tarboat's photos with the keyword: cars

Shades of the old East Germany on the Harzquerbahn south of Benneckenstein.

My daughter suggested a trip to the High Edge Raceway near Buxton to watch the banger racing today. As well as the racing the crowd was treated to a demonstration by a couple of monster trucks that ended with this seven-ton beast crushing a few cars. It made very quick work of this task!

Not much room to pass these days on Newton Street in Macclesfield. Many of these cars will have been left there by workers in the town in order to avoid parking charges.

Eagle142 tells me that this building on the corner of Buxton Road and Brook Street was the showroom premises of the car dealers 'Locomotors'. He further tells me that the business was part of the Hovis empire, having been established by a Mr Morton (of Morton Hall fame) to enable him to obtain new cars at trade price. By the 1960s it was selling high class secondhand cars. It was later the Rent Equip base until they sold out, and since then Speedyhire and part for a motorcycle business. It now stands empty and for sale/to let. The clock is a fine detail and very much of the period.