MOTO-SCAT

By popular demand*.

Let's start off in London, on Tottenham Court Road circa.1971 to be exact. Those hip young dudes might be heading into Lovecraft (which was an 'erotic boutique') or possibly just going to get some fish and chips. 6NPH is now on an Aston DB7, I imagine it's worth considerably more now than these chaps paid for it. The escort had a pretty good innings, lasting 16 years before it was scrapped in 1986.


Staying in the capital and presumably from around the same time, proof that Pogweasel Pink isn't a recent malady. Hard to work out exactly what the photographer was trying to capture here, other than the majesty of a slidey-door J4


Heading back in time and oversees to Holland. Nice to see that everyone is keeping a safe stopping distance... The future yesterday's daily today heading away from us on the right, fully laden by the look of it.


I've got loads more to come, let's see what you lot have got first....

A couple from me then, courtesy of a family holiday to that there lundun some time in 1979..



Seth meets up with the owner of a matt black triumph 1300 to swap ideas on wheel choice. In fact, it looks as though half of a brown forum were at the BM that day.



Is it ok to double park on hyde park corner, or is that a lane of traffic passing up the nearside of the luton van?

A couple to start off with from a school trip to Calais, April 1981, and how the same scenes looked in July 2008, with even more Le Scat:

That second London photo feels to me like its taken not too far from the first, in that bit between Tottenham Court Road and the Post Office Tower. Could be totally somewhere else of course. I think "The future yesterday's daily today" is an earlier one by the looks of the tail lights.

Keeping on Amazo's European theme here's a couple of those scans I made of slides taken by my Father in Law in 1960-62 ish.

Barrett_Placeholder wrote:

Isn't that a Borgward Isabella combi in front of the red TR2/3/3A?

Keep up at the back, PaulH!

Indeed, 'tis a 'bella. Here's another one, in Holland again sometime in the '60s, keeping company with a selection of fairly grim Euro-porridge


This is much more like it! Beautiful Grimsby on a crisp summers day. No Lloyds in sight though.


Easy to pinpoint the location on street view today. Obviously M&S was a bit too posh


And now back to London, a little earlier than the previous photos, with a particularly unusual line-up of vehicles on the right. The Alfa 1900 appears to be wearing Italian plates, behind that is an AC Acedes Invacar, and then a Simca Aronde P60. The two European cars in particular are a real contrast to the dull pre-war shapes on the other side of the road. FX3s in service and not an FX4 in sight would place this around 1957-58 I'd guess?

57-58 is a good guess seeing as the bus is a Leyland RT, so just before or at the introduction of the mighty Routemaster (which went into production in '58). The area is Picadilly:



Which reminds me, I must go through my Bus pics...

Some shockingly poor quality French shots taken by me (probably on a 110 Instamatic) in 1980:


Le Treport, France 1980 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Le Treport, France 1980 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Le Treport, France 1980 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Le Treport, France 1980 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Last one probably best, especially with 604 content.


Daking Avenue, Boxford c.1985 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Daking Avenue, Boxford in the snow c.1979 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

View from the front of where I grew up.


Peugeot 309 1.6GR by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Surrey Road, Ipswich, Suffolk 1991 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

The 309 was mine


London Road, Bath 1993/94 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Wish I'd got more photos of stuff in Bath from when I used to visit Mrs SL there in her student days.


Taxis and Escort Mk2 police car, London c.1979 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Houses of Parliament, London c.1979 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Great George Street, London 1979 + traffic by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Warning! Young SL is visible in the last shot, wearing ill-advised knitwear. Why aren't I looking at that nice old P5B? DVLA says it came off the road in 1989.

Oh, hello again BTW.

I've accidentally stumbled across this chaps favourites on flickr. (Almost) all London street scenes through the Scat era.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rollthedice/favorites/page1/?view=lg

I dare say following some of the links to whoever uploaded the photos would also prove fruitful.