Old slides of cars & Europe - more added

[carlo]

I have been having a certain amount of fun scanning some of my dad's old slides of his travels through Europe, mainly France, Switzerland and Italy.  He has literally thousands of them.  Thought some of you may be interested in this selection.  Haven't a clue where the locations in Europe are but maybe some of you may know.  A few are of his home near Wembley in the fifties.

Tenth slide is a current view of the Andorra border which I think may equate to the picture before!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The name of the hotel in photo 1 wins it for me.

[Frogchod]

More please

[Wack]

Fantastic , I love looking through old slides, these really are great, most of the ones I see at boot sales are peoples kids and weddings usually ditched after a bereavement which I find pretty appalling 

[martc]

 

12 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The name of the hotel in photo 1 wins it for me.

It's where certain Members of Parliament spend their summer recess.

[Spottedlaurel]

Excellent stuff there, the suburban British photos as appealing to me as the foreign shots. Thanks for taking the time and trouble of scanning them in.

[HMC]

Great ! I can confirm the motorsport shots with the grandstand in the background are Le Mans  1960; with #22 being the 250gt swb entered by ecurie francorchamps and driven by elde (Leon dernier) and Pierre noblet; finishing 6th overall.

The car (2021gt) was entered in a few events in 1960 and was totalled at least twice that same year.

#category D BUYER BEWARE

[HMC]

Leon dernier raced under the pseudonym “elde” as he thought he’d get bollocked by his mum for doing so, apparently.

[HMC]

The slide with single seater #15

Jo Bonnier is crouching next to the cockpit.

Journeyman sports car driver and sometime F1 entrant, he was a leading campaigner for improved track safety. Ironically he was killed in an accident at Le Mans 1972 when his Lola was launched off a Ferrari Daytona into trees and disintegrated.

[Eyersey1234]

I love looking through old pictures thank you. 

[carlo]

19 minutes ago, HMC said:

The slide with single seater #15

Jo Bonnier is crouching next to the cockpit.

Journeyman sports car driver and sometime F1 entrant, he was a leading campaigner for improved track safety. Ironically he was killed in an accident at Le Mans 1972 when his Lola was launched off a Ferrari Daytona into trees and disintegrated.

I believe from talking to my dad that the driver in this picture was quite a famous young German, who may also have been killed racing?

Incidentally I wonder if any of you know what the sports car AEA 371 was, dad had a variety of rare sports cars in the 60s.  This is a rare machine from a country you might not expect.

[HMC]

Wonder if he was thinking of Wolfgang Von tripps?  Bonnier was Swiss. Both died dramatically and before their time.

[carlo]

Actually yes it does look like him when you google him.

[sutty2006]

Fantastic pictures thank you for sharing! 

[HMC]

Amazing pics, your Dad was right in the thick of it. Being so close to F1 entrants of today in the paddock is unthinkable

[carlo]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

Great ! I can confirm the motorsport shots with the grandstand in the background are Le Mans  1960; with #22 being the 250gt swb entered by ecurie francorchamps and driven by elde (Leon dernier) and Pierre noblet; finishing 6th overall.

The car (2021gt) was entered in a few events in 1960 and was totalled at least twice that same year.

#category D BUYER BEWARE

That would make sense as my mum remembers going to Le Mans when she was pregnant with my sister who was born in 1960!

[Amishtat]

What lovely pictures! Thanks for sharing them 

[HMC]

Right, checking adjacent cars and numbers confirms definitely Le Mans of that year- 25th June 1960 to be precise as the cars are being lined up in echelon, prior to the start.

[barrett]

These are fantastic. Did your dad actually own the McEvoy-Steyr? That's a pretty good old banger to run around in. 

[RayMK]

I would not have identified that one. Well done!

[carlo]

Yes, one of the many weird and wonderful, rare cars he has owned.

[barrett]

Do you have more pics of it, or pics of any of his other cars? Clearly a man of immense good taste. Have you seen it since it was restored? It looks absolutely brilliant. 

[carlo]

There's a whole heap of prints and slides, I'll put some more up tomorrow.

Haven't any pictures of the restored Steyr, and not sure if his was the red one which turned up at a Scottish auction a while back, probably was.

[barrett]

There was only one as far as I know. Quite impressive for something built in West Bromwich.

[Mrs6C]

Some more info. here:

https://www.joc.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24500

[Tartan58]

These are truly awesome, thanks for posting and I'm very much looking forward to the next instalment.

This kind of thing just reaffirms what I've always maintained, that I was born about 40 years too late, I mean everything was so much better in those days wasn't it?*

[lexi]

Brilliant pics. Can you tell me what equipment you used for scanning?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

13 hours ago, Tartan58 said:

....This kind of thing just reaffirms what I've always maintained, that I was born about 40 years too late, I mean everything was so much better in those days wasn't it?*

We seem to have had a lot less disposable income (remember exchange controls?) and less material wealth, yet seemed to stretch it further.

[carlo]

11 hours ago, lexi said:

Brilliant pics. Can you tell me what equipment you used for scanning?

Sure, was a Canon 9000f scanner, I'm very impressed with it.  I'll put some more on tonight, meanwhile here's a taster of some of the type of things he was smoking around in 50 odd years ago.  Strangely enough, whilst he seemed to have a thing about Jags (probably because they were fast and stinking cheap at the time, he used to buy E-types for £150), he preferred French and Italian stuff.

 

[Wack]

What a guy your dad is, looks like he's had an interesting life , interesting photography as well , too many pictures are relatives in front of a building , these are great