Car Fashions

[GilesM]

The original Range Rover has to be up there as a fine looking and very fashionable beast of it's time.

 

[otek59]

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Is that a Firenza ?

It certainly is, essentially a Viva with a 2dr body the droop snoot were the ones to have

 

[otek59]

Firenza was vauxhall. Manta was opel

No real difference both companies were owned by General Motors

 

[Saluki]

Cool, enjoy, have you got a pic with bike stashed.

Not yet. Soon though. I want to see if I can get bike and dog in. Might be able to with my little CX.

 

[Vantage]

We (my dad really) had a Cortina Mk3 just like this:

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My great grandad had one in chocolate brown.

 

[MichaelW2]

Car design seems to pay no attention to maximising space efficiency, mac interior volume for min exterior footprint with a few exceptions in urban mini cars such as VW UP which reminds me of the 1970s

 

[Blue Hills]

Have to say I'm not so sure. I'd say most modern cars are indistinguishably bland - but many from the 60s/70s were unspeakably hideous. Truly fugly cars have pretty much disappeared.

It takes nerve to be "ugly" though.
The beetle could be said to be ugly but became an icon.
SAABs had a look of their own.
I always rather liked the old Czech Skodas - heir to an original design heritage that produced a wondrous Czech car from the 50s I forget the name of - saw one in the street in Communist Prague once.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The original Range Rover has to be up there as a fine looking and very fashionable beast of it's time.

Damned right!!

I believe it's still the only car, even though it was a 1/2 (or 1/3rd) scale model, to be exhibited in the Louvre
Industrial Design exhibition, in early 70s

 

[GilesM]

Damned right!!

I believe it's still the only car, even though it was a 1/2 (or 1/3rd) scale model, to be exhibited in the Louvre
Industrial Design exhibition, in early 70s

I remember as a small kid in the early '70s being total amazed and obsessed by them, I even had the Corgi Police Range Rover.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I remember as a small kid in the early '70s being total amazed and obsessed by them, I even had the Corgi Police Range Rover.

Odd you should 'say' that

I have the book amongst my (Solihull) collection

And this too, the definitive work

These are a few, from my collection too (stickers & aluminium plaques, from attendances, with my own LRs)
I remember seeing Stonelakes at Arnold G Wilsons, in Leeds




I also have these excellent Tom Sheppard books
I remember being astonished that first edition (like mine) 'VDEGs' were on Amazion, at £300+

As it still is; the seller must be very hopeful!! (bottom entry' £350+!!!)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-l...rue&f_usedVeryGood=true&qid=1558684243&sr=8-6

 

[GilesM]

Odd you should 'say' that

I have the book amongst my (Solihull) collection View attachment 467739


And this too, the definitive work
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These are a few, from my collection too (stickers & aluminium plaques, from attendances, with my own LRs)
I remember seeing Stonelakes at Arnold G Wilsons, in Leeds

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I also have these excellent Tom Sheppard books
I remember being astonished that first edition (like mine) 'VDEGs' were on Amazion, at £300+

As it still is; the seller must be very hopeful!! (bottom entry' £350+!!!)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-l...rue&f_usedVeryGood=true&qid=1558684243&sr=8-6

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I'm impressed, the two James Taylor books look excellent, although my girlfriend would describe them as porn.

 

[kapelmuur]

I had a Princess

I remember my boss having one that was unreliable to say the least.

One morning he arrived late, shirt covered in oil. He said the engine had cut out, he opened the bonnet and oil squirted over him.

He was furious, got the number for British Leyland HQ, rang it and asked to speak to the Managing Director. I can still remember the look on his face when a voice came from the speaker phone, “Michael Edwardes here, can I help you?”

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'm impressed, the two James Taylor books look excellent, although my girlfriend would describe them as porn.

Shall I add the centrespread for you later...……………...

 

[GilesM]

Shall I add the centrespread for you later...……………...

That how she describes the normal double page machine mart ads in Classic Car mag

 

[I like Skol]

Odd you should 'say' that

I have the book amongst my (Solihull) collection View attachment 467739


And this too, the definitive work
View attachment 467737


These are a few, from my collection too (stickers & aluminium plaques, from attendances, with my own LRs)
I remember seeing Stonelakes at Arnold G Wilsons, in Leeds

View attachment 467732 View attachment 467733 View attachment 467734 View attachment 467736


I also have these excellent Tom Sheppard books
I remember being astonished that first edition (like mine) 'VDEGs' were on Amazion, at £300+

As it still is; the seller must be very hopeful!! (bottom entry' £350+!!!)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-l...rue&f_usedVeryGood=true&qid=1558684243&sr=8-6

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Living the dream here. The two best ways to spend a sunny day, either cycling or tinkering with an old Land Rover....

New swivel bearings and seals, plus brake discs all round.