Interesting.
Maybe I can narrow the time frame down a bit - the Midget has roll up windows
and door handles, so it is a '64 or later model. There is a "BMC Gold Seal
Used Cars" banner on the wall and two other BMC seals in view, so it's likely
that the photo was taken before the BL merger in '68.
Someone has noted that the MGB in the show room appears to be a MK II,
presumably because of what appears to be a blacked-out grille. The grilles
were first blacked-out in 1970, which was in the BL era, so I'm thinking it
could be a MKI grille in shadow. If this was an authorized dealer, there
wouldn't be three BMC emblems on the building and no BL emblems. Also, to me,
the chrome surround looks thicker than the surround used with the blacked-out
grilles. And there is what could be a MKI/early MKII grill emblem at the top
center of the chrome surround.
The Datsun 411 wagon on the lift looks like a '66 or '67 - the last two years
of production before the 510 was introduced. The Datsun 520 pick up out in
front of the building was made with four headlights only in 1967 & 1968 before
it was redesigned as the 521 in 1969.
I don't know my American cars as well as my imports, but the car in the bay
looks like a '66 or '67 Ford Fairlane with those square tail lights.
If all my guesses are correct, the earliest the photo could have been taken is
late 1966 (for the 1967 model-year of the first four-headlight Datsun 520 PU),
and the latest would be 1968 (BLMC).
The Jag Mark II doesn't add much to the conversation. (Unless it's a Jag
240/340, but I can't tell from the photo.)
-Mike Eldred
'54 MG TF
'73 Midget
'51 M38 Jeep
> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 08:06:35 -0500
> From: ptrmgb at gmail.com
> To: dave at ranteer.com
> CC: mgs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Octagonal Hotel/Garage 1850's - 1950's
>
> And the picture is from the late sixties not fifties.
>
> MGB, a late 60s Datsun pickup, isn't that a Ford Falcon in the first bay.
>
> Paul Root wrote:
> > Triumph? Simca?
> >
> >
> > Dave wrote:
> >> what's the car on the lift???
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> From: "Mike Janacek" <mjanacek at snet.net>
> >> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 5:48 AM
> >> To: <mgs at autox.team.net>
> >> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Octagonal Hotel/Garage 1850's - 1950's
> >>
> >>> Interesting. In the later picture I note that neither MG is in the
> >>> bays for repair. Also the "Safety Check" wording style (next to
> >>> Veedol) looks very similar to the slogan "Safety Fast" style.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>> '79B
> >>>
> >>> On 7/31/2011 5:03 PM, mgmagnette wrote:
> >>>> Thought this was amusing.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Octagon Hotel, Circa 1850, where Teddy Roosevelt had his NY
> >>>> state Governor's campaign office at one time:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.chsorgan.org/octagonalhotel.jpg
> >>>>
> >>>> And here it is in the 1950's, as an auto repair shop... for MGs!
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.chsorgan.org/octagonalmgshop.jpg
> >>>>
> >>>> Apparently now it's a complete wreck but the town of Oyster River
> >>>> NY wants to restore it.
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