We’re traveling back to a Dutch resort town called Scheveningen in the early 1970s. What car(s) can you identify in the following images? What one(s) would you most like to have in your garage?
We’re having a hard time deciding between the Autobianchi A112, the Alfa Bertone coupe and the Peugeot 304 in the second pictures, so we’ll take them all.
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i will take the VW beetle and van, both R16s and alfas, DAF, and opel ralley and GT?.
Good eye on the DAF.
Two if we are counting
rallye not ralley
Daf, Volvo, Simca, Mercedes, Fiat, Opel, Alfa, Auto Bianchi, Peugeot, Citroen, Renault, Datsun, Ford + Transit, VW, Jaguar.
It’s interesting how much the car landscape has changed since. If you took this same photo today you wouldn’t have any DAFs, no Simcas, no Autobianchis, no Datsuns but probably a handful of Japanese / Korean cars.
You’d see all the brands that are alive today but you wouldn’t be able to distinguish them.
Oh for a world where R16’s were so commonplace !!!! Anyway there’s a quality MK1 Escort hiding behind the petrol pumps in pic 1 that I’d like and a Citroen GC estate towards the back in pic 3 that is an absolute must please
sorry GS estate
The GS Estate – there’s another one that’s all but disappeared today.
Admittedly, I had an ’83 GSA wagon but I scrapped it about two years ago, it was in terrible shape. I bought it as a parts car – it’d been sitting under a tree for a decade – and drove it home by running a fuel line from the pump to a gas can in the passenger footwell, ha.
I still have the 1300cc and five-speed in my shed, I keep telling myself I’ll install both in my base-model GSA (1100cc / four-speed) but I never get around to it.
The only time my old wagon has ever been featured on RWP is on this page, ha: https://ranwhenparked.net/barn-field-and-junkyard-finds/
I opt for the Opel GT in the second picture or the Jaguar XJ in the last.
Good eye on the XJ – that was quite the car back then.
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