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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:10 pm
by Peter Laidler
The photo by 66traveller - Inno Cooper looks like a bloke dressed up as a girl! Some of Costafortunes press and PR photos with the two girls in apparent conversation would make great contenders for a 'what-are-they-saying' quotation contest!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 1:43 pm
by surfblue63
From the 1964 film Night Must Fall staring Susan Hampshire and Albert Finney
Film trailer with small part featuring Crayford
https://youtu.be/4bT4dgYR7kk?t=133
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:47 pm
by 66Traveller
Yes Crayford has no door window frames/ windows - presumably removed for filming but totally impractical with the hood!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:07 pm
by Peter Laidler
Yes...., Susan Hampshire was always my heart throb. Lives round here too. Maybe she secretly lusted after me too.....
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:39 pm
by Old English White
She says not Peter
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:49 pm
by foxy52
..What a corker of a car 1 lpj is .. classsy !!! foxy52
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:58 pm
by Costafortune
Them BMC birds must be
well rich - they seem to have a lot of cars.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:19 pm
by Costafortune
Now here's a question; if you could go back 50 years, how long would you go for? Knowing what you do now of course - no mobile phones, internet, credit/debit cards etc.
You'd have the the money you have now but 2018 inflated. Two grand for an E Type? I'll have two. Nipping down to a BMC dealer and paying cash for an 'S', because you just would. A £10'000 house would be quite something. You'd actually have to go to the pub to meet wimmin. You'd see some epic live bands, watch the RAC, and cruise down to Monaco in January '67 to watch those cheese eating surrender monkeys* get a bit of BMC two finger action. It would only cost you 200 quid tops.
I'm not sure I'd come back tbh.
*Sorry to our French mates, but we're still a bit pissed about that.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:55 pm
by Polarsilver
Costa .. what have you been drinking
My reality.. i started work in September 66 on £3-17-6p per week apprentice wages before stoppages... the Managing Director had a Gordon Keeble .. i had to fill it up with Petrol on a Friday Morning as he was to ready to sod off before lunchtime for his long weekend.
If i had a ten bob note spare in my wallet at the end of week = Happy Days.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:13 pm
by hanlminiman
Polarsilver wrote:Costa .. what have you been drinking
My reality.. i started work in September 66 on £3-17-6p per week apprentice wages before stoppages... the Managing Director had a Gordon Keeble .. i had to fill it up with Petrol on a Friday Morning as he was to ready to sod off before lunchtime for his long weekend.
If i had a ten bob note spare in my wallet at the end of week = Happy Days.
I started work in January 1966 on a little bit more per week but it did include a "London" allowance. My friend was on an apprentice wage as a boat builder, similar to yours. We both had A series cars and had so much fun. They weren't Minis though.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:31 am
by mk1
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 11:27 am
by foxy52
Costafortune wrote:Now here's a question; if you could go back 50 years, how long would you go for? Knowing what you do now of course - no mobile phones, internet, credit/debit cards etc.
You'd have the the money you have now but 2018 inflated. Two grand for an E Type? I'll have two. Nipping down to a BMC dealer and paying cash for an 'S', because you just would. A £10'000 house would be quite something. You'd actually have to go to the pub to meet wimmin. You'd see some epic live bands, watch the RAC, and cruise down to Monaco in January '67 to watch those cheese eating surrender monkeys* get a bit of BMC two finger action. It would only cost you 200 quid tops.
I'm not sure I'd come back tbh.
...bear in mind most of us working then were only on a tenner a week if lucky !!!!!!.. foxy52
*Sorry to our French mates, but we're still a bit pissed about that.
…...bear in mind most of us working then as young men were on a tenner a week or less !!!.. a pint of beer the equiv of 4p.. fish an chips the equiv of 6p and 20 fags the equiv of 11p or less.. seems light years away !!! lol foxy52
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 12:39 pm
by Costafortune
........I wouldn't believe you.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 2:24 pm
by UHR850
ARDEN
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:03 pm
by mk1
UHR850 wrote:ARDEN
Arden Accessories, Not Arden Engineering.
Sometimes I wish that people would occasionally look at the main site.
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.u ... ental.html
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/arden_eng.htm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:25 pm
by UHR850
Yes Mark you are right
Kees.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:01 pm
by Hipwell
Those cowboys ^.
The company Mini Van might return to the road on day, with every single accessory stapled on.
Greet Birmingham, old Tyseley Cinema on left hand side.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:39 pm
by Costafortune
Various.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:54 am
by Costafortune
Rare base 850.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:16 pm
by Peter Laidler
Do you know anything about the railway bridge in one of the photos above Costa? Could it be the bridge where the '63 great train robbery took place
W&P
