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Yes, it is a Hindustan Contessa - made by the Indian company that were also still making 1950s Morris Oxfords into the early nineties with Isuzu engines. I think the one you gave the link to was slightly later than the one I posted, but they got several facelifts I believe.
The Contessa took the body shell from the 1972 - 93 Vauxhall FE Victor - later the VX series - and at first used a BMC 1500 or 1600engine but later went over to Isuzu engines.
The Contessa was introduced in 1984 and made in fairly limited numbers until about 2002
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However, most of those Figaros are in London and there are new emission restrictions for London, where a low emission zone has been developed which instead of a previous scheme only applicable in the inner City and West End is now going to encompass the whole of London inside the North and South Circular zones - pretty much a ten mile radius around central London - which comes into effecting October and will encompass several million people.
The cost to drive a non compliant car / van etc is going be something like £10 per day and it will mean cars like the Figaro which is not compliant would have to pay this charge every time it is used inside the zone - although really old cars like my Magnette are excluded because it is so old it is classified as a Historic vehicle - luckily for me as we live one mile inside the zone - our Fiesta doesn't have a problem as it is clean enough...
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The colours may have been enhanced by the postcard publisher
I think there are a couple of US cars in the far distance - the large USAF base at Lakenheath is about 10 miles
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Or as usual I am just wrong!
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Way in the distance left I think I see a two tone squarebody pickup with a camper shell and to the left of it parked near the building, maybe a Pinto woody.
In the row ahead of the VW I see what looks like maybe an older black Austin van beside a red Allegro, and behind the black possible van, a white Citroen GS.
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What surprises me about that Viva is that when these were all current cars in our streets I thought of the Viva as a small car compared with a Rover P6 yet they look pretty much the same width...
Lousy parking isn't rare anywhere, but they should be ashamed of themselves with those wide bays - modern cars are at least a foot wider than old equivalent models and I bet that car park is still marked with the same size spaces while we are all surrounded by SUVs you can see from space!
That Simca could be the 1208 but also could be the basic 1100 - they sold loads of those cars in the period 68-75 although hardly any left now....
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That black van is one of the last Austin A50 vans - they made that model until about 1972 - replacing it with the Marinavan - and it was also available with different chrome as a Morris.
I hadn't spotted the GS but that is quite distinctive..
I had thought at first look that the mystery car is a Volvo too but I think its a Toyota Corolla 1100 although it is one of those anonymous cars that we never noticed when it was common..
Ahead of that Cortina is a Red wagon, which at closer look I think is an Opel Kadett Caravan
I'm surprised at the red over white colours on that Allegro -I can't recall ever seeing one like that before.
I think that woody is a 50 Chrysler Royal
And what’s that little British buggy in the center?
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1955 Buick
Rare 1957 Fairlane Ford, not a Fairlane 500.
1957 Oldsmobile convertible
Is the 5th car from left a Pontiac? It has a chrome stripe down the trunk.
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I wonder if the 57 Chevys, being very similar spec, were maybe rental cars.
However, the further east (in the US) one travels, the smaller and smaller the spaces become... yet I never notice the cars getting any smaller. Even Wal-Mart parking lots have smaller spaces, yet the lots seem to be relatively large all the same.
Not an eastern example, but I stopped at a "trapper Joe's" in Portland, Oregon, a few years ago (located downtown). We were driving a rental Ford escape (relatively compact vehicle). The lot spaces were so small that, even perfectly parked, there was maybe 6" of space on each side of the car between the lines (e.g., maximum clearance maybe 12" between cars). It was so unreasonably tight, I just told my family to unload before I parked it. I was tempted to just sit in the car and wait for them, but I finally gave in to spousal pressure and carefully squeezed out of the car by wedging my hand between the car door and the side of the adjacent car while I forced my way out of the narrow gap.
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It is certainly true that space to park here too has shrunk while cars have grown.
I once went early to get groceries one morning and parked in a Supermarket car park just as the store was due to open but I was about ten minutes too early so there were about ten cars in a huge area with people in them waiting for the doors to open.
I sat there with a space to both sides of me, and about one minute before the store opened a man parked next to my drivers side door so close he was in my space with me - I couldn't get out - and there were perhaps 300 spare spaces - I had to move to another space to get out as he just walked away without a care in the world..
I can remember seeing a DC3 and even a DC6 working freight for Air Atlantique at London Stansted (our third airport) when I flew out of there on holiday in about 1996 - we joked we were going to Arnhem .
There were also Lockheed Electras still flying on Royal Mail night freights then too at the same time when we came back as our plane taxied past one when we returned
What airline was your DC3 loading with?
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version of the DC3. Somehow in booking I'd ended up on that flight, but I had been on a Convair 880 (Like a 707) for the first part. I thought the taildragger was a Convair but it was just like the DC3, but I recall that we stayed low and there was liquid coming from the engine out over the wing. It looked like a mixture of oil and water. I was praying that we made it to Charleston.
That was Delta 1968.
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I was sitting in my car in a small shopping center's parking lot waiting for a friend to return from a store. A lady parked next to me and in her attempt to exit her car she banged her car's door into mine. Still attempting to exit her car, she again banged her car's door into mine. I sounded my horn. She replied with "OH, BE QUIET BUDDY. MY CAR IS NEWER THAN YOURS!"
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