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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    I find it curious that the road signs and billboards seem to be facing away from the direction of traffic.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    1953 Pontiac.
    The traffic flow is reversed with vehicles crossing on the wrong side of the bridge. The police car is probably stopped, protecting the stopped vehicle from which the photo was taken.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited August 2021
    This is a picture of a car park in Manchester - at the airport - taken in 1960/61

    I have posted it in two halves - the first is the left hand side and both halves should expand -




    and you can "join" them where that large tipper truck is on the right hand picture (below)





  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,820
    I see a Morris!

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    "Tipper Truck". I like that.
    My father was attached to a British unit for a while during WWII when he learned it wasn't a flashlight, it was a torch.
    He liked that and for the rest of his life he used a "torch".
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    There are two Magnettes in those pictures - in the first one a two tone (Varitone) at the corner of the space above that fence post and in the second just above the rear of said tipper truck (so much more polite than a dump truck...)
    And the only foreign vehicle I can make out is the VW type 2 van
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited August 2021
    @lostwrench3
    My dad finished WW2 in Rome in stationed in the main Allied Forces hospital (he was a pharmacist) and he was in a unit which was mostly US Army medics - he said they had a still and all brewed hooch in the laboratories...
    He enjoyed that posting I think,,,
    Not sure how much he remembered about it though !
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,234
    edited August 2021
    Speaking of Magnette

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    Is that a Ford Zephyr convertible I see in picture #1? That must have been quite rare even at the time.

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    edited August 2021
    kyfdx said:

    Speaking of Magnette

    is that the Magnette I saw at Rides on Monmouth car show a few years back? Beautiful
    design for the car and the two tone layout. I was impressed with the premium
    look of the interior. I hadn't realized until then that the poster Magnette and a
    car were sharing a name. Deja vu for naive me.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,234
    imidazol97 said:

    kyfdx said:

    Speaking of Magnette

    is that the Magnette I saw at Rides on Monmouth car show a few years back? Beautiful
    design for the car and the two tone layout. I was impressed with the premium
    look of the interior. I hadn't realized until then that the poster Magnette and a
    car were sharing a name. Deja vu for naive me.
    Yes, that’s the one. He actually had it in a Dayton car show, last Saturday. He also has an MGA. Outside of an actual MG meet, I doubt you’ll see another one.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,649
    Left hand /top side I see a PA Cresta/Velox on wide whites kind of at center left, and 6 cars over, another.

    Right/bottom pic, front row right, 2 to the right of a Farina (maybe a fancy Austin), I see what appears to be an Aston Martin DB4 - with all of the Jags, maybe that was the special parking area.

    I see the Zephyr/Zodiac convertible, too.
    magnette said:

    This is a picture of a car park in Manchester - at the airport - taken in 1960/61

    I have posted it in two halves - the first is the left hand side and both halves should expand -




    and you can "join" them where that large tipper truck is on the right hand picture (below)





  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    @ab348
    Yes that is a Zephyr or Zodiac convertible -- not much call for the roof to come down in what was then grimy old Manchester though...

    @fintail
    yes - that DB4 would have been the car to keep now, that's for sure.
    I think the fact there are a lot of Jags a few MG's and that A-M makes me think it may be where aircrew parked
    That tall car to the right of the DB4 is a Humber Super Snipe - it looks huge next to it but isn't that much taller than the A40 on it's other side - and beyond that is new shape Super Snipe as well.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited August 2021
    @imidazol97
    Yes - my Magnette is away at the moment as it needed a new front floor on the drivers side - I had a hole through it and it was too much to just get it patched, so I got a new panel made - there is a specialist for Magnettes in Norfolk who makes new panels which are the same gauge as the original.
    I should get it back from the local body shop by some time next week...
    It's the first time i have had any of the floor replaced since I acquired it in the seventies

    My Magnette - not a Varitone - is not quite blessed with a premium interior - not least because the car was in storage at my mother's house for a while in the nineties and the cloth headlining got nibbled by mice and most of my carpet is also in need of attention - but one day...
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited August 2021
    @kyfdx
    We have more of the Magnettes here, still. I went to an event just north of London in 2014 and it was the Magnette register get-together.

    We had 23 cars (including one Farina Magnette IV)

    Probably the most in one place since they left the factory
    Mine is the left one of the dark green ones in the far corner



  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    @fintail - sorry I meant to add tyes, the fancy Farina is I think a Wolseley 6/99 - twin of the Austin Westminster A99
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,234
    @magnette That's awesome. Stealing that picture for my friend.

    He mentioned to me the other day, that the top color he picked for his Varitone wasn't factory. But, he like it better than the creams and mints that most of them came with.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited August 2021
    @kyfdx
    Yes some of the colours on Varitones were a little odd - I had a teacher when at school who had a light grey over dark grey one and it looked dull in the early seventies - by which time it was an old car.
    My favourite colour choice would probably be the light blue over dark blue

    Here's another picture of the same event - it was actually at North Weald which is in Epping Forest and was the site of a WW2 (and WW1) airbase, and also a preserved steam railway - the event was at the railway station...



    Tell your friend my Magnette is an early one a ZA registered in January 1955 - it has a tin-top dashboard - he'll know what I mean.
    There were two other tin tops at this event - and that was exceptional.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,234
    @magnette Thanks! Good info

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,244

    That’s not a find … it’s a death sentence

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    As if living in Poland in the '80s wasn't bad enough already...

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    Early 1960s, Bangor, ME. I remember this downtown and Freese's Dept Store from when I was a kid and we'd visit here on vacation.


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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,676
    The front end on the Rambler is screaming for quad headlamps, so ugly.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    1960 Ford 4dr parked under sign for Enterprise shoes. It's being passed by a '60 Chevy, both are 4post sedans. Do they not like h/ts in Maine?

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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    andys120 said:


    Polish Fiat 126p. Very common sight on Polish roads in the 80s as it was one of the most affordable cars back then. Funny enough, lots of people used it tow camping trailers too. Came with a 24 something horsepower rear mounted 2 cylinder engine, and weighed about 1300lbs.


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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,649
    Looks like maybe a 61 Buick in front of the 60 Ford. Never noticed a single light Rambler like that before.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,159

    Does the Rambler win the prize for longest-lived greenhouse/C pillar design?

  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,616
    fintail said:

    Looks like maybe a 61 Buick in front of the 60 Ford. Never noticed a single light Rambler like that before.

    It is the Deluxe trim level (bottom one). Duals were optional on this trim line. Kind of like the Studebaker Scotsman (OK, not quite that bad)..

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited August 2021
    Here's a '60 Ford with others typical of bright colors of the era>


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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    Well, let's see: '58 Chevy (BelAir I think) covering a '59 Dodge. A '60 (?) Corvair covering a '55 or '56 Chrysler product judging from the greenhouse, probably a Dodge. And an older (50?) Chevy just caught on the right edge of the pic. Interesting that the owner of the '60 Ford did not spring for white sidewalls.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    Here's a nice pic of @fintail 's old stomping ground, Seattle, taken in 1971. Expands very well.


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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,649
    edited August 2021
    5th and Pine, looking NE.

    Roughly the same spot today (street view appears to have been taken from the sidewalk rather than the street) - many buildings in that pic exist today. Frederick and Nelson was a local staple, same for Weisfield's Jewelers across the street.

    Waiting at left, I see an early Falcon, Maverick beside it, Opel Manta beside that, and a white Volvo 144 at the top of the lineup.

    For that 60 Fairlane 2 door post on dog dish caps and blackwalls, maybe either a cheapskate special 6cyl/3 on the tree, or a sleeper with a 352 and 3 on the tree (I think the largest non Thunderbird engine that year, 390 and 406 the next year).
    ab348 said:

    Here's a nice pic of @fintail 's old stomping ground, Seattle, taken in 1971. Expands very well.

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited August 2021
    ab348 said:

    Well, let's see: '58 Chevy (BelAir I think) covering a '59 Dodge. A '60 (?) Corvair covering a '55 or '56 Chrysler product judging from the greenhouse, probably a Dodge. And an older (50?) Chevy just caught on the right edge of the pic. Interesting that the owner of the '60 Ford did not spring for white sidewalls.

    I'm guessing no WWs cuz the Ford belongs to a govt. agency like the bldg. behind it.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,820
    Front right, tail of a mustard yellow mustang in front of a red lemans convertible.

    Baby blue Datsun PU waiting to turn left. Green Vega behind it makes the truck look tiny.

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,616
    ab348 said:

    Well, let's see: '58 Chevy (BelAir I think) covering a '59 Dodge. A '60 (?) Corvair covering a '55 or '56 Chrysler product judging from the greenhouse, probably a Dodge. And an older (50?) Chevy just caught on the right edge of the pic. Interesting that the owner of the '60 Ford did not spring for white sidewalls.

    You're on fire, AB348 (or you are age enhanced like me). The '58 Chevy is indeed a Bel Air, The Corvair is a '60, and the Chrysler product is a Dodge ('55 I think). I will go along with the Chevy on the edge being a '50 but will defer to someone with greater expertise in this vintage.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,649
    Always my association with these:

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    46-48 DeSoto....
    Your posted one appears to be LWB although I assume they did that as a standard model for cabs etc
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    While the late '40s DeSoto looks impossibly ancient to us today, in the picture from "Happy Days" that Fin posted, it was just a 10 year old used car. And still looked ancient.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Not what I thought it was>


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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited August 2021
    The Renault 4CV was licence built by Hino in Japan from 1953 to the early 60's. - Is this a derivative of that?
    Hino later developed their Contessa model from the 4CV.

    Or alternatively they also built them in Australia - and they were also sold in (French) Indo-China before it was Vietnam too.
    It's LHD so I guess it is not Australia or Japan directly.
  • transamsd73transamsd73 Member Posts: 38
    edited August 2021
    In Fintails pic-- that's a nice red 69 Firebird two up from the intersection. Looks like a nice Catalina wagon coming up behind the bus, too. Also looks like a 69 Catalina or Bonneville turning to the right, by the Ford LTD.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,649
    DeSoto Suburban, to be precise. I assume they were aimed at livery service.

    I know I have mentioned it before, but while watching Happy Days reruns with my dad when I was a kid, he remarked that in the late 50s, such a car would have been as "square" as can be.
    magnette said:

    46-48 DeSoto....
    Your posted one appears to be LWB although I assume they did that as a standard model for cabs etc

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    magnette said:

    The Renault 4CV was licence built by Hino in Japan from 1953 to the early 60's. - Is this a derivative of that?
    Hino later developed their Contessa model from the 4CV.

    Or alternatively they also built them in Australia - and they were also sold in (French) Indo-China before it was Vietnam too.
    It's LHD so I guess it is not Australia or Japan directly.

    You're correct in assuming it's a 4CV based beach buggy. Introduced about the same time as the more numerous Fiat Jolly (early 60s)_

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,474
    I don't think this one has been here before, Istanbul, Turkey in the 1960s. Blows up well.


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,820

    60 Ford and some sort of Volvo PV wagon.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    1956 Chevy Bel Air, x2.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    Maybe 1950 Plymouth, x2?
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