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fricsman wrote:

WMU 211G wrote:

LONDON Mk1s 548.jpg

Surely that's the Bluecoat Chambers in Liverpool, the Mini nearest the camera appears to have a Liverpool Registration ending in LV.

I'd agree that that is Liverpool:

Newcastle Castle

The pub's been demolished

nice bit of Datsun action as well...…………...

GraemeC wrote:

fricsman wrote:

WMU 211G wrote:

LONDON Mk1s 548.jpg

Surely that's the Bluecoat Chambers in Liverpool, the Mini nearest the camera appears to have a Liverpool Registration ending in LV.

I'd agree that that is Liverpool:

Ta gents.

I love these old period press shots...
Graham Hill being interviewed by a beatnik journo at the start of the '66 RAC Rally... The Special Tuning Department in 1969...

Nope......, don't agree. That can't be Liverpool. For a start, all the windows are intact, no graffiti, cash machine still in place on left hand side.............

703MWL photo is on the green, at Clifton Hampden Lots of Morris and MG's were photographed there

WMU 211G wrote:
Graham Hill being interviewed by a beatnik journo at the start of the '66 RAC Rally...

BMC 1966 RAC GH.jpg

That Beatnick looks like the motoring writer Michael Frostick, who presented Wheelbase on the BBC.

The hairs a bit thinner but the nose is the give away.
Here's a spot of video from 1970ish featuring some beach Buggies were I snipped the picture from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... Q2db6ULzpM

Who wouldn't love a pre facelift 2.5Pi Triumph? What a cracking thing they must have been, especially in white with those funky stainless wheel trims.

West Lulworth in 1964, could almost be a scene from 'Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)'...

Name the film that the car park was used in. Sadly demolished about 5 years ago.
Camping holiday
Monte Carlo of bust 1962. This Riley met a sad end a Scotch Corner
The beginning of the end. The first Datsuns land in Teeside in 1969

Name the film that the car park was used in. Sadly demolished about 5 years ago.

Get Carter...??

Definitely Get Carter, filmed in the Summer of '70, released in March '71
Two different Mk2 Jags were used in this scene... In the scenes where Caine is seen driving the MkII Cortina he's being pushed into shot by some of the film crew, he didn't passed his driving test until about 1973.

Tiger skin seat covers are a strong look in a rally car!!!

Crossing the Severn in 1964...

rich@minispares.com wrote:Tiger skin seat covers are a strong look in a rally car!!!

It's also a strong look on the outside of a Fintail Benz

I think I've got a vacuum cleaner like that in my dad's 'heritage collection'

Will have a look tomorrow!

WMU 211G wrote:Definitely Get Carter.

Time Bandit wrote:Get Carter...??

Yep. It' sthe old Trinity Square multistorey that was in Gateshead.


Great website showing all the locations of the film here.
https://www.getcarter.xyz/locations/tri ... -car-park/
It is amazing how much has changed in the last 47 years even up here in the North. Very few of teh locations remain untouched, and many of the buildings and roads have been demolished and built over.

rich@minispares.com wrote:Tiger skin seat covers are a strong look in a rally car!!!

Bloody hell you don't mist owt Rich

Just scrolling through this topic...

This Marcos is still out there somewhere Kees: