Micellaneous Good Photographs (Take 2)

[Seth]

Once upon a time, white tyres were de rigeur... but you all knew that already.

My understanding is that in the early days of motoring tyres only came in white and black rubber was a later invention.

[Barrett]

Love the shot of the exotic Scat on the transporter. Third car back on the top deck looks like the second, silver, Lambo 350 GT Zagato, which dates the picture at around 1965

[Amazo]

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[Vulgalour]

One of those Mercs appears to be lit up for some reason. Is that a Ford Cortina/Taunus estate to the left of the picture?

[Jon]

We had this one pop up on chat the other day, so hope I.K. doesn't mind me posting this one up:



The reason? Because at around the same time (1975 in this case) my uncle was doing this to another Army Land Rover on the Scottish Rally:



Just wanted to double check he was OK with me posting it, hence sitting on my hands for a short while. Apparently, him and the co-driver had a bit of a falling out on the previous stage, when the co-driver became a bit flummoxed with his notes and my uncle wouldn't slow down for him to get his bearings. He was all for getting out and leaving the car at the end but that would have disqualified them, so they agreed to take the next stage 'blind' and drive accordingly slow, just to stay in. Seems however that this was a ruse and that my uncle floored it the entire way, setting a fastest time in his class and making the co-driver grip for dear life to the grab handle. Pace notes are obviously helpful things, hence the image above which shows what can happen when you don't use them. Somehow he was able to recover and keep it the right way up.

It was a kill or cure decision by my uncle and fortunately it worked in his favour; after a pause at the end of the stage, the co-driver came to the conclusion that as my uncle had managed to not kill them without pace notes, they'd do rather well with them after all and he agreed to complete the rally.

[Seth]

Brillian story Jon


This shot has it all. JAM. CO-OP. PIPE SMOKING. WICKER BASKET WIELDING BLOND

[Barrett]

Does driving a car whilst smoking a pipe count as Lunting?

[garycox]

New York - The Old Fulton Fish Market - Sloppy Louie's - January 1974 by Ladycliff, on Flickr

[Vulgalour]

This picture, which shows a Daimler bus crashed into the wall of the now gone Trebor works in Chesterfield was taken well before my time...


...but it did bring up this picture. Taken outside the Cooperative Department Store (soon to be vacant, I'm told), the blue and yellow double decker used to be a familiar and common site for me growing up and the itchy seat fabric and the smell of the rubber matting and the usually quite hot rear engine were very distinctive. I always thought these were Leylands but apparently it's a Daimler, either way I wonder what caused the demise of the busses with bums/bustles.

[Seth]