Funny cars you see in London

Triumph TR4

2007-05-04T12:43:00.000-07:00

Another Italianised Briton by Michelotti, like the Stag or the 2000. Beautiful lines in those cars.

Saab 96 in the night

2007-04-26T04:15:00.000-07:00

I don't know if this is a 93,95 or 96 ...but it's simply beautiful. This Swedish car sitting outside an Argentinian restaurant in London.

Peugeot 504 Coupé

2006-04-09T07:19:00.000-07:00

The Pininfarina approach to the French myth.

C'est du joli!

Austin Van

2006-02-27T13:48:00.000-08:00

I'm not quite sure whether this is the A55 Van or some relative. Can you shed any light on the subject?

BMW 3.0 CSI (1974)

2006-02-09T13:36:00.000-08:00

Beautiful coupé on the Islington streets. To me, car beauty doesn't go much further than this. The owner appeared while I was taking the pictures and told me that the car was made in 1974, just like me. Wikipedia knows something about the 3.0 and its relatives

Peugeot 204 cabriolet

2006-01-20T08:41:00.000-08:00

Beautiful little French car. The first Peugeot to have disc brakes, amazing.

Austin Maxi

2006-01-19T08:43:00.000-08:00

Another British classic from the mind of Sir Alec Issigonis just like the Morris Minor 1000 or the Mini.
I wonder what the passer-by thinks about the Maxi, well she's probably more interested in the ice cream.

Ford Pilot V8

2006-01-18T08:10:00.000-08:00

Beautiful, the first large postwar Ford. Things you find on the streets of London.

Living Scimitar

2006-01-11T08:41:00.000-08:00

I already posted a Scimitar GTE back in september last year. But this one is more alive, I love the colour, the silhouette and the January light.

LDV Milkvan

2006-01-11T08:37:00.000-08:00

Milkman van of the 21st century. New customers always welcome.

Volvo 121

2006-01-10T05:47:00.000-08:00

Relatively easy to be spotted in London. I specially like the estate version. Here by the Pub on the park. This one, from the early 60's, was fitted with the famous B18 motor.

Saab 99

2005-12-13T04:41:00.000-08:00

Lovely Swedish silhouette from the late sixties. When cars still had a personality on their own.

Mercedes Benz 220

2005-11-30T03:54:00.000-08:00

First produced in the late fifties, this was one of the first cars to be engineered with a great concern about safety. A lovely fintail desing on the Hackney night.

Ferrari 308

2005-11-22T04:46:00.000-08:00

A very familiar car from the late 70's. Magnum (Tom Selleck) drove this car!

Rover 3500 V8

2005-11-21T04:31:00.000-08:00

Nissan Pao

2005-11-08T03:03:00.000-08:00

Another lovely funny Nissan from the late 80's, somehow from the same breed as the Nissan Figaro.

Hillman Minx 1967

2005-10-26T10:46:00.000-07:00

Original ad from the 60's. Image taken from Mclellansautomotive.com

The car is quite funny, but the ad is just gorgeous. And, yes the car looks pretty reliable...almost 40 years old. Anyway, at Mclellansautomotive you can find lots of old brochures and ads. Here's another one of the Minx

*They don't pay me for this!!

Alfa Romeo Pick-up

2005-10-20T00:22:00.000-07:00

Strange breed.
And to think that Alfa-Romeo's motto is cuore sportivo

Jaguar MK X

2005-10-18T10:24:00.000-07:00

1961, the big Jaguar saloon of the sixties. For many years it was the widest car produced in the UK.

Vauxhall Viva HC

2005-10-17T13:58:00.000-07:00

A European car with quite an American look back in 1970. Wikipedia knows it all about it

Ford Capri MKI

2005-10-14T09:21:00.000-07:00

Launched in 1969 somehow as the European counterpart to the very succesful Ford Mustang.
It´s silhouette and C shaped rear window make it unmistakable.
It was then adevertised as "The car you always promised yourself".

Ford Mustang GTA

2005-10-13T11:02:00.000-07:00

I'm no expert in American cars, but I reckon this is probably the 1967 version. The A on GTA stands for Automatic. Quite a surprise to find this sort of car on a London Street.

Morris Oxford VI

2005-10-12T08:39:00.000-07:00

Launched in 1961 was a restyling of the Oxford V.
As a BMC (the 1952 merger of Austin and Morris)the car had its twin, the Austin A60 Cambridge. Both having been designed by Pininfarina, like the beuatiful A40 Farina.
Apparently, the long tailfins (although smaller in the VI series than in the V) were a typical desing feature of those models

Triumph Stag

2005-10-11T09:14:00.000-07:00

A convertible from the early 70's derived from the Triumph 2000 saloon.

Triumph 2000

2005-10-10T02:11:00.000-07:00

A nice looking car designed in 1963 by Giovanni Michelotti, who also designed the car coming up tomorrow.