Just a nice period picture

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Another black and white picture from the 60th in the Netherlands.

Kees.

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A Maserati Quattroporte Series II with an 850.

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That QP is mega rare being one of just seven RHD examples built out of 779 made. All seven still exist, although one of them is currently a basket case awaiting a new (very brave) owner. Any idea when and where that pic was taken Stu...?

Laurence Harvey drove a LHD one in the 1965 film 'Life At The Top'...

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Edit - just realised the pic is in Broadway

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Edit - just realised the pic is in Broadway

Yes Broadway Hotel, Broadway. I would guess early 1970's. The Mini comes up on DVLA as Blue, not taxed since the late 1980's. Someone must have wanted the Cooper look but was on a budget.

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December 22nd 1965, protest at Newport Pagnell Services as the 70mph speed limit is introduced. looks like a BARC badge on the grille.




1974 London Motorshow. I wonder what one of those ashtrays would fetch these days.




A68, Scotland/England Border

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Weybridge, 1967...

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And the photoshopped version which often comes up in image searches, with a much later shot of George Harrison's restored Radford dropped in...

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Flower power mk2, found on Instagram.

Kees.

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[Costafortune]

Darlington, 1970's.

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We've seen these well known 'pop art' photos before but here's some background to them : the pop art graphics were designed and applied by Danae Brook and the photos were taken in Carlyle Square, Chelsea on 24th March 1966 by Doreen Spooner, the car, a 997 Morris Cooper was for sale locally for £385 at the time...

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We've seen these well known 'pop art' photos before but here's some background to them : the pop art graphics were designed and applied by Danae Brook and the photo was taken on 24th March 1966 by Doreen Spooner, the car, a 997 Morris Cooper was for sale locally for £385 at the time...

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Great Info WMU!

Two very influential women!

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Great Info WMU!

Two very influential women!

More power to their elbows

Oxford Street in the '60s, notice the S&A advert on the back of the bus on the left...

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Lovely old, even then, Bedford lorry, presumably a brewers dray. The breweries used to keep them for years and years, probably 25 years until they got rid of them. London Brick Company were the same.

Sorry it's not a mini related response to a nice picture. But Bedford lorries just wind my clock up. I wonder where my last one went...... Where are you Bedford QL 77 YC 16

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Lovely old, even then, Bedford lorry, presumably a brewers dray. The breweries used to keep them for years and years, probably 25 years until they got rid of them. London Brick Company were the same.

Sorry it's not a mini related response to a nice picture. But Bedford lorries just wind my clock up. I wonder where my last one went...... Where are you Bedford QL 77 YC 16

I like old commercials and have spotted a few on my travels, particularly at work - next to the Midland Mainline just south of Flitwick station there's a farm yard with the cab of a '40s / '50s AEC Matador propped up against the barn, it looks like the left overs from a life sized Airfix kit

Regent Street in the '70s with a nice Clubbie in what looks like 'Antelope' beige...

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To pale for Antelope, could be Bedouin, but I think it is Mirage. Opel Commodore GS/E attempting to get into the boot.

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Great Info WMU!

Two very influential women!

More power to their elbows

Oxford Street in the '60s, notice the S&A advert on the back of the bus on the left...


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And a nice Hillman Super Minx estate dead ahead, just a couple of years younger than my father's, red, 679 TUR. All the breed reduced to piles of rusty scrap in short order; sad . . .

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Another Stewart & Ardern advert caught in the 1967 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore film 'Bedazzled'...

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