Rob M
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Brilliant pics LP! Much of those photos define a world I remember so well, both child and adult. We cannot pretend that cars, vans and trucks were better than they are now but, without a doubt, we can look back at the myriad of designs speaking volumes about individuality in a way that platform sharing and badge engineering can never do now.
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It all just looked better. Theres more character in these photos, more to interest us, more style, and theres more chance that most things in the photos were fully designed by an actual human brain with no computer controlled efficiency or H and S stuff to get in the way. I think it all helps to make the old scenes a little more easy on the eye.
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Great pics , the long hot summer of 76 Lives very big in my memory, aged eight Back then I can still remember the burning sensation on my legs ifrom the tan vinyl seats in my dads fe Vauxhall victor And the Japanese car invasion, my dad cursed my school friends dads for buying Datsun 180b cars! Funny thing he is now 80 and drives a Lexus! As said life seemed so much more laid back then But unfortunately nothing stays the same does it!
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Last Edit: Jul 9, 2018 17:56:05 GMT by Mercdan68
Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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Probably more than 72p/ gallon now! Where is it?
Edit - this was for the Woolco filling station on page 1. Damn quote amateur.
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Absolutely loving these pictures especially the one with the Grenadier guards in it as I was one many years ago but one thing I will say never call a bear skin a busby , we would get a sharp punch to the jaw if we were ever heard calling it that.😀 💂♂️
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Hello late 80s
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one of my own photos, dad and uncle mick working on dads zodiac 3
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Mumbles, Swansea 1958 Neath 1968/9
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1953 Minor (Long term project) PT Cruiser
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one of my personal favourites, kingsferry lift bridge between isle of sheppey and mainland kent
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Lammas street Carmarthen 1959 Tesco Llanelli 1960's A fleet of trolleybuses outside Llanelli Town Hall (date unknown) www.pwllmag.co.uk/locality/llanelli6_htm_files/38.pngOutside the Morfa Social Club 1970's? The club is still there with the same lettering on the outside! Snow in Llanelli 1982
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Last Edit: Jul 9, 2018 20:45:52 GMT by moggyman
1953 Minor (Long term project) PT Cruiser
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dazcapri
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Great pics , the long hot summer of 76 Lives very big in my memory, aged eight Back then I can still remember the burning sensation on my legs ifrom the tan vinyl seats in my dads fe Vauxhall victor And the Japanese car invasion, my dad cursed my school friends dads for buying Datsun 180b cars! Funny thing he is now 80 and drives a Lexus! As said life seemed so much more laid back then But unfortunately nothing stays the same does it! The newer the photo the more the foreign car content goes up,we moved in 1976 and I think dad's Volvo amazon was probably the only foreign car in our new street
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awoo
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This is awesome. I recognised quite a lot of the places before seeing the writing stating where they were. Funnily enough, the scenes look identical (appart from the cars)
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So mad you posted this - I discovered TrainsAndStuff's photostream on Flickr who collects slides and prints from Auctions and Estate clearances and was going about setting up a thread. No need now so I'll add some here: A82 Great Western Road, Glasgow, Scotland 1962 by Glen F, on Flickr Grosvenor Road/Vauxhall Bridge Road, London 1960 by Glen F, on Flickr Whitehall, London 1980 (looking south from Trafalgar Square) by Glen F, on Flickr Post Office, Pearse Street, Sleveen, Kinsale, Co. Cork 1970 by Glen F, on Flickr Princetown Post Office, Devon 1967 by Glen F, on Flickr Parliament Street, London 1964 (just south of the Cenotaph) by Glen F, on Flickr An exhibition somewhere 1964 by Glen F, on Flickr Broad Street, Oxford 1965 by Glen F, on Flickr High Street, Oxford 1965 by Glen F, on Flickr Bull Ring, Birmingham 1967 by Glen F, on Flickr Manzi's, Leicester Street, London 1977 by Glen F, on Flickr Flaxman Terrace, London 1973 by Glen F, on Flickr Birmingham Town Hall 1960s by Glen F, on Flickr [img src=" farm1.staticflickr.com/896/41318903021_9974aae719_h.jpg" src=" Minstead Road, Birmingham 1960s by Glen F, on Flickr" alt=" "] Birmingham 1960s by Glen F, on Flickr I live not too far from Kinsale, Ireland hasn’t changed a bit! Passed through Adare a few weeks ago, and the cottage is exactly the same. The Street of houses is the same, just 2018 cars. Creepy.
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tofufi
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Awesome pics, especially the ones posted by littlepixel. Thanks
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Jul 10, 2018 12:54:41 GMT
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Aye, really enjoyed those.
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Jul 10, 2018 13:52:27 GMT
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Woah, man... that just zapped me right back to my childhood. That is an image so deeply embedded in my memory and completely un-recalled for about 30 years.
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Jul 10, 2018 14:28:08 GMT
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Lammas street Carmarthen 1959 Tesco Llanelli 1960's A fleet of trolleybuses outside Llanelli Town Hall (date unknown) www.pwllmag.co.uk/locality/llanelli6_htm_files/38.pngOutside the Morfa Social Club 1970's? The club is still there with the same lettering on the outside! Snow in Llanelli 1982 Good to some places I know. I was in the Tin Hut (Morfa Club) a few weeks ago for a party. The deco inside probably hasn't changed either.
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Jul 10, 2018 21:14:15 GMT
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this thread should be placed on a pedestal as a shining example of social history , some lovely old images. the more mundane the subject at the time the more interesting they are now. i'm sure i (possibly) made out a rolls silver shadow with a table on the roof and a (mk9?) jag with a caravan on the back?! a few i have shamelessly culled from the interweb showing days gone here in west cornwall. our local , long gone garage c late 70's early 80's porthleven again , 50's - 60's anyone for a 99? again late 70's/80's [url= postimages.org/][/url] and the above , helston 50's -70's.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Jul 10, 2018 22:59:52 GMT
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Awesome pictures! Takes some time to go over them all,so many cars to spot-identify.
Thanks everybody who shared,especially LITTLEPIXEL!!
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