old shite scans (not 56k friendly)

[seth]

Quite a few of these are familiar so I'm guessing they're scanned form old issues of Practical Classics?

 

Anyhow, I know where this one is! Quite bear me. I remember it as a Heron garage though in its latter days it was a Shell with a Kwik Fit based round the back. Currently empty and due for redevelopment I think. Its actually one of my "dram" properties as I can envision converting the upper floor to spacious open plan "loft" living quarters with loads of car space in the garage below.

 

 

I don't think it looked like this 2nd hand dealer for long.

 

[autofive]

all the scans are from "Popular Classics", i havent started on the "Practical Classics" magazines yet

[Albert Ross]

London Traffic

 

 

Elephant & Castle

 

The Land Rover in the bottom right corner appears to be an etremely rare "Airdrive" conversion, built with a Broom-Wade compressor pump in the back, running off the PTO, with the sloping front housing a large oil cooler. There are 4 known survivors.

[Vin]

I also recollect a few of the images from when I used to get Popular Classics. The supplement that contained the Northampton and M1 shots came out in the mid nineties at the time I was living in Northampton. I went out on my pushbike with my A to Z to do a 'then and now' on those pictures with street names.

 

At the time, I tried to get a poster size print made of the St. Albans M1 picture but failed miserably. Much easier nowadays I guess.

 

Also, that is an Alfasud in the first M1 picture. When the supplement came out I established, with the help of a magnifying glass, that it's left hand drive and on Italian plates.

 

Thanks for posting them AF.

[trigger]

The Land Rover in the bottom right corner appears to be an etremely rare "Airdrive" conversion, built with a Broom-Wade compressor pump in the back, running off the PTO, with the sloping front housing a large oil cooler. There are 4 known survivors.

 

That one lasted until 1987 which wasn't bad going.

[VWPowered]

great scans trig

[trigger]

^ Autofive

[pompei]

GR67 thread, thanks for posting!

 

What is the autocross car? The reg is BOG and it looks like a Standard?

 

I'm amazed at the london traffic - just as bad then as now ...

 

Think the Newcastle one is pictured on Scotswood Road?

 

My favourite is the scrappie just behind the terraced houses. Wonderful!

 

Merry Christmas to you too

[messerschmitt owner]

Fablious!

 

Isabella Combi looks like its two-tone.

 

M1 is now eleventy lanes wide at that point near St Albans.

 

Nice Allard in that '57 Market one. I wonder what the spat equipped car in the bottom left is? Jag maybe? Sunbeam?

I noticed the Allard - an M type I think - I also think it's a view of GLoucester

[michiel]

Spatty looks like a Sunbeam to me. Love the shot with the Isetta and Heinkel/Trojan!

 

Thanks for the scans Autofive, and a sherry christmas to you!

[chaseracer]

 

It's not much different now. Pedestrianised and one-way for disabled and deliveries only, but Lloyds Bank is still there and Dr. Johnson hasn't woken up yet...

[keef]

Its actually one of my "dram" properties as I can envision converting the upper floor to spacious open plan "loft" living quarters with loads of car space in the garage below.

 

Great minds ........

 

Nice find!

 

May I use it on http://landcrabs.proboards.com and http://groups.google.com/group/bmc1100?hl=en please?

[keef]

It's not much different now.

 

Looks peaceful, even if it is busy.

 

May I use it on http://forum.austina30a35ownersclub.co.uk please?

[Lord Sterling]

Its actually one of my "dram" properties as I can envision converting the upper floor to spacious open plan "loft" living quarters with loads of car space in the garage below

 

You got the same dream as me, seen a few properties like that, I can only dream of buying/living in.

[autofive]

May I use it on http://landcrabs.proboards.com and http://groups.google.com/group/bmc1100?hl=en please?

 

May I use it on http://forum.austina30a35ownersclub.co.uk please?

 

feel free

[keef]

feel free

 

Thanks.

 

http://forum.austina30a35ownersclub.co. ... 057#p22057

http://groups.google.com/group/bmc1100/ ... 3360?hl=en

http://landcrabs.proboards.com/index.cg ... d=2&page=1

 

Wonder how much that garage sold/would sell for?

[Phrancofile]

M1 1973 Zodiac holds up a 2000/2500

 

Anyone else notice the Silver Shadow Roller coming up behind what looks to be a BMW Bavaria?

[Richard]

A bit of ADO16 rivalry too, unless one is towing the other.

[seth]

I'm gonna cry "photoshop" at this one.

 

[Richard]

Yep, I thought that as soon as I saw it, especially the bus in the foreground.

[autofive]

i thought that myself, but i have seen re-touched 30s & 40s postcards, and assumed this was one

[Richard]

I think it's original, but an original fake. A lot of cutting and pasting used to go on with postcards. There was a postcard of our old house that had some biplanes pasted on for no apparent reason.

[chaseracer]

Either way, that Jowett Javelin's seriously committed to the left hairpin. Is there an 'after' postcard...?

 

[Tayne]

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[chaseracer]

/\/\

 

Is that an 'Adenauer' Mercedes in the background, next to the Morris?

[Albert Ross]

M1 1973 Zodiac holds up a 2000/2500

 

Anyone else notice the Silver Shadow Roller coming up behind what looks to be a BMW Bavaria?

 

I see everything in that outside lane has at least 6 cylinders....

Zodiac,

Triumph 2000/2500,

Vauxhall Ventora?

Slag,

Beemer,

Roller,

Leyland or Albion?

Then what might be a Mustang with skunk stripes......?

 

Now it's all 1.9 TD hatchbacks with jackets in the back.

[seth]

Yeah, well I didn't actually mean "computer photoshop" on that coach photo but figured that would be obvious.

[Cavcraft]

M1 1973 Zodiac holds up a 2000/2500

 

Anyone else notice the Silver Shadow Roller coming up behind what looks to be a BMW Bavaria?

 

I see everything in that outside lane has at least 6 cylinders....

Zodiac,

Triumph 2000/2500,

Vauxhall Ventora?

Slag,

Beemer,

Roller,

Leyland or Albion?

Then what might be a Mustang with skunk stripes......?

 

Now it's all 1.9 TD hatchbacks with jackets in the back.

 

That DAF must be a bloody early one for the U.K.

[BMC Dan]

Hope Autofive don't mind the thread hijack and bump but I thought these photos I came across at a bootsale in Brighton back in October suit this thread in my opinion. It appears that the majority of these photos were taken circa 1959 on holidays in Loch Lomond, France and Germany.

 

 

And a Thames 400E camper at a later date

[BMC Dan]

And the foreign shots, not sure about the plate change though, perhaps the Consul owner was stationed in the military abroad??