For those interested in old cars.

[Horsetan]

What was the catalogue you could buy in the 80s that was full of grilles for windows and horrendous Richard Grant body kits. I remember seeing a window grille kit for mk2/3 Capri with grille's on the side rear windows too! Strangely there was no carbon fibre rear sick bin for the centre console.

There was also loads of graphics in there which in the day I thought some were good!

Ripspeed, based in Edmonton. I still have their price list from 1985/6. They were specialist suppliers of motor racing safety kit (Sparco, OMP, Simpson, Bell, etc.) but also a lot of stuff to soup-up your car - Spax shocks, Jetex exhaust systems, Lorinser and Zender bodykits....God I remember it like it was yesterday. The biggest alloy wheel they stocked in those days was 16" diameter!!!

 

They later gave up supplying safety gear, and Halfrauds bought the Ripspeed brand, after which it never recovered.

 

Demon Tweeks more or less moved into the vacuum which they still occupy today, having seen off competitors such as GP Racewear who used to occupy swanky modern premises near Chiswick Roundabout, just down the A406 from Ealing. GPR were so confident of themselves that they hung a full size F1 car on a wall in their entrance lobby.

Edited October 6, 2016 by Horsetan

[Wolseley]

And now for something completely different - some photos I took of a 1930 Rolls Royce Phantom II at a car show last year:

 

 

 

 

Edited October 7, 2016 by Wolseley

[peanuts]

Seeing as how we're digging out old photos, here's one of the 1962 Ford Cortina Consul 1200 I drove around Scotland for a few months in 1975.  The poor thing was held together by body filler and couldn't have passed its MOT later that year, but it did get me around.  In case you're wondering, it's parked in the High Street in Edzell.

 

and dont you just know that if you took that pic today it would be clutered with yellow lines parking restriction signs speed humps etc the phone box would be gone 

[petethemole]

Well, you're right about the phone box.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.8099631,-2.6558318,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sz4soTZ_jQiT2j13IkKeKmA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[Horsetan]

Well, you're right about the phone box.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.8099631,-2.6558318,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sz4soTZ_jQiT2j13IkKeKmA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

 

The creeping ivy has also been stripped off the house.

[BG John]

Well, you're right about the phone box.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.8099631,-2.6558318,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sz4soTZ_jQiT2j13IkKeKmA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

No yellow lines, but someone has painted "High St" in big white letters in the middle of the road .

[Wolseley]

Fancy a meat pie anybody?

 

[Wolseley]

^

 

It's a 1939 Chevrolet, by the way.

[stewartingram]

and dont you just know that if you took that pic today it would be clutered with yellow lines parking restriction signs speed humps etc the phone box would be gone 

And the cars would be parked on the pavement, and everyone would have lights on in broad daylight.

 

Stewart

[Wolseley]

A photo I took of the old Glasgow Museum of Transport back in 1975.  The cars parked on the street are about as interesting now as the ones inside were then......

 

[Horsetan]

A photo I took of the old Glasgow Museum of Transport back in 1975.  The cars parked on the street are about as interesting now as the ones inside were then......

 

 

Ah...the heady days of leaded petrol.....mmmmm.....

[Wolseley]

A Humber Vogue.  No, I haven't made a mistake: the Australian Vogues were badged as Humbers:

 

 

 

And the Australian Singer Gazelle VI was badged as the Hillman Gazelle:

 

[Horsetan]

....the Australian Singer Gazelle VI was badged as the Hillman Gazelle:

 

 

The rear doors are very Triumph Toledo/Dolomite-y....

[edcayton]

The rear doors are very Triumph Toledo/Dolomite-y....

 

You probably wouldn't say that if you were trying to fit them to one.

 

Ed

[Wolseley]

Some more Australian oddities, first, the Vauxhall Vagabond:

 

 

An Austin 1800 Utility:

 

 

A Wolseley 24/80, which looks like a 15/60 (or with later models, a 16/60) until you look under the bonnet (the triple carby set-up was an after market fitting):

 

 

 

And the same 2.4 litre six cylinder engine was fitted to the Austin Freeway:

 

[russ p]

I always thought having hydrolastic suspension the 1800 Ute wasn't the greatest idea

[Horsetan]

You probably wouldn't say that if you were trying to fit them to one.

 

True, but you do wonder if car designers have always cribbed off each other....

[PatB]

Some more Australian oddities, first, the Vauxhall Vagabond:

 

 

An Austin 1800 Utility:

 

 

A Wolseley 24/80, which looks like a 15/60 (or with later models, a 16/60) until you look under the bonnet (the triple carby set-up was an after market fitting):

 

 

 

And the same 2.4 litre six cylinder engine was fitted to the Austin Freeway:

 

 

Being very familiar with the "handling" qualities of the Mostin Oxbridge Farina thingies I would suggest that the triple carbs may be somewhat unwise .

[Wolseley]

 

 

 

[Wolseley]

Being very familiar with the "handling" qualities of the Mostin Oxbridge Farina thingies I would suggest that the triple carbs may be somewhat unwise .

 

 

The extra power (and I am using the term loosely) would be handy when taking off when the lights change to green though.

[PhilJ W]

I always thought having hydrolastic suspension the 1800 Ute wasn't the greatest idea

Actually they were very popular. The normal car hydrolastic units on the rear were replaced with ones the same as on the front to take care of load capacity. The lower floor made them ideal for camper bodies.

[Guest]

Actually they were very popular. The normal car hydrolastic units on the rear were replaced with ones the same as on the front to take care of load capacity. The lower floor made them ideal for camper bodies.

 

Were they still linked front to rear?

My hydro Mini failed utterly to cope with weight in the boot. Or braking. Or acceleration without seesawing madly.

It was a smoother ride though.

[brianthesnail96]

Do you like Triumphs?

 

We've got lots!

 

[peanuts]

A photo I took of the old Glasgow Museum of Transport back in 1975.  The cars parked on the street are about as interesting now as the ones inside were then......

 

very few "foriegn" marques if any ?

[Rugd1022]

Stand still Nidge, I'm getting too old to hit a moving target...!!

 

Those things looked bad enough on Capri's & the like, to de-spoil that lovely little GT in that way is just wrong...!! 

 

Keith

 

I'm game if you are Keith, if you catch me in your crosshairs I'll put one of those louvre blinds on the Mini and drive round in broad daylight until someone calls the taste Police! Whatever you think of them at least they were a genuine period extra, my late Uncle Tony had an L reg'd Mk1 Capri which he bought new, and with its Daytona Yellow paintjob with matt black bonnet, Lucas fog lamps, reflective / raised digit number plates, rear window louvre, boot mounted chromed luggage rack, lowered suspension and shiny Rostyle wheels it absolutely shouted '1973' wherever it went! He was a fairly high ranking Rozzer in Manchester at the time and had one of his pals in the motor pool tune it up for him, it chewed up the M6 in fine style whenever he took my cousins and I for a spin on a Sunday afternoon.

 

I think I've posted this pic before but thought it was worth another (shamelessly gratuitous!) airing, if anyone has bought the latest issue of 'Classic & Sportscar' mag they'll have seen the lovely little red Lotus Elan on the cover bearing the reg' number 'DYE 7J', just one digit away from this Radford Mk3 Cooper S pictured in 1971...