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[HMC]

Cardiff 1984 shite overload 

[adw1977]

The yellow Citroen Dyane GJT222V only lasted 6 years.   Untaxed since 16th Jan 1986.

[HMC]

Again, Cardiff 1984. Apologies for the graininess but @Spottedlaurel what is it?

[HMC]

STANZA , Basingstoke 1989

[HMC]

125p Cardiff ‘ 84

[HMC]

Audi dealerships were a lot less glossy in 1983.......

Crystal Palace 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

20 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

The yellow Citroen Dyane GJT222V only lasted 6 years.   Untaxed since 16th Jan 1986.

Built to last*

[HMC]

Chester, 1983

 

[HMC]

Again, Chester 83 solid gold.

[Isaac Hunt]

On 10/26/2019 at 7:04 PM, The Vicar said:

Lovely rear end, pity the same can't be said for the car! 

One of those rear ends will have gone south by now, the other, gone west.

[martc]

6 hours ago, HMC said:

@seth

chertsey 1980

This looks like a still from a 1970's public information film. 'For pity's sake people, watch where you're going'.

[HMC]

Bath, 1980

[Spottedlaurel]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

Again, Cardiff 1984. Apologies for the graininess but @Spottedlaurel what is it?

'MkII' version of the 710-series 140J/160J (a.k.a. Violet). There was an earlier saloon that had a swoopy fastback rear end but they changed it to a more conventional arrangement partway through the 710's life. I remember a handful that made it into the '90s and I bought one of the fastback saloons for £50 in 1994/95.

[sheffcortinacentre]

That quite possibly be a stretched Granada EST.

[HMC]

Cardiff 1983

 

 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, HMC said:

Again, Cardiff 1984. Apologies for the graininess but @Spottedlaurel what is it?

I thought Toyota 2000 saloon?

[ChinaTom]

Deffo 140j, possibly 160j. Look at those hubcaps!

[MorrisItalSLX]

13 hours ago, HMC said:

Birkenhead, 1982

H 41 is now on a green 2016 Kawasaki

[ChinaTom]

14 hours ago, MKT said:

Farnham 1993

Whats that in the disabled bay? I first thought Volvo 360 but on second looks it isn't.

 

 

 

However much I want that to be one of these, I fear it is an Alpine. Imagine we have a photo of a Reliant FW11 whose driver needed an egg and cress sarnie for lunch on his way back to Ankara...

[ChinaTom]

I ruled out an Ambassador as the sun would not glint off black door frames.

[Lord Sterling]

11 hours ago, martc said:

This looks like a still from a 1970's public information film. 'For pity's sake people, watch where you're going'.

???

[Lord Sterling]

20 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Kircaldy

J889 SOL, Birmingham-registered Renault 5. Long way from home. Most probably originally supplied from Digbeth Renault Birmingham. Last taxed in 2006.

J598 MWD Ford Fiesta, also a Midland car (Coventry and Warwickshire) lasted until 2005.

[Vin]

On 10/30/2019 at 7:33 PM, HMC said:

Leamington spa, 1989

Polonez #special edition graphics package

Special edition Panda too. That green paintwork marks it out as a 'Fantasia'...

[carlo]

A wonderful thread indeed, I would never think I would see a Moskvich, Wartburg Knight and Fiat 850 Coupe (x2) in the same thread.  

What strikes me is the sheer variety of European and Japanese cars here, even in the seventies when you would expect  British cars to still be by far in the majority.

[Walter White]

23 hours ago, carlo said:

A wonderful thread indeed, I would never think I would see a Moskvich, Wartburg Knight and Fiat 850 Coupe (x2) in the same thread.  

What strikes me is the sheer variety of European and Japanese cars here, even in the seventies when you would expect  British cars to still be by far in the majority.

I agree it is a great thread. 

I imagine membership of the EEC was a catalyst for greater numbers of European cars on British roads from the mid 1970s 

[martc]

1 hour ago, Walter White said:

I agree it is a great thread. 

I imagine membership of the EEC was a catalyst for greater numbers of European cars on British roads from the mid 1970s 

It'll be yank tanks and Chinese ones soon...

[lesapandre]

4 hours ago, Walter White said:

I agree it is a great thread. 

I imagine membership of the EEC was a catalyst for greater numbers of European cars on British roads from the mid 1970s 

Yes. I think it reduced the taxes on imports.  

[Timewaster]

Which coincided with BL and Dagenham going on strike? 

[Walter White]

25 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Which coincided with BL and Dagenham going on strike? 

They probably didn't help either in terms of reputation and supply of new cars to dealers. Leaving tariff free European imports readily available for no price premium or even cheaper than locally produced cars. 

[worldofceri]

I was in Derby today with ten minutes to kill. So how about a ‘then and now’?

ca. 1987:

November 2019:

Can’t quite get the same angle as the trees have grown so you can’t stand any further up the bank. Also the original photographer had a better zoom lens than my phone!