NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑25 Jul 2017, 18:46
Top one is a Rapier Jim, because it says so for one thing, but also the Alpine Fastback which it could have conceivably been, didn't have the vinyl trim on the "C" pillar, and in general was less flashy but the same shape.
That sir is a brilliant You really know your Rootes!!!
Jim
Runner, cyclist, time triallist, duathlete, Citroen AX fan and the CCC Citroenian 'From A to Z' Columnist...
That colour was popular for the Rapier. Remember them well.
And Bransgore too, Jim. Spent a week there in 1970, working with PHAB at an amazing country mansion. Television cameras strapped to wheelchairs.....Amazingly the 1/2" monochrome Sony open-reel VTR (a 2100?) managed to cope.
Hope you've managed to resist Beaulieu!
The other one is proving difficult.....your devious photography...blurring the reg no and the grill/mascot makes it quite a challenge
For a decade it looks 1930's....no spare wheel on the running boards and doors which have two rear hinges, a handle to open from the front, and no scallop ie a pretty straight edge to the top of the door should narrow it down...but not there yet.
Well I thought I knew all the thirties cars but I'm a bit stuck on that one, a pre war Lanchester maybe or I even recall an Audi something like that from that era.
Man is, by nature, a lazy beast, he does not need twice encouraging to do nothing.
It looks small which has me hestiating putting this up a a suggestion, but at least some of the detail is right.
This wedding Car is an Alvis Drophead Coupe from 1948.
The door handle is at the front and the two hinges at the rear( no I think it has three...drat) , and the door has a clean horizontal line at its top. Another thing in it favour the Alvis will have a flamboyant winged mascot which Jim has cleverly blurred beyond recognition!!
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Wonder if this picture may help identify the older car? Blow it up a bit perhaps the plate is readable...
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white exec wrote: ↑25 Jul 2017, 19:21
Hope you've managed to resist Beaulieu!
Yes, been there loads of times in the past Chris I may go there if the weather really closes in but none immediate... Anyway, I found this place yesterday to enjoy a great mooch around:
As good as any museum It practically is!!!
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This was on the forecourt
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Jim
Runner, cyclist, time triallist, duathlete, Citroen AX fan and the CCC Citroenian 'From A to Z' Columnist...
NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑25 Jul 2017, 21:23
It looks small which has me hestiating putting this up a a suggestion, but at least some of the detail is right.
This wedding Car is an Alvis Drophead Coupe from 1948.
The door handle is at the front and the two hinges at the rear( no I think it has three...drat) , and the door has a clean horizontal line at its top. Another thing in it favour the Alvis will have a flamboyant winged mascot which Jim has cleverly blurred beyond recognition!!
CitroJim wrote: ↑26 Jul 2017, 14:20
Spotted this in New Milton today...
I'm not a fan of them and it looks incredibly dull and dreary in grey on a wet day!
moggyminor.jpg
It needs a respray in bright orange!!!
It's an early one with those rear lights - still has trafficators...
Did you see trafficators on that Jim?
It looks like a 1963 Morris 1000 to me and if so should have flashers, they used those rear lamps and had red flashers rear and white flashers front at the start (from 1961)
Man is, by nature, a lazy beast, he does not need twice encouraging to do nothing.