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#34247 of 36999 Re: Rolls-Royce? [lemko] by fintail

Sep 11, 2012 (10:29 am)

Replying to: lemko (Sep 11, 2012 7:15 am)
"Custom Cloud" - some lawyers got a payday out of that one.

#34248 of 36999 Re: Movie Still> [andys120] by andys120

Sep 12, 2012 (5:00 pm)

Replying to: andys120 (Sep 11, 2012 7:51 am)
Last call for the car on the right in #34247. Here it is again>
 

 
..and here's some brochure art for the same car>
 

#34249 of 36999 Re: Movie Still> [andys120] by fintail

Sep 12, 2012 (6:54 pm)

Replying to: andys120 (Sep 12, 2012 5:00 pm)
Standard Vanguard (had to read the emblem), odd sight even when weird little British things weren't uncommon.

#34250 of 36999 Re: Movie Still> [fintail] by lemko

Sep 13, 2012 (5:30 am)

Replying to: fintail (Sep 12, 2012 6:54 pm)
Looks like a scaled-down 1953 Plymouth!

#34251 of 36999 Re: Movie Still> [fintail] by andys120

Sep 13, 2012 (5:40 am)

Replying to: fintail (Sep 12, 2012 6:54 pm)
Standard Vanguard
 
Yes indeed, it was known as a Standard Vanguard Phase 3 (1955-58). The Standard name was phased out in favor of Triumph in the 50s. Before it was absorbed into British Leyland the company was known as Standard Triumph Ltd.
 
It does look like a scaled down American car. My first thought was that it was a Hudson Jet.

#34252 of 36999 Odd> by andys120

Sep 13, 2012 (5:42 am)

#34253 of 36999 Re: Odd> [andys120] by michaell

Sep 13, 2012 (5:57 am)

Replying to: andys120 (Sep 13, 2012 5:42 am)
Early 70's Toyota Crown?
 
Predecessor to the Cressida .. I'm guessing that the long hood holds an inline 6-cylinder engine.

#34254 of 36999 Re: Movie Still> [andys120] by magnette

Sep 13, 2012 (7:35 am)

Replying to: andys120 (Sep 11, 2012 9:04 am)
The phase III Standard Vanguard is quite rare here now, and when one turns up at a car show it is usually the later version - it was updated in about 1958 to become the 'Vignale Vanguard'.
Quite a lot of these earlier ones - including the estate car version - were used by our Armed Forces, particularly the RAF. They seemed to have loads of them around airbases - an old colleague of mine who had served with the RAF in the early sixties said they taught him to drive on one, they used them as staff cars everywhere, and he reckoned they still had some in use as late as 1972 when he left.

#34255 of 36999 Re: Odd> [andys120] by berri

Sep 13, 2012 (11:12 am)

Replying to: andys120 (Sep 13, 2012 5:42 am)
Yuck, a Japanese AMC Matador, maybe even uglier!

#34256 of 36999 Re: Odd> [berri] by Mr_Shiftright HOST

Sep 13, 2012 (11:26 am)

Replying to: berri (Sep 13, 2012 11:12 am)
That brown color makes it exceptionally sexy---a real chick magnet, that one.

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