This is somebody´s grandma now!

Adey

^^

Fnarrr fnarrr.....

kentuckyklira

drofluf said:

Looks like the model I learned on!

Lucky guy, and what car did you learn to drive on?

Hurling_Fruitmig

kentuckyklira said:

drofluf said:

Looks like the model I learned on!

Lucky guy, and what car did you learn to drive on?

The colourised version looks like my dad’s first new car, a 1976 maroon mini 1000. It was identical even down to the wheel trims.

drofluf

kentuckyklira said:

drofluf said:

Looks like the model I learned on!

Lucky guy, and what car did you learn to drive on?

They say you never forget your first but to be honest I’m not sure a Renault or maybe a Peugeot?

Jimbro66

Three pages in and I can't believe no-one has mentioned the Li150 behind the car

Neill

Funkfingers said:

Iamnobody said:

Can Austin Minis breed?

Not an Austin.

British Leyland began 1968. J suffix = 1970. The bonnet badge and grille surrounds are wrong for Austin, Morris, Riley or Wolseley.

I cannot remember when wing mirrors were phased out and door mirrors became the norm.

Wing mirrors were useless - you can see in the picture the mini has what we used to call an "overtaker" mirror clamped to the door frame.  These were an essential accessory back then if you actually wanted to see what was behind you.  Of course you only needed one on the offside as most driving was done on single carriageways. 

   

ICBM

Funkfingers said:

I cannot remember when wing mirrors were phased out and door mirrors became the norm.

As soon as someone who actually drove a car was put in charge of designing them...

They were about as useful as looking down the wrong end of a telescope.

Iamnobody

Funkfingers said:

Iamnobody said:

Can Austin Minis breed?

Not an Austin.

British Leyland began 1968. J suffix = 1970. The bonnet badge and grille surrounds are wrong for Austin, Morris, Riley or Wolseley.

I cannot remember when wing mirrors were phased out and door mirrors became the norm.

Thanks - my shit joke just got even shitter! 

jdgm

Nitefly said:

equalsql said:

Here's a more colourful version.

https://i.postimg.cc/25x7NFbx/Jenny-Clare.jpg

Is that Mr Rumbold, walking down from Grace Bros department store?

Couldn't be Ian Paisley....

I like the fact that the street is nearly empty of both traffic and people and there aren't lots of signs or notices - are those yellow lines in the colourised version?  They look a bit thin.  The picture was taken on 6th October 1972.  God bless her.

Sassafras

Did she bring the parking meter with her?
It seems to be the only one in the street.

dazzajl

Such a cool pic. I do love photos of my grandparents in their prime, bit earlier than this but still very cool. 

Definitely looks like somewhere around the Great Titchfield end of Eastcastle Street to me. Anyone know if Efes has survived the last year? Man they know how to grill

merlin

Has anyone else noticed that the three vehicles are red, white and blue? (Actually, red, blue, white but who's counting). Could this have been deliberate?

ToneControl

merlin said:

Has anyone else noticed that the three vehicles are red, white and blue? (Actually, red, blue, white but who's counting). Could this have been deliberate?

AFAIK it's a B+W photo and the colouring was artificial, and done recently

rogd

Wondered who that geezer in the background was.

EricTheWeary

merlin said:

Has anyone else noticed that the three vehicles are red, white and blue? (Actually, red, blue, white but who's counting). Could this have been deliberate?

Easy to forget now but other colours hadn't been invented in 1972. Orange first started to appear in 1974, mauve was created by Paul King the former banjo player from Mungo Jerry in 1976, there were a spate of new colours from the Americas in the late 1970s and pale green, although we take it for granted now, wasn't created until 1984/85 by research scientists at Unilever. 

VimFuego

EricTheWeary said:

merlin said:

Has anyone else noticed that the three vehicles are red, white and blue? (Actually, red, blue, white but who's counting). Could this have been deliberate?

Easy to forget now but other colours hadn't been invented in 1972. Orange first started to appear in 1974, mauve was created by Paul King the former banjo player from Mungo Jerry in 1976, there were a spate of new colours from the Americas in the late 1970s and pale green, although we take it for granted now, wasn't created until 1984/85 by research scientists at Unilever. 

I feel sure this is fake news, but seeing as how no one is alive today who can remember earlier than 1972 without dribbling and soiling their adult sized diapers, I guess we'll never know.

jdgm

I had a sherwood green Austin minivan, reg HEJ 976G, in the 70s. 

There used to be pale green ones back then, a sort of mushy peas colour. 

What year was G? No idea.  I wasn't the 1st owner.

Sassafras

Our eyes have only recently evolved to see more than the primary colours.
It wasn't until the 1930s we could see any colours at all.
Everything was B&W.

VimFuego

Sassafras said:

Our eyes have only recently evolved to see more than the primary colours.
It wasn't until the 1930s we could see any colours at all.
Everything was B&W.

One thing I've never understood, if everything was B&W how were they able to paint using colours? And how did they know what they'd painted where?

Kilgore

EricTheWeary said

Easy to forget now but other colours hadn't been invented in 1972. Orange first started to appear in 1974,  

In some respects (linguistically) not that far from the truth.

The earliest use of the word 'orange' in English dates from the early 16th C. Before that they used terms that meant either redish-yellow or yellowy-red.

That's why we have Red Deer, Robin Red Breast, Red Squirrel, red hair (all of which have a definite 'orangey' colour rather than red) 

Of course orange eventually became the new black but that was much later.