Unlike last week I have actually managed to follow the theme this week for Sepia Saturday. This advert is taken from the March 1959 edition of Motor Sport magazine and offers a selection of Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Bentley and Bentley cars for sale ... and all at not much more than an iPad would cost today. Some superb models here ... I wonder if any of them are still around today.
Advertisement for Simmons, 12 Rex Place, London W1, c.1959
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I would like the one in the middle on the right, please. The check is in the mail.
ReplyDeleteSuch graceful lines. Why don't cars have running boards any more, such a loss.
ReplyDeleteBrrm, brrm! Wow!
ReplyDeleteLike Alan, I love cars with running boards too. No doubt a few of these Rollers are still around - possibly as vintage wedding cars? Jo
ReplyDeleteYes! I'll take a silver one, a midnight blue one, and can yous end one with the top down too? Very cool automobiles!
ReplyDeleteWow gorgeous autos! I can see the elegant people pulling up in them.....
ReplyDeleteLet's see...IPad or a new Rolls.... At those prices I can buy several. On my credit card. Great sepia post - it gave us all a moment to dream and wish and imagine!
ReplyDeleteThe one on the bottom left for me!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo.
Nothing can beat those sensuous lines and the delineation of the two-toned ones. I would just like to sit in one for a spell; that would do me!
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I'm sort of stunned that they're only from 1959. The style looks older. Beautiful.
ReplyDelete@Tattered and lost - the magazine is from 1959, but the cars themselves are older. Clockwise from the top the dates are 1952, 1935, 1937, 1935 and 1940.
ReplyDeleteI like the smooth graceful curves of the design. I had never heard them being called a roller.
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