Hold the front page!! Old adverts from your loft finds.

[captain_70s]

A few ads for motors I own, deffo not nabbed from the Autocar archives...

 

[Joey spud]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[Volksy]

5 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

Fizzy pot

 

[Christine]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

 

MG Princess? Not sure about that, VDP shirley. MG 1100 & 1300s, Riley Kestrels. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

That's for the American market.

[lesapandre]

12 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

Princess VDP - "The taint of ostentation" - a sly dig at some competitor there. 

You could say the 'taint of Austentstion' - as it did have an Austin lorry engine. 

The Devon sold well in the USA  - the subsequent Somerset less so - lost some of that crisp styling along the way.

Rover product planning - make two cars virtually the same in the same market segment and keep both in production.  😂

Hillman Imps always seem so sad. While the 60's were grooving-on with the Mini there was this prim and sensible little car bought by the quiet folk. The "finest of" what "all"?

Vauxhalls very keenly priced for the era - they sold loads - now mostly gone as they did like to rust. But cheap and disposable at the time. Half the price of a 6-cylinder Daimler in roughly the same market segment for example.

Old ads tell us so much about the attitudes of the past - VDP "a lady amongst cars".😂

They can't have sold any in that yellow? They always make me think of gloomy 60's funerals with the rain dripping off the yew trees - or Bob Dylan at the Severn ferry crossing - mean, moody and magnificent in shades.

1966. Before the bridge opened. Seen behind the VDP.

[Boycie]

On 27/10/2024 at 11:49, Joey spud said:

Jesus that takes me back , use to be a similar set up in Carlisle ( CG Ford I think ) full of rough high mileage ex fleet cars , can't imagine the word the reject would be used on advertising nowadays

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

12 minutes ago, Boycie said:

Jesus that takes me back , use to be a similar set up in Carlisle ( CG Ford I think ) full of rough high mileage ex fleet cars , can't imagine the word the reject would be used on advertising nowadays

 

No there'd be more bullshiting than on a famers compost heap.

[D.E]

In a 1935 German railway magazine.

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, D.E said:

In a 1935 German railway magazine.

Special supplement, “Trains to Nuremberg”

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[bangernomics]

Pulled more of the cave apart today and found these jammed in a gap before a wad of filler was inserted hence the crinkle.

[bangernomics]

In a 1935 German railway magazine.

The hundred year what?

[D.E]

2 minutes ago, bangernomics said:

The hundred year what?

Railways in Germany (1835-1935).

[MiniMinorMk3]

[bangernomics]

Spent the weekend ripping the shite kitchen out and fitting some of it in the garage as a temp measure whilst the back of the house is removed.

Anyway under the lino that was under the lino which was under the carpet tiles that was under the lino was this collection.

[High Jetter]

Less room for a car, tho?

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

 

[lesapandre]

Lining to the bottom of an old packing case.