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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:50 am
by WMU 211G
surfblue63 wrote:'68 RAC Rally
Blimey, it's Jeff Randall...!
mike-pratt.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:45 pm
by Costafortune
1982.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:54 pm
by Bart Smith
Rude Boy!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:41 pm
by mab01uk
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:09 pm
by UHR850
Nice
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:12 pm
by UHR850
My kind of team.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:36 pm
by mab01uk
Sir Alec Issigonis after receiving his Knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 22nd July 1969, pictured in front of a Mk1 Mini Cooper S
and a BMC 1100 and Maxi just visible parked alongside. (Photo by Aubrey Hart/Evening Standard/Getty Images)
A bit more of the Cooper S reg. no. ?MV 40F is visible in this other photo above...
If it is RMV 40F below, it still exists according to the DVLA website.....
RMV 40F ✓ Taxed
Tax due: 01 December 2019
✓ MOT Expires: 26 November 2019
Vehicle details:
Vehicle make: AUSTIN
Date of first registration: November 1967
Year of manufacture: 1967
Cylinder capacity (cc): 1275 cc
Fuel type: PETROL
Export marker: No
Vehicle status: Taxed and due
Vehicle colour: GREY
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 11:04 am
by mab01uk
Very early Minis - 20th August 1959.....spot the difference.
A woman checks the engine of one of the first mini cars designed by Alec Issigonis which was launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959. 20th August 1959. (Photo by Daily Herald/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 11:12 am
by surfblue63
Looks like someone reversed the negative when they printed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 11:50 am
by Peter Laidler
............. and it's left hand drive!!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 6:43 pm
by mk1
Looks OK to me.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:33 pm
by UHR850
ALEXANDER tuned Morris Mini Cooper Mk1 with a Monte LL steering wheel
Kees.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:44 pm
by surfblue63
Novel Innocenti stand at the Turin Motor Show.
Innocenti Turin Motor Show.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:02 pm
by Pandora
[quote="UHR850"][/quote]
Is that a central fuel filling hopper clipped onto the roof gutter to fill both tanks at once?
Al
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:13 pm
by mk1
Yes it is.
I very risky, highly dangerous strategy to my mind.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:41 am
by UHR850
Very nice picture
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:00 pm
by UHR850
Two SPRINT'S
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:02 pm
by UHR850
Oké one more
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 1:36 pm
by Nick W
put these up before but worth another look.
66ish 998 cooper taken in the late 60s
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 2:35 pm
by mk1
They really are belting images.