Not postcards but just as interesting.
- Red light? What red light?
Looks a little chaotic to me and you have to wonder whether that Jaguar’s boot lid has just lifted as a result of an emergency ... - Armstrong Siddeley for the Ferry
Poole Harbour, Dorset. On the back of these two photographs are written the words “Poole Harbour”. Curious to see where the crossing was, I found myself ... - Three cars on a street
Three cars in Kloosterstraat, Schijndel, Netherlands. Need help identifying them though. Continue reading Three cars on a street - Mini Playground
Here’s another interesting photo from the Old Photographs of Liverpool Facebook page. A Mini pickup in 1966. If there’s no top on it, play in ... - Viva! Accord?
Vauxhall Viva HC in Kidderminster in 1977 parked alongside a line of people queuing for bread. Continue reading Viva! Accord? - Scotties in Scotland
On the back of this old photograph is scrawled “En route to Ardnamurchan 12.8.56.” All the makings of a good holiday, I’d say. The car, with those ... - A wet Flavia in Rome
What a charming family group. My guess is that uncle Gregario and aunt Floriana were just about to leave after visiting the Bianchis. It’s a nice ... - Besuited and Booted
On the back of this postcard is says Nr 5009 Autosnack.Foto: Kirk Reinartz! The Web tells us, in various places, that “Photographer Dirk Reinartz, born in ... - A Sunday Morning
An old B&W photo in which we can see a Sunday morning classic car meet in an unidentified European city. Continue reading A Sunday Morning - Sabine Weiss
French humanist photographers captured people on streets. They also sometimes inadvertently caught a car. Continue reading Sabine Weiss - Musings on a Mews
David Walker, Local Studies Librarian for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, has a wonderful blog called the Library Time Machine in which he posts and ... - A Hampshire Woody
Ah, a nice shot of the rear of an Austin A70 Hampshire Countryman parked up in Bristol Road South in Birmingham in 1964. “Woodie, Woody, Shooting Brake, ... - Espionage and Mistaken Identity
A photograph taken by Philip Townsend, who is best known for his black and white photos of sixties’ pops stars. Here the car is misidentified. ... - Dodge loses its bulges
We have another mystery solved and once again by Rob van der Klugt The mystery comes from one of the postcards in the post Old Mysteries. “The ... - Not exactly a street.
I bought this old photograph on ebay. Can’t tell you anything about it I’m afraid but it is intriguing. Continue reading Not exactly a street. - MG enjoys the sea air.
MG M-Type Midget and friend. Continue reading MG enjoys the sea air. - The Million Pound Car
This photo came from the same auction as the photograph in the post Coachbuilt Specials and shows the same lady (I think) – all dressed ... - A Tale of 3 Singers
Actually, two Singers but we’ll get to that. Let’s start though with that Mercedes we talked about a few weeks ago – our mystery car ... - A small estate in Sussex.
This photo comes from the marvellous James Gray Collection of the Regency Society in Brighton. James Gray was a passionate collector of photographs of Brighton and Hove ... - Is it charades?
I came across this old photograph while rummaging around in a junk shop looking for postcards of cars. It has a couple of cars in ... - Coachbuilt Specials
I bought a bundle of ephemera at an auction a few months back and amongst the pieces of paper and family photos and maps were ... - A Fifties Forecourt
Laughton Goodwin garage in Kidderminster in the 1950s – Agents for Austin, Citroen, Rover, Armstrong Siddeley and other leading makes. Continue reading A Fifties ... - Dylan and the Princesses Seven
Waiting for the Ferry This image has long interested me. I first saw it on the cover of the DVD No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese’s film ... - Blues
Darlington 1965 Darlington in County Durham, England 1965. A Citroen DS and a Rover P4 go head to head in Bondgate. The Rover 75 was launched on 28 ... - Family picnic with the car
I need some help with this one. A thirties saloon, undoubtedly British, but what is it? I love the composition. Two generations but we can ... - Nowhere near Bedford
What an adventure these guys must have had! Can you guess where they are? The camper van, as we used to call them (motor home ... - Stars, Garters and a Sliver Cloud.
Another great photo from the The Glasgow Story archives. This one is of Jimmy Logan’s Metropole Theatre in 1967. Outside is a 6.2 litre Rolls Royce Sliver Cloud ... - A grey day in Glasgow, 1958.
What a wonderful black and white photograph! 1958, a gloomy winter’s day and even in colour those cars would be black. This comes from the ... - The Final Journey
There’s nothing on the back of this photograph/postcard to indicate who the deceased is, nor when or where their final journey took place. I posted it ... - Family Connections
I was sent this postcard by a friend. I like it. Black and white, an everyday scene of yesteryear with some interesting classic cars in ... - Another RM far from Home
I just had to have this old photograph when I came across it. An RM Riley photo-bombing a family photo in Switzerland. What a ... - The Lost Nut!
This isn’t exactly a postcard; it’s a blank greetings card, but I could not resist it. On the back of the card is the title ...