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[trigger]

I was also going to say that blue cars a Mk1 Prelude.

[Shep Shepherd]

Looks like a U11 Bluebird to me.

[Rovorsche]

I cant find it online but the former Sainsburys in Cowley had (and may still have) a tiled mosaic on its outside wall that included an Austin Princess, in Brown of course.

[HMC]

Tried to getter a clearer image of it to help

[Shep Shepherd]

The black one, you mean? Honda Prelude. The blue saloon is definitely a U11 Bluebird

[HMC]

Leamington spa, 1989

Polonez #special edition graphics package

[HMC]

Crosby, 1983

wedgister? @vulgalour

[davocano]

Cobham, 1989

[martc]

1 hour ago, ChinaTom said:

Quintet in first pic? What’s the dark coupe next to blue beetle? Sapporo? 240k?

This one? I think it could be a Honda Prelude?

Edited October 30, 2019 by martc
I should have read Sheps post.

[bigstraight6]

This thread is great, Old pictures of Sainsburys carparks chock full of shite cars!..

 

[lesapandre]

21 hours ago, HMC said:

Ami van! Bexhill 1975

 

 

Bexhill is retirement-ville. Austin A35 and A55 as well as MK1 1100 hanging on there in '75.  50's cars pretty rare in most of these pics overall and then two at once. 

[HMC]

Crawley 1969......

Contrasting rear end treatments

[ChinaTom]

1 hour ago, Lord Sterling said:

Nissan Stanza?

I would have a tenner on the blue hatchback next to the brown Ital to be a Honda Quintet. That rear pillar window does it for me.

 Prelude is obvious to me now. Duh!

[bunglebus]

36 minutes ago, HMC said:

Crawley 1969......

Contrasting rear end treatments

Love the aftermarket indicators on the Mog, replacing the semaphores

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Love the aftermarket indicators on the Mog, replacing the semaphores

A bit like the FX3 and early FX4 black taxis.

[sheffcortinacentre]

We didn't get conservative on colours the manufacturers did.

[MKT]

Guildford Street in Chertsey, 1978.

The Blue Dodge 1100 failed to last 10 years on the road, being registered on December 1977 and being untaxed by August 1987. The Volvo 245 on the left fared better and survived for just under 16 years, becoming untaxed after June 1992. The Austin 1100 (I think? Not very good with pre-70s cars) isn't on the DVLA registry at all.

[bezzabsa]

2 things struck me while looking at all these...

1 - NO FEKKING SILVER CARS EVERY 3 SPACES!!!!!!

2 - How everyone could actually park back then....nowadays looks like a free for all!!!

also didn't we (England) love the Cortina...very few pics without one in !!!!

[sheffcortinacentre]

Were cheap,easy to maintain/ obtain parts, reliable, plenty of variants,etc.

Think it was something like one in eight new cars was a Cortina during the MK3/4/5 production run, with ford constantly having the top three best selling cars during the 70's, unlike now they've been for years just an also ran.

For years I've told people if you want a modern equivalent go Japanese or Korean.

[HMC]

Apologies I can’t remember where or when this was but I just loved the look of it. Fucked basically.

[bunglebus]

Looks like it would fit in the boot of the Merc too

 

[Eddie Honda]

On 10/30/2019 at 5:53 PM, ChinaTom said:

Quintet in first pic? What’s the dark coupe next to blue beetle? Sapporo? 240k?

 

On 10/30/2019 at 6:08 PM, bunglebus said:

No idea other than probably Japanese - hopefully this crop helps

Down at the bottom, Between the Metro and the Ital. It IS a Honda Quintet.

 

[Eddie Honda]

On 10/29/2019 at 10:52 PM, bunglebus said:

Ipswich 1985

 

DAF 46 with compulsory giffer damage

[Timewaster]

On 10/30/2019 at 9:47 PM, bezzabsa said:

2 things struck me while looking at all these...

1 - NO FEKKING SILVER CARS EVERY 3 SPACES!!!!!!

2 - How everyone could actually park back then....nowadays looks like a free for all!!!

also didn't we (England) love the Cortina...very few pics without one in !!!!

True but you could argue that those are rows of mostly British petrol saloon cars with the odd estate here and there. 

Now we have saloons, coupes, suvs, hatchbacks, mpvs, pickups, estates, crossovers, hybrids, diesels, petrol, electrics... 

I'm not saying it's a good thing, but variety still exists. 

What I notice is how big the spaces / small the cars look. 

[adw1977]

It's the sheer variety of cars that makes it impossible for any one model to dominate like the Cortina once did.

Look at the Ford range now.  Ka+, Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo and Mustang are pretty much the modern equivalents of Fiesta, Escort, Cortina, Granada and Capri 40 years ago.  But add in all the SUVs and MPVs etc. that didn't exist then and the range is 15 models, not 5.

The top sellers are still usually the Fiesta and the Focus, the family hatchbacks doing largely the same job that Escorts and Cortinas were doing (albeit as saloons) 40 years ago. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I know it's because I'm an old fart , but for some reason this picture looks like it could have been taken yesterday.  If I pulled into that carpark this morning it those cars wouldn't look out of place, possibly the new Tarmac etc , but I don't think I'd notice that the cars were all 30 years old.

[Isaac Hunt]

On 10/26/2019 at 1:02 PM, HMC said:

Crawley 1969 and a suited up “BW” cruises by in his Daimler 420 to take advantage of a multibuy offer on cigars and brylcream.

And if your were Brian Williams born in 1945, you might not have the Daimler anymore but that plate is now on a 2010 Rangie

[Isaac Hunt]

On 10/29/2019 at 6:24 PM, HMC said:

Side loading bay, Cambridge 1972

Private reg on that GT6 mkII by the looks of things 

 

Perhaps back then in the chaps 'youth'.   Time marches on and maybe a family meant the GT6 had to go.  Possibly replaced by many and finally ending up on a Fiat Stilo

[JeeExEll]

That Daimler 420's just been nicked from the car park. There's gonna be a blag later.

[Isaac Hunt]

On 10/26/2019 at 6:35 PM, HMC said:

Take a look at that shonky BMC farina, Cambridge ‘75 

 

TER 60 is still shown as being on a Moggy Minor