Anything of interest in these?

[cms206]

As you lot'll be aware by now, I'm a bit of a bus spotter type. About a year and a bit ago I became custodian of over a collection of 10000 bus photos which I've been plodding my way through for a while now. There is some fantastic autoshite amongst them both bus and car based, but in particular this one image struck a chord. If there is interest in this I'll see what other prime autoshite I can find in backgrounds and post 'em up as well...

 

I've left this one full size - what can you spot? (also here - http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5072081386_01a8e55174_o.jpg)

 

[michael t]

love pics like these nice black metro near the woman walking past, shitty saloon nova and sporty astra gte

[seth]

I spot petrol at less than a third its current price. At a guess that looks to be around 1990?

[cms206]

The newest car I can see looks to be about an 88/89, so probably right. Theres no date on the photo, no location, nothing. No idea where it is... still, some tastyness there...

[Mr H Sceptre]

Whetley, as in the name on the garage, appears to be in/near Bradford according to a quick Google search.

[seth]

Try putting BD8 8NLinto Google maps. Looks likely....

[autofive]

UK petrol was an invented name to replace Q8 during and after the gulf war

 

155 a gallon for 4star - im off to fill up

[Mr Lobster]

Nice, I love old photos like this.

[Guest]

I've probably never been there, but it has a reassuringly "familiar" look. What's the newest car there I wonder? There's a facelift Sierra tucked in at the back so that's 1987 at least. What's that white car at the far right? I was thinking it might be a MK1 Ibiza but the back end is too squared-off, also looks too small to be a Tipo, given the Metro in front of it.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Uno with a bit of naff colour-coded 'tupperware' isn't it?

[Guest]

Yeah, could be one of those with the clear indicators. Can't tell whether it has a foglight on the front bumper or whether that's something else. We may never know.

[Spottedlaurel]

Excellent photo! I've invited it to the Old Showroom group on Flickr.

 

Their stock does seem to have a reasonable amount of sporty(ish) stuff. Cavalier SRi x2 down behind the lady?

 

My favourite would be the Civic S though. Sadly, but almost inevitably, DVLA says:

 

The vehicle details for BAT 281X are:

Date of Liability 01 11 1993

Date of First Registration 21 04 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1335CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour RED

[Richard]

It's no later than '87 I think. I passed my test in September that year and four star was just short of £1.70 a gallon.

[ProgRocker]

The Astra GTE is interesting - was available in family friendly 5 door form only for around 18 months in 1985-86-ish, and without alloys as standard.

[Barry Cade]

Noice 190 on the right, a 924 and the Mk1 GTi behind the Astra has a "tailblazer"

[Station]

The Astra GTE is interesting - was available in family friendly 5 door form only for around 18 months in 1985-86-ish, and without alloys as standard.

 

Aye, 1.8 'OHV' 8v engine as well.