Old street scenes thread

[Mash]

I'm sure we've had one before courtesy of D. Hirst Esq. but I can't be faffed looking for it to add to it.

 

This is a good start, could almost be Fred on location

 

 

I especially like this brand new Horizon causing chaos in 1979!

 

 

Images shamefully pinched from Flickr While away some hours with:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgeupstairs/sets/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8050359@N07/sets/

[FredTransit]

I could do that top pic, but it would have to be a Mk2 transit and a Mk3 scort.....

[Mash]

[Spottedlaurel]

Lady Wulfrun has some excellent pictures in her collection. I've found the best pictures for old street scenes (and hopefully cars) is in the bus-spotters' uploads.

 

 

Look at this Mazda!

 

 

Celica!!

 

 

Crown saloon!!!

 

 

Some interesting approaches to this junction.

[barrett]

phwoar, i bet that mazda 1300 was a right little road burner!

[Mash]

[Father Ted]

Wythenshawe Hospital Nurses Digs Circa 1992. Mk 2 Fiesta city!

 

Same place 1952

Almost no Ford Fiestas at all...

[pbottomley]

OHHH a growler, my Fav

 

 

[Father Ted]

More of a Whistler man myself

[Negative Creep]

Crown saloon!!!

 

 

Some interesting approaches to this junction.

 

Who is driving where exactly in that photo?

[Station]

I'm on a local website which is great for this type of thing, people scan in their photos from 'yesteryear'. Some don't feature cars, but everthing about the pics is different ten years later. Most of these are 80's.

 

 

 

 

 

[Station]

 

 

 

Check out what this corner looks like now - a dump:

 

 

 

[Station]

 

 

Ferrrrrweee. Cwosss der meerrrrrzeeey.

 

[trigger]

Here's a few from my Flickr favorites list, Most I'm sure you have seen before or are reposts but sod it!.

 

 

Northfield, Birmingham, 1987

 

 

Carr Street, E14, 1983.

 

 

Tower Square, Tunstall, (year unknown)

 

 

Paisley, Early 80's.

 

 

Arundel Castle, 1979.

 

 

Wembley, 1991.

 

 

Colchester High Street, 1980.

[barrett]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3351704291_7810850597_b.jpg

is that an early carlton estate behind the scrote? when was the last time ya saw one of those babies eh?

[Station]

All those different shaped, different coloured cars certainly made the roads look more 'colourful' than the silver nonsense of today. There's not a single vivid yellow/red/blue car in my road.

[Rusty Pelican]

All those different shaped, different coloured cars certainly made the roads look more 'colourful' than the silver nonsense of today. There's not a single vivid yellow/red/blue car in my road.

Used to be you can have any colour you like as long as its black , now its ditto but bloody silver

[trigger]

What is it with silver cars?, The market is flooded with them, I've been looking for a car for Mrs. Trigger lately (now got a Micra) but she hates Silver which made my job bloody hard as very car I've seen that looked good was Silver!.

[Father Ted]

What is it with silver cars?, The market is flooded with them, I've been looking for a car for Mrs. Trigger lately (now got a Micra) but she hates Silver which made my job bloody hard as very car I've seen that looked good was Silver!.

Not Silver

Nice

Not expensive

[Mr Lobster]

Whilst looking at other stuff, came across a few pictures suitable for this thread...

 

 

 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

What is it with silver cars?, The market is flooded with them, I've been looking for a car for Mrs. Trigger lately (now got a Micra) but she hates Silver which made my job bloody hard as very car I've seen that looked good was Silver!.

Golf MK6 - the colour choices were two shades of black, a bunch of silvers or red. The salesman told us if we chose red, we'd get a lower price for it when we sold it.

[Mr Lobster]

 

[trigger]

Not Silver

Nice

Not expensive

And sadly too late!

I was looking for a micra like that but a 1.3 or 1.4 but they are like rocking horse poo.

Ended up spending far too much money on a 2004 Micra with one of them Renault 1.5 dci diesel engines. Lovely car apart from the thick black smoke that comes out the back when the revs are building up before the turbo cuts in...

[Father Ted]

[Guest]

Excellent car park/bus station thing! Where's that then? I've seen that before.

[Father Ted]

Not SilverNiceNot expensive

And sadly too late!

Its a 1.0, but has plenty of poke and cost me £700 with one old lady owner and bugger all on the clock. Just needs a fag lighter fitting

[Tayne]

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[Milford Cubicle]

Nice find Tayne.

I like this one with the grim old boarded up tenement block and BL dirge

 

Nice selection here too. Toyota Corona liftback.

[Father Ted]

Sorry Hirst, Im not ignoring you - its Tehran bus station. Sorry, I mean Preston...I get those two mixed up so easily!

 

Tehran

Preston

[seth]

I was about to say it looks like Preston. Used to drive past quite regularly while at Uni there.