Richard_FM Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 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, Six-cylinder, Burnside and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehedgehog31 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Some quality rammel in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheXUDfiles Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Gosh, some of those take me back. Especially the F-plate Astra squeezing past the 405. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Anybody needs me I'll be in my bunk. warch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 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. inconsistant, Tenmil Socket and DoctorRetro 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter C Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Shame that the photos are black & white. I am sure that colour photography was available back in the 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 This is a great photo... imagine being able to transfer this to the feature wall in your living room! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernMonkey Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 @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. Microwave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warch Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 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. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 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. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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