Dauphine at the Cafe Royal
Another Renault Dauphine. I do like them. This one’s in Folkestone, parked appropriately in front of the Cafe Royal. Continue reading Dauphine at the Cafe Royal
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A Dauphine at Marble Arch.
I dedicate this card to Erik Verhaest (of PostCARds fame) as I think he’d like the little red Renault amongst all those English cars in front of the Cumberland Hotel in London. The message on the back of this card is really … Continue reading A Dauphine at Marble Arch.
Menton without the Triangle
Menton in the south of France and a Simca Aronde Sport Plein Ciel and a Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special parked in the harbour in the late fifties. Continue reading Menton without the Triangle
Topless French Model in Andover
A Renault Caravelle convertible spotted in Andover in the Sixties amongst a host of British saloons. Continue reading Topless French Model in Andover
Ondine
A Renault Ondine at Port d’Envalira Continue reading Ondine
Grilles in Cannes
Thoughts on the radiator grilles of Simca 90A Aronde, Simca Océane, Triumph TR3A and Renault Dauphine, all caught in a postcard from Cannes in late Fifties Continue reading Grilles in Cannes
Peering at a fuzzy postcard
This is Madeira Cove, Weston-Super-Mare. Here we have a 1958 Austin A40 Farina with a fixed rear window. They only introduced the opening rear window in 1959. The Hillman Imp always had an opening rear window. It was launched in … Continue reading Peering at a fuzzy postcard
A Cambridge in Le Touquet
Having visited Le Touquet-Paris-Plage in our 1973 Citroen DS this summer I have decided it is one of my favourite places in France. This postcard shows L’Hotel des Postes – the post office. On the left we have a Citroen … Continue reading A Cambridge in Le Touquet
Yorkshire’s Continental Metropolitan
This is a scruffy old postcard. It’s creased and frayed around the edges. It was posted on 18 Oct 1969 and the message on the back is totally banal. I don’t know how it has survived but it was only … Continue reading Yorkshire’s Continental Metropolitan
Postcards for Petrolheads – A Review
The end of another year and I was looking over the stats of this blog… The first ever post was on 1 April 2013 and wasn’t about a postcard but a photograph I’d come across on the web. A Grey … Continue reading Postcards for Petrolheads – A Review
Christmas Quiz
In the post Facel Vega Blow Up! we managed to put the French philosopher Albert Camus and the writer of steamy novels, Jackie Collins, together in the same sentence drawn together by their common connection to the fantastically exotic Facel … Continue reading Christmas Quiz
Videos
On my Postcards for Petrolheads YouTube channel I occasionally talk about some of the postcards that have featured o this website. Here’s a list. Quite a few E Type Jaguars caught in postcards. This video shows a number of British … Continue reading Videos