Yep Kingdome, appears to be in the final stages of construction. I know it opened in the spring of 76.
Not just a lack of foreign cars, but a lack of Japanese cars - I see a few Germans in the pic, but only one or two that could possibly be Japanese, and they are so far away it's hard to tell.
Sorry - I didn't mean to post this - once you start a quote I don't know how to cancel it - it just stays there until you post it. I was trying to reply on the green British car to say I think I have a photo of that exact car taken at a similar damp field - typical British car show.
Yep Kingdome, appears to be in the final stages of construction. I know it opened in the spring of 76.
Not just a lack of foreign cars, but a lack of Japanese cars - I see a few Germans in the pic, but only one or two that could possibly be Japanese, and they are so far away it's hard to tell.
Sorry - I didn't mean to post this - once you start a quote I don't know how to cancel it - it just stays there until you post it. I was trying to reply on the green British car to say I think I have a photo of that exact car taken at a similar damp field - typical British car show.
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Yep Kingdome, appears to be in the final stages of construction. I know it opened in the spring of 76.
Not just a lack of foreign cars, but a lack of Japanese cars - I see a few Germans in the pic, but only one or two that could possibly be Japanese, and they are so far away it's hard to tell.
Sorry - I didn't mean to post this - once you start a quote I don't know how to cancel it - it just stays there until you post it. I was trying to reply on the green British car to say I think I have a photo of that exact car taken at a similar damp field - typical British car show.
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Thanks - I seem to have got stuck when I tried earlier but it was probably me....
Well, the estate car to the left is a Ford Granada - built in Germany. Also you can see a white Morris 1000 Minor beyond it and the corner of a Triumph Stag to the right.
I'll leave the actual subject car as it is known over here but probably unheard of abroad.
Suffice it to say if you drove it you would probably be shaken but not stirred.
Well, the estate car to the left is a Ford Granada - built in Germany. Also you can see a white Morris 1000 Minor beyond it and the corner of a Triumph Stag to the right.
I'll leave the actual subject car as it is known over here but probably unheard of abroad.
Suffice it to say if you drove it you would probably be shaken but not stirred.
I think this one may have appeared on these pages in the past. Spearmint is not an attractive colour on any car, and certainly not here. The windscreen frame and the bonnet catches on the forward opening bonnet, give it away as Triumph Herald derived.
This is a Bond Equipe GT4S from mid 1960's. Bond are more famous for a very peculiar thing called the Bond Bug, although this was actually made by Reliant, which had acquired the Bond name in the late 1960's.
Yes, the Arna was a strange beast but it was based on what we had as a Nissan Cherry (in some markets it would have been a Nissan Pulsar I believe) - there was also a Nissan Cherry Europa which was the Nissan car but with an Alfa engine.
I think I read somewhere that there are no Arnas left on the road in Britain and there will be few elsewhere in Europe and I hardly saw any when they were on sale. As for the Nissan Cherry Europa I imagine that went years ago too - I can only remember seeing a few when they were new - all that differed externally was the badges. .
In NA, we only had 2 versions of the Pulsar. First, this thing:
Which I kind of liked when I was a kid - although unpretty, the pop up lights and sharp angles made it unique. A mainstay in high school parking lots here into the 90s.
Yes, the Arna was a strange beast but it was based on what we had as a Nissan Cherry (in some markets it would have been a Nissan Pulsar I believe) - there was also a Nissan Cherry Europa which was the Nissan car but with an Alfa engine.
I think I read somewhere that there are no Arnas left on the road in Britain and there will be few elsewhere in Europe and I hardly saw any when they were on sale. As for the Nissan Cherry Europa I imagine that went years ago too - I can only remember seeing a few when they were new - all that differed externally was the badges. .
Steward is correct, that is a mid-60s Thomas Cheetah using Corvette Stingray mechanicals and an Aluminum body/chassis. It was designed by a guy named Bill Thomas to try and beat the Shelby Cobra-Fords which it did on several occasions but not consistently due to various design problems including tendencies to overheat both drivers and motors
This one is postwar despite appearances to the contrary...
Sorry - I have been away from the computer for days.
This is indeed a Renault Juvaquatre - this estate version was known as the Dauphinoise (or something similar) and outlived the saloon by a number of years. I think that it lasted so long because the equivalent Renault saloons - initially the 4CV / 750 and later the Dauphine were rear engined with a vertical block and hence had problems with providing a suitable layout for a van or commercial. So the pre-war Juvaquatre, which had bee based on a copy of an Opel Kadett or something, soldiered on for years.
It went by about 1960, but its true successor would have been the Renault 4 which provided similar accommodation but with far better performance.
Steward is correct, that is a mid-60s Thomas Cheetah using Corvette Stingray mechanicals and an Aluminum body/chassis. It was designed by a guy named Bill Thomas to try and beat the Shelby Cobra-Fords which it did on several occasions but not consistently due to various design problems including tendencies to overheat both drivers and motors
If I remember correctly, the Cheetah was unique in that there was no driveshaft. The transmission was hooked up directly to the differential. Seems plausible, when you look at the thing. It has Death Wish written all over it, doesn't it?
@Mr_Shiftright, Wiki said the "driveshaft" was so short, it was essentially a universal joint.
Looks a bit scary with the gas filler behind the driver and having to contort yourself to get out of the cockpit (shoot, you had to straddle the engine to drive it). Doesn't look like a Nomex kind of suit that the driver is wearing either.
This one appears obvious but it is a bit different
It's gotta be an early 60s Hillman Minx; I can make out the word Minx on the flank. This particular iteration of the Minx was sold as a Sunbeam Minx and a Humber 60 outside the USA. a
Rootes Group cars enjoyed a short-lived spate of popularity during the heyday of Euro imports (late 60s-mid 60s). The Minx was fairly popular where I grew up, usually as a second car to back up the big wagon or sedan..
Rootes Audax body but the setting looks wrong, so I am guessing Japan. Raymond Loewy had some influence on the design which has hints of Studebaker to it.
Somewhere I have read a book about the Japanese concept of copying, which in later years cascaded into Korea and China. I assume that the Rootes Audax body style was licensed.
You are onto something Graham. I'd never noticed the resemblance to Studes before but now I can see it and I checked the Wikipedia entry which says that Raymond Loewy influenced the design. Wikipedia also notes that Japan was one of the several countries where the Minx was assermbled.
The tennis players look vaguely Asian and the car is wrong-hand drive
The Hillman Minx in the wrong setting is explained by the following 1953 article in The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Tuesday 12 May 1953
Japan Assembly Of Hillmans Britain's car concern, the Rootes Group, has signed a technical tie-up with the Isuzu Motor Co. for thfi issembly and eventual ? manufacture in Japan of,1 Hillman Minx cars, says Richard Hughes in Tokio. Under the agreement, ap proved by the Japanese Gov ernment, Isuzu will import i the cars completely knocked down and assemble them at the big Omori works. Arrangements have been made for Isuzu to manufac ture component parts and for Isuzu engineers to go to England to study at Rootes Group plants, schools and service stations. Rootes and Isuzu have also entered into partnership for sales, distri bution and servicing of the cars assembled by Isuzu. Rootes thus becomes the second major British auto mobile firm to announce the assembly of cars in Japan: Austins are being assembled already by the Nissan Motor Co.
The end of the relationship is described in an article in The Canberra Times Previous of Wednesday 18 November 1964
Japanese end Rootes link TOKYO, Tuesday (A.A. P.-Rcutcr). — The Isiizii Motor Company Lid., Japanese manufacturers of lhe ItcIIcK car, plans lo (crminalc its tie-up with I lie Rootes Group of Britain, it Announced to day. The move, to be taken next March when the pre sent contract for technical assistance from Rootes ends, represents the final step in the Japanese automobile industry's movement to wards technical indepen dence of foreign firms. An Isuzu spokesman said his firm had assembled about 60,000 Millman cars since 1953 under a liccncc from the Rootes Company, at a cost of about £618,750 in royalties. The technical tie-up was no longer required, he said, as his firm had learned most of the British tech niques and was now making passenger cars with its own methods. |i
The Isuzu Bellett was introduced (in Australia) in 1964. They were a radically better car than the Rootes Audax.
where are the tailfins? Maybe we need a rear view. The only "yank" thing I see immediately is the windshield but yeah, I think you're right----wide whites are definitely an American invention---pretty much extinct here by the early 60s however. White walls go way back in time, probably 100 years.
where are the tailfins? Maybe we need a rear view. The only "yank" thing I see immediately is the windshield but yeah, I think you're right----wide whites are definitely an American invention---pretty much extinct here by the early 60s however. White walls go way back in time, probably 100 years.
The front end screams 57 Tbird as does the windshield!
where are the tailfins? Maybe we need a rear view. The only "yank" thing I see immediately is the windshield but yeah, I think you're right----wide whites are definitely an American invention---pretty much extinct here by the early 60s however. White walls go way back in time, probably 100 years.
The front end screams 57 Tbird as does the windshield!
In these somewhat aged eyes, the front end looks enough like a '56 Chrysler to trigger a law suit. Specifically a New Yorker. Just my $0.02 worth.
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Thanks - I seem to have got stuck when I tried earlier but it was probably me....
I'll leave the actual subject car as it is known over here but probably unheard of abroad.
Suffice it to say if you drove it you would probably be shaken but not stirred.
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The Ford wagon looks much like the one from the underrated "European Vacation"
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I think this one may have appeared on these pages in the past. Spearmint is not an attractive colour on any car, and certainly not here. The windscreen frame and the bonnet catches on the forward opening bonnet, give it away as Triumph Herald derived.
This is a Bond Equipe GT4S from mid 1960's. Bond are more famous for a very peculiar thing called the Bond Bug, although this was actually made by Reliant, which had acquired the Bond name in the late 1960's.
Cheers
GRaham
I think I read somewhere that there are no Arnas left on the road in Britain and there will be few elsewhere in Europe and I hardly saw any when they were on sale. As for the Nissan Cherry Europa I imagine that went years ago too - I can only remember seeing a few when they were new - all that differed externally was the badges. .
Which I kind of liked when I was a kid - although unpretty, the pop up lights and sharp angles made it unique. A mainstay in high school parking lots here into the 90s.
And then this one, which was also kind of cool:
As it had modular rear sections:
These are extremely rare today.
Sold in the US as an Isuzu I-Mark and a Buick-Opel, maybe.
It's obviously a racer but it raced in Production Sport classes (AP). Not many saw steet use but a few did.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Steward is correct, that is a mid-60s Thomas Cheetah using Corvette Stingray mechanicals and an Aluminum body/chassis.
It was designed by a guy named Bill Thomas to try and beat the Shelby Cobra-Fords which it did on several occasions but not consistently due to various design problems including tendencies to overheat both drivers and motors
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Sorry - I have been away from the computer for days.
This is indeed a Renault Juvaquatre - this estate version was known as the Dauphinoise (or something similar) and outlived the saloon by a number of years. I think that it lasted so long because the equivalent Renault saloons - initially the 4CV / 750 and later the Dauphine were rear engined with a vertical block and hence had problems with providing a suitable layout for a van or commercial. So the pre-war Juvaquatre, which had bee based on a copy of an Opel Kadett or something, soldiered on for years.
It went by about 1960, but its true successor would have been the Renault 4 which provided similar accommodation but with far better performance.
Looks a bit scary with the gas filler behind the driver and having to contort yourself to get out of the cockpit (shoot, you had to straddle the engine to drive it). Doesn't look like a Nomex kind of suit that the driver is wearing either.
@texases, let me guess - that's a Dawn shot?
We get the Orlando here too...
Rootes Group cars enjoyed a short-lived spate of popularity during the heyday of Euro imports (late 60s-mid 60s). The Minx was fairly popular where I grew up, usually as a second car to back up the big wagon or sedan..
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Rootes Audax body but the setting looks wrong, so I am guessing Japan. Raymond Loewy had some influence on the design which has hints of Studebaker to it.
Somewhere I have read a book about the Japanese concept of copying, which in later years cascaded into Korea and China. I assume that the Rootes Audax body style was licensed.
Cheers
Graham
The tennis players look vaguely Asian and the car is wrong-hand drive
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I find it kind of funny it has Oregon plates.
The Hillman Minx in the wrong setting is explained by the following 1953 article in The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Tuesday 12 May 1953
Japan Assembly
Of Hillmans
Britain's car concern, the
Rootes Group, has signed a
technical tie-up with the
Isuzu Motor Co. for thfi
issembly and eventual ?
manufacture in Japan of,1
Hillman Minx cars, says
Richard Hughes in Tokio.
Under the agreement, ap
proved by the Japanese Gov
ernment, Isuzu will import i
the cars completely knocked
down and assemble them at
the big Omori works.
Arrangements have been
made for Isuzu to manufac
ture component parts and for
Isuzu engineers to go to
England to study at Rootes
Group plants, schools and
service stations. Rootes and
Isuzu have also entered into
partnership for sales, distri
bution and servicing of the
cars assembled by Isuzu.
Rootes thus becomes the
second major British auto
mobile firm to announce the
assembly of cars in Japan:
Austins are being assembled
already by the Nissan Motor
Co.
The end of the relationship is described in an article in The Canberra Times Previous of Wednesday 18 November 1964
Japanese
end Rootes
link
TOKYO, Tuesday (A.A.
P.-Rcutcr). — The Isiizii
Motor Company Lid.,
Japanese manufacturers
of lhe ItcIIcK car, plans lo
(crminalc its tie-up with
I lie Rootes Group of
Britain, it Announced to
day.
The move, to be taken
next March when the pre
sent contract for technical
assistance from Rootes ends,
represents the final step in
the Japanese automobile
industry's movement to
wards technical indepen
dence of foreign firms.
An Isuzu spokesman said
his firm had assembled
about 60,000 Millman cars
since 1953 under a liccncc
from the Rootes Company,
at a cost of about £618,750
in royalties.
The technical tie-up was
no longer required, he said,
as his firm had learned
most of the British tech
niques and was now making
passenger cars with its own
methods. |i
The Isuzu Bellett was introduced (in Australia) in 1964. They were a radically better car than the Rootes Audax.
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