Sainsbury's Archive

[adw1977]

The Moskvich 412 is the cheapest car listed in my December 1976 Motorist's Guide to New and Used Car Prices (Flickr link)

£370 cheaper than a Lada 1200, £137 cheaper than a Fiat 127, it was certainly a lot of car for £1025.

Second hand, it was also one of the cheapest cars listed in Glass's Guide for May 1979 (Flickr link)

The first column is the price it sold for new, the second column is the retail price used in May 1979.  It seems 1976 was the last year of UK sales.

 

[adw1977]

An Alfasud and Manta A bring some continental sportiness to Cardiff in 1983:

At the more utilitarian end of things, somebody has come shopping in their Chevanne:

Fords predominate in what appears to be the staff and visitors' car park:

 

[adw1977]

Blue Line Taxis in Hereford in 1988 offer Mark 2 Cavaliers in both saloon and hatchback:

[adw1977]

Bridgend 1993, with Fiat Regata:

Low spec Mark 2 Fiesta with funky stripes next to a Mark 3 Granada:

[NorfolkNWeigh]

These photographs are amazingly ordinary yet an amazing reminder of all , it seems, our everyday histories.

I think we should all be taking pictures in our local Sainsbury's car parks and posting them , either in this thread or maybe a dedicated Supermarket carpark thread, not just interesting cars that would be in the spotted threads, just car park views. What do we think?

[adw1977]

16 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I think we should all be taking pictures in our local Sainsbury's car parks and posting them , either in this thread or maybe a dedicated Supermarket carpark thread, not just interesting cars that would be in the spotted threads, just car park views. What do we think?

I think this thread should be just for the archive pictures, but I agree that taking pictures of car parks is a good idea, in 30 years we'll all be wanting to see them. 

As it happens, I got a good vantage point above two of the car parks at Gatwick while out walking a few days ago, and I took pictures for posterity.  Hard as it is to imagine now, I'm sure the day will come when we're excited to see a Nissan Juke or Vauxhall Insignia!

[bunglebus]

4 hours ago, 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.

 

Nowadays on a Land Rover. Downgrade.

[HMC]

Busy Day at the pumps, again  coldhams lane Cambridge 1975. Various rarities knocking around in the background as well as the solid gold in the foreground ...

 

 

 

 

@Spottedlaurel  Datsun?

 

 

 

 

[HMC]

Cambridge 1975 again; most is easy to identify but what about the background ones in the last pic?

 

[Walter White]

22 hours ago, HMC said:

Liquid chod; Great Yarmouth 1989

BL Princess 2, 1700L in Sandglow. That would be my pick of that row.

Look at the Chevette with 4 rally lights. 

[HMC]

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

 

[HMC]

Cambridge 1975 and our snapper has been serving up the chod again. A gaggle of maxis (one very early with bonnet ominously up) Later on a Swiss VW comes in for a fill up.

 

Early passat? 

 

 

[HMC]

Cambridge 1975 and our snapper has been serving up the chod again. A gaggle of maxis (one very early with bonnet ominously up) Later on a Swiss VW comes in for a fill up.

 

Early passat? 

 

 

[HMC]

Minister for agriculture fisheries and food (Michael jopling) visits sainsbury Cambridge in the government SD1 , 1983

[The Vicar]

37 minutes ago, HMC said:

Cambridge 1975 again; most is easy to identify but what about the background ones in the last pic?

 

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

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 minutes ago, HMC said:

Minister for agriculture fisheries and food (Michael jopling) visits sainsbury Cambridge in the government SD1 , 1983

Oooo, E23 730i in front 

[adw1977]

4 minutes ago, The Vicar said:

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

I've always preferred the Mark 1 rear end on the Landcrab, it's distinctive.  Although I suppose the later type had a family resemblance to the 1100.

[HMC]

Cambridge 1974/75 again and a decent haul of end of life tat. Faves are the A35 and the mk2 Jaag. Just after the fuel crisis etc I bet they were cheap as chips.

[Shep Shepherd]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

Cambridge 1975 again; most is easy to identify but what about the background ones in the last pic?

 

The dark car looks like a Renault 16, whereas the white car looks like a 1960s Opel Kapitan. Incidentally, there is still a Sainsbury's in Coldhams Lane, but both it and its petrol station have been rebuilt; the latter is now situated on a different part of the site. A lot of the trees still exist, though.

[HMC]

HGVs 1970s

 

 

[HMC]

@eddyramrod CF action, Cambridge 1972

 

 

[HMC]

Colchester, 1939

[HMC]

Kempston, 1976

”roll up roll up for the free bus service to Sainsbury’s.”

[Shep Shepherd]

49 minutes ago, HMC said:

The Atkinson Borderer, a classic British truck. Not sure that I'd ever have wanted to drive one for a living, though.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Oooo, E23 730i in front 

Judging by theSecuri or phone aerial on that 7 Series, it's probably the chauffeur driven transport of the Sainsbury's MD.

When  I was working for a retailer it was sometimes a bit embarrassing for my boss when we pulled up at a function or event with Government people or even Royals and they were in a Granada or Rover and I was driving him in his Daimler or W126.

[Timewaster]

51 minutes ago, HMC said:

@eddyramrod CF action, Cambridge 1972

 

 

That Sainsburys is still there,  as is the bank. 

The CF is probably tired as the basement loading bay is down a really steep slope which it has just had to climb. 

[HMC]

Hemel Hempstead, 1971; Brave camera angle!

A short while later atired old MG ZA/ZB turns up.

 

[HMC]

Epsom 1982

[HMC]

Lee green, London 1987

A few scrapyard refugees here, but what’s the car behind the fantastically dilapidated cortina in front of the Renault 12? The cortina lasted another 2 years.

[Timewaster]

I'm guessing: