Shite that turns 50 this year

[Junkman]

 

 

It's true! For its tenth anniversary the car that wasn't really a car and shouldn't have been built in the first place got its own marque.

It also got a big brother:

 

 

 

Now that one weirdly remained an Austin for a while, just to confuse the living shit out of everybody for no fucking reason.

 

 

 

In further news, an English sports car was finally fitted with an engine sporting the correct cylinder count.

 

 

 

 

Following VW's example from the year before, an English car manufacturer also launched a 411:

 

 

Another English car maker asked the Germans what to do and was thusly advised:

 

 

 

Meanwhile the inmates did weird stuff in André's Asylum, as usual.

 

 

 

La Regie unleashed what is arguably the first global car.

 

 

 

Peugeot pimped the 204.

 

 

 

Ford (Europe) knew exactly what they were doing, not like nowadays.

 

 

 

Fiat pressed rust particles into car shapes.

 

 

 

 

The new Ferraris had to be parked on kitty litter due to their incredible incontinence.

 

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VW launched a car that wasn't a VW. Or a Porsche. Or an aeroplane. Or whatever.

 

 

 

VW launched another car that wasn't a VW.

 

 

 

The Europeans actually flew a passenger aeroplane at mach 2

 

 

 

 

while the Yanks are unable to prove that they flew something to the Moon that actually can't fly to the Moon.

 

[vulgalour]

1969 (nice), the year that Czechoslovakia released the Skoda 100

 

 

Italy released a car with a stupid face in the form of the weirdly named Iso Lele.

 

And America released yet another car for people who didn't believe in contraception or any form of moderation with the Chevrolet Kingswood.

[Mrs6C]

Misread your thread title! The Triumph Herald is 60 years old this year, not 50, but hey...

 

The 948cc coupe and saloon were launched in April 1959. Here's a nice film from the event:

[CortinaDave]

Concorde is a sad state of affairs. 50 years on we go slightly less than half as fast as we used to be able to.

 

Amazing piece of engineering

[NorfolkNWeigh]

[eddyramrod]

Misread your thread title! The Triumph Herald is 60 years old this year, not 50, but hey...

 

The 948cc coupe and saloon were launched in April 1959. Here's a nice film from the event:

April?  Would you happen to know what date?

[Junkman]

Concorde is a sad state of affairs. 50 years on we go slightly less than half as fast as we used to be able to.

 

Amazing piece of engineering

 

Yeah, but people now carry telephones with them all day. That's much more important, you know.

[Junkman]

April?  Would you happen to know what date?

 

Must have been the 1st.

[mercrocker]

Bolan fans look away now....

 

[eddyramrod]

Norfolk: thank you for all the CFs!   Looks like the only way I'm going to get one now, is in pictures.

[eddyramrod]

Must have been the 1st.

OI!  My L plates were on the family Herald.  I still have a soft spot for them.

[wuvvum]

For some reason I thought the Renault 6 turned 50 this year, but I've just checked and it was actually last year.  Strange, I don't recall reading about any celebrations.

 

Mine is a spring chicken anyway at a mere 47.

[wuvvum]

The Volvo 164, however, is 50 this year.  Although at the rate I've been going mine will be lucky to be back on the road in time for the 60th birthday bash.

[mercrocker]

Not only were cars, vans and aeroplanes superior back then.   Ships, too......Launched a lot earlier of course but entered service May 1969. 

 

 

[Skizzer]

I turn 50 this year. Thanks for reminding me.

 

Also, the Autobianchi A112.

 

[Junkman]

These also turn 50 this year.

 

 

 

 

Which means those ladies are in their 70s now.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The Harrier entered service in 1969, and two of them landed in Central London , just behind St Pancras.

[Junkman]

And look what else the French started making in 1969.

 

[mercrocker]

These are 50 this year, too....

 

 

[Junkman]

The Russians were still evil and introduced this to invade us:

 

[mercrocker]

Meanwhile it was still possible to actually want an Audi or an SUV....

 

 

[Uncle Jimmy]

Pug 504?

[Uncle Jimmy]

The Russians were still evil and introduced this to invade us:

 

But the Russians are even more eviler than ever aren't they?

[mercrocker]

1968 I think for the 504....We may not have got them until later, though.   Thanks to the Russians, probably.

[Mrs6C]

The Harrier entered service in 1969, and two of them landed in Central London , just behind St Pancras.image.jpegimage.jpeg

Fantastic! For a bonus, see the wagon tracks, turntable and capstans!

[SiC]

 

This surely is the natural modern spiritual successor?

 

(Yes I did go out of my way to find one as a picture in that color)

[Junkman]

But the Russians are even more eviler than ever aren't they?

 

Yeah, but the kind spirited Americans will save us from them.

[koala27]

In 1969 the US of A proved that despite rumours to contrary, it can do subtle and classy when it comes to styling:
 

 

[SiC]

Wasn't this effectively released in 1969 too?

[Mrs6C]

April?  Would you happen to know what date?

April 22nd 1959 was the launch date, although they had started production earlier in the year.

 

There were also prototypes out doing proving runs in Africa in 1958. The fascinating story of the journey from Cape Town to Tangier, of a saloon and coupe, accompanied by Standard Atlas vans as support vehicles, is told in the book "Turn left for Tangier: the hard way for Heralds":

https://standard8n10spares.co.uk/turn-left-for-tangier---the-hard-way-for-heralds-416-p.asp