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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:13 am
by WMU 211G
nick@dunsdale wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:06 am
surfblue63 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:01 pm
I'm sure I saw a lion a few minutes ago. Man I must stop toking on that weed!
Oi, you leave my wipers alone!
Two kids in the front seat what a throwback to the 70's for me anyway
These pics are giving me nightmare flashbacks to a visit to West Mids Safari Park thirty years ago in my '79 1100 Clubman - the bloody baboons took one of my windscreen wipers and half the radio aerial!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:16 am
by steve1071
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Two kids in the front seat what a throwback to the 70's for me anyway
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We used to go shopping in a neighbours mk2 Cortina, four in the back, two in the front and me being the youngest sat on the armrest between the front seats.......!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:57 pm
by Lakeland997
surfblue63 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:55 pm
Costafortune wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:21 pm
It sounds a bit Brexitty but it's nice to see all (?) British cars there.
I spy with my little eye two VWs, one Bug and one Fastback, and a Peugeot 404 Estate. I'd say at least 50% of the vehicles are BMC/BL.
It might reflect the fact that there were no less than ten Leyland dealers in West Cumbria at that time - of which my father was one.
There are fewer than ten dealers of any brand here now.
Needless to say, he swapped to the Volkswagen franchise at the earliest opportunity. Not a bad decision in retrospect.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 4:13 pm
by Costafortune
A book called 'turning back the clock' by Geoff Owen illustrates how clueless BMC really were, and how badly customers were treated.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 3:21 pm
by mab01uk
The first February 1965 Triple C issue (2/6d), which was titled Cars Illustrated incorporating Car Conversions:
CCC first appeared in 1965; it grew out of Cars Illustrated:
and eventually from CCC came a magazine called 'MiniWorld'.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 2:14 pm
by olddave
Another 1100 from Whitehaven.
Totally rust free this time. Well it was 1962.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 2:32 pm
by Old English White
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:10 pm
by surfblue63
Bit of a rusty door bottom on this Mini Minor tootling along the South Circular in 1975
Late registered Mk1 in Tulse Hill
Outside Stephen Wards Mews flat following the shooting incident
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 5:45 pm
by mab01uk
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:09 pm
by UHR850
Somewhere long ago in the Netherlands
Kees.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:36 pm
by surfblue63
Look at the size of that Peco Big Boy.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:45 pm
by Exminiman
surfblue63 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:36 pm
Look at the size of that Peco Big Boy.
Very Phallic
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:42 pm
by mab01uk
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:27 pm
by surfblue63
Living on an Island!
Learning to drive.
Who remembers the BSM? Used to see them all over the place.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:40 pm
by SMOKE GREY
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:30 am
by UHR850
Whow that's a nice picture
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:10 am
by Costafortune
1972 Lotus Elan, Elan +2's and Europas collected from the factory.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 3:47 pm
by WMU 211G
Citroen SMs leaving the factory....!
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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:14 pm
by Peter Laidler
Re the Cooper Car Co delivery lorry photo above. Why would the CCCo have their own delivery lorry? Where were they collecting and delivering to? Did they, for some reason have their own collection service from ther factory? I can't recall any other distributor having their own delivery service and can't imaging CCCo having more new cars delivered that Stewart and Arden. A new mini Cooper owner would simply go and collect surely? Or if he couldn't, then the delivery drivers would deliver it to the local BMC garage. I remember seeing these delivery drivers, clutching their trade plates, hitch-hiking all over the South of England........
Just puzzles me
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:29 pm
by surfblue63
Peter Laidler wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:14 pm
Re the Cooper Car Co delivery lorry photo above. Why would the CCCo have their own delivery lorry? Where were they collecting and delivering to? Did they, for some reason have their own collection service from ther factory? I can't recall any other distributor having their own delivery service and can't imaging CCCo having more new cars delivered that Stewart and Arden. A new mini Cooper owner would simply go and collect surely? Or if he couldn't, then the delivery drivers would deliver it to the local BMC garage. I remember seeing these delivery drivers, clutching their trade plates, hitch-hiking all over the South of England........
Just puzzles me
It's their race transporter, I guess these are new cars about to be turned into racers.
