6th October 2017
RETRO ADS – RELIANT FOX
The Reliant Fox started life as the Mebea Fox, assembled and sold in Greece from 1979. But when that country’s tax laws were changed four years later, utility vehicles became classed as passenger cars –…
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6th October 2017
RETRO ADS – RAMBLER CLASSIC & AMERICAN
We all know that the ‘Nash Metropolitan’ was the product of a joint deal between Nash and BMC, and was sold through Austin dealers here in Britain until 1961.
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25th September 2017
RETRO ADS – MERCEDES 230E
The W123-generation Mercedes-Benz had been around for a while by the time this particular brochure dedicated to the 230E was issued in August 1980...
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8th September 2017
RETRO ADS – FORD ANGLIA 105E
There was a trend back in the ’Fifties and ’Sixties for car brochure designers to use cut-out heads to emphasise certain attributes...
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8th September 2017
RETRO ADS – PEUGEOT 504
By the time this German-market publication promoting the Peugeot 504 Coupe and Cabriolet was published for the 1975 model...
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25th August 2017
Retro Ads – CHRYSLER HORIZON
What we knew here in the UK as the Chrysler Horizon was also sold in America in various guises, including the Plymouth Horizon shown here.
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25th August 2017
RETRO ADS – SUNTREKKER
One of the biggest names in demountable motor homes four decades ago was Suntrekker, produced by B Walker & Son Ltd of Stockport, Cheshire...
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18th August 2017
RETRO ADS – CASTROL
Published in the early 1960s was this advert for Castrol’s best-selling multi-grade oils, each one designed to protect your engine during hard use and over high mileages...
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18th August 2017
RETRO ADS – CITROEN VISA
The Citroen Visa, the only hatchback in its class available solely in five-door guise – at a time when most of its rivals were three-door only...
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28th July 2017
RETRO ADS – HILLMAN MINX
Rootes Group was one of Britain’s most successful exporters in the early post-war years, with the Minx being the company’s best-seller across Europe...
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21st July 2017
RETRO ADS – VANGUARD LUXURY SIX
By 1962 Standard-Triumph was busy putting the finishing touches to its sleek new six-cylinder Triumph 2000 saloon, due for launch the following year...
