Pictures From Your New Car

[Richard_FM]

Your New Car was a book written by Roland Jones as a guide for new drivers, & published by Ian Allen in 1993.

Most of the photos featured cars of the time, which I have scanned & posted to Flickr.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/richard16378/albums/72157712805915711/with/49431671026/

I've attached a selection of pictures, for some reason Flickr makes it very hard to insert them between the text here for easy captioning.

[davehedgehog31]

Some quality rammel in there!

[TheXUDfiles]

Gosh, some of those take me back. Especially the F-plate Astra squeezing past the 405.

[Snipes]

Anybody needs me I'll be in my bunk.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Is that Escort towing the Nova in thr last picture?

 

Incidentally  there was once an AC Invacar Mark 12 Series 24 that had a number 6 in its numberplate , just like that Nova.

[Richard_FM]

8 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Some quality rammel in there!

Thanks I chose to put up here the pictures with the most examples of tin that was common 30 years ago but hard to see now outside a car show.  I checked all the registrations & only 2 are still listed & then one is on sorn. 

[Richard_FM]

3 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Is that Escort towing the Nova in thr last picture?

 

Incidentally  there was once an AC Invacar Mark 12 Series 24 that had a number 6 in its numberplate , just like that Nova.

Yes & the mk4 escort is an rs turbo on sorn which I only found out when putting the reg into the dvla checker. 

[Peter C]

Shame that the photos are black & white. I am sure that colour photography was available back in the 1980s.

[Tenmil Socket]

This is a great photo... imagine being able to transfer this to the feature wall in your living room!

[NorthernMonkey]

In the one with the astra passing the 405, what’s the convertible at the front of the queue?

It looks like an escort MK5/6 but the rest of the picture suggests late 80’s?

Actually, ignore that. I’ve just realised the mk5 was launched in 1990 so it obviously is but it just looks so out of place in that picture somehow.

Edited February 19, 2020 by NorthernMonkey

[Richard_FM]

2 hours ago, NorthernMonkey said:

In the one with the astra passing the 405, what’s the convertible at the front of the queue?

It looks like an escort MK5/6 but the rest of the picture suggests late 80’s?

Actually, ignore that. I’ve just realised the mk5 was launched in 1990 so it obviously is but it just looks so out of place in that picture somehow.

Yes the mk5 was launched in 1990 so would have been very new when the photos were taken.  

[Richard_FM]

4 hours ago, Peter C said:

Shame that the photos are black & white. I am sure that colour photography was available back in the 1980s.

I imagine they were trying to keep printing costs down by not using any colour.

A lot of magazines & newspapers still had black & white photos at this time, though Today broke the mould, even if their pictures ended looking psychedelic.

[ProgRocker]

@Richard_FM I thought that I was already following you on flickr as I have seen your comments many times but apparently I wasn't.

A lesser spotted Polonez in the 2nd pic. Lovely! Rectangular headlamps make it a lower spec 1.5 unless I'm very much mistaken.

[warch]

6 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I imagine they were trying to keep printing costs down by not using any colour.

A lot of magazines & newspapers still had black & white photos at this time, though Today broke the mould, even if their pictures ended looking psychedelic.

True to the concept my early 90s copy of James Ruppert's Bangernomics had black and white pictures throughout, but further economised with line drawn pictures of the predominantly 70s and early to mid 80s shite that the book championed.

[Richard_FM]

40 minutes ago, warch said:

True to the concept my early 90s copy of James Ruppert's Bangernomics had black and white pictures throughout, but further economised with line drawn pictures of the predominantly 70s and early to mid 80s shite that the book championed.

This was almost a companion book to my first car I remember having flick through at Waterstones back in the day.  It used a Honda prelude for a lot of the pictures.

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, ProgRocker said:

@Richard_FM I thought that I was already following you on flickr as I have seen your comments many times but apparently I wasn't.

A lesser spotted Polonez in the 2nd pic. Lovely! Rectangular headlamps make it a lower spec 1.5 unless I'm very much mistaken.

Thanks I did think there was a 125p in the car park picture but it’s actually a lada 1500