old (to us youngsters at the time) but he couldn't have lived a long life as whenever he started one of his cars up it'd smoke the place out. 

[MiniMort]

My grandad gave me a stack of 35mm slides to scan in and in the mix were a few snaps of Coventry's car dealerships during 1979...

[Tenmil Socket]

Liverpool 1990

[Metal Guru]

15 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Liverpool 1990

“Ye olden times”. 1990??? Fuck off, I feel old enough as it is!

[Tenmil Socket]

1 minute ago, Metal Guru said:

“Ye olden times”. 1990??? Fuck off, I feel old enough as it is!

Okay... no need to be rude!

[EML]

One of the many car dealerships once along Victoria st in Grimsby,  its now a carpet shop.

It became a Renault dealer when Saab went tits up

 

[EML]

Burtons garage in Grimsby.

A main Fiat botherer for many years, and also held the subaru dealership when it was pickups and sensible estates.

They lost the Fiat franchise when Dixons took over Grimsby

[Eyersey1234]

43 minutes ago, EML said:

Burtons garage in Grimsby.

A main Fiat botherer for many years, and also held the subaru dealership when it was pickups and sensible estates.

They lost the Fiat franchise when Dixons took over Grimsby

When did they stop trading?

[EML]

18 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

When did they stop trading?

Late 1990's if I remember correctly, the petrol pumps had gone, but the main showroom and new sales hadn't changed much from the photo. 

 

[EML]

I tried to find some more info on when Burton's went to the wall. And found some later photos of the forecourt Can't remember who bought the garage or it burnt down, as that happens a lot in this town. Was a car park for a while. 

Below is flattened. It's now a hotel on that site 

[HMC]

Beside the tavistock canal, it basically is the same now minus being able to park  there. 

 

[HMC]

Woolworths, tavistock. Assorted shite. The building was demolished in  2020 

Prior to its construction the site had been a garage selling cars and petrol, it closed in the 1950s…..

[warch]

More my village in olden times... The old railway station in 1967

and today

[motorpunk]

Estate where my first house was, being built late '60s, I can only identify the Mini. The 'bridge' in the background is actually a pen for high explosives, it got landscaped over. 

Same spot today - https://www.google.com/maps/@52.7124295,-1.0592541,3a,75y,359.68h,98.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjMxMmbqOCS3uTAeEh9sOjg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

The pale blue one furthest away might be a MK2 cortina.

[Skut]

Dundee again. First shot is a posh area somewhere around Roseangle. The others are on the site of Wellgate Street that had just been cleared for the Wellgate shopping centre that in now largely empty except for the odd Junkie and the library.