Car ID wanted from photo
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From: D Walford on 19 Dec 2009 17:25 George W Frost wrote: > "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message > news:rS2Xm.63262$ze1.24463(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> I'm trying to work out the year some photo's were taken in Darwin and so >> far the only thing we narrow it down to is "what's the most modern car in >> any of the photo's". Of the pictures we have the attached link is to the >> one that has the youngest car's in. There's a Falcon and a Holden that >> look to be either XR/XT and HD/HR. >> >> Can anyone give a better identification of either? >> >> http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/phild12s131e/AA044.jpg >> >> >> PhilD >> > > The Falcon wagoin is an XT > The Mini is an 850 > The Holden is a HD > > And the truck is a TK series Bedford. My guess is the photo was taken mid to late 60's. Daryl
From: George W Frost on 19 Dec 2009 17:30 " Scotty" <scoter1(a)warmmail.com> wrote in message news:4b2d3484$0$5421$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > "George W Frost" <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:g83Xm.63264$ze1.29188(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > : > : "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message > : news:rS2Xm.63262$ze1.24463(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > : > I'm trying to work out the year some photo's were taken in Darwin and > so > : > far the only thing we narrow it down to is "what's the most modern car > in > : > any of the photo's". Of the pictures we have the attached link is to > the > : > one that has the youngest car's in. There's a Falcon and a Holden that > : > look to be either XR/XT and HD/HR. > : > > : > Can anyone give a better identification of either? > : > > : > http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/phild12s131e/AA044.jpg > : > > : > > : > PhilD > : > > : > : The Falcon wagoin is an XT > : The Mini is an 850 > : The Holden is a HD > : > : > > How the hell can youtell that the Mini is an 850?!?! I had a 1000 just > like that. Mates 1300 was > very similar if not the same. > > The Mark 1 had nothing on the wheel arches The Mark 2 998cc was a Cooper engined model and they let you know it by badges on the boot, which this one apparently doesn't have The Mark 2 1300 had chrome strips along the arches and 10 slot steel wheels and didn't come out till 1968 the one in the photo has got ordinary steel wheels and looks older that a few months The Mark 3 had small wheel flares The mini-Coopers had screw on wheel flares the one in the photo doesn't have wheel flares or strips along the arches it also has the rounded taillights your Cooper 998 would have had square topped taillights
From: D Walford on 19 Dec 2009 17:32 Noddy wrote: > "George W Frost" <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:j93Xm.63265$ze1.53033(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > >> Almost forgot >> The truck is a 5 yard tipper > > A TK Beddy that looks pretty fresh. > > Jeez, if I had a buck for every time I had to pull the head off one of those > things out through the gull wing service doors where there was *just* enough > room to lift the enormously heavy head clear of it's studs under the floor > I'd have about 9 bucks. I must have been lucky and avoided jobs like that. I still laugh when I remember an older Bedford being towed into our workshop and the driver saying it had a crook starter, no6 conrod had punched a hole in the block and embedded itself in the starter on the way out:-) Daryl
From: D Walford on 19 Dec 2009 17:50 PhilD wrote: > "George W Frost" <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:6s3Xm.63272$ze1.37131(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message >> news:4b2cc1cf$0$99714$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... >>> "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message >>> news:rS2Xm.63262$ze1.24463(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >>>> I'm trying to work out the year some photo's were taken in Darwin and so >>>> far the only thing we narrow it down to is "what's the most modern car >>>> in any of the photo's". Of the pictures we have the attached link is to >>>> the one that has the youngest car's in. There's a Falcon and a Holden >>>> that look to be either XR/XT and HD/HR. >>>> >>>> Can anyone give a better identification of either? >>>> >>>> http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/phild12s131e/AA044.jpg >>> Looks like a HR Special Sedan and the wagon's definitely an XT as XR's >>> never had the black strip moulding across the tailgate. Early to mid 1968 >>> at the minimum. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Noddy. >>> >> That was an easy one for you Noddy >> The HD had the sort of pointed headlight cowling on the guard, whereas the >> HD was more flattened and sedate >> They changed it , I think because everyone was dinging in the guard edge >> and it would cost a new guard to replace >> the XT has the indicator bar in the taillight, as the XR had the small >> rounded shaped one >> >> > OK you lot, since you are showing your age in knowing too much, here's the > complete set (not all with vehicles in them) so go your hardest and identify > all vehicles. Unfortunately this is the resolution as they were sent to me. > As a bonus hard picture, there's a shot of some ski boats on one of the > Darwin Harbour beaches so identify what type of outboards are on them, and > anything else. > > http://s670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/phild12s131e/?action=view¤t=e78921ca.pbw > > PhilD > > Mostly Holdens and Fords with a Hillman Minx and a Studebaker in front of the Victoria Hotel. The car in front of the TAA building is the one I'm having trouble with, possibly a Fiat. The boats are too far away to work out what they are. Daryl
From: Noddy on 19 Dec 2009 17:50
"D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:033d41c2$0$1347$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > I must have been lucky and avoided jobs like that. > I still laugh when I remember an older Bedford being towed into our > workshop and the driver saying it had a crook starter, no6 conrod had > punched a hole in the block and embedded itself in the starter on the way > out:-) Lol :) -- Regards, Noddy. |