A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)
Discussion
aeropilot said:
Dapster said:
Can't make out what the red estate is centre, rear, between the Rover SDI and the traffic cone....?Thought at first it was a Hunter estate, but not so sure now...?
In the distance, row 6, the boss has turned up as I think I can see a W126 Merc S class pointing towards us. There's a Sunny Coupe there as well in front of it
Dan Singh said:
Jordie Barretts sock said:
What's in front of the brown Volvo 340 on the right? And come to that, what's on front of the Escort estate to it's left, big Peugeot 604?
Looks like something Japanese in front of the Volvo, maybe a Datsun Cedric. Mercedes coupe in front of the Escort estate?
Dapster said:
Great picture and apart from the Fiat Uno, Montego and Mk3 Escort facelift the picture could have been from a lot earlier than 1987. Thankfully SUV’s and People Carriers weren’t really a thing back then. There are a great number of MK4 and 5 Cortina’s. They all seemed to die off around 1991 and 1992.
Dapster said:
...On the left the red estate I think is a Merc W123 Estate - it's big, bigger than Hunter would be, has the right amount of chrome and basically the same proportions - think the image distorts the shape.
I'm pretty sure it's a Mercedes W123 estate. If you make the picture bigger you can even see the roof rails.soxboy said:
ClaphamGT3 said:
I’d go with that tooaeropilot said:
I'd forgotten that they did an estate version of the Sceptre, which is why I originally said it looked like a Hunter, but the chrome trim and wheel rims that looked like Sceptre bits threw me off the scent, as I thought they never made a Sceptre estate so can't be that.....
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