Paris tatfest

[mk2_craig]

Howdy all. Have an interesting old photo and see if you can name them all (including the bus)

 

Bonus points if you can suggest the year it was taken

 

[Phrancofile]

What a beautiful selection of cars: Simca 1100, 504, 604, CX, GS, Alfasud, Ren 16 and a 2002! Same scene today would be drowning in dullard Clios and 207's...

[eddyramrod]

I'll admit right now that I can't help you with the bus. Date, I would suggest about 1979 because of a couple of the cars.

Now the cars! From the top, and reading roughly left to right...

Renault 12

Peugeot 504

Peugeot 204/304

Peugeot 504 Estate

Mini (a real one)

Renault van is maybe an Estafette?

Peugeot 504 Estate

VW Polo

Fiat 850 Coupe (on second thoughts, could easily be Alfasud)

Mercedes W115

Simca 1000

Peugeot 604

BMW 2000 (on second thoughts, could easily be 2002)

Citroen CX

Renault 14

VW Polo

Peugeot 504

Peugeot 204

Renault 16

Citroen GS

Peugeot 504

Austin or Morris 1100 or 1300

Peugeot 104

Renault 17

Ford Granada Mk2

Ford Escort Mk1

(still looking for the Simca 1100; edited in view of these)

 

If you hadn't headed this Paris, I think we could have guessed it was somewhere in France!

[barrett]

I'd say that was a razor-edge Karmann-Ghia to the right of the 604 Eddy

[Phrancofile]

I'd say that was a razor-edge Karmann-Ghia to the right of the 604 Eddy

 

I can see the similarities with KG when looking at the taillights. Looking at the bonnet though, I'd say it's a 2002.

[eddyramrod]

Agreed, I think it's too squat to be a KG, they seem slimmer and (at least visually) longer. Also I think they have longer doors. Look to the right of the CX and there's a corner of white bonnet creeping into shot. I think that's another W115.

[HereHareHere]

Top pic.

 

Van's a Peugeot J7.

[Inspector Morose]

Bus is a French "standard" made by a few companies so I'll plump with Saviem. Date is late 70s or early 80s I would think.

 

Mega pic though!

[AnthonyG]

I would say 1978 or 1979, the razor edged car to the left of the 604 is a BMW 1502/1602/2002. Even the petrol filler cap's on the right place for one of those.

[ProgRocker]

I would say 1978 or 1979, the razor edged car to the left of the 604 is a BMW 1502/1602/2002. Even the petrol filler cap's on the right place for one of those.

 

 

I'd guess '78 or '79 too. Some quality Gallic tin there.

[j-j]

Great pic.

 

Purely on the CX in the picture I'd say it has to be post 1978 due to the type of door mirror. The CX looks like it's a 'Pallas' version with that mirror and the side strips and black bumper inserts but the wheel trims look like the smaller hubcaps of a CX 'Super'. Anyway, the GS is older, being a pre-1974 version.

 

I love how Paris looked in the past - apart from all the Citroëns, those buses had the look.

[Justin Case]

Bus is a French "standard" made by a few companies so I'll plump with Saviem. Date is late 70s or early 80s I would think.

 

Mega pic though!

 

Had a look through my copies of 'Charge Utile' (any excuse will do )and yes, it's almost certainly a Saviem SC 10, probably 1970s, (with the unique feature of the driver sitting on top of the engine )

[CreepingJesus]

Bus is a French "standard" made by a few companies so I'll plump with Saviem. Date is late 70s or early 80s I would think.

 

Mega pic though!

 

Most likely a Saviem SC10. I remember passing up newer Renaults and Neoplans to get a ride back into St Malo on one of these, on a school trip in '87. A few centimes well spent! (Wish I could find the pics from that trip...)

Amazing pic, and quite a perspective.

[ashmicro]

You can bet every one of them's bashed too!

[Alexg]

You can bet every one of them's bashed too!

 

You must be very lonely

[mk2_craig]

 

Well done those who said 1978 - that's the date I have in the text next to the photo, presumably summer too given that those wonderful canvas sunroofs in the foreground are fully open

 

I think the second Polo identified by Eddy is actually a Golf, difficult to tell but it doesn't have the distinctive fuel filler (was it a blank on the other side?) - also first Polo could be an Audi 50 perhaps, but that's clutching at straws!

 

And yes the bus appears to be a Saviem (the other option was Berliet, but as far as I can tell those had a full width grille incorporating the headlamps)

[Pete-M]

Mmmm, 604.

[flat4alfa]

Definitely Alfasud

[kevin 900]

I think the second Polo identified by Eddy is actually a Golf, difficult to tell but it doesn't have the distinctive fuel filler (was it a blank on the other side?)

 

I think they're air vents - Fuel filler iirc is low down behind front door on Polo MK1?

[VWPowered]

bus is a Saviem SC10

[Formula Autos]

'70s Paris tat fest?

 

Try this - c'etait un rendezvous. A semi-mythical film, only recently available on DVD, where an unknown driver in an unknown supercar speeds through Paris early one morning in '76. Chock full of tasty Euro-tat being rapidly overtaken.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWuiQ27608U

 

It all goes past at a bit of a pace though - it would have been better if they'd done it in a Simca as there would have been more time to tat-spot and a glorious tappety soundtrack. As it is, we'll have to make do with what sounds like a V12.

[Tartan58]

Someone's been tapping into my dreams! Is it just me or do the reflections of the yellow headlamps just double the coolness factor?!

[trigger]

Now that is the bollocks!

 

But one thing that confuses me, I'm sure that's the same video as in that Snow Patrol song

, But in this video it's a Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9 according to the myths, where as in your video it sounds like a V12 Ferrari, I'm pretty sure the car isn't even going as quick as the engine sounds make you think.

 

Amazing video all the same though.

[trigger]

It's alright, I've just found what it is, it's a Vespa moped!

 

[kevin 900]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9 ... endez-vous

 

Claude Lelouch - Rendezvous

[barrett]

c'etait un rendezvous is a Merc 6.9 with a dubbed over soundtrack - which is the important part. Lelouch made the run in his Ferrari and recorded the sound, then made it again in the Merc for the visuals. Actually I don't think he was driving but I can't remember who it was... it certainly wasn't a 'famous racing driver' as they said at the time... They tried mounting the camera on the Ferrari but the hard suspension made it impossible to get a clear shot.

There is a lot of myth and speculation about this film, but fairly recently Lelouch came out and basically explained how they did the whole thing, and it just isn't as exciting as it sounds.... I saw someone had worked out the exact route and timed it, and calculated the average speed which I think worked out about 76mph... still bloody impressive stuff, though the position of the camera makes it seem a lot faster than it actually is. There is a bit near the start where he overtakes a car (Ami break iirc) and it takes an age, I think that shows more accurately how fast he was going. ...however it's an amazing bit of film, and they really did have a couple of 'near-misses'.

[VWPowered]

'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWuiQ27608U

 

1973 meets the new dawn

 

 

barretts right it is dubbed, still a awesome video one of my favourites