Old picture

[Warren]

Of my old stomping ground.

 

[alpine_64]

What's funny is the S3 has the front bumper rotated up and they havent managed to fold the sift top down into the hood boxes.. You can see the side bows sitting on the rear... I guess even when new people couldnt work out the tops.. Here i was thinking it was just the modern day auction houses and dealers..

 

[65beam]

This is a neat old photo that would be a good addition to anyone's collection and shows the way things were done in the day. The dealer actually pumped your gas for you and washed the windshield. Are there other states beside N. Jersey that don't allow self service on pumping gas?

 

[Limey]

All those futuristic petrol stops are demolished now I guess. Some of those 1950's petrol stations would have looked both architecturally and socially interesting now

 

[Aladin Sane]

Just for curiosity's sake, Why do people make it a point to find and mention all the faults with everything but never say anything positive? This is a neat old photo that would be a good addition to anyone's collection and shows the way things were done in the day. The dealer actually pumped your gas for you and washed the windshield. Are there other states beside N. Jersey that don't allow self service on pumping gas?

Oregon also does not let you pump your own gas.

 

[Warren]

Oregon also does not let you pump your own gas.

Must have a union for pumping ...
I'm disappointed I thought somebody would post a picture of here's how you're convertible top is supposed to be put away

 

[SoCal'beaming]

Great photo .... added to my collection! ..... Many fond memories of Marineland with my family as a kid. .... AH, the days of true service, one of my first jobs while I was still in school .... Thanks Warren!

...... David

 

[65beam]

I worked pumping gas at the local Gulf station. It was a 24 hour station that was owned by a friends Dad. Several of us worked there while in high school in the mid 60's and he paid us $1.00 an hour. The 3 bay garage was closed from 10 PM to 8 AM so any of us locals that were friends of his three sons could use the garage for our own repairs after closed for the night. The series 4 got a new clutch one night. Washing windshields was something most enjoyed since we could talk to the girls getting gas.

 

[Warren]

It's good to see some editing has been done to others posts. I have no problem with nit picking the lack of pre photo prep including stowing a top.
I thought it amusing and like the line I thought it was only car dealers who did this.
Maybe it's a badge of courage to have YouTube videos on how to stow your top.. or erect it. I certainly miss the electric tops in the parked Falcon but to be fair that even took a little folding and tucking.
To get back on topic there's a Torrance Beach Burnout Fakebook page the a pal is a member of and he sent it to me, saying share this with your Tiger buddies . What do those guys know who have cars with the engines in the wrong end...

 

[tylerite3124]

This is a neat old photo that would be a good addition to anyone's collection and shows the way things were done in the day. The dealer actually pumped your gas for you and washed the windshield. Are there other states beside N. Jersey that don't allow self service on pumping gas?

Here's a picture of me and my bride Gini with our new 1960 Sunbeam Alpine. It was a wedding gift from her parents. We loved that car until our first child came along and we had to get something bigger! We're still married, by the way.

Rick

 

[Aladin Sane]

How about a current recreation of that pic with whatever sunbeam you may now have?

 

[tylerite3124]

How about a current recreation of that pic with whatever sunbeam you may now have?

I’ll see what I can do.
Rick

 

[Warren]

Old pictures are cool whenever I Google stalk or www search former owners , I ask em, hey got any old pictures of your old car?

 

[Series6]

I grew up on that peninsula. 1965-69. The summer between my sophomore and junior years in high school I sold balloons at Marineland.

Dated a girl from the other school on the peninsula and went to see The Doors at the Hollywood Bowl with her church youth group. Steppenwolf and the Chambers Brothers were the warm up acts.

 

[MikeH]

I recently found an old pic of me and my first car, a 71 Pinto, on the day I left for U S Navy boot camp, Sept 1973.

 

[65beam]

Rick's photo probably brought back a lot of memories for him. Wonder where his car is today. I have many photo albums dating back probably 40 years with photos of Alpines, Tigers and other Rootes vehicles taken at events such as TE/AE Uniteds, the Bash at TT's, and lots of other Sunbeam events and British car shows including all of the SUNI's. There are photos of owners with their Beams and it's amazing how many still own those same cars twenty or thirty years later. One of the best photos is a panorama photo of 52 cars and owners in attendance taken at the TE/AE United in Charleston,S C. in 1992. Eric G. is standing at each end of the photo.