Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:32 pm
Taken the same day as your pic above Mark, by the 'Beatles Monthly' staff snapper...
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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:34 pm
The man him self
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:51 pm
Not seen that bottom pic before, nice!
Random find...
Random find...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:58 pm
Some Pathe footage. The year is 1967, Trinity College Cambridge. The car is a Mk1 Austin SDL, reg no. 815 FRX.mk1 wrote:Any further info on this one.
Described as "Prince Charles arriving at Trinity College in his Mini Cooper"
Clearly NOT a Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUhDXo7eEno
Found a shot from a local newspaper
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:45 pm
My neck of the woods - I grew up less than a mile away, in CherryHinton.WMU 211G wrote:Coldhams Lane, Cambridge in the '70s...
Sainsbury’s was built ~1974 and that photo looks not long after as the newsagent hasn’t yet opened in the corner unit next to the freezer center.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:56 pm
Charrington House in Bishops Stortford, probably early '70s, the Mk2 Mini in the foreground looks like it has an aftermarket dash, there's also a hint of a wheel arch extension...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:19 pm
in the old stations, old cars category....
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:56 pm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:08 pm
The roof still stands today and is part of Sainsburys car park nowsnoopy64 wrote:in the old stations, old cars category....
Francois Hardy in her Mk1 Cooper...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:28 pm
Penzance Motorail Terminal
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:29 pm
And on the subject of cars and trains here's a still from the Motorsport Tries Motorail film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAcCzNmnY8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAcCzNmnY8k
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:28 pm
Motorail... those were the days... i'd take my car back to Cornwall if they still ran it!!! mind you i'd take it to Greece too if Lydd still offered air ferries!!
mind you i'd take it to Greece too if Lydd still offered air ferries!!Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:30 pm
Random selection..
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:40 pm
Is that a Morris Super or Cooper in the middle pic...?
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:55 pm
It’s a Cooper for sure, the van pic is great!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:49 pm
Disc brakes, grille and narrower bonnet badge mean it is a Cooper
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:50 pm
It's got disks, so Cooper.
That photo on the harbour looks like an interesting event! The guy in the seven probably thought he had it in the bag until some bugger rocked up in a bobtail Cooper!
Al
That photo on the harbour looks like an interesting event! The guy in the seven probably thought he had it in the bag until some bugger rocked up in a bobtail Cooper!
Al
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:04 pm
Any colour so long as it’s beige...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:45 pm
The picture on the sea front is Odicombe hill climb at Torquay , really steep twisty climb ,done it many times In various Cooper S cars.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:13 pm
The Longbridge photos are bitter sweet. All those people working there, long hours churning out cars that were sold instantly. Imagine the noise of the place.
Now it's a housing estate to be, starter homes filled with Chinese made shit, foreign car on the drive and a World of Tat superstore up the road.
Now it's a housing estate to be, starter homes filled with Chinese made shit, foreign car on the drive and a World of Tat superstore up the road.